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how's your week going, Beehaw

busy as usual, currently reading Alt-America (David Neiwert)

Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)

Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14% (wccftech.com)

Can electric woks produce great stir-fry? (grist.org)

There’s Little Science Behind 'No Mow May': Ecologists don’t agree on what makes for the healthiest lawn. And restoring biodiversity requires more than doing less. (undark.org)

IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more (www.gamesindustry.biz)

this is already leading to layoffs, including “GamesIndustry.biz managing editor Brendan Sinclair” and “Alice Bell, deputy editor at Rock Paper Shotgun”

‘Furiosa’ Up In Smoke With $31M-$33M, Lowest Memorial Day Opening In Decades, Might Get Clawed By ‘Garfield’: How Worried Should Hollywood Be About Theatrical? (deadline.com)

‘Last Week Tonight’: Past Seasons Will Be Available for Free on YouTube (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars (www.vox.com)

For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs and trucks, pushing automakers and American buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting car bloat through regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies, but a disaster for everyone else.

If you want to belong, find a third place (www.vox.com)

A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm (coloradosun.com)

This Utah County Will Buy Your Lawn to Save Water (reasonstobecheerful.world)

Priced Out of Housing, Communities Take Development Into Their Own Hands (archive.ph)

“Traverse City is becoming Myrtle Beach meets Hilton Head — a place catering to a population outside the region,” Mr. Treter said. “Our work force can’t live here anymore.”...

We Need to Fight for a Democratic Republic Again (www.dsausa.org)

Why anti-LGBTQ legislation in Africa is a western problem (www.gaytimes.com)

Arab League calls for UN peacekeepers in occupied Palestinian territory (www.aljazeera.com)

Massachusetts' millionaires tax revenue reaches $1.8 billion, on pace to double estimates (www.wgbh.org)

This summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it (gothamist.com)

Academic workers call “standup strike” across UC system (www.californiadsa.org)

'It Helped Me Embody Someone Else': How 'Cyberpunk 2077' Helped Gene Park Battle Cancer (www.rollingstone.com)

Myanmar: Young insurgents changing the course of a forgotten war (www.bbc.com)