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o celebrities use social media the way the rest of us do — marvelling at colleagues’ abs, replying to every single Instagram story after two glasses of wine, looking at unaffordable kitchens — or do they know, like Oppenheimer in the desert, precisely what effect their pressing that “like” button might have?

Jennifer Lopez has this week created just as much silent white heat online as at Los Alamos by liking on Instagram — that is, selecting the heart icon beneath an image to indicate you enjoyed looking at it/fervently identify ideologically with it/are friends with or pity the person who put it up — a post from a relationship coach named Lenna Marsak.

“You cannot build a healthy relationship with someone,” her slides declare,

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