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Aisha Sultan | Post-Dispatch Columnist and features writer Author email Follow Aisha Sultan | Post-Dispatch Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today Related to this story Most Popular Sultan: Waking up an O'Fallon, Mo., neighborhood for a wedding celebration Jaggo literally means to 鈥渨ake up,鈥 and the event is meant to wake up the neighbors to let them know a wedding is coming up and to spread joy … Sultan: Meta shuts down some Facebook accounts, ruining businesses and lives A growing number of people are taking Meta to small claims court to try to recoup losses and their accounts.聽 Sultan: I wore a continuous glucose monitor for a month. 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Sultan: Waking up an O'Fallon, Mo., neighborhood for a wedding celebration Jaggo literally means to 鈥渨ake up,鈥 and the event is meant to wake up the neighbors to let them know a wedding is coming up and to spread joy …
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Sultan: I wore a continuous glucose monitor for a month. This is what I learned. There are some things you may not want to know about your body.
Sultan: Your teen鈥檚 AI chatbot buddy can be very dangerous With the emergence of AI chatbots, parents should worry if their children are being seduced by dangerous computer programs.
