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…
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The Week AI’s Mental Health Problem Became Impossible to Ignore
This past week, two major news organizations published investigations into AI chatbots and mental health. NBC New York surveyed over 2,700 psychiatrists and counselors. NPR profiled a woman who spent months convinced ChatGPT was helping her find her soulmate across 87 past lives. The timing wasn’t coordinated — but the…
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Shocking Betrayal Revealed: Shameless French Judge Destroyed Olympic Dreams
The Winter Olympics figure skating competition wrapped up this week with a controversy so predictable you could’ve written the headline before the music started. Team USA’s Madison Chock and Evan Bates — three-time world champions, flawless performance, everything on the line — finished with silver. France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and…
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Stanford’s Dating Experiment Worked Too Well — And That’s Telling
The Stanford dating experiment happened last month. Four thousand students filled out questionnaires. An algorithm matched them. They got 48 hours to meet face-to-face — no endless texting, no three-month situationship that ends with “I’m just not ready for something serious right now.” Just: here’s a person, go talk to…