becca laurie

thank you!

thank you!

for the minions-curious:

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can somebody tell me when the minions figure skater is scheduled to perform

bob odenkirk did a voiceover introducing the terrier group

the dog show just did a tribute to catherine o’hara

if you’re watching “industry” and not reading katie’s recaps, are you even watching “industry”???

From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.co Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 12:02 PM To: Elon Musk Subject: congragulations

congragulations

photo of the frozen east river looking toward lower manhattan

i can confirm that the east river is frozen

looked at my weather app and saw that monday has a high of 32 and thought, “wow, that will be nice!” 😭

the debut of our stun cam

if i had a secret apartment at the providence place mall, i would’ve been at the cheesecake factory every night

thrilling to think that i could’ve walked the halls of the providence place mall alongside one of the secret mall apartment people, what a rush (but there’s not enough cheesecske factory in the doc; the providence cheesecake factory is stunning and an important part of the mall…)

the court street trader joe’s, empty and well-stocked

idk what everyone’s talking about, my trader joe’s is a well-stocked ghost town

How Michael Porter Jr. took a different kind of star turn with the Nets Porter has played his way back into trade rumors by becoming a potential All-Star in Brooklyn

Michael Porter Jr. is having a ball in Brooklyn, but this is a different kind of star turn www.cbssports.com/nba/news/mic...

an ad for “owning manhattan” that reads, “we have a square foot fetish”

hyphens are important ❤️

The Year “6 7” Ate Parents’ Minds The most obnoxiously catchy phrase of the year means … nothing, which is probably why it took over everything in 2025

wrote about (eyes go black) SIX SSSEEEEVVVEEEENNNNNNNN www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

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Confessions of the influenced Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.

New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.

I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Oh it somehow got even more boring than the beige from last year www.theverge.com/24316196/pan...

a box of gingerbread-flavored ice cream sandwiches called chilly bears

i’ve been trying to remember the name of this gingerbread-flavored ice cream sandwich brand for like 30 years and it just… came to me. i can still taste them, they were so good…

Search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume over 11 years after plane went missing The country’s transport ministry said the search would resume on 30 December and confirmed that US robotic company Ocean Infinity would take part

where is the plane www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

i need to know what happened with it!!!

i can’t believe he was shamed out of continuing the bamboo metaphor

Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere

If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

May I Explain the “May I Meet You?” Meme? Bill Ackman thinks the cure to male loneliness is asking women these four magic words. Allow me to explain.

Hmm @katiebakes.bsky.social wrote the best piece I’ve read all year www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/p...

the post should’ve been titled “bamboozled” but other than that, no notes ❤️

“longshot presidential candidate” is a hell of a type

Credit where credits due: ol boy really delivered here lmao