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My childhood pen pal and I grew up on different continents. After 30 years of friendship, we finally met in person.
When I was 8 years old, my second-grade class participated in a pen pal assignment that matched me with a girl named Naa Ashirifia from Ghana. At the time, there was no social media for a rapid response, no texts to drop a quick note, and no simple phone call that could last for hours.
Montessori school gave our daughter a great start. We still switched to a public school for first grade.
Kindergarten — a monumental milestone in childhood — was a dream year for our daughter. She won the lottery to attend a public Montessori charter school, a schooling option we felt lucky to have in our small mountain city. She had attended a private Montessori preschool, and so we applied to the…
Inside the Viking-themed NATO camp where Ukrainian troops train for the front
CAMP JOMSBORG, POLAND — Ukrainian soldiers are training to combat Russia’s ongoing invasion of their country at a Viking-themed camp purpose-built on NATO soil. Training at Camp Jomsborg in eastern Poland, roughly two hours from the border with Ukraine, is led by the Norwegians, whose Viking…
Anthropic’s new $405K role shows where AI hiring is heading next
Welcome to the AI era, where job postings are getting more niche — and more interdisciplinary. Anthropic recently posted a remote-friendly “Staff Software Engineer” role for its GTM AI Engineering, or “Claudification” team. The pay range is from $320,000 to $405,000, which the post said includes…
What to do with your money if we’re really heading for an AI apocalypse
Rising fears of an AI apocalypse have rattled markets and forced investors to reckon with a potentially existential risk. A future where robots take over and terminate humans remains a radical vision, fueled by recent warnings from AI researchers who consider doomsday a possible, but very unlikely…
Inside Good Good’s sudden unraveling
The stars of YouTube supergroup Good Good could hardly contain their enthusiasm as they unveiled an expansive partnership with one of golf’s best-known names: Callaway. “It’s a dream of ours,” one said, as another gushed it would be “super dope.” That was 2023, and the reveal — which Good Good…
I worked red carpets and toured with country stars. Then losing my dad made me rethink my dream career.
In 2012, I was working in a career that many would consider a dream. I was a publicist in the Country music industry. As a lifelong lover of music and a classically trained pianist at New York University, it was thrilling. Every day was exciting, whether I was working a red carpet in Las Vegas
Macklemore fans are asking for refunds as Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour falls into disarray. Here’s what happened.
Ed Sheeran and Macklemore are all over the headlines this week — and no, you didn’t somehow wake up in 2013, listening to “Thrift Shop” and “The A Team” on the radio. The two millennial musicians are now at odds after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour on September 14, a little over
Meta is learning a lesson about camera glasses that Google learned more than 10 years ago
Meta is cooking up camera-free glasses, according to a new report. And why shouldn’t they? After all, wearing a camera on your face has always been a tough sell — just ask Google. Remember when Sergey Brin jumped out of a plane wearing Google Glass, recording grainy video of his sky dive? That was…
A detailed look at the ’60 Minutes’ ratings drop shows the problem facing Bari Weiss
What does the drop in viewers for the “60 Minutes” season premiere mean for CBS News’ top editor, Bari Weiss? A look at the granular ratings data provides some clues. Viewership for the first “60 Minutes” episode led by new producer Nick Bilton, who was handpicked by Weiss in May, fell 20% from…