Nothing worse than killing with kindness. Getting pushed out of jobs, teams, assignments, lines seems to require politeness or at least civility. In the age of Trump, you have dinner with murderers.
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US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner in honor of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister, at the White House on Tuesday.
The evening’s menu included a honeynut squash soup with cranberry relish, spiced hazelnuts and brown butter creme, followed by pistachio-crusted rack of lamb with sweet potato puree, broccoli rabe and pomegranate lemon jus.
Dessert was a couverture mousse pear with vanilla ice cream.
In a speech, Trump said US-Saudi relations have reached an all-time high, noting the enduring partnership established nearly eight decades ago between King Abdulaziz and President Roosevelt.
Guests inside the East Room included the Saudi delegation, Tesla founder Elon Musk, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.
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“if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. John 1:1 ESV
As AI slips into kitchens, conversations and memories, Thanksgiving has become a test of how much we’re willing to outsource
Tom, the turkey in Google’s new commercial, is a plush—the kind of stuffed animal you might find on a couch. To dodge Thanksgiving, he asks Google’s “AI Mode” to point him to a destination where the holiday doesn’t exist. The 30-second ad isn’t just about AI; it’s by AI—the first Google commercial made entirely with its AI-generation systems to be released on TV.
Tom may be a cartoon, but he lands close to the mood right now. This year many Thanksgiving choices—what ends up in the oven, how much families spend, how the day gets remembered—may be influenced by artificial intelligence.
I’m not talking about a few tech-savvy hosts who have ChatGPT concoct a pumpkin pie recipe. A recent survey by software company Qlik found that 54 percent of respondents said they’d used AI to help plan, prep or cook a holiday meal. Among younger adults, the number was at 58 percent, but even a quarter of baby boomers reported doing so. About a third of people said they would rely more on AI than on family members to make a grocery list for Thanksgiving. Part of the motivation is saving money—over half trusted AI to lower costs. AI can hunt for deals, compare brands and find items within a proposed budget while taking into consideration guest counts and dietary restrictions. Sometimes bots place your order online; sometimes they tell you which nearby store has the cheapest boxed stuffing.
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Though unsettling, the prospect is also an invitation. If we’re going to be written into code, we can decide what AI sees. We can let it record an optimized, robotic evening, or we can leave glitches: embarrassing toasts, typical disagreements and spontaneous jokes. That way, when future models tell us about Thanksgiving, they will respond that a successful holiday can look a little broken.
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AI turkey recipes miss key steps like brining and resting, so they still trust human expertise for a juicy, tasty bird.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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This year, those familiar patterns are breaking. Instead of sending home cooks to her decade-old, well-tested recipes, Google increasingly inserts AI-generated summaries stitched together from bits of her work and others’ that often get the basics wrong.
An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C).
“You’d end up with charcoal!” she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year.
Recipe bloggers like Gargano said it’s the first holiday season where consumers are starting to trust AI answers in search and chatbots, as well as recipe content remixed by AI, which can be hard to distinguish from the real thing. That’s not just bad for business; it’s potentially ruinous for a holiday dinner table if home cooks, inspired by pretty AI-generated photos, try recipes that turn out unappetizing or that defy the laws of chemistry. In interviews, 22 independent food creators said that AI-generated “recipe slop” is distorting nearly every way people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses while causing consumers to waste time and money.
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