Early Addition: For People With Serious Cicada Phobias, The Brood X Emergence Sounds Like A Nightmare

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Published Jun 8, 2021

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The feds somehow managed to get back about half of the $4.4 million Bitcoin ransom the Colonial Pipeline company paid to Russian hackers.
The feds did not prevent much of the internet from shutting down this morning.
Wall Street titans insist on sticking by Ray McGuire for mayor even though his poll numbers are very bad.
If I asked you to recall the image of a madeleine dipped in tea, could you? If not, you may be among the tens of millions of people possibly living with aphantasia, a condition that prevents people from conjuring something in their "mind's eye."
"Then, as now, Twitter rewarded cruelty, as long as it was directed at those the in-group considered to be 'the right people.'" Vox has a really thorough and thoughtful breakdown of Chrissy Teigen's social media rise and fall.
The two families with claims to the Board's Head deli meat fortune are beefing.
"It’s like they stare into your soul, like, 'Hey, bitch. I’m here. Be afraid.'" People with a serious phobia of cicadas are not enjoying their encounters with Brood X.
Venus is back, baby.
I spent 45 minutes this morning trying to tell the difference between Apple Music's fancy new Dolby Atmos "lossless-quality spatial audio" version of Taylor Swift's Fearless reissue and the apparently horses**t stereo version, and I didn't really notice anything, but maybe you can?
And finally, did this cat pitch a no-hitter?:

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