wisdom 1750 advice on how to attain success, from the 4th Earl of Chesterfield Mark Frauenfelder

Book Emily Post's great-great grandchildren bring her book on etiquette up to today's more inclusive standards Rusty Blazenhoff

etiquette Japanese man who left for lunch break 3 minutes early is shamed, forced to apologize on television Carla Sinclair

happy mutants You are the elevator captain: a guide to Japan's unspoken elevator etiquette Cory Doctorow

Audio Vintage CB radio trolling from 1969 Andrea James

movies Giant hats were the cellphones of the silent movie era Cory Doctorow

History 1920s library sticker told kids to wash their hands before touching Popkin

Technology Researchers built a language model that thinks it's still 1930 Ellsworth Toohey

politics Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts Rob Beschizza

Delightful Creatures Surfing sea otter defends its spot in the line-up Jason Weisberger

AI note-takers are flooding virtual meetings Ellsworth Toohey

retrocomputing You can still use plain text email—and maybe you should Rob Beschizza

Weird The worst and weirdest of texting etiquette Grant St. Clair

china Inside Qingdao's authentic German quarter: A colonial legacy in modern China Séamus Bellamy

guns Watch Charles Mingus blow a hole in the roof of the apartment he's getting evicted from Natalie Dressed

Homeless man medicated, jailed for insisting he was himself Ellsworth Toohey

delightful creatures Stray kitty learns how to be house cat by copying every single move new feline brother makes (video) Carla Sinclair

Vintage Weird 1920s guide on the correct postures for housework Popkin

bizarre Musician creates oddly heartfelt songs out of bizarre topics Grant St. Clair