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Hop into today’s open thread to chat, vent, joke, whatever you’d like. Below are some conversation starters I found on the interwebs last night. Finnish skier Elias Lajunen was knocked out cold after ...

The director and actress discuss the Berlin Competition title, the challenges of communicating through dance and why it was a ...

Aldi offers a modest produce selection, and some of its offerings are better than others. Here are the ones you should buy and skip, per an avid Aldi shopper.

As the 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony kicked off, viewers around the world were dismayed by a commemorative cartoon sequence generated by artificial intelligence. X user evan loves worf ...

In a statement to The New York Times, Steve Bannon said his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was strictly professional.

President Donald Trump was caught doing the unthinkable yet again. The 79-year-old grandfather looked like he had lost a battle to keep his neck up […] ‘I Thought He Was Dead There for a Sec’: Trump P ...

Pakistan’s crushing 61-run defeat to India in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 not only drew reactions to the team’s on-field ...

With these epistolary snapshots, McCullough tackles an extraordinary range of subjects: from virtual reality, secular liberalism, and the nature of fatherhood to Islam, infant baptism, and the ...

I’ve been finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate lately. There I’ll be, trying to work, or read, or eat dinner, when the intrusive thought returns: For decades, many of the wealthiest men ...

This fragmentation does not stop when the workday officially ends. In a survey of 2,000 professionals created by the ...

Generative AI has created a problem that goes far deeper than cheating. When a tool like ChatGPT can write a coherent essay, solve a multi-step math problem, analyze a historical event, and produce a ...