AI ‘Friends’ Are No Cure for Loneliness
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Our built environment is exacerbating the loneliness crisis
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Our built environment contributes to a mental health crisis. The built environment as we know it—buildings and the spaces between—does…
How Brendan Fraser Confronted His Loneliness in ‘Rental Family’ and His Warning on AI Acting: ‘It Strikes Me as a Form of Plagiarism’
Three years after his triumphant Oscar win for “The Whale,” Brendan Fraser has found his next deeply personal project in an unlikely place: Tokyo. In Hikari’s “Rental Family,” Fraser plays…
How to break the solopreneur ‘loneliness loop’
When Gabriela Flax left her corporate position managing 40 people to work on her career coaching businesses solo and moved from London to Sydney, the first thing she noticed was the…
Loneliness is rising. Here’s how to reconnect with old friends
When Jennifer Austin met Molly in second grade, they quickly became best friends. They giggled through classes until the teacher separated them, inspiring them to come up with their own…
How to deal with loneliness at work
One of the best predictors of your happiness at work is whether you have colleagues that you are close with. You don’t necessarily need to be friends with your colleagues—that is, you may…
A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
There’s real reason for caution here, starting with the idea that interactions with A.I. can be treated as genuine relationships. Oliver Burkeman exasperatedly writes that, unless you…
‘The Visitor’ Review: A Searching Lithuanian Character Study Caught Between the Peace of Solitude and the Pang of Loneliness
You can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe famously told us, and the drifting, dawdling protagonist of “The Visitor” knows it all too well. But he goes home anyway, and stays there, and…
A TikTok trend has men calling to wish their friends ‘good night.’ What does that say about male loneliness?
A new trend that’s been circulating on social media has grown men reaching out to their buddies to say “good night,” and sometimes even “sweet dreams.” The trend has taken off on TikTok…