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Interesting examination of whether therapists are too quick to suggest patients cut off ties with their parents. Of 7,000 estranged parents in a recent survey, some 3,000 said they believed a therapist had played a role in the split.
Is it really good therapy to break your mother’s heart?
Are Therapists to Blame for the Rise of Adults Cutting Off Their Parents?wsj.comMany moms and dads believe that their adult children are getting bad advice—and a growing number of researchers agree.Often imitated, never beaten — for decades now the BBC's closing montage for major sporting events has been a treat. Sunday's World Cup finale was no exception.
The AP explores one important facet of why US soccer, even with an eager and enormous population at its disposal, struggles to produce world beaters.
In Argentina, one of the greatest honors for a local soccer club might be to produce a player who moves to an even bigger club, then maybe becomes part of the country’s storied national team. In the United States, if a player like that walked into a local soccer program, it would surprise nobody if that program tried to eke every penny out of the player’s parents before showing him or her off to the world.
Therein lies one of the crucial differences between a nation of 46 million that plays Spain on Sunday for a fourth World Cup title and another with more than seven times the population that has never sniffed that kind of success.
CDs are the new vinyl (again). The Verge:
The data suggests that “the CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible,” Luminate says. “This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic ownership and direct financial support for the artist as it is listening to the music on the product itself.”
Why are people buying so many CDs?theverge.comCollectors, affordable prices, and big K-pop albums.The book is flattering, fabricated and absolutely packed with em dashes. It bears all the signs of A.I. slop. I clicked on the author, one John Crane Miller. His bio page described him as a “seasoned biographer and cultural analyst,” and his portrait was a widely used stock photo of a white man in a suit speaking at a conference. “The Biography of Kashmir Hill: The New York Times Technology Journalist Who Exposed Clearview AI, Challenged Big Tech and Redefined Privacy in the Digital Age” was one of 10 biographies that Mr. Miller had published in a single week, all of them about journalists, including my Times colleague Mike Isaac; Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic; and Jake Tapper of CNN.
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.nytimes.comSomeone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?One wonders what Wednesday might bring...
The brief history of those five games includes: a match so violent that it prompted the introduction of red cards, a goal so controversial it became known as the “Hand of God,” a goal so sublime it became known as the “Goal of the Century,” allegations of vile racism, endless chants about the Falkland Islands, the ejection of soccer icon David Beckham, and an effigy of a player hanged outside a London pub.
The Greatest Rivalry in Sports Braces for Its Biggest Game Everwsj.comThere are other epic rivalries, from Yankees-Red Sox to Ohio State-Michigan. But nothing comes close to the 64-year-old World Cup feud that is England vs. Argentina.Across the open-source ecosystem, AI code tools are disrupting a set of norms that has rewarded developers for building or contributing to software that benefits everyone. In the past, contributions to open-source projects were bullet points on a developer’s CV. But are you a contributor if your contribution was authored by Claude or Codex? And if the “community of users” for your project is increasingly made up of bots, will you still be motivated to build or maintain it? And if not, then what happens when we open the sink tap?
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?ft.comOur obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakersI just find it really stupid. That’s the thing I thought when they came up with it, that it was stupid and annoying, and I didn’t want to do it.
Viral Norway fan hits out at “stupid” Row celebration thats taking over the World Cup - Dexertodexerto.comA Norway fan who has gone viral for not doing the now-iconic row celebration at the World Cup has explained why he won’t get involved, even if they win the whole thing.We’ve been clear about what we want. We want a technical solution that allows you to be discoverable without having to give your content away for free.
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Searchadweek.comThe nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators👌
I'm old enough to remember people sending LMGTFY links to folks who didn't seem to know how to use a search engine and expected strangers to do unpaid research for them. But this isn't that. It's closer to what happens when I ask a friend for a food recommendation and get a top-10 list back. I'm not asking what Eater thinks is the best kind-of-quiet spot for late-night drinks, or for a great coffee shop in the city where they used to live. I'm asking what they think, because we have similar taste and a shared history, and because I know they have opinions about where the lists go wrong. I trust their experience over the expert consensus.
Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLMblog.yaelwrites.comI already did.Here we were, three men trying to pitch rooms full of male investors a tool meant to alleviate cervical pain: It was like trying to sell ballet shoes to a football team.
Revolutionizing Gynecology With Women in Mind - Truthdigtruthdig.comA new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously.Count Binface, in announcing he will run in the farcical Clacton by-election against Nigel Farage, makes a compelling pitch to voters on the BBC's Today programme:
