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The… - [The Dog Doesn’t Know It’s October 3](https://rmn.pub/the-dog-doesnt-know-its-october-3) — CESAR’s pink Mean Girls tie-in is a small, silly and revealing example of what happens when an internet ritual becomes a physical object, and the family dog gets recruited into the bit. - [AI Made the Work Cheap. Now We Need Software to Prove Someone Actually Did It.](https://rmn.pub/ai-made-the-work-cheap-now-we-need-software-to-prove-someone-actually-did-it) — Leapora AI’s Taskeen is built around a strange new workplace problem: when polished output becomes easy to produce, a checkmark saying “done” may be the least interesting thing a manager needs to know. - [The Best Golfer in the Room Doesn't Have to Win](https://rmn.pub/the-best-golfer-in-the-room-doesnt-have-to-win) — X-Golf America's new nationwide fall league is offering a $10,000 prize through a handicapped format that asks a more interesting question than who shoots the lowest score: who played best relative to the golfer they… - [For Five Days, Newark Becomes the Venue](https://rmn.pub/for-five-days-newark-becomes-the-venue) — The Newark Arts Festival returns Oct. 7-11 for its 25th anniversary with 74 artists, major headliners and programming spread across the city. At this point, the interesting question is not simply what is on the schedu… - [We Took the Audience Out of Audience Testing](https://rmn.pub/we-took-the-audience-out-of-audience-testing) — iScreeningRoom’s new AI can watch an unreleased film, predict how viewers will react, and recommend edits without a test audience seeing a frame. The technical pitch is efficiency. The cultural question is what happen… - [The Jumper Has a Dashboard Now](https://rmn.pub/the-jumper-has-a-dashboard-now) — For generations, one of basketball's most durable training instructions has also been one of its simplest: get in the gym and shoot. A player could count makes, chase a round number, listen to a coach adjust an elbow… - [Your Shopping Cart Is Becoming a Moral Biography](https://rmn.pub/your-shopping-cart-is-becoming-a-moral-biography) — Humane World for Animals’ new Travis Barker campaign asks people to help animals through ordinary choices about food, clothing, products and pets. The larger shift is harder to miss: advocacy is increasingly moving ou… - [The Problem Isn't Yoga With Puppies. It's Needing Puppies to Sell Yoga.](https://rmn.pub/the-problem-isnt-yoga-with-puppies-its-needing-puppies-to-sell-yoga) — St. Hubert's challenge to puppy yoga is really a challenge to the language businesses use to make commercial incentives sound like animal welfare. - [The Goodyear Blimp Is Now a Halloween Costume. Of Course It Is.](https://rmn.pub/the-goodyear-blimp-is-now-a-halloween-costume-of-course-it-is) — Spirit Halloween and Goodyear have turned one of America’s oldest corporate icons into an inflatable costume — which says something about the strange point at which advertising becomes nostalgia, and nostalgia becomes… - [The Market Already Had Algorithms. Now the Broker Is One Too.](https://rmn.pub/the-market-already-had-algorithms-now-the-broker-is-one-too) — BGC Group says its Fenics AI system autonomously handled a Swiss index-options trade from price discovery through execution. Financial markets have been automating for decades. The new question is what remains recogni… - [Before the Holiday Rush, Toms River Gets One More Handmade Shopping Day](https://rmn.pub/before-the-holiday-rush-toms-river-gets-one-more-handmade-shopping-day) — Fabricated For You closes its 2026 craft-fair calendar November 14 with more than 60 outdoor booths, 30 indoor spotlight vendors and an inventory that runs from candles and crochet to books, bread, sea glass and woodw… - [“Luminaries for Lost Loves” turns a South Jersey shelter into a memorial for pets](https://rmn.pub/there-isnt-really-a-funeral-for-the-dog) — Animal Welfare Association’s “Luminaries for Lost Loves” turns a South Jersey shelter campus into a shared memorial for pets, and fills a ritual gap many families are still left to navigate on their own. - [The Convenience Is the Collection](https://rmn.pub/the-convenience-is-the-collection) — Not every helpful app is secretly a data trap. But if the convenience requires a panoramic view of your life, it is worth asking who benefits from the panorama. - [The Black Parade Is 20. Of Course It Comes Back on Vinyl and Cassette.](https://rmn.pub/the-black-parade-is-20-of-course-it-comes-back-on-vinyl-and-cassette) — My Chemical Romance's 20th-anniversary edition arrives October 23 with expanded music, new James Jean artwork and enough gloriously physical formats to remind us that some albums were never meant to live only inside a… - [The Generation Raised by the Feed Is Pulling Up the Drawbridge](https://rmn.pub/the-generation-raised-by-the-feed-is-pulling-up-the-drawbridge) — Pacsun's second annual Youth Report gives Gen Z and Gen Alpha a branded new name, but the behavior underneath it is more interesting than the label: young people remain deeply online while becoming increasingly select… - [What Happens When Social Media Comes With a Warning Label?](https://rmn.pub/what-happens-when-social-media-comes-with-a-warning-label) — A Stanford Medicine experiment found that young people reacted differently depending on how social-media risks were described. As warning-label laws move from proposal to policy, a few sentences on a screen may become… - [Your Cat Has Taste Now. Apparently It Can Curate.](https://rmn.pub/your-cat-has-taste-now-apparently-it-can-curate) — Fancy Feast and Paige DeSorbo have turned three of her cat Daphne’s preferred foods into a limited-edition “edit.” The products are ordinary cat food. The interesting part is the increasingly human job we have assigne… - [What If the Rescue Event Didn't Feel Like a Rescue Event?](https://rmn.pub/what-if-the-rescue-event-didnt-feel-like-a-rescue-event) — At the Pup Cup in Sewell, roller hockey is not interrupted for a cause. The cause is built into the event, putting 12 teams, 10 rescue organizations, adoptable dogs and five hours of competition inside the same social… - [We Didn’t Just Bring the Dog. We Gave Him a Public Persona.](https://rmn.pub/we-didnt-just-bring-the-dog-we-gave-him-a-public-persona) — At Cape May’s Rusty Nail Doggie Pageant, the family pet gets a style category, a talent round, a public vote and an audience. Somewhere along the way, companionship became a kind of public identity. - [The Pantry Has Dog Food Because the Household Has a Dog](https://rmn.pub/the-pantry-has-dog-food-because-the-household-has-a-dog) — Lunch Break’s September drive in Red Bank treats pet food, litter and toys as part of household need — and exposes what safety nets miss when they are built around an abstract individual instead of the relationships p… - [Do Something Ridiculous Long Enough and It Becomes Tradition](https://rmn.pub/do-something-ridiculous-long-enough-and-it-becomes-tradition) — Cape May’s United States National Froth Blowing Competition begins with beer foam and a joke, then wanders into something much more durable: membership, ritual, memory and a row of mugs that still knows which way the… - [Your Vet May Soon Be Asking AI About Your Dog](https://rmn.pub/your-vet-may-soon-be-asking-ai-about-your-dog) — Philadelphia-based Instinct Science is building Attending, a conversational clinical reference tool for veterinarians. The important question is not whether AI becomes the veterinarian, but what changes when professional expertise increasingly arrives through an AI interface. - [The Fans Get a Monument, Too](https://rmn.pub/the-fans-get-a-monument-too) — Championships leave objects behind. Players receive rings. Programs hang banners, engrave trophies and add another line to the permanent record. Stadiums absorb the accomplishment into architecture, and the season… - [Sometimes You Need a Doghouse Before You’ll Pick Up the Saw](https://rmn.pub/sometimes-you-need-a-doghouse-before-youll-pick-up-the-saw) — AWA’s ‘Raise the Woof’ gives women a reason to become beginners together — and turns the lesson into something an adopter can take home. - [Monster Bash Returns to Historic Smithville, Where the Village Gets a Little Less Alive](https://rmn.pub/monster-bash-returns-to-historic-smithville-where-the-village-gets-a-little-less-alive) — The Underground brings horror, local art, live music, costumes and a confirmed genre guest into one of South Jersey’s most deliberately quaint settings on Oct. 24. - [Last One, Best One](https://rmn.pub/last-one-best-one) — The Jersey Diners closed the regular season with a loss, but the final afternoon at TD Bank Ballpark had the kind of seats, noise and family chaos that made the score feel secondary. - [Sometimes the Dog Can Play With the Robot](https://rmn.pub/sometimes-the-dog-can-play-with-the-robot) — Cheerble’s new Wickedbone Air lets owners steer play from a phone or hand part of the chase over to an automatic mode. That does not have to mean outsourcing the relationship. Sometimes technology is simply covering a… - [Your Employees Are Telling the Chatbot What They Won’t Tell You](https://rmn.pub/your-employees-are-telling-the-chatbot-what-they-wont-tell-you) — A survey of 2,000 U.S. workers found employees are nearly four times more likely to talk through work stress with an AI chatbot than to use employer-provided mental-health support. The interesting question is not whet… - [The Work Behind the Working Dog](https://rmn.pub/the-work-behind-the-working-dog) — Eukanuba's National Service Dog Month campaign is built around a simple purchase-and-donation mechanic. Behind it is a much larger system of breeding, volunteer puppy raising, professional training and lifetime suppor… - [What Changes When the Shelter Dog Gets a Portrait?](https://rmn.pub/what-changes-when-the-shelter-dog-gets-a-portrait) — Atlantic Cape Community College is putting shelter and rescue animals on gallery walls. The interesting part is not simply that art might help an animal get adopted. It is what happens when an animal normally reduced… - [Stretch, Breathe and Try Not to Get Distracted: Kitten Yoga Comes to St. Hubert’s](https://rmn.pub/stretch-breathe-and-try-not-to-get-distracted-kitten-yoga-comes-to-st-huberts) — The Sept. 19 class in Madison pairs a one-hour yoga session with kittens and directs every ticket dollar to St. Hubert’s programs for animals and pet families. - [Color, Texture and Calm Fill Flemington DIY’s September Gallery](https://rmn.pub/color-texture-and-calm-fill-flemington-diys-september-gallery) — The “Vibrant Art Show” brings together dot mandalas, painting, crochet and acrylic pouring at the Stangl Road community arts space through Sept. 26. - [Six Flags Bought a Roller Coaster With a Fan Base Already Attached](https://rmn.pub/six-flags-bought-a-roller-coaster-with-a-fan-base-already-attached) — ArieForce One is getting a second life, and two Six Flags announcements in three days make a surprisingly good case for invention and preservation occupying the same amusement-park future. - [Jamtoberfest Brings a Living Thread of the Allman Brothers Story to Flanders](https://rmn.pub/jamtoberfest-brings-a-living-thread-of-the-allman-brothers-story-to-flanders) — A Brother’s Revival is not simply revisiting a catalog. Its headliner carries direct musical connections to both the Allman Brothers Band and Dickey Betts & Great Southern. - [Give the Shelter Dog a Red Carpet](https://rmn.pub/give-the-shelter-dog-a-red-carpet) — Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter’s Pet Palooza returns to Livingston on Sept. 19 with food trucks, contests, adoptable animals and a new Shelter Pet Gala built around a simple idea: sometimes adoption is an attention problem. - [AI Detectors Can Find the Pattern. They Still Can’t Hear the Writer.](https://rmn.pub/ai-detectors-can-find-the-pattern-they-still-cant-hear-the-writer) — A percentage can tell you that prose resembles a pattern. It cannot tell you where a sentence learned its timing, why a writer broke the rhythm on purpose, or whether the apparent polish is artificial at all. - [700 People Said It. America Has Apparently Spoken.](https://rmn.pub/700-people-said-it-america-has-apparently-spoken) — Press-release surveys can start a useful conversation without being allowed to end it. - [The Small Grant That Starts With a Nomination](https://rmn.pub/the-small-grant-that-starts-with-a-nomination) — Virbac’s Every Pet Project gives two animal charities $2,500 each month. The money matters. So does the mechanism: anyone can nominate, which turns a national giving program into a recurring exercise in asking communi… - [The Wolf Man Has Joined the Wine Rack](https://rmn.pub/the-wolf-man-has-joined-the-wine-rack) — 19 Crimes is adding The Wolf Man to its fourth annual Universal Monsters collection, turning a bottle of wine into something closer to seasonal shelf art for people who still have a soft spot for black-and-white monst… - [The Camera Recorded It. That Doesn't Mean the AI Saw It.](https://rmn.pub/the-camera-recorded-it-that-doesnt-mean-the-ai-saw-it) — Princeton researchers found that leading AI systems can miss basic events in police body-camera footage. The larger problem is what happens when we begin delegating observation itself. - [The Night Downtown Somerville Turns the Holidays On](https://rmn.pub/the-night-downtown-somerville-turns-the-holidays-on) — The annual Holiday Jubilee returns December 4 with the tree lighting, Santa, trolley rides, live entertainment and a downtown-wide evening built around being together before the season gets busy. - [Somerville’s Holiday Lights Parade Is Already Taking Shape](https://rmn.pub/somervilles-holiday-lights-parade-is-already-taking-shape) — The 2026 date has not been announced, but the parade’s recent first-Saturday pattern points to Dec. 5 — and Raccoon Media Network plans to dispatch live from the route. - [Your Backyard Has Analytics Now](https://rmn.pub/your-backyard-has-analytics-now) — BirdWeather's new bat detector turns the nearly invisible nighttime traffic over a home into a stream of timestamps, species guesses and behavioral data - raising a bigger question about what happens when ordinary nature becomes continuously measurable. - [Robot Fighting Is Having a Moment Again](https://rmn.pub/robot-fighting-is-having-a-moment-again) — For anyone who loved the early days of BattleBots and lost track of combat robotics for a while, National Havoc Robot League is a very good reason to look again. NHRL is building the ladder, media reach, builder culture and professional structure that could turn robot fighting from a familiar spectacle into a durable sport. - [Please Stop Feeding the Artificial Intelligence](https://rmn.pub/please-stop-feeding-the-artificial-intelligence) — SNICKERS made a digital candy bar for malfunctioning AI. It is either a very good joke stretched slightly too far, or a slightly desperate idea rescued by one very good joke. - [If People Need AI to Understand Your Product, Maybe the Product Isn’t Explained Very Well](https://rmn.pub/if-people-need-ai-to-understand-your-product-maybe-the-product-isnt-explained-very-well) — A new Capgemini Research Institute and LIMRA survey finds strong interest in life insurance colliding with technical language, uncertainty and a purchase process that many consumers abandon. Generative AI may be emerg… - [Chicken Salad Chick Has One Job, and I Respect That](https://rmn.pub/chicken-salad-chick-has-one-job-and-i-respect-that) — The fast-casual chain is opening its first New York restaurant this month, and its appeal starts with something increasingly rare: a business that tells you exactly what it does before you ever walk through the door. - [Westfield Doesn’t Have to Borrow Halloween. It Has Charles Addams.](https://rmn.pub/westfield-doesnt-have-to-borrow-halloween-it-has-charles-addams) — AddamsFest returns for a ninth October with art, cemetery tours, storefronts, a floating family house, a 1991 movie night and a town using its own history as something more interesting than seasonal decoration. - [The Giant Pumpkins Are Going Back to the Farm](https://rmn.pub/the-giant-pumpkins-are-going-back-to-the-farm) — Hopewell Valley’s Amazing Pumpkin Carve is moving from Woolsey Park to Needle Creek Farm Brewery for its 12th year. The venue is new, but adaptation has been part of this oversized autumn tradition almost from the beg… - [The Prompt Is Becoming the New Search Query](https://rmn.pub/the-prompt-is-becoming-the-new-search-query) — Muck Rack says Generative Pulse now uses millions of real consumer AI interactions to recommend the questions brands should monitor. For GEO, that is a shift from imagined prompt libraries toward observed audience beh… - [The AI Stack Has Developed Middle Management](https://rmn.pub/the-ai-stack-has-developed-middle-management) — Summation wants an always-on AI analyst to monitor the business, investigate changes, run recurring reviews and hand people the answer. It solves a real problem. It also raises a very 2026 question: how many layers of AI do we need before somebody has to supervise the supervisors? - [New Jersey Has a Pumpkin Concierge. I Kind of Love That.](https://rmn.pub/new-jersey-has-a-pumpkin-concierge-i-kind-of-love-that) — Jersey Girl Pumpkins will design, deliver, install and even remove a custom fall porch display. It is unmistakably a luxury service, but it is also an unusually specific New Jersey small business built around artistic… - [The Batmobile Is Coming to Princeton. This Time, the Mission Is Memory.](https://rmn.pub/the-batmobile-is-coming-to-princeton-this-time-the-mission-is-memory) — Brandywine Princeton is turning Batman Day and what would have been Adam West’s 98th birthday into a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association New Jersey Chapter — with Batman, Catwoman, a Batmobile, live music and t… - [Some Dogs Arrive With Families. Some Are There Looking for One.](https://rmn.pub/some-dogs-arrive-with-families-some-are-there-looking-for-one) — Turtle Back Zoo’s 10th annual BARKtoberfest brings rescue groups, adoptable animals, family pets and a public costume contest into the same West Orange gathering — turning pet adoption into something visible, communal… - [Ricky and Julian Are Coming to the Calgary Sport Card Expo. The Cards Can Wait.](https://rmn.pub/ricky-and-julian-are-coming-to-the-calgary-sport-card-expo-the-cards-can-wait) — The Sept. 18-20 show at Calgary’s Genesis Centre is bringing the Trailer Park Boys duo into a collectibles weekend built around autographs, memorabilia and the increasingly blurry line between sports fandom and pop cu… - [Professional Table Tennis Is a Thing. Now It’s Much Easier to Watch.](https://rmn.pub/professional-table-tennis-is-a-thing-now-its-easier-to-watch) — Major League Table Tennis is putting every match of its fourth season on YouTube and DAZN, while expanding onto national and regional television. For a sport almost everyone has played but relatively few Americans reg… - [For One Minute, Times Square Stops Selling Something](https://rmn.pub/for-one-minute-times-square-stops-selling-something) — On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, more than 30 Times Square displays paused their normal advertising for a coordinated moment of remembrance. In a place built to compete relentlessly for attention,… - [If It's All Bots, What's the Point?](https://rmn.pub/if-its-all-bots-whats-the-point) — Cloudflare says automated traffic has overtaken human requests for HTML pages. The stranger question is what happens when machines increasingly create, read, rank, summarize, and act on content before a person ever se… - [Smodcastle Turns Trick or Treat Into a Live Heavy-Metal Halloween Party](https://rmn.pub/smodcastle-turns-trick-or-treat-into-a-live-heavy-metal-halloween-party) — For the cult film’s 40th anniversary, Marc Price returns as master of ceremonies while Midnite Hellion performs the Fastway soundtrack alongside the movie on Oct. 30. - [A Historic Farmstead Is Still Doing Its Job. It Just Changed Jobs.](https://rmn.pub/a-historic-farmstead-is-still-doing-its-job-it-just-changed-jobs) — Farmstead Arts is heading into a fall stretch that moves from Revolutionary history to a member art show to community theater. The interesting part is not simply how much is on the calendar. It is what happens when preservation keeps a place in use instead of turning it into scenery. - [Six Flags Wants to Reinvent the Roller Coaster as a Flying Machine](https://rmn.pub/six-flags-wants-to-reinvent-the-roller-coaster-as-a-flying-machine) — Thrill Glider, opening at Magic Mountain in 2027, will put riders face-forward beneath the track on a multi-launch course designed to feel less like sitting in a coaster train and more like piloting a hovercycle. - [This Is How You Bring a Snack Back](https://rmn.pub/oh-yeah-the-snack-remembered-us) — Slim Jim just made a 429-foot meat stick. That is ridiculous. It is also a reminder that some brands survive because they become attached to a particular time in our lives. - [The Dog Is Part of Gameday Now](https://rmn.pub/the-dog-is-part-of-gameday-now) — The NFL has named The Farmer’s Dog its first official pet-food partner, putting dogs inside the league’s biggest cultural moments. The sponsorship is commercial, but the assumption underneath it is cultural: the dog i… - [You Didn't Agree to the App. You Were Just Standing Next to Someone Who Did.](https://rmn.pub/you-didnt-agree-to-the-app-you-were-just-standing-next-to-someone-who-did) — A Princeton seminar on "the bystander privacy problem" points to a growing weakness in the way technology treats consent: one person can choose the device while everyone nearby becomes part of the data. - [Your Dog Has a Personal Brand Now](https://rmn.pub/your-dog-has-a-personal-brand-now) — Barkhouse's Dog Fashion Week puts dogs and their people on the same runway. The joke is easy; the cultural shift underneath it is more interesting. - [The Cat Behind the Counter](https://rmn.pub/the-cat-behind-the-counter) — TEMPTATIONS is turning the neighborhood shop cat into a Lower Manhattan pop-up. The more interesting story is that the shop cat already had a public role long before a brand decided to celebrate it. - [The Dogs Come Back](https://rmn.pub/the-dogs-come-back) — At Animal Orphanage’s 30th Woofstock, the Alumni Parade turns pet adoption into a public homecoming, and gives a community one more reason to return to a place built around letting animals leave. - [It’s Not About the Meat. It’s About Knowing What You Call It.](https://rmn.pub/its-not-about-the-meat-its-about-knowing-what-you-call-it) — Hillsborough’s Pork Roll vs. Taylor Ham Food & Music Festival turns New Jersey’s favorite unserious argument into a full day of food, voting, dogs, music and professional wrestling, which may be exactly why the argum… - [Progressive Is Winning the Insurance Ad Game, One Tiny Humiliation at a Time](https://rmn.pub/progressive-is-winning-the-insurance-ad-game-one-tiny-humiliation-at-a-time) — The long-running Dr. Rick campaign keeps finding fresh comedy in the moment adults realize they have crossed from understanding the culture around them to asking why anyone would do that. - [AI Is Becoming Ordinary Enough for the Census People to Start Asking About It](https://rmn.pub/ai-is-becoming-ordinary-enough-for-the-census-people-to-start-asking-about-it) — NTIA has not decided to add artificial-intelligence questions to a federal household survey. But a new notice asks whether AI use at work and home, and Americans’ attitudes toward it, now belong in the government’s lo… - [The Black Market Behind the Fryer](https://rmn.pub/the-black-market-behind-the-fryer) — The strangest part of the used-cooking-oil theft story is not that somebody is willing to steal old fryer grease. The strangest part is how quickly the theft stops looking strange once the economics become visible.… - [The Event Is Wherever the Dog Is](https://rmn.pub/the-event-is-wherever-the-dog-is) — On Sept. 26, there will be no one place where the World’s Largest Pet Walk begins. - [Somerset County Will Walk Against Hunger Again — Because the Need Is Local](https://rmn.pub/somerset-county-will-walk-against-hunger-again-because-the-need-is-local) — A hunger walk can sound like the kind of event whose meaning lives somewhere else: a symbolic route taken here to help people facing food shortages far away. - [Your Cat Has an AI Personality Profile Now](https://rmn.pub/your-cat-has-an-ai-personality-profile-now) — There is a difference between knowing your cat moved less today and being told what that movement says about who your cat is. - [If the Athlete Is a Robot, Who Are We Really Cheering For?](https://rmn.pub/if-the-athlete-is-a-robot-who-are-we-really-cheering-for) — CyberHero launched a humanoid robot sports league in Riyadh with plans for an eight-city global circuit. The machines can punch, kick, fall and recover. The harder question is whether spectators will eventually care a… - [How Much of Yourself Are You Supposed to Leave at the Office Door?](https://rmn.pub/how-much-of-yourself-are-you-supposed-to-leave-at-the-office-door) — A new Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey finds that most job seekers consider adapting to workplace culture important, even as many say the expectation is unfair. The harder question is where ordinary… - [When the Boardwalk Trades Summer for Costumes](https://rmn.pub/when-the-boardwalk-trades-summer-for-costumes) — Jenkinson’s Boo at the Boardwalk returns for two October weekends with trick-or-treating, half-price rides, character appearances, aquarium oddities and a Halloween program built for families rather than scares. - [Urban Operas Is Betting That Specificity Can Be a Streaming Strategy](https://rmn.pub/urban-operas-is-betting-that-specificity-can-be-a-streaming-strategy) — Mann Robinson’s new mobile-first platform enters a booming microdrama market with a narrower proposition: Black stories should not have to live as a category inside someone else’s service when they can become the foun… - [Wildlife With Attitude, and a Reason to Keep Looking](https://rmn.pub/wildlife-with-attitude-and-a-reason-to-keep-looking) — Tiny Desk Photos is building a wildlife site around a simple idea: a photograph can stop you, a joke can keep you there, and curiosity can do the rest. - [Your Dog Has a Personality Test Written in Its DNA Now](https://rmn.pub/your-dog-has-a-personality-test-written-in-its-dna-now) — Embark’s new Behavior Insights feature promises to connect 15 behavioral tendencies to a dog’s genetics and then build a year of training around them. The useful part may be understanding predisposition. The harder pa… - [Fine, Knorr Got Us](https://rmn.pub/fine-knorr-got-us) — We do not usually write about limited-edition pantry products. We also do not usually have the brand already sitting in our pantry before the press release arrives. - [Philly Fringe Is Open, and the City Is Part of the Show](https://rmn.pub/philly-fringe-is-open-and-the-city-is-part-of-the-show) — More than 370 shows across 100-plus venues turn Philadelphia into a three-week argument for wandering off the official path. - [One More Day in the Field Before the Season Turns](https://rmn.pub/one-more-day-in-the-field-before-the-season-turns) — Jamtoberfest '26 brings Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead and Phish traditions into one outdoor Morris County gathering built around long jams, open space and the culture between the sets. - [Halloween Works Better When the Whole Downtown Plays Along](https://rmn.pub/halloween-works-better-when-the-whole-downtown-plays-along) — Somerville’s Halloween Spooktacular returns October 29 with free pumpkin painting, trick-or-treating and a family-first reason to walk the downtown in costume. - [What Happens When a Community Gets Its Own Piece of the Internet?](https://rmn.pub/what-happens-when-a-community-gets-its-own-piece-of-the-internet) — The internet has spent decades teaching people to look at the beginning of an address. The memorable part is usually the name before the dot, while the ending tends to disappear into habit: .com, .org, .net, a country… - [Gravity Falls Returns, One Artifact at a Time](https://rmn.pub/gravity-falls-returns-one-artifact-at-a-time) — A new art book, a gallery exhibition and a coming WEBTOON edition of Lost Legends show how a finished series can keep growing without pretending it never ended. - [The Ugly Pancake Comedy Festival Is Building a Jersey Shore Comedy Circuit](https://rmn.pub/the-ugly-pancake-comedy-festival-is-building-a-jersey-shore-comedy-circuit) — Ugly Pancake's fourth festival opens in Manhattan, then returns to Asbury Park for a first-timers showcase and a Tidal Wave collaboration that turns closing night into the next booking. Stand-up comedy has increasingly… - [Pet Friendly, but Make Room](https://rmn.pub/pet-friendly-but-make-room) — “Pet friendly” is one of those phrases that sounds more universal than it really is. A patio can allow dogs. A shop can put out a water bowl. A brewery can welcome leashes. But the practical meaning of the invitation… - [Behind Every Scream Is Somebody Building the Room](https://rmn.pub/behind-every-scream-is-somebody-building-the-room) — The Fright Stuff, Mike Meyer's documentary about America's haunted-attraction world, comes to the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers on Sept. 12, looking past the jump scare to the builders, performers and obsessive craft that make an entire seasonal culture work. - [The Family Costume Has Four Legs Now](https://rmn.pub/the-family-costume-has-four-legs-now) — A dog in a pumpkin costume is no longer remarkable and that may be the most remarkable thing about it. - [More Data, Less Understanding](https://rmn.pub/more-data-less-understanding) — Businesses have spent years building the machinery to know more about people. Transactions can be connected to loyalty programs, browsing behavior can be paired with campaign performance, survey results can be… - [Parenting Now Comes With a Research Department](https://rmn.pub/parenting-now-comes-with-a-research-department) — There is a version of modern parenting in which buying a bottle warmer can feel less like buying a bottle warmer and more like defending a thesis. - [If Nobody Is Driving, What Exactly Are We Watching?](https://rmn.pub/if-nobody-is-driving-what-exactly-are-we-watching) — Motorsport has always made its bargain with the audience in public. A driver takes a machine to the edge of adhesion, judgment and nerve, while engineers spend months making that machine faster, more reliable and more… - [Manufacturing the Prediction](https://rmn.pub/manufacturing-the-prediction) — Two days before Apple’s scheduled September 9 event, there is already an online store full of iPhone 18 Pro Max cases. They come in leopard print, polka dots, glitter, florals, faux textures and muted neutrals, and the… - [Five Runs, One Championship Belt and a Ballpark Full of Dogs](https://rmn.pub/five-runs-one-championship-belt-and-a-ballpark-full-of-dogs) — There are nights at a minor league ballpark when the promotions sit around the baseball, and there are nights when everything somehow becomes part of the same event. - [Cognizant Is Trying to Name the Jobs That Come After AI Disruption](https://rmn.pub/cognizant-is-trying-to-name-the-jobs-that-come-after-ai-disruption) — For most of the public conversation around artificial intelligence, the central workplace question has been framed as a subtraction problem: Which jobs will AI take, how quickly will it take them, and what happens to… - [Apparently the Robot Knows What "Normal" Means Better Than We Do](https://rmn.pub/apparently-the-robot-knows-what-normal-means-better-than-we-do) — A new study published Sept. 1 in Communications AI & Computing offers an unusually clean look at that promotion. Researchers asked six large language models and 320 Americans to estimate how people in the United States… - [The Point Was Always to Let Them Go](https://rmn.pub/the-point-was-always-to-let-them-go) — There is a familiar rhythm to animal welfare. Something vulnerable is taken in. Someone feeds it, cleans up after it, watches it change and tries to get it safely to whatever comes next. Usually, at an animal shelter,… - [We Changed the Tool Before We Changed the Job](https://rmn.pub/we-changed-the-tool-before-we-changed-the-job) — A new survey released Tuesday by Eagle Hill Consulting captures a workplace that has largely crossed the threshold from experimentation to use. Among the senior business decision-makers it surveyed, 73 percent said… - [Your Dog Is Becoming a Data Source](https://rmn.pub/your-dog-is-becoming-a-data-source) — There is a very old way to know your dog. You watch the dog. You learn the rhythms: the particular circle before lying down, the suspiciously quiet minute that usually means something is being chewed, the difference… - [When an Object Becomes Part of You](https://rmn.pub/when-an-object-becomes-part-of-you) — A ring is a small object, but it rarely stays only an object. It can mark a marriage, signal a taste, preserve a memory, advertise a membership, recall a person, announce a mood or simply become so familiar on the hand… - [New Jersey Joins FTC Challenge to Amazon’s Advertising Auction System](https://rmn.pub/new-jersey-joins-ftc-challenge-to-amazons-advertising-auction-system) — Regulators say undisclosed reserve pricing changed what advertisers were paying. Amazon says the case misunderstands how its ad marketplace works and ignores performance gains for advertisers and shoppers. - [Lenny Bruce Is Still Arguing With the Room](https://rmn.pub/lenny-bruce-is-still-arguing-with-the-room) — A theater audience in 2026 does not need to be told that words can still start a fight. The vocabulary has changed, the platforms have changed, and the institutions deciding what is acceptable are no longer limited to… - [Six People, One Tractor, Twenty Yards](https://rmn.pub/six-people-one-tractor-twenty-yards) — Pulling for a Cure returns to Carriage Farm in Hillsborough on September 13, turning a simple act of teamwork into a visible fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. - [AI Doesn't Just Make Culture. It Interprets It.](https://rmn.pub/ai-doesnt-just-make-culture-it-interprets-it) — A Princeton-linked workshop at one of machine learning's most important conferences is pushing a deceptively difficult idea: if generative AI operates inside language, art, context and meaning, then evaluating it cannot stop at whether the answer is technically correct. - [Even the Dog Gets a Girl Scout Cookie Now](https://rmn.pub/even-the-dog-gets-a-girl-scout-cookie-now) — There are products that become traditions, and then there are traditions that happen to arrive in boxes. - [What Happens When the Website Starts Editing Itself?](https://rmn.pub/what-happens-when-the-website-starts-editing-itself) — The company launched Sept. 8 with what it calls an "autonomous website" platform: a system designed to sit on top of real website code and let AI agents continuously propose changes after a site is built. Fimo says… - [When Healthy Becomes a Moral Category](https://rmn.pub/when-healthy-becomes-a-moral-category) — There is a small linguistic trick hiding inside a lot of modern health advice. Food stops being something we eat and starts becoming evidence about who we are. - [Can You Cheat With Something That Isn't a Person?](https://rmn.pub/can-you-cheat-with-something-that-isnt-a-person) — The newest relationship argument does not require a second human being. It may require only a phone, a chatbot and enough private conversation for one partner to begin wondering whether the other has crossed a line… - [Morven Sets the Table for a September Afternoon Tea Steeped in History](https://rmn.pub/morven-sets-the-table-for-a-september-afternoon-tea-steeped-in-history) — The Secret Tea Room returns to Princeton’s historic Morven Museum & Garden for four intimate seatings on September 24 and 25. - [One More Burst Over Bridgewater](https://rmn.pub/one-more-burst-over-bridgewater) — The Somerset Patriots' final fireworks night of 2026 arrives September 12, pairing Irish Heritage Night with the next-to-last home game of the regular season. - [Adam Sandler Is Filming All Over New Jersey. Again.](https://rmn.pub/adam-sandler-is-filming-all-over-new-jersey-again) — Grown Ups 3 has moved through suburban streets, downtown business districts, restaurants and a Shore amusement park. The more interesting story is not that Hollywood showed up. It is that New Jersey increasingly knows… - [Downtown Somerville Gets a Little Stranger After Dark](https://rmn.pub/downtown-somerville-gets-a-little-stranger-after-dark) — The Spooky Night Market brings oddities, gothic goods, horror-inspired art and costume-friendly nightlife to Division Street on October 8. - [For One Sunday, Downtown Somerville Becomes the Venue](https://rmn.pub/for-one-sunday-downtown-somerville-becomes-the-venue) — Music Fest spreads headliners, community performers, karaoke, vendors, food and family activities across Main and Division streets on September 20. - [New Jersey Has 21 Counties. Earth Kenan Wants Every One to Sound Smooth.](https://rmn.pub/new-jersey-has-21-counties-earth-kenan-wants-every-one-to-sound-smooth) — The Deptford musician is turning county facts, local landmarks and civic geography into yacht-rock songs — a deeply strange, strangely effective way to explain New Jersey to itself. - [Darkside NJ Has Two More Chances to Get Weird This Fall](https://rmn.pub/darkside-nj-has-two-more-chances-to-get-weird-this-fall) — Season of the VVitch arrives at Mercer County Park on Sept. 12, followed by a Friday the 13th Dark Market in Edison on Nov. 13. - [Duke Farms' 'Wild by Nature' Puts Climate Conversation Beside Music, Film, and an Owl](https://rmn.pub/duke-farms-wild-by-nature-puts-climate-conversation-beside-music-film-and-an-owl-who-captured-a-city) — The Sept. 19 program brings harpist Brandee Younger, filmmaker Penny Lane and Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad together for a day built around a deceptively simple idea: caring about the natural world can begin with wonder. - [Liberty Biberty Did Not Need a Body](https://rmn.pub/liberty-biberty-did-not-need-a-body) — Liberty Mutual spent years building a weird, scrappy advertising universe one decent joke at a time. Then somebody looked at the funniest accidental character in the whole thing and decided what he really needed was to become a fuzzy yellow blob. - [The Lighthouse Challenge Strat Guide](https://rmn.pub/the-lighthouse-challenge-strategy-guide) — The most efficient two-day route for New Jersey's 2026 Lighthouse Challenge — plus the timing logic, risk controls, climb strategy and a full field dossier for all 15 physical stops… - [The Past, Remastered](https://rmn.pub/the-past-remastered) — AI can make a street filmed in 1911 move like it was shot yesterday. It can color the coats, sharpen the faces, smooth the footsteps and manufacture the frames between them. The result may feel more real. That does no… - [Montclair Film Festival Sets Its October Return as the 15th Edition Approaches](https://rmn.pub/montclair-film-festival-sets-its-october-return-as-the-15th-edition-approaches) — The lineup is still under wraps, but the dates are set, the ticket calendar is in place, and Montclair Film is preparing to turn the town into a ten-day movie destination once again. - [One Man, Eighteen Lives: Chazz Palminteri Brings the Original A Bronx Tale to Carteret](https://rmn.pub/one-man-eighteen-lives-chazz-palminteri-brings-the-original-a-bronx-tale-to-carteret) — An advance dispatch on Chazz Palminteri’s original one-man A Bronx Tale at Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center on Oct. 16, 2026, including the 18-character solo form, ticket details and optional Bistro pre-show dining. - [We Keep Turning Pop Culture Into Mythology](https://rmn.pub/we-keep-turning-pop-culture-into-mythology) — Superheroes, celebrities, franchises and television characters increasingly provide the metaphors modern people use to explain morality, identity, grief, loyalty and change. That does not make entertainment a new reli… - [The Lighthouse Challenge Turns New Jersey Into a Two-Day Maritime Road Trip](https://rmn.pub/the-lighthouse-challenge-turns-new-jersey-into-a-two-day-maritime-road-trip) — The annual October challenge sends participants from Sandy Hook to Cape May and up the Delaware side of the state, connecting lighthouses, lifesaving stations and museums into one long weekend of history, navigation a… - [Before Springsteen Became an Icon, Monmouth Was Already in the Story](https://rmn.pub/before-springsteen-became-an-icon-monmouth-was-already-in-the-story) — An advance dispatch on Bruce Springsteen and Monmouth: Music, Memory, and the Making of an American Icon, an Oct. 2 illustrated program at Powell Soundstage at the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in Long Branch. - [The Internet Lost Its Lobby](https://rmn.pub/the-internet-lost-its-lobby) — The web still has crowds, communities and conversation. What it increasingly lacks are semi-public places where a stranger can wander in, linger without performing, become familiar over time and leave behind something… - [XPoNential Music Festival Returns to Camden With a Weekend Built for Discovery](https://rmn.pub/xponential-music-festival-returns-to-camden-with-a-weekend-built-for-discovery) — WXPN’s 33rd annual festival returns to Wiggins Park Sept. 18-20 with Dawes, Portugal. The Man, Little Feat and a lineup designed to reward the people who show up before the headliner. - [Sea.Hear.Now Returns to Asbury Park for a Weekend Built Around the Shore](https://rmn.pub/sea-hear-now-returns-to-asbury-park-for-a-weekend-built-around-the-shore) — Mumford & Sons and The Strokes headline Sept. 19–20, but music is only part of a festival that treats the beach, surf culture, art and the Asbury Park boardwalk as part of the bill. - [The Bigger the Studio, the Smaller the Map](https://rmn.pub/the-bigger-the-studio-the-smaller-the-map) — The Paramount-Warner Bros. fight is about more than franchises and streaming scale. In a consolidated entertainment economy, fewer companies decide what gets made while recommendation systems increasingly decide what… - [At Brook Arts Center, the Fall Calendar Starts Before Opening Night](https://rmn.pub/at-brook-arts-center-the-fall-calendar-starts-before-opening-night) — Youth theater, filmmaking and a free writers workshop give Brook’s fall season a second purpose: not simply presenting finished work, but giving New Jersey creators a place to learn how the work gets made. - [Smodcastle Checks Into the Overlook for The Shining: Live on Stage](https://rmn.pub/smodcastle-checks-into-the-overlook-for-the-shining-live-on-stage) — Raconteur Radio returns to Atlantic Highlands on Oct. 9 with a live theatrical parody built from scripts, sound, lighting, music and a cast that includes Kevin Smith in the least age-appropriate Danny Torrance casting… - [The Algorithm Taught Us to Say “Unalive”](https://rmn.pub/the-algorithm-taught-us-to-say-unalive) — Content moderation was built to classify speech at machine scale. Users answered by inventing speech machines could not immediately classify. Now the workaround vocabulary has escaped the platforms that created it, an… - [Investment of a Lifetime](https://rmn.pub/investment-of-a-lifetime) — A cultural analysis of how the language of investment migrated from capital markets into fandom, celebrity and media attachment—and why the underfunded portfolio may be your own life. - [Before America 250, New Jersey Looks Back at America's 200th](https://rmn.pub/before-america-250-new-jersey-looks-back-at-americas-200th) — The New Jersey State Museum's Spirit of '76 exhibition uses the Bicentennial to examine how a divided country tried to celebrate itself 50 years ago - and why that exercise feels newly relevant during the Semiquincentennial. - [From Khan to Kirk: New Jersey Marks 60 Years of Star Trek](https://rmn.pub/kirk-to-khan-new-jersey-star-trek-60) — An advance dispatch on New Jersey’s Star Trek 60th anniversary calendar, from the Sept. 4–8 theatrical film-and-episode series through Bound Brook’s three-part celebration, library events and January’s William Shatner coda. - [At Morey's Piers, the Water Park Is Going to the Dogs](https://rmn.pub/at-moreys-piers-the-water-park-is-going-to-the-dogs) — An advance dispatch on PigDog Puppa Palooza at Raging Waters Water Park on Mariner's Pier in Wildwood on Sept. 13, 2026, including reserved pool sessions, Yappy Hour and Beacon Animal Rescue proceeds. - [Bound Brook Goes to Warp for a Three-Part Star Trek Celebration](https://rmn.pub/bound-brook-goes-to-warp-for-a-three-part-star-trek-celebration) — Brook Arts Center is marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with a film, a symphonic voyage and a New Jersey-premiere musical. Then William Shatner brings The Wrath of Khan to State Theatre New Jersey in January. - [When the Audience Joins the Investigation](https://rmn.pub/when-the-audience-joins-the-investigation) — True crime used to turn criminal cases into stories. Podcasts, forums, searchable archives and social platforms turned the audience into participants. The result can revive a cold case, identify a person who lost thei… - [Nerd Fest Brings the Small-Con Advantage Back to South Jersey](https://rmn.pub/nerd-fest-brings-the-small-con-advantage-back-to-south-jersey) — The Jersey Shore Comic Book Show returns to Swedesboro Sept. 20 with comic artists, indie creators, collectibles, Star Wars cosplay and the kind of convention floor where there is still time to stop and talk. - [The Jersey Shore Card Show Returns to Toms River, Where the Hunt Is the Point](https://rmn.pub/the-jersey-shore-card-show-returns-to-toms-river-where-the-hunt-is-the-point) — Three months after its first card-focused show, the Jersey Shore Comic Book Show is bringing collectors back to the Toms River Elks Lodge for six hours of sports cards, trading games, pop-culture cards and the particu… - [Lunar Faire’s Final Five Nights Move Across Five Very Different New Jersey Grounds](https://rmn.pub/lunar-faires-final-five-nights-move-across-five-very-different-new-jersey-grounds) — The traveling witchy night market closes its 2026 season with Elements, Zodiac, Vasquerade, Dark Carnival and Halloweekend, and the setting changes almost as much as the theme. - [The New Jersey Film Festival Opens a Month-Long Window for Independent Film](https://rmn.pub/the-new-jersey-film-festival-opens-a-month-long-window-for-independent-film) — An advance dispatch on the 45th bi-annual New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2026 at Voorhees Hall, Rutgers University, Sept. 4 through Oct. 4, including hybrid screenings, workshops and an AV concert. - [The Places We Can Visit Without Entering](https://rmn.pub/the-places-we-can-visit-without-entering) — Virtual heritage is moving beyond museum novelty. The same 3D scans used to monitor caves, ruins and conflict-damaged monuments are becoming public experiences, raising a strange new possibility: the digital version… - [Eighteen Days Until the Lucas Museum Opens the Door on Narrative Art](https://rmn.pub/eighteen-days-until-the-lucas-museum-opens-the-door-on-narrative-art) — An advance dispatch on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, on Sept. 22, 2026, including inaugural exhibitions, film theaters, LM37 neighborhood access and admission details. - [When the Biopic Becomes a Room](https://rmn.pub/when-the-biopic-becomes-a-room) — David Bowie’s newest documentary does not ask an audience to sit in front of a screen. It surrounds them with photographs, music and spatial sound. Across museums, festivals and immersive venues, the life story of an… - [The Web Is Slowing Down on Purpose](https://rmn.pub/the-web-is-slowing-down-on-purpose) — A cultural analysis of the Slow Web: blogs, newsletters, personal sites, RSS and chronological feeds as a response to algorithmic velocity—backed by Reuters Institute, YouGov, Pew and related research. - [William Shatner Is Bringing The Wrath of Khan to New Brunswick - Then Taking the Stage](https://rmn.pub/william-shatner-is-bringing-the-wrath-of-khan-to-new-brunswick-then-taking-the-stage) — An advance dispatch on William Shatner Live on Stage with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick on Jan. 29, 2027, including ticket on-sale timing and VIP options. - [Rocky Horror Is Ready to Do the Time Warp Again in New Brunswick](https://rmn.pub/rocky-horror-is-ready-to-do-the-time-warp-again-in-new-brunswick) — An advance dispatch on The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Barry Bostwick at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick on Oct. 3, 2026, including a 4K restoration, live shadow cast, VIP meet-and-greet and after-party. - [DollyFest Will Bring Dolly Parton's Celebration Home to Tennessee in 2027](https://rmn.pub/dollyfest-will-bring-dolly-partons-celebration-home-to-tennessee-in-2027) — An advance dispatch on DollyFest 2027 in Nashville and London, and Dollywood's separate tribute plans in Pigeon Forge. - [For One Weekend, Wildwood Becomes New Jersey's Firehouse](https://rmn.pub/for-one-weekend-wildwood-becomes-new-jerseys-firehouse) — An advance dispatch on the 2026 New Jersey State Firemen's Association convention, Fire Expo and Memorial Parade in Wildwood, Sept. 18–19. - [He's Not Really Going Into Fires, Is He?](https://rmn.pub/hes-not-really-going-into-fires-is-he) — At a Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy graduation, a familiar ceremony still carries the weight of families watching someone step toward fire, EMS, and the calls that follow. - [The Final Stretch Has a Look](https://rmn.pub/the-final-stretch-has-a-look) — Somerset's final home week brings Damian Priest, a WWE jersey giveaway, and one last Jersey Diners afternoon before the 2026 home schedule closes Sunday, Sept. 13. - [The Sandwich Has Acquired Counsel](https://rmn.pub/the-sandwich-has-acquired-counsel) — Smucker sued Trader Joe's over crustless PB&J sandwiches. A federal judge kept the dilution claim alive in Ohio, and the case asks who owns the edge. - [The Internet Is Teaching Us to Leave the Internet](https://rmn.pub/the-internet-is-teaching-us-to-leave-the-internet) — Pinterest trend data, Pew research, and a physical-media rebound suggest people are using the internet to find reasons to get offline — and hobbies with something tangible to show for the time. - [Open All Night: Kevin Smith Brings Clerks Back Home](https://rmn.pub/clerks-open-all-night-3) — An advance dispatch on Clerks: Open All Night 3 at SModcastle Cinemas, where Kevin Smith will run the trilogy from 11 p.m. through sunrise with Q&As along the way. - [Six Degrees of Kevin Smith](https://rmn.pub/six-degrees-of-kevin-smith) — Before the doors opened at Super Jersey Summer Spectacular in Hillsborough, the room already showed what made the day work: access, ease, and a crowd connected by six degrees of Kevin Smith. - [A Vow, a Wave, and the Runner on Second](https://rmn.pub/a-vow-a-wave-and-the-runner-on-second) — A regular Saturday at TD Bank Ballpark moved from renewed vows and Yankees rehab assignments to four Somerset home runs and Akron's 6-5 win in ten innings. - [The Ballpark Remembers](https://rmn.pub/the-ballpark-remembers) — On Sopranos Night at TD Bank Ballpark, a bowling-shirt giveaway, a twenty-minute rain delay, and a six-run inning left Somerset with an 8-6 win — and a shirt that will keep the night in circulation. ## Markdown mirrors - [They Put Coupon Fraud on a Subscription Plan](https://rmn.pub/they-put-coupon-fraud-on-a-subscription-plan.md) - [The Dog Doesn’t Know It’s October 3](https://rmn.pub/the-dog-doesnt-know-its-october-3.md) - [AI Made the Work Cheap. Now We Need Software to Prove Someone Actually Did It.](https://rmn.pub/ai-made-the-work-cheap-now-we-need-software-to-prove-someone-actually-did-it.md) - [The Best Golfer in the Room Doesn't Have to Win](https://rmn.pub/the-best-golfer-in-the-room-doesnt-have-to-win.md) - [For Five Days, Newark Becomes the Venue](https://rmn.pub/for-five-days-newark-becomes-the-venue.md) - [We Took the Audience Out of Audience Testing](https://rmn.pub/we-took-the-audience-out-of-audience-testing.md) - [The Jumper Has a Dashboard Now](https://rmn.pub/the-jumper-has-a-dashboard-now.md) - [Your Shopping Cart Is Becoming a Moral Biography](https://rmn.pub/your-shopping-cart-is-becoming-a-moral-biography.md) - [The Problem Isn't Yoga With Puppies. It's Needing Puppies to Sell Yoga.](https://rmn.pub/the-problem-isnt-yoga-with-puppies-its-needing-puppies-to-sell-yoga.md) - [The Goodyear Blimp Is Now a Halloween Costume. 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