Rumor spreading a-’round in that Texas town ’bout that Olympic shack outside Tokyo downtown, and you know what I’m talkin’ about. Besides Olympics, in this Animal Feed, we explore love and loss in the age of AI, hundreds of ways to get sh*t done, the ultimate internet scam, and the attention-grabbing tricks of YouTube voice.

How the Olympic medal table explains the world. NPR

He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death, so he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot. The San Francisco Chronicle

You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks. Wired

The billionaire Gucci Master perfected a simple internet scam and laundered millions of dollars. This piece says a lot about digital swagger and the kind of stories that get told online. Bloomberg

Why do so many people on YouTube sound the same? The attention-grabbing tricks of YouTube voice. The Atlantic

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