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☆ Opinion: Trump’s image is on the line
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. … Deals are my art form.”Having a lot of money distinguished him from other presidential candidates, Trump contended. ‘I don’t need anybody’s money,’ Trump said in his June 2015 presidential campaign announcement.”“Now Trump needs money, a lot of it. In July 2006, she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament and says that the two had sex that weekend. “Whatever the Fifth Circuit and Supreme Court decide next, the question for President Joe Biden is what to do now,” wrote Lawrence Downes.

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☆ The rise of the job-search bots
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Unlike the other bots, which ingested job openings into their own sites, LazyApply submitted applications via external job boards. AdvertisementUnlike the other bots, LazyApply did all the applying in real time, right in front of my eyes. Hugo Herrera for BISo far, though, it looks like the arrival of job bots is only making the problem worse. But the job bots at LazyApply and other services never get tired. Still, I came away from my time among the job-search bots feeling the way I do about much of AI.

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After a routine iPhone update, a new Journal app recently appeared. What do you notice about it?”Apple is attempting to lure me into the world of Journaling 2.0, complete with the help of artificial intelligence. The app promises meaningful reflection, apparently gleaned from my phone usage, that I can share with people around me via Bluetooth. About 34 years ago, when I was 9, a family member gave me a “Ramona Quimby Diary.” The spiral-bound book contained a page of stickers that said, “Extra special!” and “Private! I’ve never felt a connection to the girl, blissfully lost in thought in her bucolic setting.

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☆ It's not just you. Eggshells really are chipping more.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

There's actually a reason — and it has to do with the same avian flu outbreak that made eggs so expensive last year. AdvertisementLast year, egg prices went through the roof, with prices more than doubling in certain US states. Because so many chickens died from the flu, egg producers had to adapt. The good news is that egg prices have normalized, thankfully (although they're still more expensive than 2019). That means the worst of the flu outbreak is over, and production is back up.

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☆ Memes about a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event are taking over the internet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementUnsuspecting children attended a Willy Wonka-inspired event in Glasglow, Scotland with high hopes, but found themselves in a world of pure horror. Paul Connell, an actor hired to play Willy Wonka at the event, told The Independent that the script supplied was "15 pages of AI-generated gibberish." Since photos and videos surfaced online, X (formerly known as Twitter) has become inundated with memes about the catastrophic event. AdvertisementThe interactive lab area drew comparisons to a meth lab“Is that the-”“The meth lab from the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience? This photo from the Willy wonka experience is single handedly the photo of the year.

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☆ The Joy of Stoop Books
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Sam Dolnick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

My life, like yours, I suspect, can feel like it has been ingeniously designed for the sole purpose of strangling serendipity. It is a neighborhood stoop, or rather, the discarded books that gather there. For you, maybe that translates into a bargain bin or a giveaway pile; wherever you can find books that are weathered, dog-eared and inscribed to someone else. Why do I love other people’s books? Found books, meanwhile, are blissfully dislocated from any hint of duty or “discourse.” They are deserted islands.

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☆ Opinion | Sex and the Capital City
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“The Golden Bachelor” showed that sex is not just for spring chickens. Hearing aids and making out in a hot tub can go blissfully together. Now comes the Golden President. Even though fretful questions about his age have engulfed Joe Biden’s campaign, one thing is clear: His romance with Jill is still crackling. At a party at his house at the Naval Observatory when he was vice president, he told me about the frisson of watching his wife come down the stairs, dressed up for a special occasion.

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☆ My mom had me when she was 40. It created a uniquely honest bond between us.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Muriel Steinke | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My mom had me when she was 40 years old. I've never thought of her as an old mom despite me being a geriatric pregnancy. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBy the time I was born, my mom was a fully formed adult, complete with a prefrontal cortex and a closet full of skirt suits. By allowing me to see all sides of her personhood, she raised me to be a good adult rather than just a good kid.

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☆ A lottery player in Florida misses out on $36 million after failing to validate a Mega Millions ticket
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A winning $36 million lottery ticket went unclaimed in Florida. The would-be winner missed the deadline to claim their winnings after a 180-day window. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . A lottery participant lost out on $36 million when they failed to announce their winning ticket before the deadline, said the Florida Lottery. The 180-day claim period for the Mega Millions August drawing ended with the 11th of February deadline.

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☆ When my mom's house burned down, I expected the man I was dating to leave me. Instead, the tragedy fast-tracked our relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Rebecca Strong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Just as I began mentally preparing myself to face the fallout alone, Bryan began packing his things. Related storiesWhen the nurse finally ushered us into her tiny white room with no windows, my mother began weeping. One night, after my mom threw a tantrum in her hotel room, I told Bryan, "You can go back to Boston any time, you know." When she threatened to kick us out of the hotel, Bryan said, "I'll take care of it," and marched down to her office. Ultimately, the experience made our relationship strongerNot even two years into our relationship, Bryan and I began looking at houses together.

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For Love & Money is a column from Business Insider answering your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader gave their son money years ago, and their husband thinks he should repay it now. AdvertisementDear For Love & Money,I gave my adult son money when he was getting a divorce eight years ago. When you gave your son the $16,000 eight years ago, did you call it a gift or a loan? You said you gave your son "the money with no strings," implying you originally intended it to be a gift.

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☆ Opinion | Death and Heartache in Lewiston, Maine
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is terrifying to reckon with the very real possibility that my son could be taken from me by gun violence. After all, in the U.S., firearms are the leading cause of death in children and teens. How can I take my son to a parade, the movies or even a bowling alley without wondering if I put him in harm’s way? I take comfort in knowing that, for now, my son is safe inside my womb, blissfully unaware that he could ever be in danger. Soon enough, he will face a hard truth: Try as she might, his mother will not always be able to protect him.

Persons: — Organizations: Maine ’, Edge Locations: Lewiston, U.S

☆ Nobody’s Perfect! This NFL Season Feels Up for Grabs
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jason Gay | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Can anyone say, with a shred of confident gusto, who will play in the Super Bowl? The NFL is more than a third of the way into its 2023 season and I (blissfully) have zero idea. Like an unexpected Skittle, found in the center console next to the car wash receipts, a little NFL intrigue is never a bad thing.

The husband-and-wife duo started with an ice cream push cart before opening their first Ample Hills shop in Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. At its height, Ample Hills was valued at $40 million, with 13 scoop shops and an online store that shipped ice cream nationwide. But a year later, they opened a new Brooklyn ice cream shop called The Social. Here's how Smith and Cuscuna built a $40 million ice cream company, slowly lost it all and quickly started rebuilding again. 'The real impetus was just that joy'Opening an ice cream shop was risky.

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☆ Where to Start in Emilia-Romagna?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Sheila Yasmin Marikar | Susan Wright | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There was also, blissfully, a restaurant, Vito San Luca, whose tagliatelle al ragù might be the platonic ideal of a post-hike meal. Local products, local artisansThe light turned golden and then faded. Did I want to join her and Ms. Mikayla for a “little concert in an adorable apartment? Very Bologna, intimate, least touristy thing in town.”I walked 20 minutes to Efesto House, which occupies the sixth floor of a centuries-old apartment building on Via Castiglione. “We decided to keep our prices very low,” said Gaia Musumeci, a neurologist who runs Efesto House with two friends.

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About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi robe walked into an elevator at Maimonides Park. As the door closed and they began their ascent, the Jedi turned to the others and asked, “So, what planet are you all from?”“Um, Brooklyn,” responded the matriarch of the family. The Jedi proceeded to hum “Mad About Me,” by the Mos Eisley Cantina house band, Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, as if to tell them he was from the planet Tatooine. Out beyond the right-field wall, in the area known as the Backyard, a few hundred others were pounding brews and playing cornhole, blissfully unaware that a baseball game — the event that their ticket said they had paid to see — was about to begin. The two main draws on this particular Saturday were Star Wars Night and the $50 all-you-can-drink deal.

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For decades, Copenhagen has been lauded for its design, its food, its dedication to sustainability, even the general good cheer of its residents. But this year, architecture is the focus after UNESCO named the city the World Capital of Architecture for 2023. What that means for visitors is a yearlong slate of events, exhibitions and tours of the city’s most innovative architectural projects. To maximize a trip, travelers this year need two companions. Because one thing that will never change is the Danes’ devotion to cycling, a true joy in a place as bike-friendly (and flat) as Copenhagen on these blissfully long summer days.

Persons: Danes Organizations: UNESCO, Danish Architecture Locations: Copenhagen

☆ How a millennial who quit her job rather than return to in-person work ended up thriving as a freelancer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Rachel Dunlop works from her condo in Canada as a freelancer, after leaving a job without another one lined up. She loves working with clients in different fields and being able to work when she's most productive. She quit during 2021 for various reasons, including the likely return to office, without another job to move on to. This isn't the first time Dunlop has tried freelance work though. She said she did some freelance work from mid-2013 to mid-2014, but said "at that time, it was not for me at all."

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☆ A stock trader who returned 630% in 3 years and taught traders who became millionaires shares the top 3 patterns he plays daily
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

That year, the stock market was making headlines due to investors' excitement about internet companies. He wanted to bet on the stock market with his Bar Mitzvah money of roughly $12,000. At the time, there was no pattern day trading rule, which meant he didn't need a minimum of $25,000 to day trade. "My best-performing strategy right now is over the weekend because the stock market is closed over the weekend. The uneasiness that comes with having an income pegged to the stock market never goes away.

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☆ ‘The Crowded Room’ Review: Viewers’ Patience Rewarded
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tom Holland Photo: Apple TV+In addition to its subtleties, subversions and some very red herrings, “The Crowded Room” presents a paradox: If you are aware of “The Minds of Billy Milligan ,” and know that the Daniel Keyes book was the basis of this 10-part Apple series, you will be aware how deliciously roundabout this very loose adaptation is—without, sadly, becoming a blissfully ignorant “victim” of creator Akiva Goldsman ’s devious storytelling strategy. If you don’t know the book, you won’t appreciate in real time how deftly you’re being navigated from point A to Z, though you will want to get there. Call it a win-win, with trade-offs.

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☆ Woody Harrelson responds to Matthew McConaughey brother rumor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“I mean he feels like he is losing a father. But I’m like, no, you’re gaining a different father and a brother.”Like McConaughey, Harrelson recalled a conversation with “Ma Mac, Matthew’s legitimate mother,” when she told them that she “knew…” Harrelson’s father. We were in Greece watching the US team win the World Cup and I mentioned something about regrets,” Harrelson said. Harrelson and McConaughey will star in an upcoming Apple TV+ series, in a fictionalized portrayal of their friendship. “I can’t tell whether it’s just, like, their sort of slow Southern and Texas drawls or I think Texas figures in there somewhere,” Theroux said.

☆ Why the UK spring budget won't fix the economy's problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

London CNN —The last time a British finance minister unveiled a “budget for growth,” UK financial markets crashed and mortgage rates shot up, threatening to tip an already weak economy into a deep recession. But he will deliver his budget against essentially the same gloomy backdrop: the UK economy is stuck in the doldrums. John Springford, deputy director at the Centre for European Reform, estimates that Brexit had cost the UK economy 5.5% of GDP by June 2022. SVB could depress UK bank lendingAnother factor that could weigh on the UK economy in the near term: Silicon Valley Bank. “It is likely that UK financial conditions will remain tighter (or potentially significantly tighter) over coming months than they would have been without the US banking troubles,” Pickering said in a research note Monday.

☆ A Google engineer found out she had been laid-off while she was on vacation when her boss sent her a LinkedIn message
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A former engineer at Google told Insider she was laid-off while on vacation with her family. "I had some friends randomly text me checking in but I thought they just wanted to know how my vacation was," she told Insider in an interview. The engineer said that she ended up checking one of her two personal emails, when she realized that her manager had sent her a message on LinkedIn. Her manager apologized in the message he sent to her and informed her that she had been laid off, she said. "People are really really upset with how this happened and I think everybody, even the top performers, are really on edge after this," she added.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Commerce, Georgia, U.S. March 26, 2022. Trump's company faces only a maximum $1.6 million penalty, but has said it plans to appeal. Bragg and James are Democrats, as is Bragg's predecessor Cyrus Vance, who brought the criminal case. "The whole narrative that Donald Trump was blissfully ignorant is just not real," Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass told jurors in his closing argument. State law limits the penalties that Justice Merchan can impose on Trump's company.

☆ At Southwest in Phoenix, Quick Check In but a Swelling Baggage Claim
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Dawn Gilbertson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PHOENIX—Carol and Joseph Lepich were blissfully unaware of Southwest Airlines ‘ holiday meltdown when they woke up Tuesday morning. The Sacramento retirees tried to check in for their flight on the Southwest app and found out it was canceled. They then drove to Sky Harbor International Airport to rebook their flight.

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