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Opinion | The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture I want to make it stop, and my earnest admonitions about the emptiness of American materialism are not working.

“I hate raising my kids in this cultural moment, in which many creative triumphs are treated like branding opportunities and no prominent person ever turns down easy money,” @jessgrose.bsky.social writes.

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The screenshot below from Jason's reporting is the same excuse Sports Illustrated offered when they were busted for similar chicanery. "It's not us, it's just in our newspaper."

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X post by Owl at the Library (@Sket ...), featuring a profile picture of an owl with a book and a "thinking face" and "magic wand" emoji, posted 11 hours ago. The post reads, "Madeleine L’Engle: this is why they want you illiterate." Below this, there is a quoted text in a white box that says, "The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people."

Watch who and what they are attacking first.

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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

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PSA: Microsoft Word can now use whatever you write to train AI. To stop this, you have to opt-out of Connected Experiences that analyze your content. It's in the Privacy settings.

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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

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Despair is an option we can't afford.

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Teen Effing Vogue.

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Yes, please.

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"(Woman)"--a woman wouldn't feel the need to identify a friend that way! Now, what do I win? 😉

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