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Health:

• 7 Surprising Habits That Can Spike Your Blood Sugar, According to Diabetes Experts
• Ozempic-like drug significantly reduces frequency of chronic migraines in pilot study
• What Our Ancestors Really Ate
• Most People Don't Know Grilling Meat Raises Cancer Risk—6 Ways to Grill Safer

Happiness:

• Musician Infuses Dad’s Ashes into His Guitar Fretboard- to Be with Him at Future Gigs
• Years After She Saved a Magpie it Returns the Favor Saving Her Life After She Fell from Window

Tales from Rideshare/Toast and Jam:

Higher Consciousness:

• Using Hemp Flour And Oil Can Make Gluten-Free Baked Goods With ‘Optimal’ Texture And ‘Significant’ Nutrition, Study Shows
• You’re Not Just Imagining the Munchies. Here’s What Marijuana Is Really Doing to Your Brain.

Lotus Tech Tips:

• Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
• NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court
• McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
• Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used

The Junk Drawer:

• America’s Hot Garbage Problem
• Idaho Wildfire Ambush: Gunman Dead After 'Sniper Attack' Kills Two Firefighters

Last Call:

• Woody Harrelson fans left shocked after discovering who his father is
• HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again

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Credits:

• RevCyberTrucker for the Cavalcade of Stupidity!

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