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Fashion designer Jeremy Scott gave the commencement address at the Kansas City Art Institute's graduation ceremony. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for SpoiledChild Jeremy Scott gave the commencement address at the Kansas City Art Institute this month. Students cheered for Scott when he ripped up his AI-written speech. Graduates have booed and heckled commencement speakers over their remarks about AI. Jeremy Scott's speech at a college graduation ceremony began with an AI-written speech, which could have ended in boos. Instead, the fashion designer received roaring applause. Scott's commencement address at the Kansas City Art Institute on May 16 began predictably. He congratulated students on reaching the "threshold of a new beginning." He said their "power is limitless." "Sounds kind of cliched, right? Doesn't sound authentic, does it? Sounds like you've heard it before, right? It's because it's AI," he revealed. Then, Scott ripped...

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The author lives with her daughter and her family in a farm in Oregon. Courtesy of the author My husband and I retired to our Oregon farm full time. We now share the farmhouse with our daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Multi-generational living has brought both chaos and deep joy. My husband and I bought our farm in Banks, Oregon, 25 miles outside Portland, in 2017. From the start, we dreamed of retiring there and envisioned multiple generations of our family living on the property. We had plenty of room with acreage, a four-bedroom farmhouse , and a barn. My daughter Maria and her husband Stephen moved to the farm where she ran her horse business while my husband Scot and I lived in Montana, following a job for him. Retirement took longer than we planned. And we never envisioned living in a multigenerational home . My daughter paid us rent We longed for the ease of country living and wanted to help our daughter launch her business: training horses, teaching people to ride, and car...

I've learned that most missteps happen during small moments during the cooking process. 10'000 Hours/Getty Images As a trained chef , I believe the key to cooking a great meal is following the kitchen basics. Resting protein at room temperature before and after cooking it improves the texture and flavor. Without properly preheating a pan or oven, a dish is doomed before it ever hits heat. Most cooking disasters don't result from botching fancy techniques, and I say that as someone who graduated from a top Parisian culinary institute and has over 30 years of professional cooking experience. In truth, it's small, inconspicuous habits that sabotage most dishes. I believe that excellent cooking isn't about mastering complicated techniques or buying expensive ingredients . It's about paying attention to kitchen fundamentals and respecting the cooking process. Fixing these common missteps, which I see repeatedly from cooks of all levels, can make a noticeable differe...

I moved from the Boston area to the Hudson Valley in New York. Lindsey Danis After years of living in the Boston area , I found myself becoming increasingly burned out. Moving to upstate New York has been good for me and my wallet, and I love being close to nature. Although I miss a few things about where I lived before, I'm glad I made the move. Growing up outside Boston, I loved the city's arts and culture scene. Spending weekends in bookstores and thrift shops, hunting for unique vintage clothes , made me feel cosmopolitan — worlds away from my homogenous suburb. As a queer kid, that was a lifeline. In fact, I loved this energy so much that I eventually decided to move to big cities like New York and San Francisco, before settling closer to the heart of Boston. However, the older I got, the more I started to see things differently. Between the high cost of living and Boston's aggressive drivers, I found myself becoming increasingly anxious and burned out by my life there...

Benoit Tessier/Reuters The SEC is working on a framework to allow for 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks. Stock tokens would track the price of actual shares, offering more liquidity and faster settlement. The idea offers some advantages for traders, but there are risks, market pros say. A plan in the works from the Securities and Exchange Commission could reshape stock trading in the US. Bloomberg reported this week that the SEC is gearing up to let investors trade tokenized stocks , issuing an "innovation exemption" for the cryto-like assets that would create a new 24/7 market that's parallel to the existing stock market. So, what's that mean exactly, and what should investors know? "An example could be a tokenized version of Apple or Nvidia would be a blockchain-based asset designed to track or represent the underlying stock," Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum Equities, told Business Insider. Crypto enthusiasts have said any real-world asse...