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  • Some restaurants, bars and other businesses are starting to get some online backlash from anti-vaxxers for their vaccination policies in NYC. “We had a choice to not open at all or open in this way... I wish we didn’t have to do this.”
  • Here's a clever article articulating the noxious rise of "elevated stupidity" in our culture: "Stupidity is saying two plus two equals five. Elevated Stupidity is doing the same thing, except you invoke Pythagoras, decry cancel culture when someone corrects you, then get a seven-figure book deal and a speaking tour out of it."
  • A lot of people picked up new hobbies, like knitting, during the pandemic—this guy decided to jump into Lake Michigan nearly every day.
  • The "classic" Doge meme NFT has been sold for $4 million (in cryptocurrency).
  • If you're planning to protest the wedding of a Cuomo family member, maybe make sure the wedding didn't already occur 28 years ago.
  • Has TikTok tried to change the shape of your face?
  • Congrats to all of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners, except for Editorial Cartooning, because according to the Pulitzer committee, everyone sucked at that this year.
  • Pulitzer Prize-deserving headline and tweet of the day: "Haters be damned: I'm 23 and I love my 'decomposing' older girlfriend."
  • Esquire looked at the rise and fall of Planet Hollywood this week.
  • What day of the week is it again? Oh right, it's NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: listen to Sleater-Kinney's pretty good (if not as great as the rest of their incredible discography) new album Path Of Wellness; Migos returns with Culture III, which upon the first couple listens seems much better than Culture II and still way too bloated to touch the heights of Culture; Clairo returned with new single "Blouse;" Polo G's singles-stuffed, collab-heavy Hall Of Fame; King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Butterfly 3000; and the incredibly great new Megan Thee Stallion song/music video "Thot Shit."
  • And finally, never ever turn your back on your dog: