Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Stanford researchers just spent months studying how people actually talk to AI chatbots, and the takeaway is blunt: the lonelier you already are, the worse an AI companion tends to make you feel. Not better. Worse. Researchers in Stanford’s Diyi Yang lab surveyed more than a thousand people who use Character.AI and dug through 244 …
Somewhere between the three-ring binders and the “suggested donation” for classroom supplies, back-to-school shopping quietly turned into one of the more stressful line items on the family calendar, and this year it’s worse than usual. New numbers out this month show families planning to spend less on the actual shopping trip than they did last …
Scientists in Colorado are broke, so they started an OnlyFans account for marmots. That’s not a joke, and it’s not a metaphor. A research program at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory has been tracking yellow-bellied marmots since 1962, one of the longest-running wildlife studies in the country. Then federal grants got pulled last year and …
Somebody buys a sports team, and within a few years the city is somehow paying for their stadium. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just how the math works out almost every time. A guy worth a few billion dollars buys an NFL or NBA franchise, then turns around and tells the local government that …
Travis Kelce finally talked about his wedding to Taylor Swift this week, more than a month after the two of them got married at Madison Square Garden in front of about 1,100 people. At a press conference this week he called it “the best night of my life,” joked that the AC was cranking the …
Karoline Leavitt announced this week that she’s stepping down as White House press secretary at the end of the month, and the reason she gave was that she wants to spend more time with her kids. Fine. Maybe that’s true. But I’ve heard this exact line so many times from so many people leaving so …
Somebody supposedly told their friends they landed the role of James Bond, and within a week the whole internet knew about it. That’s the state of Hollywood secrecy in 2026: a studio spends years running a shadowy, code-named casting search, flying actors in for hush-hush screen tests, making everyone sign NDAs thicker than the actual …
Somebody at a coffee shop pointed their face at me last week and I genuinely could not tell if they were about to say hi or upload me to the internet. That’s the world we live in now. Smart glasses are everywhere, they look like regular sunglasses, and there is a real chance the person …
Remember when “return to office” meant everybody, badge and all, trudging back to the same beige building at the same ungodly hour? Turns out that memo got read selectively. New data making the rounds this week shows the RTO wave has been quietly lopsided: more men are being pulled back into the office than women, …
The season after Sonny Weaver Jr.’s bold draft-day gamble begins with something Cleveland hasn’t felt in years: expectation. Training camp is electric. Vontae Mack—the linebacker Sonny fought so hard to draft—quickly becomes the emotional core of the defense. His presence elevates everyone around him. On offense, Ray Jennings establishes himself as the team’s identity: a …
Spoiler alert: NO. Okay, maybe they aren’t terrible, but they aren’t good. There is some talent there, we do see flashes of promises but can this organization, this leadership get the most of it? Again, spoiler alert NO. Get my full rant (maybe more like scattered thoughts) in the video below….. And because the end …
The Kansas City Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins in March of 2022. I’ll get right to the point. I love this trade. As a fan of the past, sure it hurts my heart but as a fan of the future this was a fantastic deal. Find out why I think so in …