In Case You Missed It: 9 Links for Friday, August 23

1. 109 perfect conversation starters for every occasion, including “What is the most disgusting thing you’ve ever eaten by accident?”

2. Kelly Rutherford is in her Birkin Mom Era

3. How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

4. Rabbit hole alert: I spent way too much time looking up various people on this “fame ranking”

5. Very, very relatable!

6. “We are making duck! We are making duck!”

7. Disturbing: Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld goes head to head with Chat GPT to write a beach read—can you tell which story the robot wrote?!

8. The fascinating backstory of the woman who inspired her son to cast the critical vote for American women’s right to vote

9. Here's an explainer as to why your teenagers are suddenly so interested in being “demure”