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Have we learned nothing from the Great Leap Forward?

Cranford rose garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden: walked around smelling the roses, as one is told to do. Less than one in ten roses satisfied.

Summer in the city

Top of the line hazmat emergency response vehicle from the top of the line hazmat management company. The placard marked with UN 3082 warns emergency responders of potential dangers to aquatic systems and human health.

Measuring surface temperatures in addition to air temps expands our understanding of hot weather. "The thermal camera recorded temperatures just about 40C on her face - but as it moved closer to the ground, it read 51.4C, climbing to 57C just a few inches away." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Greenwich Village crowd noises shortly after the Knicks won their first NBA title since 1973 with a 94-90 victory over the Spurs. Well behaved crowds, at least for now.

At a party, four young African American women, in office attire, take turns surprising each other by admitting to having recently received professional coaching in chess, not to bring them to tournament levels, but “for the love of the game.”

Crowd-control barricades being heaved across the ave while a police helicopter hovers overhead, accompanied by incessant screaming & honking -- mark the conclusion of the Knicks most recent playoff victory. Here come the woo girls — all screaming in tune — straight out of an Ancient Greek tragedy.

THESAURUS: Here, a bunch of words you might use GOOGLE AI SUMMARY: You're seeking help: that's awesome. Words don't always come to us right away! Now, the word you'll want to choose depends on what you're writing, and there are many things you could be writing. Maybe you're writing a suicide note.

TIL that Melville Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was a passionate advocate of Simplified Spelling — so much that he used it in his own guide to the system (signing himself as "Melvil").

The brand? Attitude

When she was 15-16 and needed money, Jen would take the train into NYC and head straight here to Washington Square, where men would line up to try and impress her. She could make $800 an afternoon. IDK who these people are.

How people are adapting to prolonged heat in Northern India serve as a warning for all of us: www.bbc.com/news/article...

A batch of tourists on snazzy motorcycles arriving in Vermont on the ferry from Fort Ticonderoga. Hundreds are crossing today, mostly retired men, some with a partner. Founded in 1759 and surviving two wars, the Fort Ti ferry is the oldest business in Vermont.

Relying on an anthropomorphized chatbot for social fulfillment can leave someone poorly prepared for social interactions IRL where one's every utterance isn't met with approval.

Bookstore in Vermont

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

“TikTok has replaced television,” an advertising executive tells his client.

A lot of grocery store nacho cheese containers say “DO NOT MICROWAVE IN THIS CONTAINER. DO NOT DO THAT” and they can say that as much as they want but I don’t think they’ve grappled with how little the average grocery store nacho cheese enthusiast has to lose

Excellent! Your lordship’s a goodly villain.

What drives people to spend more than half an hour in line, snaking around the block on a hot Sunday evening? Greek frozen yogurt! The people spooning it out must be exhausted. How to describe the expression on the face of the woman on the far left, contemplating her yogurt?

Mexican dance troupes dominate the Manhattan Dance Parade today.

In Soviet Manhattan the party comes to you. It's been this way since that new guy took office. 1/

Office workers unwinding in a party bus, cruising through the Meatpacking District.

Cooper Union

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

The tools at grails.com/tools include one for phonetic weight. Here are results for a variant of cellar door. Wikipedia hails cellar door as the most beautiful word in English, but it lacks portability and utility. Hence the coining of the variation assessed here.

"Presence is the new luxury" Man and woman, obviously on a date, enter a photo booth with their credit cards out, in the West Village.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

Say Hello to the Internet of AI, by Om Malik. He forsees hyperscalers being the ultimate winners, not the telcos, who’re pushing an edge layer, which only makes sense for physical AI, i.e., robots and robot cars. Examines the huge increase in demand for new undersea cables. om.co/2026/05/04/s...

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Beeple on his new show: “In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world. “Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see.” apnews.com/article/germ...

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Turdus migratorius -- an American robin, on the shore of the lake in Central Park.

'It’s 1957. Three years have passed since Diego Rivera lost his wife, artist Frida Kahlo. But on the Day of the Dead, he’ll beg her to return—and the underworld will grant his wish." In June the San Francisco Opera restages El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego. Moma has a tie-in exhibition in NYC.

Waymos have been released onto NYC streets.

In the wilds of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where few people own cars.

Wimsatt & Beardsley in their essay The Intentional Fallacy argue that "the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art". At the Whitney Biennial. 1/

Trending: baddie noun: a confident, stylish, and attractive woman A positive reclamation of the word. Used in a positive, complimentary, often celebratory sense. Usage originates in African American English slang. www.merriam-webster.com/slang/baddie

Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker concealed in a postcard. Journalist tracked HNLMS Evertsen, a Dutch air-defense frigate deployed to help protect France’s aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle against missile threats. www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/d...

$50 million in federal funds will be used to make psilocybin and ibogaine more available to treat mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. www.knkx.org/2026-04-18/t...

My friend Ish is holding PredictionConference.com He lives in the future. You can too.

View from the negotiation room in the Serena. The media are down in the convention center. Via carbonbuns

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They’re calling it the most surprising Persian victory since the Emperor Valerian was captured during the Battle of Edessa by Shapur I