The much-anticipated release of the newest season of “The Bachelorette,” starring influencer Taylor Frankie Paul, was recently canceled. The reason was a leaked video showing Paul putting her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, into a headlock during a domestic fight and throwing a metal chair at him that hit her daughter instead. The entire altercation was not
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I’m Gen Z, a recent college graduate, and a newly engaged woman. I have a lot of life ahead of me, and hopefully, a lot to which I can look forward. But it seems that everywhere I turn I’m met with such slogans such as: “The West is in decline”; “Millennials and Gen Z are
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When we think of evil, the first image that comes to mind is usually not the concept of evil, but an evil thing. This gives insight into what evil is in its essence: something that robs innate goodness from something else. The word for this is called “privation,” the classical philosophical understanding of evil. Evil
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First, a note on my invented word: craxy. Like crayons in a box, some words in English exhibit a variety of shades and colors. Crazy is one of these, attracting synonyms like butterflies to milkweed. Call someone crazy, and we run the gamut from foolish to eccentric to fanatical, and end with psychotic. Consequently, context
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I’ve never used ChatGPT. Nor have I used Claude, Grok, or Gemini. At least, I don’t think I have. Large language models, artificial intelligence, and technologies that use them are spreading so fast that it’s impossible for me to say with certainty that I’ve stayed away from them. But I’m doing my darnedest. The downsides
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In an increasingly digitalized world filled with AI slop, manipulated algorithms, and monetized politics, truth is elusive and reality is questioned. Mistrust in institutions, public figures, and even history has deteriorated to total disbelief, and everyone’s either blackpilled (essentially having a fatalist or nihilist attitude) or a self-labeled conspiracy theorist. Doomers are giving up on
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