Five for Friday – March 31, 2023

This has been an interesting week – both in world news, and my life (probably more on that on my weekly substack posts, which you should sign up for). Here are a few things I found interesting this week.

That’s it for cool links this week. Thanks for reading – we’ll try this again in a week.

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