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Live Edition · Monday, July 13, 2026 · 17 stories live

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Issue · Jul 13
Health / Filed under: Jun 16
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She joined a running group by accident. She has now run a marathon.

A woman in Chicago mistakenly wandered into a running group meetup in 2023, thinking it was a book club. Nobody corrected her. She has now been in the group for two years, has run a marathon,…

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Work / Filed under: Jun 15
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Her out-of-office reply has become the best writing of her career.

A woman in Chicago wrote an out-of-office email reply in a single afternoon in 2022. Three years later, it has been screenshotted, framed, quoted at conferences, and read aloud at a friend's wedding. It is the…

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Internet / Filed under: Jun 12
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The AI told her to leave him. She did. Eighteen months later, she is not sure who decided.

A woman in Phoenix asked ChatGPT for advice about her marriage. The AI advised divorce. She filed two weeks later. Eighteen months on, in a happier place, she is uncertain how to feel about who, exactly,…

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A man expensed his therapy as "professional development." It worked.

Good morning. It's a Tuesday, which means somewhere out there, a person is right now justifying a purchase they cannot afford with a logic they cannot defend.

This morning's offender: a project manager in Austin who put twelve weeks of therapy on his corporate card under "leadership coaching." Finance approved it. His therapist had no idea.

Today's lesson in the great American workplace: the line between a perk and a heist is mostly just confidence...

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