A delightful review of the McDonalds McRib):
I had a McRib yesterday, which for the uninitiated is a sandwich from McDonald’s that was introduced in 1981 and discontinued in 1985 due to poor sales. This should have been the end of the McRib story, but some people — people who live among us!! — desperately wanted the sandwich to return, and McDonald’s then began rolling it out semi-annually in certain markets as a limited time menu item to satiate the most deranged people alive.
h/t Club MacStories
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor. By Mike Masnick at Techdirt.
We watched Yellowstone 5x12 “Counting Coup”
New technology from World Labs, a startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, can generate interactive 3D scenes from a single photo. The tech “lets you step into any image and explore it in 3D.” Wild! I’d love to play with this with old family photos.
The Great Grocery Store Squeeze.
Food deserts are not an inevitable consequence of poverty or low population density, and they didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s.
Easing restrictions on “discriminatory pricing” allowed major supermarket chains to drive local groceries out of business, and forced residents of low-status city neighborhoods and rural towns to travel long distances to buy food.
“The Biden administration has begun to connect the dots.” But Trump’s re-election puts that work in doubt.
By Stacy Mitchell at The Atlantic.
h/t Garbage Day
The dog got into the cat food today. I hope your day is going as well as hers.
We watched Evil 4x08 “How to Save a Life”
Currently reading: Demon by John Varley 📚Book 3 in the Gaea trilogy.
Finished reading: The Closers by Michael Connelly 📚. Another good Harry Bosch yarn. Spoiler alert: Bosch catches the murderer, but only after near catastrophic failure.