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Welcome to Covid Summer. Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving while being home for 8 days (that felt more like a month) with a 14-month-old who brought the plague home from daycare. Yes, we got it, too. Glad that’s over with:

I bookmarked this link that I found in Cengiz Yar’s newsletter (Cengiz is a terrific photographer based in El Paso, TX, and the deputy editor in charge of visuals at Rest of World. He also occasionally drops some death metal tracks to amp you up!): How we analyzed 3,000 AI images to uncover bias. They found that AI image generators are incredibly reductionist and tend toward flattening stereotypes.

Really feeling and digging this tornado alley storm chaser work from Natalie Ivis.

"Sharrrrronnnn!!! Have you seen my preds" We’re all Aston Villa fans now.

Speaking of soccer, a fun fact was dropped during the USWNT vs Zambia game (Yay Olympics!): Zambia has two of the world's highest-paid women’s players. Checks out! Now if only Zambia could do something about their awful coach.

“Ralph Lauren returns as Team USA’s outfitter for the ninth Olympics, and this year for the Opening Ceremonies the Americans will come dressed as the bullies from every single movie set at a prep school.” The Washington Post’s Matt Bonesteel - aka their least-fashionable employee - reviews the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony uniforms and I’m here for it.