Sammy Azdoufal bought a DJI RoboVac robot vacuum and thought it would be fun to control it with a PlayStation controller. Reasonable enough — the thing costs two grand and looks like a small refrigerator on wheels. Why not make it do donuts in the kitchen? So he fired up…
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The Villages: Where Gen Z Moves In and Boomers Need Their Services
The Villages retirement community in Florida just landed the #2 spot on a national ranking of Gen Z migration hotspots — right behind Minneapolis and ahead of Manhattan. A 55+ community. Second-hottest destination for people born between 1997 and 2012. MovingPlace analyzed nearly 15 million moves throughout 2025 and found…
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Bathroom Demon and All: What Happens When Realtors Skip Quality Control
A rental listing in Fort Totten, just north of Washington, DC, briefly featured something no prospective tenant expects to see: a disfigured figure emerging from — and somehow also behind — a bathroom mirror. The listing has since been scrubbed from Apartments.com. Other versions remain on Redfin, minus the nightmare…
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We Turned Our Neighbor Into an Enemy
The US-Canada relationship just fell off a cliff, and if you grew up straddling that border as I did — Farmington Hills, Michigan, twenty minutes from Windsor — this one lands differently. Not abstract. Not academic. Personal. Politico just dropped five charts documenting how thoroughly we’ve torpedoed the longest undefended…
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Hershey Swapped Real Chocolate for “Chocolate Candy” — The Reese Family Noticed
Brad Reese — grandson of H.B. Reese, the guy who invented Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in his basement in 1928 — posted an open letter to Hershey last week, accusing the company of “quietly replacing” the milk chocolate and peanut butter that made the candy iconic. The changes to Reese’s…
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AI Job Displacement Fears — When Panic Beats Logic
Wall Street’s latest panic cycle is eating through white-collar sectors like a brushfire through dry timber. This time, it’s AI job-displacement fears — and the casualties are piling up fast. Insurance brokers got hammered. Wealth managers took a beating. Freight logistics companies cratered 19% in a single session. The proximate…
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Big Food Panics as GLP-1 Drugs Vaporize $12 Billion in Snack Sales
The snack aisle is having an identity crisis. According to a Reuters article about the effects of GLP-1 drugs on snacks, PepsiCo just launched a reformulated Lay’s line with shorter ingredient lists and smaller bags. Coca-Cola ramped up production of protein-infused Fairlife milk. General Mills released higher-protein Cheerios. Kraft Heinz…
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AI Doesn’t Just Hallucinate — You’re Hallucinating With It
Christmas Day 2021. Jaswant Singh Chail climbed the wall of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow, intent on assassinating Queen Elizabeth II. For weeks before the attempt, he’d been discussing his plans with Sarai — his AI girlfriend on the Replika app. Chail believed he was a Sith assassin on…
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We’re Still Knocking on Wood — And 11 Other Superstitions That Refuse to Die
The groundhog saw its shadow, someone broke a mirror at the office, and your coworker just threw salt over her shoulder because she spilled some on the conference table. Welcome to 2026 — where we carry supercomputers in our pockets but still believe trees contain protective spirits. Knocking on wood…
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Nine Ways to Be Terrible at Restaurants (And Why People Do It Anyway)
The restaurant industry is a rite of passage for anyone working in media or entertainment. Before the radio gigs, before the marketing director title in New York, there were shifts — bartending, cooking, dishwashing, pot washing, waiting tables, running errands, whatever needed doing. You learn rhythm. You learn timing. You…