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From Book Clubs to BookTok: How Reading Communities Moved

From Book Clubs to BookTok: How Reading Communities Moved

Reading used to be a fairly local hobby. You talked about books with friends, joined a library group, or met up with the same people once a month for a book club. Now a lot of that chatter happens online. TikTok, Goodreads, Reddit, Discord, and group chats have made it possible to find other readers whenever you feel like talking about a book. BookTok made book talk faster A traditional book club gives everyone a few weeks to read the same title and BookTok can turn a book into a talking point overnight. The videos don’t have to be proper reviews either. Someone can film a 30-second rant about an ending they hated or recommend a romance because the main couple spent 300 pages annoying each other before finally getting together. That is often enough to get people interested. It has also made it much easier for ordinary readers to become creators. Plenty of BookTok accounts start with someone filming a few books on their bedroom shelf and talking about what they’ve been reading lately. …

To afford rent, they moved in with nuns. Now, the D.C. home is closing : NPR

To afford rent, they moved in with nuns. Now, the D.C. home is closing : NPR

Former residents, current residents and friends of Anne Montgomery House begin a traditional Greek dance at the farewell celebration in Washington, D.C. on July 31, 2026. The community house, run by Society of the Sacred Heart, is closing after a decade. Charlotte Kesl for NPR hide caption toggle caption Charlotte Kesl for NPR Sister Diane Roche sits on the front porch of Anne Montgomery House, smiling as she thinks back to opening the home a decade ago. The house, located in Northeast Washington, D.C., has given young women an affordable place to live while they studied, completed fellowships or launched careers in one of the nation’s most expensive cities. By nightfall, it will close its doors for the last time. “I’m 76 years old and running a house like this takes a lot of energy,” Roche said. “Something inside me just said this is it.” Sister Diane Roche, 76, pictured on the front porch of Anne Montgomery House said she’ll miss some of the daily rituals she shared with the home’s younger residents. “They keep …

More Than Half Of Gen Z Investors Have Moved Money Into Sports Bets

More Than Half Of Gen Z Investors Have Moved Money Into Sports Bets

A growing share of young Americans is folding sports gambling into their long-term financial plans, according to new research from the investment platform Betterment. In an online survey of 1,000 U.S. retail investors conducted in late March and early April and released this week, 52% of Gen Z investors said they had shifted money originally set aside for stocks or other investments into sports wagers over the past year. Only about one-third of Gen Z participants reported no involvement in sports betting at all, compared with 63% across all age groups in the survey. 26% of Gen Z respondents – those born between 1997 and 2007 – said they view sports betting as a deliberate, ongoing part of their wealth strategy. That figure drops sharply with age: 14% of millennials, 6% of Gen X, and just 1% of baby boomers reported the same outlook. Of those Gen Z respondents, roughly 11% described betting as an investment strategy aimed at high returns, while 15% treated it as a short-term way to raise cash. The betting numbers …

I moved my clipboard to the edge of my screen, and I’m not going back

I moved my clipboard to the edge of my screen, and I’m not going back

Windows 11 has a clipboard history, but it’s borderline useless due to the limited number of items you can save at a time and the lack of persistence across restarts. Ditto is my answer to this problem on Windows, but it feels dated and needs a shortcut to activate. Edge Drop, on the other hand, lives on the edge of your display and lets you drag and drop items to any app with just a hover. Related 7 open-source apps so good, Microsoft should build them into Windows These open-source apps fix everyday Windows annoyances so well, it’s baffling Microsoft hasn’t built them in yet. Edge Drop feels modern and slick to use A clipboard manager that stays out of your way until you need it Edge Drop at its core is a clipboard manager, but it’s how it works that makes it such a useful tool. After installation, it tucks the clipboard panel away to the edge of your display as a thin bar. All you have to do is hover your mouse over …

Hong Kong street food moved indoors

Hong Kong street food moved indoors

The smell hits first, garlic and char on skewered meat, chiles brushed over buns, oyster sauce mingling with the syrupy edge of black vinegar on sizzling noodles. Then comes the sound, clams tossed in hot pans, cleavers pounding roast pork, a Cantonese rock ballad barely rising above the crowd. At Temple Street Night Market, steam rises, neon buzzes, just like the guidebooks promised.  My first bite of Hong Kong is a fried soup dumpling, filled with truffled pork and that holy trinity, garlic, ginger, scallion. Crisp-bottomed, soft-topped, doused in soy. I eat it standing, careful not to scald my tongue. It’s divine. It’s street food. A memory made to be eaten. But something’s different. Temple Street Night Market grew after World War II, a “nightclub for regular people,” says the woman beside me, also eating soup dumplings carefully. She remembers when the blocks up to Tin Hau Temple brimmed with food carts, trinkets, and the occasional fortune-teller. COVID changed that. Now food stalls are limited, corralled onto a single block. The rest? Brick-and-mortar, cleaned up, …

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

“The Biden administration may have abandoned plans to create a ‘Disinformation Board,’ but a more insidious ‘Censorship Complex’ already exists and is growing at an alarming speed,” Cleveland wrote. “Its funding and collaboration implicate the government, academia, tech giants, nonprofits, politicians, social media, and the legacy press. Under the guise of combatting so-called misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information, these groups seek to silence speech that threatens the far-left’s ability to control the conversation—and thus the country and the world.” According to our analysis of social media posts, Cleveland’s article was shared by 168 accounts, marking the first time that something about the censorship-industrial complex was shared by so many different people. Its popularity showed that people were ready to gravitate toward the CIC framing, Cleveland told us in an interview. “It’s definitely catchy,” she says. “People understand what it means, given that the military-industrial complex has … been in existence since the 1950s.”  Just a few weeks later, the idea jumped toward mainstream recognition.  Musk, then the new owner of Twitter, had given internal company documents …

Jackie, Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle, moved out of intensive care but still ‘very sick’

Jackie, Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle, moved out of intensive care but still ‘very sick’

Jackie, half of Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle couple, has been moved out of intensive care, an encouraging sign for the raptor who was rescued in critical condition earlier this month. In a Wednesday social media post announcing the development, the Ojai Raptor Center stressed that Jackie “remains a very sick patient” and continues to receive intensive treatment in a regular hospital care unit. While in the previous unit, the 14-year-old bird required oxygen therapy. “This is an encouraging step forward, but it does not mean she is out of danger,” according to the center, which has treated and sought to diagnose Jackie since she was transferred there on July 18. When Jackie was rescued from the shore of Big Bear Lake, she was underweight and disheveled. Video footage taken shortly before her capture showed her sparring with two younger eagles, but exams revealed no wounds or broken bones. The Ojai center’s recent post did not include updates on what might be causing her symptoms, including severe anemia. Experts have ruled out lead toxicity and …

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will spend even less time behind bars as prison release date moved up again

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will spend even less time behind bars as prison release date moved up again

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to spend even less time in prison than expected after his release date was moved forward for the second time in a little over a month. Last year, the 56-year-old music mogul was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He escaped more serious charges, including a racketeering charge and two sex trafficking counts. He was sentenced to 50 months in prison and fined $500,000. He was originally expected to be released in May 2028. Since then, Combs’s legal team has repeatedly challenged the conviction, claiming he was treated unfairly at trial and that the First Amendment should win his freedom. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Combs’s release date has since moved several times. Last month, his release date was moved to February 23, 2028. According to TMZ, it is now …

Coronation Street and Emmerdale moved again in ITV schedule shake-up

Coronation Street and Emmerdale moved again in ITV schedule shake-up

Ahead of Spain and France’s all-important clash in the World Cup semi-finals, Emmerdale and Coronation Street have been pulled from ITV’s schedule on Tuesday (14 July). Both shows usually air 30-minute instalments on weeknights, with Emmerdale airing at 8pm and Corrie following at 8:30pm. However, both episodes will be moved to Wednesday (15 July), it has been confirmed. Emmerdale will air at 8pm on Wednesday, while Corrie will follow afterwards at 9pm. On Tuesday, ITV will show coverage of Spain vs France from 7pm. Meanwhile, the BBC will be showing England’s semi-final match against Argentina on Wednesday. Mack looks worried as Liam, Chas and Charity chat behind him in a scene from Emmerdale ITV It’s been a big weekend for Emmerdale, as it’s been confirmed that the farm will see another high-profile exit, with Jack Downham reportedly set to depart the soap after 17 years as Noah Dingle. He has reportedly already filmed his final scenes, with a source telling the publication that Downham is “looking at the positives though and is hopeful about future opportunities. …

Why Richard Gere, George Clooney, and More Stars Have Moved Far, Far Away From Hollywood

Why Richard Gere, George Clooney, and More Stars Have Moved Far, Far Away From Hollywood

More and more celebrities are choosing to step away from the heart of the film industry, opting for a quieter life for themselves and their children, from Europe to New Zealand. Among them are Richard Gere and Alejandra Silva, who have been living permanently in Spain since 2024 but returned to the United States to celebrate the Fourth of July. For the occasion, Silva posted on Instagram, sharing a glimpse of their festive day with their sons, Alexander, 7, and James, 6. The family split their day between a boat trip and the holiday’s traditional fireworks, prompting Alejandra to reflect in her caption, “Deeply grateful for a life built between two countries, two cultures, and so many people we love. Today, we celebrate connection, family, friendship, and everything that reminds us that home is not only a place, but the people we carry in our hearts.” The actor and his wife are making the most of their new life in the La Moraleja neighborhood, just outside Madrid. As reported by Hola!, Richard Gere is often …