Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.
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I spent a year talking to teens about why they were using role-playing chatbots, and something surprising happened: By the end of the year, the teens stopped using the chatbots. Observer effect? Or that chatbots fall into patterns that eventually get boring? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/t...
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
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A free, monthly space where unfinished grief finds witness, catharsis, and relief. All are welcome. Established in 2023, continuing today.
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In 2022, I did a story about life in "the metaverse," spending 24 hours as an avatar with no legs meeting the people using Facebook's VR-based social network, Horizon Worlds. www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t... Met interesting people who seemed enthused about it but this was my conclusion:
Katie on Katie. @katierobertson.bsky.social profiles Wired editor, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, who has been making the tech optimists very mad lately. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...
Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad
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Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
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How the rich have gotten richer since the 2017 tax cuts, and how it's affecting everyone else. A case study in Wyoming: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age
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People are revealing sensitive personal information to A.I. chatbots — including plans to commit violent acts. What should the companies do when it happens? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...
When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?
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Took the FTC's remaining two commissioners a year to vote to finalize the agency's settlement with GM over the automaker's selling data about how and where people were driving their cars. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... (I broke the news back in 2024 that GM was doing this.)
FTC Finalizes Order Settling Allegations that GM and OnStar Collected and Sold Geolocation Data Without Consumers’ Informed Consent
The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with General Motors and OnStar settling allegations that they collected, used, and sold consumers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior data
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Putting the brand on every possible thing
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 9mo agoDepartment of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated. Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
For some positive news: the effects of congestion pricing in New York City. It has significantly decreased how much time my own commute takes so I'm a big fan. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
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The Grief Wave 🌀 recently bereaved in several directions (1/8) As we move into year two of The Grief Wave, I keep returning to a line by Muriel Rukeyser: “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Grief rearranges the story before we’re ready.
"The advent of realistic videos has been a boon for disinformation, fraud and foreign influence operations" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b... What is the positive use case for an easy-to-use fake video tool?
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
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Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
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(1/5) 🕯️ When grief gets dark, companionship brings light. This week’s Grief Wave explores what sustains us when loss feels endless — connection, courage, and care. Read: The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Dark 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #Help #Bluesky #Love #Loss
The Grief Wave – November 4, 2025 | When Grief Gets Dark
How we find light, connection, and courage when loss feels endless
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(1/5) When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness. This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy. 💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com #Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave
The Grief Wave | Brian Stefan | Substack
✍️ Exploring grief, healing, and humanity in all its tangled beauty. Click to read The Grief Wave, by Brian Stefan, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
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1️⃣ When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔 This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊 Read: When Grief Gets Stuck 🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 24, 2025 | When Grief Gets Stuck
How love, memory, and movement help us find our way through what feels unmoving.
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(1/5) 🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening. A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection. This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains. 🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie... #TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 17, 2025 | Where What Hurts Meets What Heals + Catharsis Theater for Loss (10/18)
From loss to renewal, this week’s stories trace how memory, language, and community help us heal what still aches.
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1/5 HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care. Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 14, 2025
The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.
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(1/5) A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination. Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... A reminder: architecture tells our national story. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 13, 2025
Last Tuesday, President Donald J.
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(1/5) History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself. Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
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(1/5) History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror. Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.” Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 10, 2025
All of President Donald J.
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(1/5) HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 9, 2025
Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.
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(1/5) History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 9, 2025
Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.
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(1/5) History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 8, 2025
Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.
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(1/5) 🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025). A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse. 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jonathan Lear (1948–2025)
A life that proved patience could be revolutionary, transforming our understanding of what it means to be human by first understanding what it means to be chimpanzee.
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(1/5) History is not only memory, it is warning. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️ Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 7, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.
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(1/5) 🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025 Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️ This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings. 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 7, 2025 | Threads of Grief, Threads of Care + Catharsis Theater for Loss and Healing
Reflections, resources, and events for navigating grief
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(1/5) 📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 6, 2025
If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...
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