This is a very late link dump but still has some interesting things.

World Ploughing Championships

There are communities and competitions around everything. All of these people have high status in their community but probably in no other places. This is a common trend that I've come to see more and more.

Airlines face crack down on use of ‘exploitative’ algorithm that splits up families on flights

Morally wrong, legally right. Is this something worth regulating? Seems intrustive and dumb to regulate but families not sitting together on flights will be an effective visual + story so I would be this gets acted on.

More Info: I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.

This is a pretty obvious miss step and probably the wrong thing to do. I don't understand how/why you would ignore this. The story doesn't seem that unique, just pick a different restaurant?

New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive

This is a new level of slipping ads into feeds/lists. This seems very optically risky at a time that there is increased criticism around their practices. I do wonder what the CTR on those ads were though.