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Heineken’s “boring” app promises better nights out, rice perfumes rise with scents like “steam from a rice cooker hitting my face as I lift the lid,” and Stanford reveals that filmwatchinh boost empathy in surprising ways. Here's your weekly dose of COPY PASTE, a zeitgeist-newsletter on things curated from the web by creative agency ABBY.WORLD.

• Daze: the Next-Gen iMessege [techcrunch] a freestyle messaging app.
• Humanoid art [hypebeast] up for auction at Sotheby's. 
• Heineken turns any phone ‘boring’ to encourage IRL connection [marketingdive]. Boredom is good. 
• Anthropic takes over your computer [wired]. A helping hand anyone? 
• Watching a movie can rewire our brains [hollywoodreporter] says new research.
• Goop chairs, Gucci wallpaper, Taylor Swift [wsj]. Gen Alpha is shaping parents' interior design. 
• Enter perfumery’s new favorite note: rice. [highsnobiety]. Tasty.