I have questions.

"The Great Moment," by Paul Calle, a painting depicting Neil Armstrong first stepping on the moon. The composition, with so much empty space, was almost dizzying to see in person. At the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

A disc-free PlayStation might be inevitable. But it comes at a moment when gamers are paying more, losing ownership and trust the industry less than ever

It's impossible to call Weird Al Yankovic just plain "Al Yankovic." Try it. Your mind will absolutely rebel. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Thirty-eight journalists have died on the job while gathering news for The Associated Press over the years. Thursday marks the 150th anniversary of the very first: Mark Kellogg, one of five civilians killed alongside Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

...Princeton, but filmed in Montreal. Finally, a TV show where I can be snobby and say things like, "That's not Nassau Street" and "Morven isn't even close to the D&R Canal."

So a democracy asks people to accept the conceptual benefits of living in a self-governing republic, under duly elected authority... in return for giving up actual tangible benefits of perfect personal freedom. And as we have seen, many are not willing to make that trade.

Hey, I know that guy!

oh my god

FIFA said

“It’s the biggest public offering ever, helmed by a onetime close ally of the president, who with his DOGE efforts had involvement with virtually every administrative agency in the federal government. “Historically, there are no analogs.” *GIFT LINK*

Institute Woods in Princeton, NJ #seenonmyrun

The four words on which more money has been lost than on any other phrase? ‘This time is different’

My own 50th anniversary will be celebrated in July 2026. Musicians from the 1990s, DMs are open.

“Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: ‘I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.’”

Um… yes please. How about it @netflix.com

Rebuttal to the text image: The fuck I am (ALT for the text image: A fellow asserting anyone who is a working writer these days is using "AI" because it is both seductive and valuable)

I just know him as the composer of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. But, then, I'm almost 50.

Portrait of a dog who, just days after being skunked within an inch of her life, decided to run off to the neighbor's stalls and absolutely coat herself in horse shit, no, she's not allowed back into the house like this, her sentence is AN EXTREMELY COLD HOSE SHOWER to get clean, summarily executed.

How in the world do I keep working today after reading this? www.expressnews.com/news/texas/a...

I double-checked it myself. It's an actual post.

I have regression tested (made sure new stuff didn't break the old stuff) the same software god knows how many times over the years. Why? Because figuring everything is fine is how things break. In other words, don't👏trust👏AI.

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters delivered a blunt message on the future of the bank’s workforce, warning that a push into artificial intelligence will eliminate thousands of roles as the lender replaces “lower-value human capital” with technology bloom.bg/4wCnbEb 📷️: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

“I’m baffled,” said Eric Diton, president [...] at The Wealth Alliance. “In the 40-plus years of my time on Wall Street, this is an unusual amount of trading by any standards.” “We’d need to see the actual trades to try and understand why anyone would want to do that much trading." *gift link*

California startup Atoco gave Bloomberg an exclusive demo of the commercial prototype of its atmospheric water harvester, tech that won its founder a 2025 Nobel. The machine adsorbs H2O molecules from air to produce water and can run just on sunlight. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Marines with medical conditions requiring shaving exemptions will be evaluated for possible separation if they cannot meet grooming standards within 12 months. Learn more: www.stripes.com/branches/mar... #Flashes

"For some speculators, bets on Trump-linked crypto ventures have ended in steep losses. Prices of WLFI and the Trump memecoins — not to mention shares of Trump Media or American Bitcoin Corp. — have all fallen sharply over the past year." *gift link*

First thought: I can only imagine having visited so many places that I need the heavens to tell me where to go next. Second: Wonder what Gen X thinks of this? *gift link*

Philadelphia is America's Greatest City

As the world’s wealthy gathered in displays of money and influence this week, an underlying tension simmered: the anti-rich sentiment sweeping the country and the billionaires trying to fight against it

JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Bloomberg News has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for “trAPPed,” a graphic novel depicting the trials of a woman in India held under “digital arrest” as part of a widespread and ruinous scam

Biased AI platforms are hard to catch, partly because they've been trained to have a friendly face. That digital smile, however, disguises the prejudice behind it

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.

Ice cream scoop SCOOP > Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has hire the former head of Ben & Jerry’s, David Stever, to be its new CEO. Ben & Jerry’s said Stever was fired by parent company Unilever over tensions about left-leaning social activism. By Kristina Peterson > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An important law that authorizes government surveillance is up for renewal, but @Congress needs to close some loopholes first

Connie Ballmer, a one-time NPR foundation trustee and the wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is donating $80 million in a record gift from a living donor, the news organization said Thursday in a statement

Detective Comics by Grant, Breyfogle & Mitchell and Batman written by several people but all with art by Aparo & DeCarlo. Such different looks, but both classic.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Immediately following the order, the university said it plans to file an appeal due to "privacy and First amendment concerns." 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4m46VXq

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

What I learned reading the 1866 Congressional debates about the citizenship clause. From last year, but I just made a gift link because (1) it's topical and (2) gotta use all those gift links by the end of the month. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nice headline. www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

A subscriber considers cancelling after increase in clickbait headlines.

So it's not just me thinking this. (Gift link.)

It’s a long interview but read the whole thing because you gotta see this whole conversation where Patel is like people fucking hate AI because it only takes and provides nothing useful and Grammarly is like that’s your opinion.

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱