McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me
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I, along with three school friends, am entering the lion's den to represent Great Britain at the World Mölkky Championships in Helsinki
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I am a transwoman, I am in the closet and I am not coming out
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I got slopped: someone used AI to write my biography
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When AI is a member of the family
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I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
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I almost got hit by a car
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Day in the life of a prisoner serving life
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The loneliness of the competitive quizzer
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I ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents
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I worked in a warehouse
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I loved my teaching job. But as a trans man in Texas, quitting was the only way to get my dignity back.
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I work in a warehouse
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A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – Meri-Tuuli was one of 33,000 Vastaamo patients held to ransom in October 2020 by a Finnish hacker
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Why on earth have I seen the same Broadway show thirteen times? An investigation.
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How I rebooted my social life
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I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
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The day my smart vacuum turned against me
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No evidence of disease
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I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened.
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I spent months living with smart glasses. People talk to me differently now.
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‘I feel like I’ve been lied to’: when a measles outbreak hits home
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My expensive, exhausting, happy failed attempt at homesteading
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If you ever stacked cups in gym class blame my dad
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My shipwreck story
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How Counter-Strike took over my life
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Georgia woman shares how she survived three weeks lost in the California Sierra Nevada mountains
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Eddy Burback chronicles his month without a phone
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Stoop coffee: How a simple idea transformed my neighborhood
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My sixteen-month theanine self-experiment
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I used to teach students. Now I catch ChatGPT cheats.
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An unlikely survival story in the depths of the North Sea inspired a documentary and now a thriller
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The year I didn’t survive
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Jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
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I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour.
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History, memory, grief and belonging: my bittersweet Goodison farewell
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Should I stay or should I go now?
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A decade without a drink
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‘Mild’ tofu, ‘mild’ carrots, ‘mild’ pine nuts: my five-year quest to understand German taste
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Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
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Following a family mystery to Iceland's remotest village – in his grandfather's footsteps, Oliver Smith heads to a tiny off-grid community at the tip of the Hornstrandir peninsula
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We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20
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I quit teaching because of ChatGPT
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Uber almost got me killed!
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'I don’t want to die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network.
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I've been to all fifty states, and I've unexpectedly fallen in love with these seven cities
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I walked away from my job as a queer educator
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Personally protecting a piece of prairie
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I went to Iceland for a road trip. I left with climate anxiety.
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Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned.
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