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Nearly 130,000 Instagram posts congregate under the hashtag #princesstreatment. At the heart of the trend is Utah-based influencer Courtney Palmer, a self-proclaimed “princess housewife”, whose TikTok – viewed 7.6 million times – outlines her controversial expectations for her spouse: “At a restaurant with my husband, I don’t speak to the hostess, open doors or order my food.” Some naysayers have suggested that this is more like the behaviour of a prisoner than a princess.
As we argued in our first essay on this topic, the Left needs to take both the safety and livelihood risks of AI very seriously. Just as it was a mistake to let climate change be put in an “environmental” box and be treated as a special interest or scientific issue when it will in fact impact everyone’s life, we can’t compartmentalize the changes that AI will wreak into a single-issue “technology” or innovation policy issue. This is a topic for everyone to engage with.
The problem can seem intractable: Commentaries identifying inaccuracies go back to at least 1985, yet remedies have proved elusive. Previous research into the prevalence of flawed citations has typically focused on a single discipline and has yielded a wide range of estimates, some as high as 40%. Now, a new study finds that approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite—and offers ways to improve.
Women are so fed up with dating men that the phenomenon even has a name: heterofatalism. So what do we do with our desire?
Representatives of Face Addiction Now’s Harm:Less program interacts with a potential drug user during an outreach effort.
