* Walmart Customers Who Use AI Shopping Assistant Have Average Order Value 35% Higher Than Non-Users, CEO Says (via DJ) #$WMT

Last month, I read The Power Broker, learned some tremendous facts, rode to the end of four subway lines, and saw New York in a new light. Wish I’d had a way to map it all out & learn more, so I made one. Try it: robertmosesmap.com

Barrel leg jeans are a warning sign on the gradual taper back to skinny jeans. We are in the waning gibbous phase of the pants cycle

The niche but valuable “Tepper Isn’t Going Out” constituency

“I’m not screaming, ‘aliens!’” said Nikole Lewis, an exoplanetary scientist at Cornell University. “But I always reserve my right to scream ‘aliens!’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Nice speech from @booker.senate.gov but could you not have filibustered this???

Keeping a list of good news & amazing developments

Thought @kevinxu.bsky.social's breakdown of Deepseek was the best starting point (and three weeks before the discourse, that's alpha) interconnect.substack.com/p/deepseeks-...

chart of the (last) decade h/t @marcruby.bsky.social

No mincing words in the attention economy!