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☆ Kathleen Noble: A lack of equipment and coaching hasn’t stopped software engineer from making Olympic history with landlocked Uganda
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Rory Fleming | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Her journey now sees the 29-year-old set to become a two-time Olympian – Noble represented Uganda at the Tokyo Games – when she competes at Paris 2024. She is Uganda’s first Olympic rowing participant, as well as the African nation’s first and only White Olympian across any sporting discipline. A prodigious swimmer in her youth, Noble represented Uganda at the 2012 World Swimming Championships at just 17 years of age. Then, on a whim during her time as a student at Princeton University, Noble was convinced to try her hand at rowing. Lee Jin-man/APIt is not just a lack of equipment which has hampered rowing’s growth in the east African country.

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☆ Opinion: Thank goodness this season of ‘Bridgerton’ isn’t short on the sex
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —“Bridgerton” is finally back, and the new season has been infused with a much-needed aphrodisiac. But season three, which centers on Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) — a.k.a. In recent months, there’s been talk about how sex is returning to movies after a long, dull period of primarily PG-13 fare. ), but this season’s “Bridgerton” is doing a fine job with the foreplay as well, teasing the furtive looks and fantasies of its two leads as well as delving into several other boudoirs. Escaping into the candy-colored, racially diverse, endlessly horny utopia of Mayfair might just be the perfect balm for the 2024 soul.

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☆ A.I. Can Be Really Dumb. But It’s Still a Good Tutor. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I understand why parents are unhappy with the proliferation of computers in school, as my Opinion colleague Jessica Grose documented in a recent series of newsletters. For example, imagine teaching ratios by showing a Yankees fan how to update Aaron Judge’s batting average. can also give teachers and parents the detailed information they need to help their young charges more effectively. As I wrote last month, there’s a risk that A.I. will substitute for human labor and eventually render us all superfluous.

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☆ A millennial investor feels happier and healthier after taking most of her meetings off Zoom
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The 36-year-old healthcare tech investor said on X, formerly Twitter, earlier this month that 90 percent of her meetings are phone calls, while 10 percent are on Zoom. Other desk workers have moved away from video calls, a decision that is also backed up by recent research on Zoom fatigue. Farr started moving her video meetings to phone calls so that she could take walks during them. Related storiesFarr knows phone calls don't work for every type of meeting, especially when visuals are crucial — like when a slide deck is being presented. Bailenson concluded the report with a simple suggestion: "Make 'audio only' Zoom meetings the default, or better yet, insist on taking some calls via telephone."

Persons: —, it's Christina Farr, Farr, — Farr, Christina Farr, Farr —, Alyssa Jaffee, Farr's, Jaffee, Jeremy Bailensonon, Bailenson Organizations: Service, Business, Stanford Locations: Chicago

☆ Live Updates: Inflation Expected to Cool Slightly
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Ben Casselman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Housing Inflation Remains Stubbornly High Economists had expected two measures of rental inflation to fade in 2023 and 2024, but that process is taking time to play out. There are two main measures of inflation in America, the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures index. Consumer Price Index Inflation Remains Hotter The Consumer Price Index is climbing faster than the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, in large part because it weights housing more heavily. With housing, Consumer Price Index inflation totaled 3.5 percent in March. But the convergence between new and existing rent inflation is taking a lot longer than expected.

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☆ Opinion | ‘Tradwife’ Content Isn’t Really for Women. It’s for Men Who Want Submissive Wives.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tradwife content has been a social media phenomenon for a few years, and even though the trend creates a lot of discourse online and off, I’ve resisted writing about it because I think it’s a trap. Their posts sometimes come with florid captions about the joy and freedom that come from submitting to their husbands, because biblical submission doesn’t connote inferiority. The whole discussion can be a trap because the content itself is meant to be a heightened provocation — some tradwife creators post things that they label as triggering opinions and then say they get so much hate for being stay-at-home moms. But they rely on that dissonance in order to create more engagement (which leads to more clicks and more money). These posts have a way of painting feminists as haters who resist their true nature and casting career women in opposition to women who don’t work for pay.

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☆ Inside the Rent Inflation Measure That Economics Nerds Love to Hate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jeanna Smialek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a three-letter abbreviation that economists have started pronouncing with the energy of a four-letter word: “O.E.R.”It stands for owner’s equivalent rent, and it has been used to measure American housing inflation since the 1980s. As its name suggests, it uses a combination of surveys and market data to estimate how much it would cost homeowners to rent the house they live in. But three years into America’s price pop, it has become almost cliché for economists to hate on the housing measure. The most intense haters insist that it is giving a false impression about where inflation stands. “It’s just not adding anything to our understanding of inflation,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics and a frequent adviser to the Biden administration.

Persons: There’s, “ It’s, ”, Mark Zandi, Biden, Zandi, grousing, “ Organizations: New York Times

☆ Furniture flippers are getting roasted online for painting vintage wood pieces 'millennial gray'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

How do you feel about painted furniture?" Halfpoint Images/Getty ImagesDemand is up for vintage wood furniture — without paintPart of the backlash certainly stems from the current state of the furniture industry, in which it's increasingly difficult to get your hands on brand-new, high-quality furniture. As a result, the secondhand furniture market is booming, with vintage furniture sellers proliferating on places like Instagram and Facebook Marketplace. The flippers said most of the hate comments tend to come from flips of midcentury modern furniture, in particular, a beloved and lasting design aesthetic from around roughly the 1930s to 1970s. Despite all the vocal online haters of painted furniture, there's a reason furniture flippers do it: the pieces sell.

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☆ U.N. General Assembly Adopts Resolution Supporting Palestinian Statehood
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | Bilal Shbair | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The United States voted no. The 193-member General Assembly took on the issue of Palestinian membership after the United States in April vetoed a resolution before the Security Council to recognize full membership for a Palestinian state. The majority of Council members supported the move, but the United States said recognition of Palestinian statehood should be achieved through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. The Palestinians are currently recognized by the United Nations as a nonmember observer state, a status granted in 2012 by the General Assembly. They do not have the right to vote on General Assembly resolutions or nominate any candidates to U.N. agencies.

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☆ Promoters of Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Netflix fight offer $2 million VIP package as ticket, bettor interest spike
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Jessica Golden | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this composite image a comparison between Former Boxer Mike Tyson (L) and Jake Paul (R). Mike Tyson's return to the boxing ring to fight Jake Paul this summer is already seeing soaring ticket prices and strong bettor interest. The two previously achieved the first ever sold out women's headline boxing event at Madison Square Garden. Most Valuable Promotions also has a unique offer for the fight — a $2 million VIP package. The odds show Jake Paul as the current favorite (-145), but 70% of the money is being bet on Tyson.

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☆ Tiffany Haddish said she got so much hate that she made a fake Instagram, hunted down her trolls, and confronted them
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Tiffany Haddish described taking revenge on people trolling her online. The actor and comedian said she used a fake profile to hunt down where mean comments came from. AdvertisementTiffany Haddish said she got so much hate online that she used a fake Instagram profile to hunt down her trolls, and even called some of them directly. Speaking to The LA Times, Haddish said she decided to fight back, creating a fake Instagram profile under the name "Sarah," to track her haters down. A lot of the comments called the star "pedo" and "not funny."

Persons: Tiffany Haddish, —, Haddish, Sarah Organizations: Service, Netflix, Daily Beast, LA Times, Times Locations: Los Angeles, Malaysia, Iran

☆ Who's winning the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar showdown? Here's what critics are saying
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewDrake and Kendrick Lamar were once considered collaborators, perhaps even friends. Over the years, however, Drake and Lamar came to represent very different versions of hip-hop greatness: the former is a commercial juggernaut, racking up No. Today, their separation is more apparent than ever: Drake and Lamar have become all-out foes. AdvertisementIn the former, Drake mocks Lamar's height with a reference to his latest Grammy-winning album, "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers." "I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress."

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☆ I'm an only child. My mom's cancer diagnosis made me realize I have no one else in my life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Madi Bolanos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm an only child and my mom had me when she was 20. As her only child I was responsible for taking her to all her appointments and caring for her. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . She inherited a rare gene mutation that makes it more likely a person will get cancer at a young age. Before learning about her cancer, the chances we'd end up in the same retirement home seemed fairly high.

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☆ Cicadas 2024: What to expect from the 2024 periodical cicada emergence and how to prepare
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The insects will infiltrate a much bigger geographical area than similar occurrences in most years because they’re part of the dual emergence of two particular periodical cicada broods. Although the full-scale emergence isn’t underway yet, experts have some guidance on how to prepare for cicada season. A periodical cicada that has just shed its outer skeleton crawls among holes dug by emerging cicada nymphs on May 20, 2021, in Takoma Park, Maryland. A young tree in Takoma Park, Maryland, is draped in netting in May 2021 to protect its small branches from being damaged by periodical cicadas laying their eggs in them. It’s not clear why periodical cicadas evolved to emerge every 13 or 17 years.

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☆ Inside a Trump Rally on the Eve of His Trial - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Michelle Cottle | Damon Winter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Saturday afternoon I drove out to eastern Pennsylvania, one of the big battlegrounds between President Biden and Donald Trump in this election, to attend Mr. Trump’s final rally before his criminal trial starts Monday. I was curious about the mood of Trump voters as this historic case gets underway. Instead, I found young women in sequins, older ladies in tutus, men sporting all manner of red-white-and-blue combos, and most everyone reveling in MAGA fellowship. It felt a little like the Whos down in Whoville gathering to sing after the Grinch stole Christmas. I didn’t run across anyone sweating the trial.

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☆ Gold hit another record high. Here's why Warren Buffett remains one of the biggest haters of the yellow metal
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Gold ... has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative," Buffett said in his 2011 annual letter. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end." Gold hit a new, all-time high above $2,400 an ounce on Friday, enjoying its third straight week of gains. Silver buying spree Buffett's vocal criticism of gold doesn't mean that he's never dabbled in precious metals. In the late 1990s, the Ben Graham acolyte went on a big silver buying spree, with Berkshire owning 129.7 million ounces of silver.

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☆ Some Trump stock investors have already lost half their money
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group are in free fall. Trump Media is now trading below $31. Trump owns a dominant stake of 78.8 million shares in the company, which generates little revenue and is losing users. At the closing high for Trump Media’s stock price, the former president’s stake was valued at $5.2 billion. Trump Media disclosed losing $58 million in 2023 on very light revenue of just $4.1 million.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, ”, Shannon Devine, Capital’s Matthew Kennedy, Billionaire Barry Diller, ” Shannon Devine, it’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Trump Media & Technology Group, Trump Media, Nasdaq, Trump, Big Tech, ” Trump Media, CNN, Expedia, People Magazine, IAC, CNBC Locations: New York

☆ A tech investor got brutally roasted after he shared the detailed Notion database he uses to manage his marriage. He says the haters don't get that he's just being organized.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Related story"I would say I'm definitely the one who drives the structure of the page and how we use Notion," Lang said. So I figured what I would do is, I would just make a parody of their responses," Lang told BI. On April 9, Lang posted a screenshot of what he said was an updated copy of his Notion template. Here’s the next iteration of my Notion template for couples. "They could be thinking, 'Oh, there's this couple who are controlled by this Notion page and it's how they live their life every moment.'

Persons: —, Ben Lang, Lang, There's, — Ben Lang, one's, “, Trung Phan, that's Organizations: Service, Business, BI

☆ Trump is about to face trial on criminal hush money charges. Here's what to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he is attending a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024. Michael Cohen, former attorney for Donald Trump, arrives to the New York Courthouse on March 13, 2023. In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges related to hush money payments made to two women before the 2016 election. Trump has voluntarily attended numerous hearings in the hush money case and his other criminal cases, generating waves of mainstream media attention that his regular campaign events no longer muster. Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits with his lawyer Susan Necheles in the courtroom at a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024.

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☆ Trump Media stock sinks to post-merger low
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group tumbled 12% on Friday, sinking to their lowest level since the company went public last week. Despite this week’s losses, Trump Media shares have still spiked by more than 130% so far this year. Trump Media recently disclosed losing $58 million last year on very light revenue of just $4.1 million. Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of Expedia and People Magazine owner IAC, told CNBC on Thursday that Trump Media is a “scam” and people buying the stock are “dopes.”“I mean, it’s ridiculous,” Diller said on CNBC. “The company has no revenue.”A Trump Media spokesperson denounced critics of the company.

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☆ Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Asks, and Answers, a Crucial Question in Her Latest Album - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, “Cowboy Carter,” last week. In outlaw country tradition, “Cowboy Carter” settles scores with haters and with history. It was for the white Southern voters Nixon needed to win over amid massive resistance to Black enfranchisement. Embracing country music is a loyalty test for conservative politicians and right-wing pundits whose career ambitions align with white identity politics. Beyoncé singing country music in this political climate was always going to cause a stir.

Persons: Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, ”, Cowboy Carter ”, —, Richard Nixon, Nixon Organizations: Southern, Today’s Republican Party Locations: growled, Nashville, Texas

☆ Trump Media is 'a scam' and people buying its stock are 'dopes,' Barry Diller says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Trump Media is "a scam," and people buying its high-flying stock are "dopes," IAC and Expedia Chairman Barry Diller said Thursday in a scathing takedown of the social media company whose majority shareholder is former President Donald Trump. "I mean, it's ridiculous," Diller said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" when asked about Trump Media. When Trump Media began trading last week with the ticker DJT, its share price rocketed up about 50% to close to $80 before settling down. As of Thursday morning, Trump Media shares were selling for nearly $47. Trump Media on Monday reported it had net losses of $58 million in 2023.

Persons: Barry Diller, Donald Trump, Diller, Trump Organizations: Trump Media, IAC, CNBC

☆ Where are conjoined twins and former reality TV stars Abby and Brittany Hensel now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel rose to prominence after a 1996 appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." AdvertisementAbby and Brittany Hensel, Minnesota-born conjoined twins who share a single body with separate heads and necks, first rose to fame as children in the 1990s. Abby and Brittany Hensel became famous after appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1996The Hensel twins were five years old when they appeared as guests on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in April 1996. Related stories"Joined for Life: Abby & Brittany Turn 16," an update released in 2006, followed the twins as they worked on getting their driver's licenses and attended high school. A second video appeared to show several pictures of the pair and Bowling together, including at their wedding.

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Her story, including her relationship with Ryan, will continue to unfold on Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, debuting this June on Lifetime." Blanchard was granted parole in December 2023 after serving eight years for her role in the death of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, who prosecutors also acknowledged was abusive. Related stories"I said, 'I'll tell you what, if you write him, I'll write Gypsy Rose Blanchard," Anderson recounted to People. The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard followed years of alleged abuseBlanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 after she was found guilty of conspiring to kill her mom Dee Dee Blanchard, who was found dead in 2015. AdvertisementWhile Godejohn has said in interviews that he would kill again for the sake of Blanchard, Blanchard told People that she regrets what she did.

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