Chick Tracts (99% Invisible). Jack Chick was the Leni Riefenstahl of comics. Chick devoted his life to using comics to witness to non-Christians. His gorgeous, kitschy art, combined with messaging that was often homophobic and Islamophobic, makes the tiny comics simultaneously masterpieces of pop culture and terrible hate speech.

Today’s ephemera: Alright everybody ... let’s find that grape

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31 Photos Of New York City In The Summer Of ‘69

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AI-simulated Johnny Cash sings “Barbie Girl.”

I love the name of this YouTube channel: There I Ruined It.

Study: Cities with Expensive Housing Have Highest Rates of Homelessness timesofsandiego.com/business/…

I’m trying to swear less, but I’ve got to say “no shit Sherlock.”

Do kids in New York still play stickball, skelly, and hopscotch? Or has that gone the way of rolling a hoop with a stick?

Plausible Sentence Generators. Cory Doctorow finds an AI chatbot is an excellent tool for helping to draft scary threatening lawyer letters.

Louis Vuitton is fighting a trademark application by a maker of garden tools because the fashion company claims it’s trademarked the letters L and V. (Techdirt)

No Relief: Temps Reach 122 Degrees as Heat Bakes Mexicali, Border Communities (Reuters / Times of San Diego)

Tiny Awards, a celebration of the small, playful, and heartfelt web (waxy.org)

Elon is paying far-right influencers, including Andrew Tate, to post on Twitter (Taylor Lorenz / The Washington Post). Paying a guy who was charged with rape and human trafficking seems like not the best way to make your service attractive to advertisers.

More than 100 people were stuck at Agatha Christie’s house for seven hours _(Devon Live) And then there were 99….