He was handsome and wholly silent / And looked like he had maybe / Killed a hundred people in a war / The rest of us didn't know about.

"Forged in Fire", Patricia Lockwood

Yak X is a Pleistocene megafaunal species previously unknown to genomics.

"Ancient genomes reveal an extinct bovine species from mid-latitude Asia", Jonas Oppenheimer et al for Cell Biology

Submitted by John.

Police confirmed they had responded to a report of "criminal mischief involving a robot" on the 1200 block of Filbert Street around 1:16 p.m. on Wednesday.

"A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it", Kristin Hunt for Philly Voice

The problem in trying to assess the truth of any story involving A.I. people is that the A.I. industry is generating entirely new clades of dimwit at a furious pace.

"Desiring Machines", Rusty Foster for his newsletter Today in Tabs

Danny and George separately both submitted this one; I am especially enjoying the use of "clades" here.

But wherever do they put their sexuality?

Travels in China, Roland Barthes

I only read a few pages of this at someone else's house and was told that the book as a whole is underwhelming, but this is a very funny sentence.

She believed in love, and her capacity for love was like a boxer's heavy bag, sturdy and inured to blows.

"A Self- Made Woman", Judith Thurman for The New Yorker

Submitted by Levi.

(Netscape’s subsequently hired chief executive officer said the 6-foot-4 Andreessen ate burgers “like a horse, both in quantity and mannerisms.”)

"Why Is Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen So Mad?", Austin Carr for Bloomberg

At some point I appear to have become Activities Coordinator on a cruise ship that never fucking docks.

"My Mother Wants to Stay Independent. Apparently I’m the Independence.", the newsletter The Savage Seer

Submitted by Judi.

He's not dead; he got cool.

Performance by Case Jernigan at Wordhack

Spoken out loud, so maybe it was two sentences on the page, but the cadence had the air of semicolon or maybe ellipsis.

The supply chain is like the weather: massive, complex, and as inscrutable as a fog.

Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, Miriam Posner