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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?: