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Amid a Slowing Economy, Some Companies Have Been Dropping DEI Jobs; The Quest to Create the Next ‘Wordle’; Linear TV Viewing Drops Below 50% of US TV Usage for First Time; On TikTok, Movie Critics Go By Any Other Name; Times Obituary Writer Damian Arnold on How to Make a Living Out of Death

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Rebrand is off to a Rocky Start; Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles; Let’s All Start Leaving Voicemails Again!; Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth; The ‘Lazy-Girl’ Job Is In Right Now. Here’s Why

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