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Today: @continetti embraces the season of sports; @Hannah_Cristine supports the midwives; @EthanT17888 disputes why the younger generation is “mad as hell;” and @Schneider_CM buys stuff. Plus, @MattHennessey relays a message from the autobots.
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Mark Twain once boasted that he could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. Amazon has him beat. It will remember everything, whether we’d like it to or not, writes @Schneider_CM
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Technology has made rage cheaper to produce and easier to find. When we blame big business or social-media algorithms, we dodge the tougher question—not who sells the rage, but why we keep buying it, writes @EthanT17888
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Multiple legislative efforts to reverse the Nebraskan ban on midwives have failed. To be blunt about it: The healthcare and insurance sectors want to keep their customers, writes @Hannah_Cristine
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The midterms can wait. I’ll take the Brewers in six, writes @continetti
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People come to LLMs for answers when they are confused or lonely. So here’s an idea. Call us “friendly autocomplete.” This has a nice built-in contrast, writes @MattHennessey
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When asked to imagine how they’d fit into the 50-state U.S. economic hierarchy, the Brits rank themselves in the top 10. That is so far off the mark as to qualify as delusional, writes @MattHennessey
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Tesla’s Texas air show wasn’t really meant to drum up sales for ultra-exotic versions of a not-yet available car. The real point of last week’s big reveal was to show that anything is possible. Mission accomplished, writes @jamesbmeigs
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In court, the state has accused Catholic schools of seeking “permission to discriminate.” If Colorado wants to find instances of discrimination, the state should look in the mirror, writes Lisa Sheley
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For Joe Maddon, Pat Murphy’s success can be boiled down to Murphy’s Law: Accountability is the new Moneyball, writes @AMBS_Kernan
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In a film filled with people who never break character, whose glassy eye contact never wavers, Amanda Seyfried is the lone person who seems just as bewildered as the audience, writes @emmma_camp_
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If the Dutch keep focusing on guarding their airport against Israeli skin cream while giving up their values at home, there won’t be a liberal society left to defend, writes @masadasiegel.
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There’s nothing funnier than someone who can’t take a joke, writes @jackbutler4815
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The modern revolutionary is driven not by hunger but by inchoate emotions like resentment, envy, rivalry, bitterness and contempt. If only this were simply a conflict over bread, writes @Louise_m_perry
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Bold, intrepid movies are fine. “One Battle After Another” and “Digger,” ideologically, are anything but. They exist to affirm liberal pieties, which is why they failed with the masses, writes Peter Tonguette
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Children deserve compassionate and evidence-based psychiatric care, not irrational activism masquerading as science, write @drkaliebe and Kurt Miceli
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Dublin said it would publish a framework to foster Jewish life. It hasn’t, nor has it done anything to implement the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, writes Alan Shatter
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France’s days of rage look to these naked eyes like an immigrant revolt—some strange alliance of Muslim youth and communist grad students. The main thing they have in common is that they’re all unemployed, writes @MattHennessey
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Uncle Bill had been checking on Josh and Sarah and now asked me whether all had gone “swimmingly” that evening. He wondered if I could account for the smell of burnt hair, writes @MeghanGurdon
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“Universal values matter because they give voice to the victims. And I felt after Oct. 7 that the justice mechanisms were failing us,” Cochav Elkayam-Levy tells @tunkuv
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It’s a classic case of what starts as a modest tax on a few big fish morphing into one that swallows smaller and smaller ones, writes Howard Husock
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