gossip
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At Least Robots Won’t Gossip About The Embarrassing Data They Collect About Us
Many TV shows have a scene where a customer attempts to buy a potentially embarrassing product – a pornographic magazine perhaps or a diarrhoea treatment – only to have the assistant loudly check the price or ask questions for other people to hear. Situations like this do happen in pharmacies and other shops. And they…
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How Gossip Saves Society
Everybody loves to talk about other people. It’s human nature. But our society seems to stigmatise gossip, branding it as common, rude and just a little bit shameful. Turns out, though, it’s not all bad.