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The newsletter had no sender, no unsubscribe link, and no patience for Dana Marr's lunch hour. She found it on a Tuesday in March while deleting six years of retail receipts from her personal inbox. Her office had given everyone a half day after a water main broke two floors above accounting, and Dana had used the unexpected afternoon with the practical severity she brought to any task involving storage. She had wiped out dentist reminders, shipping notices, old password codes, e-cards from coworkers who no longer worked anywhere near her, and a folder called MAYBE TAXES that contained one tax form and forty-three restaurant coupons. By 1:20 she had reduced her inbox from 18,912 messages to 12,604 and felt virtuous enough to heat soup. The message appeared between a pharmacy refill alert and an email from her building manager about bike-room etiquette. Its subject line read: Week of March 18: ordinary items. Dana clicked it because she assumed it was another neighborhood digest. The…