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Most of the thirtysomethings I know who got into TikTok this year did so for a specific reason: As the short-form video app’s cultural imprint has grown enormously during the coronavirus crisis, they wanted to understand Gen Zers and their obsession with it. Points of discussion: Why all the dancing? What’s the deal with Kellyanne Conway’s daughter? Why the constant roasting of their millennial elders? Jon Ossoff, 33, also joined Tiktok this year, also for a specific reason. But it wasn’t to figure out who Charli D’Amelio is. It was to run for Senate. Advertisement Ossoff, the Democ...

 for the full episode. The problem with trying to understand the massive data breach the United States is dealing with at the moment is that the list of agencies and industries that have been affected just keeps growing. There are Fortune 500 companies, places like Microsoft and Cisco. Then there are state and federal governments: the city of Austin, Texas, the U.S. nuclear weapons agency, the Department of Homeland Security. And Slate’s Fred Kaplan says that right now, all of these places have a bunch of workers scouring their back-end systems, looking for clues. They are looking for sig...

 is a series of dispatches exploring the rollout of COVID-19 immunizations. I got my Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 18—a date I think I’ll remember forever—at a clinic with rooms full of balloons. When I got home, I opened a bottle of Champagne. But perhaps a Negroni would have been a more appropriate celebratory drink. The occasion is historic but also bittersweet. The day I was vaccinated, America saw a record high of hospitalizations, with deaths continuing to climb. The numbers in our communities will not fall because health care workers like me are getting vaccinated, since we a...

Dear How to Do It, I’m a married woman. I had a three-month affair with an old boyfriend, “Jim,” that ended abruptly two weeks ago when I got an email from a friend saying “Check this out!” with a link to CNN. I clicked and a page with a video player showing a picture of the guest bedroom in my house opened. Huh? I later noticed my friend’s email name had an 8 changed to a 3, and the CNN link was actually a hypertext link to IPaddress/myname. I clicked play and a message popped up: “I know you’re watching.” I had a full-blown panic attack as I watched a 53-minute hi-res clea...

Dear Care and Feeding, I need some advice about COVID and blended families with custody agreements. I hope this isn’t too confusing and that you can help us. House 1 and House 2 share Kid 1. House 2 and House 3 share Kid 2. House 2 has primary custody of Kid 1 and Kid 2. Kid 1 and Kid 2 are doing remote learning at an attendance-limited day camp because the parents in House 2 are health care workers. The parent in House 3 is in law enforcement. Kid 1 switches between House 1 and House 2 every two weeks. Kid 2 is at House 3 on holidays, school breaks, and some weekends. House 1 and House 3 h...