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Dec 9, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
The age of froyo has faded. Fancy cupcakes are passé. The cronut craze is now a distant fever dream. Dessert trends can sweep by fast, and today we’re in the era of the elaborate cookie — kind of. When Crumbl first burst onto the scene, the novelty was that the company had turned a relatively easy, low-fuss dessert that might come as a side to your food order into an enormous, over-the-top main attraction.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
portside.org | Whizy Kim
Elon Musk and the Age of Shameless Oligarchy Published November 29, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have become an inseparable duo. Since Trump’s reelection, the richest man in the world — and one of Trump’s top campaign donors — has been a shadow trailing him at his Florida residence. The tech billionaire has taken center stage in the incoming administration, promising to slash $2 trillion from the federal government’s budget.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Whizy Kim
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Whizy Kim
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have become an inseparable duo. Since Trump’s reelection, the richest man in the world — and one of Trump’s top campaign donors — has been a shadow trailing him at his Florida residence. The tech billionaire has taken center stage in the incoming administration, promising to slash $2 trillion from the federal government’s budget.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
Vox reader Jen Hawse asks: Why do hotels pump in very strongly smelling perfume into their lobbies and sometimes their guest rooms? What we think of as a “nice” hotel often comes down to a certain je ne sais quoi. Sure, it has all the amenities — a luxe restaurant and bar on the premises, hotel room beds with soft Egyptian cotton sheets, perhaps a decadent spa — but beyond all that, it should have an ineffable ambience that’s both welcoming and sensual, cozy and yet exotic.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
It’s a question that has bedeviled all too many of us: how to deal with loved ones who just keep giving us bad gifts. The National Retail Federation estimates that last winter, about $966 billion worth of merchandise was sold over the holiday period — and about $148 billion of that likely returned. A survey from consumer research firm CivicScience showed that 28 percent of people had returned or exchanged a gift last year.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
It’s a truism that everything’s bigger in America — just look at the cars and houses. But perhaps nowhere is the virtue of bigger is better more bizarrely apparent than how toilet paper is sold. Wander into the bathroom products aisle at the supermarket and you’ve entered a topsy-turvy world where numbers shape-shift. A pack of 18 mega toilet paper rolls, for example, magically transforms into 90 “regular” ones.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
vox.com | Lavanya Ramanathan |Whizy Kim
It’s not an overstatement to say that Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is former President Donald Trump’s biggest fanboy — and patron — in the 2024 election. He’s literally, and comically, leaping at Trump’s side at rallies. He’s tweeting (including, frequently, dog whistles and misinformation). And to the dismay of some, he has let Trump tweet, too.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
vox.com | Whizy Kim
Despite what a new HBO documentary suggests, the identity of one of the richest people in the world is still unknown. By now, the story is so famous it’s taken on the aura of a creation myth: One day in early 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the inventor of bitcoin, released the world’s first cryptocurrency. Two years later, Nakamoto vanished seemingly forever. Since then, countless theories on who the real Nakamoto is have been advanced, with no single candidate coming out on top.
