Vice President Kamala Harris shook the hand of former President Donald J. Trump

State Antony J. Blinken

Link Reader, a plug-in that let me paste in a web link to generate meal plans using recipes from other credible sites like Serious Eats.

But that changed when I experimented with ChatGPT plug-ins, which are essentially third-party apps that work with the chatbot. (Only subscribers who pay $20 a month for access to ChatGPT4, the latest version of the chatbot, can use plug-ins, which can be activated in the settings menu.)

“I think it’ll do plenty of bad poetry, but not good poetry. I think to be a good poet you have to have soul,” said Ms. Ringwald, who wore a pink Ulla Johnson dress with silver Rachel Comey shoes.

Addressing a Diverse Audience

“Many people have lost the ability to really immerse themselves,” she said. “We have developed a cognitive impatience about our reading.”

Traditionally, our brains tended to read print materials more slowly, in part because we were more likely to go back and double-check what we just read. That extra time lent itself to sophisticated mental processes like critical analysis, inference, deduction and empathy.

Maryanne Wolf, a professor-in-residence at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

People inevitably return to their old habits when they have access again, and they don’t improve their self control.

ask yourself why

particularly if you have frequent conflicts with teens over cellphone use at the table.

Before you have to focus on a task, take one or two minutes to open all your favorite apps. Then set a timer for 15 minutes, silence your phone, turn it face down and set it to the side. When the timer goes off, you get another one or two minutes to check your phone — a tech break.

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Larry Rosen, a professor emeritus of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills and a co-author on the study

Even when we really try to focus on a task, we often find we can’t, our eyes glazing over and our thoughts drifting.

together they demand and destroy our concentration.

How to Focus Like It’s 1990

Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine,

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Some legislators and other critics question whether there should have been income caps, and whether the state, newly flush with oil and gas revenue, can secure long-term funding to support the program beyond its first year. The legislation, which seeks to treat college as a public resource similar to primary and secondary education, takes effect in July.

Simon Romero

May 19, 2022

By the time we got to Union Square and the site of the old Luchow’s, I was belting out the sights and stops.

“Here’s the Eye and Ear Infirmary,” I said.“The Con Ed Building,” I continued.

Is it our food stamps card that triggers you? Or is it that you’re jealous of our card? Could it be both?

Over the last couple of years, Smith’s muscles have slackened somewhat. He’s become a loose and only semi-rehearsed presence on Instagram and TikTok.

Now that liberal states like Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey will lift their school mask mandates, it will be up to individual school districts to decide whether and how quickly they want to rescind their own mask rules.

I didn’t know it then, but that vision formed the lens I would bring to the climate movement a decade or so later. I can’t help but see the layers of injustice that led to our current situation. The climate crisis is covered in the fingerprints of slavery and Jim Crow and colonialism and genocide and patriarchy. It’s what happens when large swaths of people are not only systematically “left out,” but forced to be their own gravediggers and pallbearers. I can’t help but see how those same layers complicate and exacerbate the crisis. Who is saved and who is abandoned. Whose bodies litter the road to the “greater good.”

We saw beautiful, beautiful New Orleans flooded to her brim. We saw pictures of the vigilante groups that patrolled white neighborhoods to keep black people out. Again, I thought of Emmett and his open casket, as I watched New Orleans and the coasts turn into open graves.

We were essentially cut off from the rest of the world, but Mississippians are no strangers to blackouts. Blackouts were part of the setting. You expected them. They forced you to hold still, to be patient. Especially in the nighttime, when the fever of day had broken and the frogs played you a symphony, you could close your eyes and find the beauty in being cut off from the world.

We lost water for a little less than a week. That was the hardest part, because we forget how hot it was right after Katrina. I don’t remember the exact temperature, but that day is seared into my memory as the hottest I’ve ever lived through. And we couldn’t even splash our faces. I tried to curb my water intake, to save it for my grandfather and my mother. We all slept a lot, including the dog.

The local NPR segments dripped with such overt racism it was impossible to trust them.

The other thing often forgotten, but which I can never forget, was that Katrina descended the day after the 50th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till. If you are black, and especially if you grew up in the South, the name “Emmett Till” brought immediate, arresting, gruesome images to mind. The name sank to the bottom of your stomach like a bag of rocks—or like the cotton gin fan that weighed down his barely pubescent body to make it surrender to the Tallahatchie River.

Things hadn’t gotten bad yet.

“Granddaddy.” I tried to soften my voice. “It’s a hurricane. The birds aren’t out right now.” “What do you know?” he shot back. “You not a bird.” I couldn’t argue with that.

I didn’t think I would ever make it as a writer, so I was bracing myself for a writing-adjacent career in the publishing world. At least I’d be close to books.

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