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Health:

• Drug Trials Funded By Manufacturers Find 50 Percent Greater Drug Effectiveness
• ‘Food Noise’ Ruled Her Life for Years. Here’s How She Learned to Silence It
• Ultra-processed foods: Why public health warnings could backfire
• Burger King Offering Free 8oz Ranch ‘Big Dip’ Cup with Sandwiches: What Nutritionists Think

Happiness:

• Pilot of Rescue Flight for Pets Impacted by Hurricanes Adopts Kitten, Finding ‘Love at 30,000 Feet’
• Moment dog sees friends arrive at the beach to play with him melts hearts

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

Higher Consciousness:

• Snoop Dogg Plays Marijuana Meteorologist On The TODAY Show, Delivering Forecasts For Real Cities Like Blaze, Kentucky And Stoner, Colorado
• Legal Marijuana Contains Dangerous Mold. States Approve It Anyway

Back of the Napkin:

• Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
• THE AGE OF AI CHILD ABUSE IS HERE

The Junk Drawer:

• Bath & Body Works Apologizes After Customers Claim Winter Themed “Snowed In” Candle Looks Like Ku Klux Klan Hoods – Pulls it From Shelves
• Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting

Last Call:

• Steam Finally Makes It Clear: You’re Buying A License, Not A Game
• Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Images:

Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!
• Sharky

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