The Scourge of Self-Checkout

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June 20, 2024 Sunscreen, Self-Checkout, and Stitching Ten picks for today, curated by our editors. Plus, an extreme heat reading list. 1   Investigation Serving Time for Their Abusers' Crimes The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like "accomplice liability." The Marshall Project Shannon Heffernan Save 2   Fact Check Some TikTok Influencers Are Maligning Sunscreen. Here's What to Know About the Claims Sunscreen is the best way to protect ourselves against skin cancer. But doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media. NPR Maria Godoy Save 3   Deep Dive How "The Real World" Created Modern Reality TV The rules governing everything from "Big Brother" to "The Real Housewives" started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV. The New Yorker Emily Nussbaum Save 4   Good Eats? I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste? Food app Too Good To Go promises to cut waste by directing hungry bargain hunters to leftover restaurant food. But the week I spent living off the app had me wondering if Too Good To Go is too good to be true. WIRED Morgan Meaker Save 5   Under the Radar The Most Dangerous Law in America The Insurrection Act is a nuclear bomb hidden in the United States Code. Democracy Journal Joseph Nunn Save 6   Pro Tip 3 Simple Ways to Check How Full Your Flight Is Avoid the fight over arm rests and overhead bin space at all costs. Condé Nast Traveler Jessica Puckett Save 7   Conversation Starter The Scourge of Self-Checkout The technology promised to make shopping easier. It has done the opposite The Walrus David Moscrop Save 8   Who Knew? Unweaving the Whitewashed Legacy of the Cross-Stitch Meet the women replacing outdated Colonial imagery. Architectural Digest Abigail Glasgow Save 9   Tech History In 1977, A Computer Programmer Fixed a Massive Bug — And Created an Existential Crisis Here's what vintage typesetting, defense software, and the Apple Lisa have to do with a ubiquitous computing feature. Inverse Sarah Wells Save 10   In Case It Helps 8 Creative Ways People Kept Cool Before Air Conditioning People have come up with a range of ingenious, harebrained, and sometimes grim but often remarkable ways to stay cool during a summer scorcher. Mental Floss Keith Johnston Save Further Reading   Collection of the Day How Extreme Heat Is Changing Everything, From Our Dreams to Our Cars Record temperatures are changing norms across disease transmission, the economy—even therapy. Pocket Collections Amy Maoz Save   Yesterday's Most Read Story These Conspiracy Theory Believers Went Deep Down the Rabbit Hole — Then Found a Way Out In the depths of the conspiracy world, Stephanie Kemmerer hated herself and everyone around her. She felt trapped in disinformation — but here's how she finally got out. ABC Anna Kelsey-Sugg Save Thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this newsletter, please share it with a friend. Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe now to get Pocket in your inbox every day. Take Pocket everywhere You're receiving this email because you subscribed to Pocket. Unsubscribe • Manage Preferences • Privacy Policy • Help Center • Advertise © 2024 Mozilla Corporation, 149 New Montgomery St, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105