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AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content MillAs the editor of a content mill that generates great articles every 4.2 seconds, like “Five Hacks for Your Roku” and “Seven...
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You Think Pickleball is Bad? Try Living Next to an Eighteenth-Century WarshipI get it. Pickleball ruined your neighborhood. Tennis courts are completely booked, people you once called friends now go “dinking,” and that...
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Family Tours in the Kingdom of the Sick: Into the Tunnel of UncertaintyWhen COVID struck Rebecca Saltzman’s family, the virus unmasked a life-changing discovery: her husband and two of their kids had genetic...
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Phrases for Hiring Committees to Use Instead of “We’re a Family”We’re like the early seasons of Great British Bake Off , where everyone helped each other and drank tea while they waited for things to finish...
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Famous Works of Irish Literature as LimericksThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A young man of beauty and grace Tries to shield his good name from disgrace. He looks like a...
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Letters to Moms: A Letter to Marmee MarchIn this column , Kristen Mulrooney writes letters to famous mothers from literature, TV, and film whom she finds herself relating to on a...
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Dashiell Hammett’s Saint Patrick and the Case of the Emerald AspIt was a gloomy morning, fifth century, and I was nursing a hangover that felt like I’d been worked over by a shillelagh with something to prove....
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Going Berzerk for BostoniansArt by Matt Smith - - - So what would happen when an ancient fuckin’ viking behrsehrkah would go behrsehrk is he’d fuckin’ go behrsehrk!...
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MTA New York City Subway BINGOArt by Kat Schober.
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Boeing Announces New Safety Policy: “Fuck It, We Ball”Well, we guess the cat’s out of the bag—or as we say around these parts, the door is off the plane: we have been sending aircraft into the sky...
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The Meek Who Shall Inherit the Earth Lodge a ComplaintDear Lord, Before we begin, we just want to thank you for, well, everything. For the air we breathe, the water we drink, the other waters we...
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Chronicles of a Catsitter: Up Harlem HillMai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while Tran was on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared...
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What I Think It’s Like Working at a Company That Makes CondomsEMPLOYEE : You see any good penises lately? SECOND EMPLOYEE : It’s Tuesday. So, yes. EMPLOYEE : Me too. Our whole job is to look at, then...
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I Guess I Will Just Keep Standing Here While You Fix the SinkHey, thanks for coming out here. Yeah, we’ve been having trouble with this bathroom sink. So, uh, you know, have at it. I’m still here, by the...
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An Excerpt from Pierre La Police’s Classic Comic Masters of the Nefarious- - - Masters of the Nefarious is a cult classic comic by the pseudonymous French artist Pierre La Police . It’s being published...
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All of the Toilet Scenes in This Prestige Drama are 100 Percent NecessaryWhen I set out to create my award-winning prestige drama The Family , I wanted to test the boundaries of what television could be. I already knew...
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My Year of Election Fatigue and Relaxation“It’s voter fatigue,” my therapist, Dr. Tuttle, explained to me. Some people just get voted out.” It all made sense. I was...
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Sorry Not Sorry: Three Comedians, Three “Apologies”A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all...
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What Your Favorite Christopher Nolan Film Says About YouOppenheimer There’s been a half-finished copy of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ on your bedside table for the past five years....
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Wilderness Survival Tips for Women in Male-Dominated FieldsVenturing into male-dominated fields like tech, politics, and finance is generally considered safe for women. But we’re still not out of the...
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How to Accept an Award Without Making Your Voters Regret ItIn this column , professional speechwriter Chandler Dean provides partly satirical, partly genuine “How To” advice focused on a hyper-specific...
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I Will Do Anything to Make This Movie Studio Profitable, Except Release a Good MovieTimes are tough for our industry, and getting tougher. But this studio, home to beloved, timeless stories for over a century, won’t fold...
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The Supreme Court Decides This Year’s Best Picture WinnerThe nine justices of the United States Supreme Court sit in their conference room around a grand table fashioned out of old-growth mahogany trees...
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She Lives in New York and Los AngelesDefne Sheridan is a producer. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. No, you read her bio correctly. It goes like this: Defne Sheridan is a...
