The headlines and some comments on them.

A New Yorker writer who is anti-capitalist bragged on a podcast that she stole from Whole Foods on several occasions

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  kate1987

  The revolution will not be televised, it will be scanned as bananas at self-checkout.

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A proposed $111 billion Warner Brothers and Paramount merger is being backed by $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar

A topical acne drug might be the next big thing in treating hair loss

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  ellawood42

  Bald guys are about to start raiding their teenage son's medicine cabinet like it's a pharmacy heist.

  745
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  wiseshark294

  I'm 83 years old, bald since my mid 20's. Every year like clockwork, a new miracle cure. I should've made peace with it decades ago.

  203

Several states are cutting Medicaid coverage for GLP-1 weight loss drugs due to costs

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  morgan_moore

  Looks like they gave the budget the GLP-1 and told the patients to try willpower.

  839
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  reallindabarnes

  States really said go ahead and donate all your fat pants to Goodwill, then pulled the coverage so now you're buying them back at full retail.

  599

A 111-year-old man living in New Jersey is believed to be the oldest man in the United States

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  faith_lewis

  His birthday cake is now legally classified as a bonfire.🎂🔥🔥

  818
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  claire_86

  At 111 years old in New Jersey, this man has personally funded about three lanes of the Turnpike just in tolls.

  503

Days before departure, a couple learned their Virgin Voyages cruise to Bermuda was being rerouted to Canada

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  khoward

  They packed sunscreen and swimsuits and got off the boat wearing snow pants, clutching maple syrup, and apologizing to a moose.

  248

Bill Ackman launches a $65 billion bid to buy Universal Music, Taylor Swift's record label

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  brittanywood95

  Somewhere Taylor Swift is already writing a breakup song about this acquisition.

  954

Anthropic's potent new AI model is a "wake-up call," security experts say

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  kevin1981

  Plot twist, Mythos traced every single one of those security flaws back to code that was written by AI in the first place, so congratulations, the robots are now debugging their own work.

  955

Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, PM says

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  ruby_sanders

  By 2027 a few 14 year old kids will have vibe coded new platforms Greece hasn't even heard of yet.

  502

Blake Lively responded on Instagram after a judge dismissed 13 of her 16 claims against Justin Baldoni, with their trial still set for May

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  katie1971

  How long before she says, 'Your Honor, I'd like to submit Exhibit A: my Instagram story with the crying face filter.'

  493

Used car prices just hit a three-year high as wholesale demand keeps climbing

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  reallauraallen

  At this rate my 2014 Honda Civic is appreciating faster than my 401k

  225

A new survey finds that one in five Americans believe they are basically psychic, with Gen Z being the most likely to claim the ability

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  chrisrodriguez3

  This explains the algorithm. Every app I open, someone's shuffling tarot cards at me.🔮

  969
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  holly2000

  One in five Americans think they're psychic, and somehow all of them ended up on my For You page selling crystal bundles.

  507

Police arrested a man hiding inside a locked Pasadena Best Buy while Pokemon fans lined up outside waiting for a card restock

Oakland's airport can now include "San Francisco" in its name after the two cities settled a 2-year legal dispute over the branding

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  ben2001

  Things have gotten so bad in San Francisco that by the time the settlement went through, San Francisco was actually hoping to rebrand itself as Oakland.

  1101

Anxious Americans are spending big money on online courses sold by influencers.

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  snapfrost

  Paying $297 to learn passive income from someone whose passive income is selling courses about passive income is a beautiful closed loop.

  1103
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  driftplum

  Buying these courses helped me combine my crippling anxiety with my crippling debt into one convenient purchase.

  434

Andrej Karpathy, the man who coined vibe coding, says AI-generated code is often bloated and messy and still needs a human to oversee it

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  mattwright98

  I'd rather debug AI slop for eight hours than spend ninety seconds in the comment section of a Stack Exchange answer.

  1030

A skyscraper-sized asteroid nicknamed "God of Chaos" will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029, close enough to see with the naked eye

A pastor who wrote a book on loving your spouse was arrested after allegations that he has multiple wives

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  brandon_watson

  In his defense, he never specified which spouse.

  1001
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  the_tiger

  The pastor told the judge, 'God gave me one wife, and I made her many.' The judge replied, 'The prosecutor suggested 1 year, and I made it many.'

  250

Lisa Kudrow says the Friends cast still earns $20 million a year in residuals

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  joe_lee

  The real friends were the royalty checks we cashed along the way.

  972
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  chompnut

  Twenty million a year, the only thing residual from my last job is the trauma and unpaid overtime from 2019.

  472

A recent college grad who spent $125,000 on his degree says the job market is broken after 500 applications and zero offers

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  realtaylorhughes

  He finally got a notification, and it was LinkedIn saying unlock Premium to see the 7 recruiters who ignored you this week.

  670
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  quickmoon

  Step 1, get rejected 500 times. Step 2, write a LinkedIn post about resilience. Step 3, become a motivational speaker charging more than his tuition.

  503

Britney Spears has checked into rehab for substance abuse just weeks after her DUI arrest.

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  cloverping

  The Free Britney crowd is real quiet right now, but don't worry, they'll be back as soon as they finish their Free Luigi signs.

  1101

The high cost of raising a child in the US is creating a really daunting situation for parents.

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  dusk815

  Meanwhile, some of these kids will grow up to discover that the cost of caring for elderly parents can be just as daunting. Hoping everyone's financial situation gets better. 🙏🏻

  474

Adobe fixed a PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have been exploiting for months.

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  jenadams4

  Adobe patching PDF vulnerabilities is the closest thing we have to a perpetual motion machine.

  152

A woman says ChatGPT correctly identified her mystery illness after doctors misdiagnosed her for years

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  curiousriver380

  AI told me my headache was either dehydration or a rare tropical parasite, so results may vary.

  684
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  mysticowl

  She probably got the diagnosis right after it confidently told someone else that the Battle of Waterloo happened in 1987.

  375

Texas is set to pass Virginia as the state with the most data centers, and residents are worried about the impact on water and electricity usage.

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  kevin_98

  Texans are about to experience the unique joy of rationing water so that a server farm can help someone generate an image of a cowboy riding a dinosaur.

  407