Just as personal vices can shape the course of an individual life, so too can national vices influence our collective experience, maybe as much as our virtues—or possibly even more. And those vices are changing. (Brooks, The Atlantic)
Read MoreAs start-ups with A.I. matchmakers pop up, the biggest dating apps — Hinge, Tinder, Bumble and Grindr — are trying to harness the technology to reinvent themselves. They are ushering in a new era of online dating where people pay for a few premium A.I. matches a week, instead of subscribing to an endless stream of profiles. (Tan, The New York Times)
Read MoreWhile 74% of adults say they would want to be cared for at home, according to data from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, a new survey of more than 1,200 adults in the United States found 7 in 10 family caregivers don't want their aging parents to live with them. (Mitchell, USA Today)
Read MoreEver since they burst onto the scene, A.I.-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others have been pitched as dispassionate sources, trained on billions of websites, books and articles from across the internet in what is sometimes described as the sum of all human knowledge. (Myers & Thompson, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe sobriety of the Catholic tradition, by which on All Saints’ Day graves are cleaned and flowers are brought to cemeteries to spend time with deceased loved ones, has given way in recent years to sweets, fake blood, and spider webs from one of the most iconic holidays in the United States. (Medrano & León, Associated Press)
Read MoreAs Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, the Kremlin is increasingly trying to define itself in contrast to the West. The Russian authorities have sought to crack down on social events in conflict with the Kremlin’s conservative worldview. (Hopkins, The New York Times)
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