These gift ideas will make everyone say, “Where’d you find that?”

🖼️ Digital picture frame (31% off): Send vacation photos from your phone straight to the grandparents’ living room.

Heated throw blanket (20% off): Ten heat settings, machine washable and safely turns off automatically.

😌 Shower steamers (18% off, 15-pack): Drop one in and enjoy up to 20 minutes of fizzling essential oils.

Dog puzzle toy (33% off): Fill it with treats and watch your pup burn energy while brain-training. Works for any size dog.

🪐 Gskyer telescope (40% off): A perfect starter scope. Hook up your phone, snap some stellar pics and flex on Instagram.

📦 Ditch the e-card: When in doubt, an Amazon physical gift card wrapped in a box feels special, not just another email. 
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🚨 Gmail scam spreading: This is frightening. Watch out for fake Gmail account recovery request notifications that look like the real deal. Hackers try to convince you to sign in through a phony login page, where they can then capture your password. Ignore or decline the request, and they’ll follow up with an AI-generated Google support call in which the caller claims someone has accessed your account and stolen your data. Ignore that, too. Pass this on, so everyone knows this is happening.
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“Hey, Kim, This isn’t tech. I’m the one keeping the peace, at work, at home, with friends. I smooth things over and manage everyone’s moods. It’s exhausting, but if I stop, I’m scared everything unravels. What should I do?” — Megan from Cincinnati 

Welcome to the unpaid role of feelings manager, Megan. It comes with built-in burnout, festering resentment and the creeping illusion that if you stop functioning, everything (and everyone) will fall apart. You’re the glue. Except where’s your support?

🤖 Help for the empathy bottleneck

AI can help you stop running your nervous system like a 24/7 conflict resolution hotline and get some space back by automating the hard part, i.e., how to have your say. Here are ideas for you to use with ChatGPT or your favorite chatbot.

Generate de-escalation scripts, responses that untangle defensiveness without defaulting to apology theater.

“Write me a text that acknowledges their frustration but doesn’t end with me groveling.”

“Give me three responses that don’t sound like I’m rolling over.”

Build conversation openers that don’t snowball into 40-minute emotional triage sessions.

“Suggest a way to check in that won’t lead to me fixing their problems.”

“Give me a neutral opener that keeps the conversation light, not loaded.”

Help people feel heard: Summarize their thoughts, so you properly touch base on what they feel.

“Rewrite their long rant into three clear points I can respond to.”

“How do I mirror what they’re saying without making promises I can’t keep?”

🛟 Choosing rest over rescue

AI isn’t a hall pass to shirk personal responsibility, but it does help carry the mental parts of the emotional labor load. Think of it as an infinitely patient rehearsal partner for your least favorite dynamic.

I used ChatGPT to write a text to my son explaining why even though he works for me, it’s important to get to work on time. I forgot we share a paid ChatGPT account. Well, a few minutes after I sent it, my son called. “Mom, I can’t believe you used Chat for that text.” I told him, “Sometimes I come across too hard, so I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen.” It worked.

Have you ever used AI to calm down an emotional situation? Tell me about it here!

💁‍♀️ Use the icons below to help others use a chatbot in a way they may have never thought of before. 
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Title theft is rising: Crooks can steal your home or equity in minutes with only a forged signature. I trust Home Title Lock to protect my property. Right now, get a FREE Title History Report plus a 14-day trial.   
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💾 Free up space on Windows: Low on storage? Clear out temporary files. Go to Settings > System > Storage > Temporary files, check what you don’t need, then hit Remove files. You might gain back a few gigabytes. FYI: Look inside your Downloads folder first. There might be something important in there.
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📵 Manage blocked contacts on iPhone: In iOS 26, blocked numbers and emails are in a new area. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Blocked Contacts to see your full list. Tap any name to unblock, or hit Add Blocked Contact to manually type in a phone number or email address.
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🪐 Out of this world: NASA confirmed its 6,000th planet beyond our solar system. Lava worlds, Jupiter-size gas giants and even double-sun planets are straight out of Star Wars. Another 8,000 are waiting in line, and scientists think that within a decade, we’ll spot Earth-like worlds that could support life. Who knows, maybe even one with a Chili’s.
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📦 Don’t let old gadgets collect dust: Amazon will happily take your old tablets, phones and smart speakers off your hands. Tell them the condition, and you’ll get a gift card in return. Sweetener? Trade in Amazon gear like a Ring Camera and score 20% off a new device. Hoarding problem solved.
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☢️ Watts up? OpenAI locked in a deal with Nvidia to build AI infrastructure running on 10 gigawatts of GPUs. That’s about 10 nuclear reactors. Nvidia’s dropping up to $100B on the project going live in 2026.
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Sell your data: A startup called Vana wants you to treat your personal data (Spotify plays, Netflix binges, LinkedIn stalking) as an asset you actually own. Their app acts like a wallet where you pool it with others, license it for AI training and get a cut. I say pass on this one.
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