There's a fly in the house and it's winning

🔥 Most Enraging

TV Time, the app 25 million people used to track their shows, is shutting down July 15 so its owner can chase AI

An app that twenty-five million people used to keep track of what they were watching is shutting down this month because the company would rather do artificial intelligence. Every app I ever get used to eventually decides it wants to be something else when it grows up. I just wanted to remember what episode I was on.

😩 Most Exhausting

A loose goat led sheriff's deputies on a 20-minute chase through Washington-state traffic before being cornered and sent to a farm

A goat in Washington led deputies in and out of traffic for twenty minutes before they cornered it on somebody's staircase and hauled it off to live on a farm. So it wore everybody out and got sent somewhere quiet with grass. I don't know how to tell you this, but the goat is doing better than me.

😤 Unreasonably Annoying

Two British campers set a Guinness record by pitching a two-man tent in 1 minute 4.95 seconds

Two campers in Britain set up a two-man tent in just under a minute and five seconds and set a world record. It takes me longer than that to decide I don't want to go camping. By the time I've found the tent in the garage, they've packed up and driven home.

🤷 Somehow Also Happening

Apple's Hide My Email, meant to mask your address, has a bug handing over the real one; a researcher says Apple has known for a year

Apple has a feature that hides your real email behind a fake one so strangers can't get it. It turns out the fake ones have been giving up the real address the whole time. A researcher told Apple a year ago and it still isn't fixed. I don't even use it and I already feel exposed.

▸ Physicists at Los Alamos found a way to make a quantum system run backward in time — Physicists made a speck of matter run backward in time in a laboratory. I can't unsend a text. I would like a word with them about my sent folder.

▸ In 2,044 adults over 64, lower blood vitamin C tracked with less gray matter and weaker memory-network connections — A study of two thousand people over sixty-four found the ones low on vitamin C had less of the gray matter you use to remember things. So the oranges were doing something after all. I've spent decades treating them as optional and now I can't remember if I had one.

▸ A newly found distant object, 2023 KQ14, makes the hidden 'Planet Nine' look even farther away and harder to find — Astronomers found a distant rock they hoped would finally prove there's a hidden ninth planet. Instead it suggests the planet, if it's out there at all, is even farther away and harder to find than they thought. They've been at this for years, and every new clue just says keep looking. I'd have given up and called it eight.

Fine. A rescued tawny owl in England whose own eggs failed two years running was given two orphaned chicks, and the nest cameras caught her pulling them in to clean and warm them the moment they arrived. A bird who kept losing got handed two who needed her, and she didn't hesitate for a second. I'm told it's allergy season. That's why.