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“MAHA for airports: Trump officials pitch mini-gyms, more play areas.”
—Washington Post

Hello, travelers. I’m the airport’s shiny new pull-up bar, and I’m ushering in a bold era of aviation wellness absolutely no one asked for. As my boys, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., explained at Reagan National recently, airports don’t actually need updated terminals or improved escalators. What they’re truly lacking is optics-driven body-suspension equipment, conspicuously wedged between a Shake Shack and a Hudson News for maximum showboating.

MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers.

The post Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers  appeared first on MintPress News.

1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong.

2. To search for directions and two hours later end up with five items in your Amazon cart.

3. To receive results as ten-second videos that present a sponsored product as the only possible answer to your question.

4. To attempt to look up basic information about someone you recently met, you have to go through a sequence of “background check” sites, each showing a dramatic loading bar while it pretends to search. After fifteen minutes, it subtly suggests that criminal records may have been found, and you can view them now in exchange for a modest $24.95 monthly subscription.

5. To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information.

6. To start typing a weird question and stop halfway through because you don’t want the algorithm to decide this is who you are now, and then immediately panic, knowing it probably logged it before you erased it.

‘Ooh, have you been to see it? Who’s your favourite?’ asks Suzanne in the bakers, as she hands me my son’s second gingerbread man of the week.  The Turner Prize isn’t contemporary art’s only prestigious award, but it’s the one which is best able to make an impact outside of the art world’s bubble and […]

‘A modern recreation of the village community that we have lost’ – demystifying polyamory with Esther Perel and Margie Nichols

- Video by Esther Perel

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Liberalism hasn’t delivered on its promises in Africa. The alternative will be found in ideas rooted in Africa’s own soil

- by Gabriel Asuquo

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What making – and breaking – bread in jail taught me about work and friendship

- by Jamie Valentino

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INVICTA GAMES, LTD.
Packaging Team — Official Minutes
Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation

MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice President): Okay. Gary’s got a new cover comp. Gary, walk us through your vision.

GARY LARKIN (Design Lead): Right. Here it is. Black void. Two adults. No board. No pegs.

PAM REYNOLDS (Product Development): Where are the children?

LARKIN: Exactly. Also, who cares?

REYNOLDS: You know this game is eight-plus, right?