A sunny but cold start to the week as the sun rises behind lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City, Monday morning #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #sunrise

The National Park Service will cut Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from its list of free entrance days next year. Visitors will instead get free entry on President Trump’s birthday, which coincides with Flag Day.

⛮ Demand for AI fluency—the ability to use & manage AI tools—has grown sevenfold in two years. ⛮ Work in the future will be a partnership between people, agents, and robots—all powered by AI. ⛮ Most human skills will endure, though they will be applied differently. www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-rese...

Despite the new acronym, GEO is an evolution of SEO principles. By focusing on deeper metrics, optimizing for large language models, and expanding into personalized content, websites can offset a decline in page views with an increase in engagement.

∙Meta slashing it metaverse budget by 30% after Meta's Reality Labs 4.4 billion in its most recent quarter. ∙Netflix-Warner Bros. faces regulatory approval—and personal favors. ∙NYTimes sues Perplexity for unauthorized use of its content in the AI company’s LLM.

An #autumn favourite for the #SensoryArt theme #Seasons. I must have walked past this hollow, weathered limestone boulder dozens or even hundreds of times but this time there was a perfect arrangement of autumn Maple leaves in hollow. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography

Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter' recognizes 121 honorees that have successfully staked out their spot at the intersection of business and culture. From Amtrak to Crayola, from Netflix to Urban Outfitters, they prove they have a place in consumers’ lives.

Automation is disproportionately suppressing wage gains in lower-paid roles, which is contrary to narratives that AI is mostly impacting high-earning, white-collar jobs, says Revelio report. High-wage jobs continue to grow while low wage jobs are replaced by tech.

Interacting with a human—even a stranger—significantly reduces loneliness. While social media is about many connections, it lacks the high-quality conversations that reduce feelings of loneliness. AI companions provide only temporary emotional connection.

FCC strong-arms AT&T to drop DEI: 🛜 Earlier this week AT&T said it was dropping all its DEI policies 🛜 Then the FCC approved its purchase of spectrum from the former USCellular 🛜 All 3 major U.S. wireless operators have ditched their DEI

What the 1990s internet panic means for AI: ⛭ Transparency: AI needs its transparency moment ⛭ Ethics: Permission-based opt-in ⛭ Regulations (eventually): Document data sources ⛭ Bias is the new digital divide: Create better-performing campaigns

Famed color factory Pantone released its shade of the upcoming year, or perhaps more appropriately for 2026, its lack of shade.

Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index (ECI) fell 7 points to -30 in November, the lowest since a -35 reading in July 2024. Consumers' holiday spending estimate shrunk by over $200 as economic confidence edges down. Optimism about jobs is down 8 points from August. news.gallup.com/poll/699311/...

App Store Award winners for exceptional innovation, user experience and design: 🗓️ Tiimo: AI visual planner ✍🏽 Detail: AI editing tool 📑 Essayist: formatting academic papers 🗺️ Explore POV: immersive videos on Apple Vision Pro 🏃🏾‍♂️‍➡️ Strava: social network app for athletes

'Reaching out,' 'follow up,' and 'check in' are the top corporate cliché phrases people can't stop using in their work emails, says Zero Bounce analysis. Other buzzwords that won’t quit: aligned, please advise, hope you’re doing well, and circle back.

'Gemini' was Google’s top trending search in 2025, followed by 'India vs England' and 'Charlie Kirk.' Check out most searched movies, sports and more. This is NOT most popular search which would include terms like 'weather,' but rather topics that had a search spike.

The Red Ornaments on 50th St at Sixth Avenue are so beautiful! New York City

This year's global top artist on Spotify is Bad Bunny! To celebrate, Spotify created a congratulatory video and will host experiences for fans in locations including Bogota, Madrid, and his home of Puerto Rico. https://bit.ly/441JSVF

"We’re seeing a labor market that’s stabilizing around new priorities: flexibility, fit and the kind of skilled work that can’t be automated," said HireQuest CEO Rick Hermanns in a new 2026 US labor survey. Construction, healthcare and life sciences plan new hires.

59% of U.S. adults say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to Pew Research. 63% say the changes in CDC vaccine recommendations have no influence on their decision whether to get an updated vaccine.

Onboarding process to help external hires add value quickly: →Schedule new hire to meet key stakeholders to establish expectations →Teach about your culture & history explicitly →Prioritize projects for new hires to work across the organization, and more

Costco is going to court to demand refunds on the tariffs they’ve paid after the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Trump’s import taxes are illegal. Those cases are now before the Supreme Court although a decision could take months.

Rest in peace to a San Francisco legend, Claude the albino alligator 🐊🤍

By 2035, data centers will draw 106 gigawatts, up from the 40 gigawatts today, says ne BloombergNEF report. That's nearly triple the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade as AI use grows to nearly 40% of total data center compute.

74% of workers said being interviewed by an AI agent would change their perception of the company, with 37% saying it’s “impersonal” and 23% saying it’s “innovative,” according to SHL, a talent insight firm. 59% said they believe AI is making bias worse, not better.

Social Media Trends for 2026: ◘ AI-Driven Content Creation and Personalization ◘ Search Becoming the New Social Battleground ◘ Unpolished, Real-Time Content ◘ Algorithm-Resistant Content Strategies ◘ Private, Closed, and Micro-Communities, and more

After Black Friday, Small Biz Saturday and Cyber Monday, the season of giving turns to nonprofit groups on Giving Tuesday. Some nonprofits are leveraging "matching gifts" meaning for every dollar raised today, a foundation or individual will doubling your impact.

Woah, clouds turned into a red sea serpent.

People are generally more willing to give their time to local charities because doing so makes them feel like they are making a more-personal contribution. Nonprofit orgs and social marketers need to highlight the actual impact of cash donations. insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when...!

63% of of Americans are highly confident that childhood vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness, says Pew Research. And majorities say these vaccines protect both vaccinated children (69%) and the wider community (65%).

Global consumer wellness market has reached $2 trillion per year, says McKinsey’s Future of Wellness report. 84% of US consumers consider wellness a top priority including fitness, weight management, healthy aging, women’s health, and sleep. www.mckinsey.com/featured-ins...

Resilience is a training ground for steadiness that teaches you to command calm within, and that ability becomes the anchor consistency, empathy and clarity: ◦ Practice adaptability in small ways ◦ Build habits that ground you ◦ Recognize pivots as opportunities

Rage bait (n) Online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account.

The beautiful Christmas Tree at the Bloomberg Building on 59th St Between Lexington and 3rd Ave. Across the street from Bloomingdale's on 59th 🎄 New York City

With 'Mass Blackout' and 'We Ain’t Buying It' protests big-box stores Black Friday to Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday brings the focus back to local shops and service providers while staying off ad-driven platforms and logging off entertainment platforms.

Honoring the spirit of National American Indian Heritage Month year round: 🪶Ask employees preferred identities such as Indigenous, Native, First Nations and more 🪶Let go of assumptions like all Indigenous live on reservations 🪶Learn more about Indigenous histories

AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini prioritize current info differently than traditional search. Content, backlinks and dats sources now needs updates every 6 to 12 weeks to stay visible. Updates need to be built into production schedules.

Digital transformation like AI requires employee engagement: ⛮ Start with pilot programs that prove value ⛮ Build dedicated deployment teams ⛮ Address the human side early and often ⛮ Adjust organizational processes ⛮ Aim for 85% adoption before expanding

New balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #macysparade

Thursday thoughts! 🦃🧡

"We are reclaiming our power. We are redirecting our spending," said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, one of the grassroots orgs calling for big store boycotts from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, instead supporting small businesses on Nov 29.

"Having a plan for what you’re going to do with anything that’s not able to be eaten is going to be really critical to reducing those kind of end-of-life emissions on food that you couldn’t eat," aid Yvette Cabrera of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

#TBT 2018: "I closed the poem with, ‘America, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in,’ because I believe that we can be healed," says poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, who is of mixed Native American heritage, about Pilgrims, the Wampanoag tribe and the Thanksgiving myths

"I think words do have that power, that they can actually influence action," says Emily Brewster at Merriam-Webster of words like 'Friendsgiving.' The dictionary tracked the term in 2007 but it's roots may go back to 1973's Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and 1990s Friends.

✨🎈Tonight's the night! The Macy’s balloons are inflating into giants, from their sleepy flat selves to the giants you know and love. First started as a private overnight prep back in the 1930s, the public-facing "Inflation" show opened in 1994, and now it kicks off (in 2025) from 1-6 PM.

Wishing you and yours a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving. I appreciate all of you who follow my work on a daily basis. My hope is it brings some happiness into your day. Enjoy the holiday.

Every family—and every region across the country—does Thanksgiving a little differently. The popularity of each side dish really depends on personal preference—but also location. From deviled eggs to sweet potato pie, the most searched side dishes by state.

The Wampanoag, who shared food with the Pilgrims in 1621, celebrated the cranberry harvest and similar feasts long before Columbus sailed and Pilgrims landed. Cahokians celebrated a harvest feast five centuries before the Pilgrims’ thanksgiving meal. theconversation.com/how-the-plym...

This year Walmart’s meal basket costs 25% less than last year because the 2025 offer has 15 fewer items and different products including store brands instead of popular name brands. Target’s four-person meal substitutes canned goods instead of fresh options.