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Meet the Mighty McClures! They are a typical family. Their children go to school to learn like other kids, but they are also immersed in their family’s business as content creators. Parents Ami and Justin McClure quit their office jobs to make social media their new family business. Recently, Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa interviewed the McClures for a Post Opinions comic: https://wapo.st/3XcgYxQ
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Instagram says it’s rolling out a suite of new settings to fight “sextortion,” a type of blackmail that uses sexual images or conversations to pressure victims into paying money.
Instagram addresses ‘sextortion’ as teen safety troubles increase
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Federal car safety regulators have opened an investigation after reports of four crashes involving Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software — including one that killed a pedestrian in November 2023 — an inquiry that raises questions about whether the system is safe in low-visibility conditions.
Crashes involving Tesla’s Full Self-Driving prompt new federal probe
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Soaring housing and stock prices make it look like younger Americans are finally getting ahead financially. But could it all be a mirage? In the past, the Survey of Consumer Finances held discouraging news for millennials. After adjusting for inflation, their wealth lagged behind where their Gen X and boomer parents had been at the same age. But when we incorporated the latest survey, conducted in 2022, we were shocked to see millennials had taken the lead.
Wait, are millennials suddenly the wealthiest generation?
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Zack Wickham was browsing at a Goodwill thrift store in Los Angeles this month when something unexpected caught his eye: an award a high school freshman won in 2014 for being the most improved player on the varsity girls’ tennis team. Then he spotted another accolade on the pegboard-backed shelves, a 2012 trophy for piano-playing excellence awarded to the same person — someone named Phoebe Kong. And another: a plaque Kong won in 2014 for making second team all-league in varsity girls’ tennis. In total, Wickham found about a dozen Phoebe Kong awards littered among more prosaic thrift shop wares of stuffed animals, picture frames and mismatched coffee cups. Wickham, who appears on the Bravo reality series “The Valley,” took out his phone, fired up his TikTok account and started filming to his 7,000 followers.
He found her old trophies at Goodwill. Millions followed his search for her.
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Betty Cartledge walked into her local early voting station Wednesday to cast her ballot for the upcoming presidential election. At age 81, it was her first time voting. “I had been thinking about it before, but I can’t read or write,” said Cartledge, who is turning 82 on Sunday. “I didn’t want to go in the booth and not know what to do.” During every election season, she tried to put voting out of her mind. It recently dawned on Wanda Moore, Cartledge’s niece, that her aunt may have never voted. Moore knew Cartledge can’t read, which can make voting more difficult and intimidating.
At 81, she just voted for the first time: ‘Made me feel like I was American’
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As 95-year-old dream researcher Monique Lortie-Lussier has aged, her own dreams have changed. “I am the main character, interacting with people I have known, some of whom have died,” she said. These often include episodes with her late husband before he developed dementia. “I see them in my dreams. My dreams are quite pleasant. It doesn’t really matter what happens in them, I am feeling good.” Lortie-Lussier, a retired adjunct professor of social psychology at the University of Ottawa, spent her academic career conducting dream research, with a particular focus on women’s dreams, including how they change over a life span. Although women’s roles in the workplace and at home have undergone dramatic shifts since the 1980s when the research was conducted, it showed that analyzing dreams offered insights into the experiences of women and how they were adapting to changing roles.
What do women dream about? This 95-year-old researcher found some clues.
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My colleague Tatum Hunter and I took a look at how using AI meeting assistants can go wrong if you're not fully aware of how they work. A couple of cautions: Anything you say during the meeting, regardless of who is or isn't there, will be in the transcript (in other words don't gossip about Bob after he leaves), and your muted comments could potentially be captured too. Read more about it here.
AI assistants are blabbing our embarrassing work secrets
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As buyers and sellers wake up to risks on a hotter planet, Cape Coral might be a preview of what millions of homeowners throughout the country could face: a slow and almost imperceptible re-pricing of many people’s biggest asset. AlphaGeo, a climate modeling group, analyzed the risks in every county. Type in your county below to see which exist in your area.
Column | Where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners
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