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Too many workplaces still encourage a culture of ‘stress-bragging’ and pretending to be busy. Workers feel a lot of pressure to prove that they’re productive, but research shows that “performative busyness” and “stress-bragging” can be damaging in the long run. 

The best way to ensure your photos and other data isn’t part of Meta’s AI efforts? Not posting. If you’ve scrolled through Instagram lately, you’ve likely come across an odd message in people’s feeds. Stories and posts are popping up, declaring that those users, not Instagram, own the copyright to all images and posts (past, present, and future).

Dr. Cynthia Sweet has been a veterinarian for about eight years and loves her work, but is clear that the job is not just “playing with puppies and kittens all day.” Sweet has been on the staff at the Belcaro Animal Hospital in Denver for four years after moving to Colorado from Wisconsin.

Julie Baxter just faced the most agonizing decision a person with pets can face: whether to euthanize an ailing animal in the face of the overwhelming desire to keep a beloved companion alive. Baxter’s pain was made all the more acute as she and her partner wrestled with wanting to do all they could for their dog Roscoe, while realizing there was a limit to how much they could spend on tests and hospital stays.

These restrictions are affecting how young people think about voting, where they should choose to live, study and work, and how to control their fertility. Adolescence and young adulthood is a time of identity formation, when young people figure out who they are and who they want to be. One of the ways they do this is by considering the world around them, paying attention to social issues and starting to understand their society and their place in it.

A new study from talent agency UTA says creatives are increasingly using AI in their work, even while their feelings about it are mixed. Joe Kessler thinks AI is at an inflection point. As the global head United Talent Agency‘s research, data and strategy arm called UTA IQ, he believes the technology is past the point of inevitability—and he has the research to back it up.