I’ve got three for you.

The Age of Instagram Face is an article I’ve thought about a lot. Beyond covering the facial manipulation we’re increasingly seeing online, the writer also reflects more generally on social media and specifically Instagram — founded at the beginning of the decade we’re now closing — as powerful engines of sameness, making “hundreds of millions of people learn to ‘see and feel and want the same things.’” I’m looking at you, fiddle leaf fig.

This issue is a hats off to two freedom fighters and one odd bird.

Gesell believed money should lose value the longer it sits in the bank. His idea makes my brain explode a bit trying to consider the implications. Try it for a second.

Lyubov Sobol is around my age, and also a mother, and her bravery gives me goosebumps. I’ve linked to two articles about her that take slightly different angles. Sobol is worth seeing from more than one.

This week brings histories I thought I knew — revised.

- All dinosaurs on the planet died in a matter of hours. All of them.
- Republicans were the first to argue and pass legislation to limit individuals’ right to bear arms in the US. 

Those would be spoilers except… when you sink into the details of both stories, it gets more interesting. A lot more interesting.

I’m not a collector of things generally, but I dutifully hoard my back issues of NatGeo, just like my Grandpa Grimm before me. I pulled the article on bird brains from one of them. After you read it, you won’t look at the birds in your life the same way again.

Also linked is a podcast to listen to when you have 30 minutes in the car, and a very long article about a 17-year-old who I think is very interesting.

I’ve re-launched under a new name, with a new site, wlcm.studio. We’re now WLCM (pronounced “Welcome”), a rearrangement of the original initials with an additional “m”.

I also had a baby in the interim, and this re-brand feels a bit like a re-emergence at the same time, or at least an excuse for one.