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Ben Naddaff-Hafrey

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AI avatar Xania Monet has a hit with 'How Was I supposed to Know'. That's worrisome. Original

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By Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
| MS NOW Verified
Months ago, a musician named Xania Monet went viral on TikTok with a song called “How Was I supposed to Know?” In short videos, women in plaid shirts mouthed along to its mournful chorus under captions that read: “Pov: you found that one song that speaks for your soul.” Three-year-olds in the back seat of cars fumbled their way through its lyrics about growing up without a dad and falling in love with the wrong men. Listeners wept, alone in bathrooms.
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The Siren Myth

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By Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
| Substack
I live across from a fire station in Brooklyn. If something in my apartment caught fire, I’d be golden. But, so far, we’re flame-free. What we do have, every day, is an ungodly number of sirens. Thanks for reading From the Archive! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is just part of living in New York City.
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A Peculiar, Short-Lived Office at the Smithsonian Once Explored Reports of Bizarre Natural Phenomena

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By Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
From surprising squirrel migrations to islands popping up out of nowhere, the organization’s scientists tracked strange events as they happened Something was wrong with the squirrels of Appalachia. It was the fall of 1968, and they appeared to be making a sudden pilgrimage: attempting improbable swims across lakes, sprinting over highways and bursting into buildings.
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