September 20, 2023
Jamie Hyneman & Hydraulic Press Channel Test Some Steel
Finnish manufacturer, Stalatube, brought Jamie Hyneman out of his Reality TV retirement to collaborate with The Hydraulic Press Channel to test the strength of their stainless steel hollow sections. If you watch one viral ad for an industrial product this year, this may be the one.
Let's talk about the climate, what do you know?
a drink is quietly mixed by Mixie & a snack is quietly munched by Munchy
Mixie and Munchie are 2girls1bottl3 on TikTok.
The premise: Munchie has a snack while Mixie makes an elaborate boozy drink, which is then shared. Without a word of dialogue. In fact there is no monetization, no names, nothing more. Often the pair are wearing the fast food uniform, or glam, or not, and while the setting is usually just a booth at a fast food joint, the location is often completely different countries.
After a viral tweet Nicolaia Rips attempts to get to the bottom of it all in The Face.
We're Safety Now Haven't We
When you think of real bangers, you wouldn't generally think of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, because, well, they're the ones tasked on keeping you from a... banger. But they just dropped, very carefully, the album-length We're Safety Now Haven't We, a real, uh, banger?
a hard truth that implicates Americans --> Hollywood happy ending
The Horrible True Story that Inspired Sound of Freedom Is Probably Our Fault, Part 1. And Part 2: Who took kids from Haiti and why? Part 3: Looking for kids in all the wrong places. Part 4: reconsidering trafficking. Part 5: “the American cultural trafficking narrative.” And don't give your money to Operation Underground Railroad. No really, don't. Plus the OUR founder and now an executive producer of Sound of Freedom are both accused of sexual misconduct. [more inside]
The Woman on the Line
Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die. CW: descriptions of drug use and overdoses [more inside]
Two nations with a common tongue but spread apart
Why don’t Americans put butter on their sandwiches? When American in Paris Amanda Rollins posted a TikTok about a jambon beurre sandwich, there was a lot of mutual incomprehension on both sides of the Atlantic as to whether it's normal to assume there will be butter in a sandwich — for the Europeans, absolutely de rigeur; for the North Americans, odd and greasy. When The Guardian's Arma Mahdawi realised her American wife was on Team Mayo she wrote the linked op-ed (and took a regrettable swipe at American butter, sadly).
Thousands have been tricked this way
It was hard to see how this slave complex could exist without cryptocurrency. Crypto bros like to claim they were somehow helping the poor. But it seemed none of them had bothered to look into the darker consequences of a technology that allowed for anonymous, untraceable payments. From ‘Don’t You Remember Me?’ The Crypto Hell on the Other Side of a Spam Text [Bloomberg; ungated]
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