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I was making dinner one night last week. I asked Alexa to play some news radio. Instead of going to a ‘just the facts’ station, I ended up listening to pundits discussing the events of the day. I turned it off when my husband got home so we could enjoy a nice meal, review the minutiae of our respective days and ask if the other had seen the funny meme we’d sent. You know, empty-nester stuff. After dinner, we made our way into the den. Sitting quietly, watching TV, I beg