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Who Is Dua Lipa’s Banned-Books Library Actually For?
The pop star Dua Lipa is known for her dance-floor hits, for her turn as a mermaid in Barbie, for always seeming to be on vacation. Lately, though, she’s cultivated a reputation as a literary tastemaker. Through her book club, Service95, founded in 2023, the singer has made her love of books key to her…
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AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea
Look, dating in the 2020s sucks. The apps are bad, people are rude, and the etiquette of it all seems to be evolving at the speed of sound. Yet for all the downsides, there’s nothing that can’t be made 100 times worse with the addition of AI slop. For better or worse, that’s exactly what…
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The doctor who helped save her is in another state, and telemedicine follow-up is prohibited
In her fight against an aggressive form of cancer, Santa Clarita Valley resident Robin Clough is winning, for now. But in her fight for the right to have telemedicine followups with the out-of-state doctor who helped save her life, she is losing. And legislation that would have eased the way for her and other California…
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The most important thing about the big new federal housing law
Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the universe. After the better part of a century, they’re still looking. But social science, improbably, may have beaten them to it. In 2021, three British writers — John Myers, Sam Bowman, and Ben Southwood — published an…
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The U.S. is Blowing Billions on the Wrong Weapons
In the interwar period, some military officers did not believe the combustion-engine vehicle would replace the horse for combat operations. Cavalry officers from around the world, including the United States and United Kingdom, argued strongly against trading their lovely mounts for new tanks. Many insisted that heavy armored vehicles could never conquer the hilly terrains…
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‘Fail at every turn’: Kash-bashing shouting match erupts at CNN round table
A fight erupted on CNN Saturday morning as conservative political commentator tried and failed to defend Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel as reports mount of ICE agents involved in fatal shootings. Jason Rantz spurred an uproar as he tried to the Trump administration after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three killed by…
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NY school to introduce first humanoid robot in US classroom — and vows ‘Sally’ will never replace teachers
They’re bot for teacher. A rural upstate New York school district will be one of the first in the nation to bring a humanoid robot into the classroom. The Salamanca City Central School District, located on Seneca Nation territory, will be introducing $57,000 AI-powered “Sally” in high school classes in September as a teaching assistant,…
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Chloe Fineman had tension with ‘SNL’ co-stars before exit: ‘Not everyone clicked with her’
Chloe Fineman’s relationships with her “Saturday Night Live” castmates weren’t always smooth sailing. Just a day after the comedian announced she was leaving NBC’s iconic late-night sketch show after seven seasons, a source exclusively told Page Six that while Fineman, 37, formed close friendships with some co-stars, she didn’t necessarily mesh with everybody. “Chloe could…
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Climate’s Compounding Financial Toll Is Becoming Harder to Ignore
Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the New York City. —Selcuk Acar/Anadolu—Getty Images It’s felt all but impossible to escape the reality of our changing climate this past month, from extreme heat at London Climate Action Week to wildfire smoke across…
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Data Centers Are Making Electricity Brutally Expensive for the Public
Despite a financial situation more reminiscent of a Ponzi scheme than a technological revolution, the data center boom is continuing at a rapid pace, bringing novel kinds of biological contamination, ear-splitting noise, and unprecedented levels of pollution to communities across the US. Those environmental burdens also come with a financial one: skyrocketing demand for electricity,…