There’s an amulet (one of those glowing doohickeys the fate of the cosmos hangs on), and your heart may sink every time someone starts chattering about it.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 May 2026
Sharp objects like scissors and needles or amulets should be carried by pregnant women or placed near sleeping children to ward off her attacks.
But Thiel isn’t just one more investor with a Tolkien fetish.
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Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
26 May 2026
Various nemeses and side characters enter the fray, from Jim’s archenemy (and also Insta-famous) Pavel to the scally with a sneaker-sniffing fetish who guides Jim and Lucien to their next destination.
There are few players in world football better suited to the Wirtz role than Cole Palmer, even if Chelsea’s talisman has struggled to find his best form this season.
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Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
In the dying days of the Russian Empire, highborn ladies would willingly cut the dirty fingernails of the peasant Grigori Rasputin and then sew the clippings onto their dresses like sacred talismans.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang recently suggested (registration required) that an engineer earning $500,000 should be using $250,000 in AI tokens annually.
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Anand Murugan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Just nine wallets accounted for roughly half of all UMA tokens that have voted on a Polymarket resolution over the past three years, the Bloomberg analysis found.
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