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What Happens to Gay Bars When Everyone Starts Drinking Less?

Gen Z and young adults are drinking less, but queer nightlife still runs on alcohol. From two-drink minimums to ginger ale at drag shows, this essay asks what happens when the cost of drinking—financial, physical, and emotional—starts to outweigh the belonging it once bought.

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The unlikely paradox of cane toads and artificial intelligence

This is a story about a man called Reginald, 200 million cane toads and why a catastrophic 1935 ecological blunder has anything at all to do with artificial intelligence. Reginald would disagree with the comparison. He was very confident like that.

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