The three Augustinian sisters — who use only their religious names — recently ran away from a nursing home and, with the help of a local locksmith, broke back into the convent that used to be their home. Rita jokes that they are octogenarian squatters. (Nicholson, NPR)
Read MoreAt least 20 Turning Point chapters have been established at colleges, high schools and churches across Maine in the less than two months since Kirk’s death. Those involved say they hope to see the groups spur conversations about transgender athletes, abortion, free markets and other conservative policy ideas. (Scott, AP News)
Read MoreJust as personal vices can shape the course of an individual life, so too can national vices influence our collective experience, maybe as much as our virtues—or possibly even more. And those vices are changing. (Brooks, The Atlantic)
Read MoreAs start-ups with A.I. matchmakers pop up, the biggest dating apps — Hinge, Tinder, Bumble and Grindr — are trying to harness the technology to reinvent themselves. They are ushering in a new era of online dating where people pay for a few premium A.I. matches a week, instead of subscribing to an endless stream of profiles. (Tan, The New York Times)
Read MoreWhile 74% of adults say they would want to be cared for at home, according to data from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, a new survey of more than 1,200 adults in the United States found 7 in 10 family caregivers don't want their aging parents to live with them. (Mitchell, USA Today)
Read MoreEver since they burst onto the scene, A.I.-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others have been pitched as dispassionate sources, trained on billions of websites, books and articles from across the internet in what is sometimes described as the sum of all human knowledge. (Myers & Thompson, The New York Times)
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