Chile! Plies has never been shy about turning everyday moments into viral humor, and his latest post had social media cracking up once again. Let’s just say, he casually threw out a very specific “job opening” that caught fans off guard. And fans seem to think he’s shooting his shot aimed at Stefon Diggs’ former…
Quantum computing startup Nord Quantique has achieved so-called unicorn status, securing a $1.4-billion USD ($1.9-billion CAD) valuation. First reported by The Globe and Mail on Thursday, the Sherbrooke, Qué.-based company raised $30 million USD earlier this spring from investment giant Fidelity. BetaKit has confirmed the size of the valuation, and the funding, with multiple sources…
by Jennifer Murphy and Freya Prentice: Most people are familiar with the five senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste), but not everyone knows that we have an additional sense called interception… This is the sense of our body’s internal state. It helps us feel and interpret internal signals that regulate vital functions in our…
Kevin Warsh has been confirmed by the US Senate as chair of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful roles in the federal government that holds enormous sway over the economy. At a 54-45 Senate vote it was most divisive confirmation vote for the position in history. He will officially step into the…
Editor’s Note: There’s something magical about a home that truly reflects its owner—a space that feels deeply personal, rooted in memory, and in harmony with its surroundings. That’s exactly the feeling you get stepping into Lily Riesenfeld’s thoughtfully curated home, featured in Sense of Place, a stunning book by my dear friend Caitlin Flemming and…
Chiron moving into Taurus on June 19th to stay until 2033 will shift the culture though in subtle ways which may not be immediately obvious. The recent Chiron in Aries since 2018 would turn a focus on problems of identity with a compensatory emphasis/over-emphasis on “I am”. Which fits both Donald Trump in…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from doing everything right. The career is advancing, the goals are being ticked off, and the productivity is real. And yet something feels off, or hollow, or impossible to name. Modern culture tends to treat this as ingratitude or a failure…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Two years ago, Molly Kelley found out that a close family friend had used a nudification website to make nonconsensual deepfake images of her and dozens of other women. About 80 women in Minnesota were affected by the same person. When she tried to figure out what legal recourse…
“Sometimes walking away is the only way to stop walking away from yourself.” ~Unknown I was between sessions. My TV was on in the background—something I’d half-started watching called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu—as I walked into the kitchen to make myself some lunch. It’s about a group of Mormon wives who…
Nature You are a part of nature as nature is a part of you. You were born to be together, to help each other. Nature was created to be the balance for you in this incarnation – to help clean the air through the presence of trees, to provide water to drink and cleanse oneself,…
