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Volv Concierge is returning to your inbox with bite-sized pieces of this week's top news and discourse making the rounds online. Let's get started.

🤳 Here's what was up on social:

• X: UK fed radioactive salts to people in secret experiment (1/2), (2/2)

• Instagram: India's budget for its historic mission to the Moon's south pole was less than half of what it cost to make 'Interstellar' 

• TikTok: Khaby Lame might be in 'Fortnite'

👉 Newsletter spotlight:

In a recent issue of his popular culture newsletter The Honest Broker, American music historian Ted Gioia wrote about how the only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, scamming, and spamming.

🗞️ Top news:

• Donald Trump returns to Twitter armed with his mugshot

• Japan has started releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific

• Paper straws might actually be more toxic than plastic ones

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