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Robot Friends Aren’t the Path Out of Loneliness
- Culture, Science, Uncategorized
- May 15, 2025
If there were a promotional program for infrequent flyers, as there is for frequent flyers, I would be a member in good standing. In 2015, I traveled by plane to Europe and back. In 2019, I flew to Milwaukee and back again for a memorial service for my mother-in-law. That’s all the flying I’ve done
READ MOREPresident Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see
READ MOREThe decline in reading in America is a troubling fact, so a social media trend that encourages people to frequent bookstores and read well into the night should be a welcome one, right? Yet “BookTok,” a TikTok term that refers to a community of mostly women who read dark, sexually-explicit fantasy novels, is anything but
READ MOREIf you keep up with the intersection of politics and pop culture like I do, you can’t have missed hearing about a recent British drama that was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide, and that became a surprising flashpoint of controversy. Podcasters, politicians and pundits from National Public Radio to the Daily Wire have weighed
READ MOREIn an age when Americans are increasingly polarized, there’s something fascinating about the way Meghan Markle – the ex-actress, British duchess, and now Cali-girl extraordinaire – seems to unite us. No matter what poor Markle does, she always seems to leave many Americans with the idea that she’s a clueless pseudo-elite, eager to tell us
READ MOREThe other day, this headline from Elizabeth Nickson’s Substack appeared on a website I visit daily: “’Give Us Back Our Fu**ing Money.’ How Washington Stole Everything.” Breitbart ran the following headline the same day: “Kyle Busch Threatens Opposing Driver: ‘I’m Gonna Wreck His A**!’” As reported in the article, that was the mildest of the NASCAR driver’s profanities.
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