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Putting your phone aside in the year of friction-maxxing
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (131+ words) Friction-maxxing, coined by New York Magazine columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, is the idea of putting aside our phones and the convenience they bring in exchange for doing things the way we did before technology entered our lives. - On Air Now Playing…...
Why a Tik Tok star takes day laborers to Disneyland
2+ week, 2+ day ago (89+ words) Why a Tik Tok star still takes day laborers to Disneyland'KNPR - On Air Now Playing News 88. 9 KNPR Live - On Air Now Playing Classical 89. 7 KCNV Live Why a Tik Tok star takes day laborers to Disneyland A social media creator continues…...
A Game Challenges Californians To Find A Working Payphone
3+ week, 4+ day ago (141+ words) When was the last time you saw a payphone? For most people it's probably been a while. In California, there are more than 2000 working payphones. A game challenges the public to find them. - On Air Now Playing News 88. 9 KNPR Live…...
Hold the Apps!
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (324+ words) To swipe or not to swipe? That's the question for the 80 million Americans using dating apps such as Hinge, Bumble, or Tinder. And the answer matters, at least based on research by Stanford University, showing that more than half of…...
A theory why the internet is going down the toilet
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (832+ words) A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that analyzed why dating apps are breaking the hearts of their users. The American Dialect Society named it…...
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (177+ words) Postal traffic to the U. S. has fallen significantly after the Trump administration suspended a trade exemption rule in late August, according to a global postal union. "The UPU has in its mission the responsibility to guarantee the free circulation of postal…...
Some young people ditching dating apps and opting for old-fashioned alternatives
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (78+ words) For some, online dating brings love. For others, it's emotionally fatiguing. That's why some young people are ditching dating apps and creating in-person alternatives. - On Air Now Playing News 88. 9 KNPR Live - On Air Now Playing Classical 89. 7 KCNV Live Some young…...
Your call to a local Social Security office may be picked up by someone who can't help
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (787+ words) Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices " often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case, employees say. Disability advocates and experts warn this is making it harder for people…...
I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1235+ words) After 13 years of marriage, I reentered the dating scene as a widow " with zero luck. Dating apps felt like a graveyard of mismatched intentions. I swiped past shirtless gym guys, bios that read "fluent in sarcasm," and at least one…...
This Tik Tok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (857+ words) Millions of Tik Tokkers have watched some version of a video in the past week falsely stating that "they're installing incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz," referring to an internet conspiracy theory that furnaces were being set up at a state-run immigration…...