Inside the Lucrative, Disturbing World of Human AI Trainers

Serhan Tekkılıç listened intently on a Zoom call as his friend on the screen recounted the first time she had ever felt sad. A 28-year-old mixed media artist, Tekkılıç had not planned on having a profound conversation that April afternoon while sitting in a coffee shop near his apartment in Istanbul, but that was the... Read More

Finance

September 7, 2025

When It Rains, It … Is ‘Terrifying’ | Lifestyle News

This time last year, Matthew Aversa was hoping for rain. He even employed rituals he’d used as a child in New England while hoping for snow: “I was putting toothpaste on my nose, and a spoon in the freezer.” Aversa, 32, runs Winding Branch Ranch, an animal sanctuary in Bulverde, Texas, an area in Texas... Read More

Lifestyle

September 7, 2025

Work Camping: What the RV Lifestyle Is Like, Advantages, Challenges

Among the many places Kathy White, 66, has called home over the last decade are Mount Rushmore, New York’s Hudson Valley, South Texas, and Kentucky. The only constant has been her 30-foot Itasca Sunstar motorhome. After White’s husband died, she didn’t have the money to take vacations, but living in her RV while traveling the... Read More

Business

September 7, 2025

What to Do If You Need a Job in the Frustrating Labor Market

Michael Moeller is exhausted from searching for a full-time job since being laid off from his director-level role in April. He said that it was “brutal” to keep getting rejection emails from companies. “But also to be quite frank, these are jobs that I don’t even remember applying to at this point either,” he added.... Read More

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