The regime has been hollowed out by decades of negative selection—the result of rewarding mediocrity and prizing ideological loyalty over competence.
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Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
Rather than prizing animals for their beauty, their virile traits or their straight-up cool characteristics, frogposting is all about vulnerable animals—the dweebs of the animal kingdom.
Enhance your media literacy by learning the differences between news and opinion and, further, how to differentiate between advertising, news articles, letters, columns and editorials.
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Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
YouTube pushed back on addiction claims YouTube wasn’t originally part of the lawsuit; Kaley and her mother decided to add it after learning about the platform’s addictive qualities, Lanier said.
Paxton’s intervention also criticizes the panel of administrative law judges for failing to seek a medical expert’s opinion before determining Bowden could be subject to discipline from the medical board.
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Evan MacDonald,
Houston Chronicle,
13 Feb. 2026
Democrats had appealed to the Supreme Court that the Tazewell County Circuit Court ruling that Democrats in the legislature acted against proper procedure, striking down the referendum and determining that the current map must stay in place until 2028.
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Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Feb. 2026
This is the validation process and is tremendously crucial for ascertaining whether the RFT has made a positive significant difference in the AI model’s domain specificity.
Now, platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox are testing out a similar strategy but leaning into low-budget, soapy series, instead.
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Lauren Wilson,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
OpenAI recently started testing ads in its ChatGPT chatbot in the US, betting that advertising is the fastest way to make money off users that won’t buy premium subscriptions.
In the simplest case, an unexpected reward (say, discovering some tasty fruit when hungry, or having someone attractive declare their love for you) causes a burst of dopamine release into a part of the basal ganglia known as the striatum—specifically, the nucleus accumbens.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
While the popularity of these app-blocking devices increases (Novelli said the company has sold more than 60,000), questions remain about their efficacy when the people who buy them are mainly discovering the devices through the internet—and talking about them on social media.
Austria and Canada coming from 2-1 down to beat Japan and Brazil, the latter coming from Liam Draxl seeing out a win over Gustavo Heide despite rolling his ankle in the seventh game of the deciding rubber.
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James Hansen,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
The veteran skier had previously ruptured her ACL in her left knee before deciding to still compete in this year's Olympic Games.
For those analyzing the details in Bad Bunny’s 15-minute halftime performance, there was a real wedding that took place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in front of 75,000 fans.
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Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Bob and Joe liked to talk sports, often analyzing statistics deep into the night.
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