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After my divorce, I braced for loneliness on holidays, but it hit hardest on Mother’s Day. Loading audio narration… My first one alone, my best friend from college texted me a photo of her proudly wearing the necklace her son, the same age as my daughter, had cobbled together. Its…
My parents are so anti-cruise that when we visited Alaska for my 21st birthday, we took a series of planes, trains, automobiles, and ferries to experience what a cruise would have made possible with a lot less planning and logistics on our part. Loading audio narration… Now that I’m older,…
OpenAI just shared an update to its principles, and three differences stand out from the 2018 version. Loading audio narration… In a blog on Sunday, CEO Sam Altman posted a list of five “principles” for the frontier model lab. While the company has shared smaller safety policy shifts and model…
My husband, Ethan, and I both grew up in suburban immigrant households with two fridges and two freezers each. Groceries were shopped for weekly, by car, and the pantry was always packed with multiples of every item. Loading audio narration… Though we come from different cultural backgrounds, our families shared…
Southwest Airlines’ new approach to plus-size seating is leading to awkward encounters at the gate — and backlash from some travelers. Loading audio narration… Kenny Slack, a 36-year-old hairstylist based in Houston, was traveling home from Kansas City after a work trip in March. He told Business Insider that he…
I sat in a stiff chair next to my 86-year-old dad as a lawyer outlined the complicated rules of Medicaid law. Loading audio narration… My dad furrowed his brow, trying to understand the legal complexities that could mean the difference between being able to leave his home — where he’d…
The image of my father that lives most clearly in my memory is this: a man in a suit, on a train platform, me, a child in my PJs, staring out the windows of our car as my mother picked him up. Loading audio narration… On reflection, I feel really…
For six glorious weeks before our son arrived, I relished the delicious pleasure of total freedom. Loading audio narration… My wife Liv’s maternity leave had begun. Our living room speakers pumped out the groovy soundtrack of her favorite deckbuilding video game, Balatro.I remember the late-winter chill nipping at my cheeks…
Sam Altman doesn’t want an iPad kid. Loading audio narration… The OpenAI CEO welcomed a baby in 2025. Since then, he’s shared tips and stories about raising his son, including how he uses AI in his parenting.That doesn’t mean he wants his son growing up with full tech access. On…
After nearly two decades working undercover for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Billy Queen was given the most dangerous assignment of his career: to infiltrate one of the most violent biker gangs in Southern California, the Mongols. Loading audio narration… Within the first few months, his mission had…
