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I Just Wanted to Message My Friend. Instagram Tried to Make Me Use Its A.I. Instead.
For a while, you could hide the A.I. button in WhatsApp, but that option is now no longer available, much to international ...
Heartbreaking: Elon Musk Just Made a Great Point About Free Speech
Free speech” was the battering ram that Elon Musk used to justify his pursuit of Twitter in 2022. He talked about the ...
My Son Just Brought Home a Disturbing Piece of “Art” From School
One of the figures is sucking on the joystick instead of holding it, bent over to do so. And the side of the game is listed ...
I Have an Upsetting Suspicion About What My Family Really Thinks of Me
I grew up as the middle child in a family where I was always the black sheep. My parents treated me quite differently than my ...
The GOP Keeps Losing Public Abortion Votes. So It’s Trying This Absurd Ploy.
One of the most revealing moments of the 2024 election on abortion came when Missouri, one of the most conservative states in ...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tom Hardy
Here Hardy delivers yet another of what might be termed his “Funny Accent” performances, where he adopts some weird-ass voice ...
The Clever Court Ploy That Could Force Trump’s El Salvador Scheme to a Head
The ACLU filed an amended complaint with District Judge James Boasberg seeking to revive proceedings in his courtroom against ...
Pete Buttigieg’s Beard Is Bigger Than Any of Us
As beards go, Buttigieg’s is tame and restrained, more military than metalhead. It’s shaved into a tidy shape with a ...
Hey Prudence! My Ex’s Son’s Creepy Antics Led to Our Demise. Maybe I Should Warn the New Girlfriend.
For a new feature, Prudence asks readers for their thoughts on the letters she’s received. Her reply will be available every ...
Slate’s Mistakes for the Week of April 21
In an April 23 Jurisprudence, Mark Joseph Stern misidentified the plaintiffs’ attorney in Mahmoud v. Taylor. It is Eric Baxter, not Eric Rassbach. In an April 20 Television, Sam Adams misstated that ...