wrote more in depth about the death of Sora and its Disney deal, the other business troubles and scuppered agreements on OpenAI's plate, and what Sam Altman's pivot indicates about the long-dreaded Tech Bubble: slate.com/technology/2...

I feel like the volatility of the market -- along with inscrutable single-day surges based on dumb Trump blather -- has really overshadowed the fact that the markets are WAAAAAAAY down since the start of the war. The S&P is off 6% in just the past month.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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There are major Hollywood studios that wish they had makeup teams as gifted as Druski’s

If you haven't checked for my music blog, this is a a thread is a good place to start. Also, please don't forget that my giveaway benefiting Trans Youth Emergency Project, Al Otro Lado, and WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund ends this month. Details in the full post!

My god www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Rest in peace to the legendary primatologist Biruke Galdikas, the last of Louis Leakey’s ”trimates” — women anthropologists sent to study ape society up close. Galdikas’s work with Bornean orangutans is less famous than the studies of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, but no less important.

wrote more in depth about the death of Sora and its Disney deal, the other business troubles and scuppered agreements on OpenAI's plate, and what Sam Altman's pivot indicates about the long-dreaded Tech Bubble: slate.com/technology/2...

The NFL owners almost seem to get a gleeful joy from openly flouting the Rooney Rule in spirit and letter, so it says a ton that even this transparent fig leaf is too much for the modern conservative movement.

And these days you can usually get them all for extremely good prices used, while elsewhere the labels are all "Hey let's press this on puce-colored vinyl, not necessarily include all the tracks, and not adjust any digital mastering for vinyl, and then charge three times as much."

What

so many tech decisions today! (this is a good one imho)

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

The new New York City Transit-centric app from the MTA is live! www.curbed.com/article/mta-...

well this is quite a bombshell

Delhi: Atlanta Bombay: Atlanta Bangalore: Nashville Amritsar: Nashville Lucknow: Nashville Chennai: Atlanta Kolkata: Nashville Ahmedabad: Atlanta Jaipur: Nashville Bhopal: Atlanta

i'm reeling but it works

hold up, the Indian Embassy in hosting a Mughal-e-Azam screening at KenCen?? right after A.R. Rahman attended the Melania premiere there??? www.instagram.com/p/DWPeU_Pmi8y/

Marc Benioff also tweeted a video with a Figure 03 bot this morning. is Figure AI doing a big marketing push or something? (xcancel.com/Benioff/stat...)

THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE: John Wilson cements his status as an essential artist for our times by picking up right where his show left off and essentially becoming a funnier, more frenetic version of Frederick Wiseman. Absolutely loved this 📽️ My #Sundance2026 review: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Infinite Jest was a prophecy www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

the shift away from liberal arts education isn’t just a class-based thing, it’s ideological

reupping for the morning (and curious to hear how all of your flights have been going, assuming they weren't canceled or hopelessly delayed)

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

wrote about grace ives, who swings for the pop fences and almost gets there

Honored by the laughs-tears-joys-fears that cellist JANEL LEPPIN shared in this interview which felt as broad as her music open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

cmon man ... how is anyone still doing this

wrote this two months ago now and it's hard to comprehend just how rapidly this situation has worsened, and what a blatant embarrassment it's been for everyone involved slate.com/business/202...

just heard that Hutmaker JDL from Cold Crush Brothers just passed and if you don't know why that is important please watch this

IP creator made consequential choices with the money and it's absurd to look for much kindness in the shadow of that. "they hurt my fee-fees about the fictitious wizard of my youth" and "said wizard funds the dismantling of my rights" are not in the same ballpark of human adversity.

Every time I show the PBS documentary on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a few students openly weep in class. I now give a warning.

... hmm

this is the only kind we’ll be able to afford, soon

TIL that the Beethoven stinker "Wellington's Victory" was not about Wellington's trouncing of Napoleon at Waterloo but in fact was about a completely different battle in which Wellington defeated a completely different Bonaparte

so do we think Katy Perry has been giving Trudeau vibe-coding tutorials via Claude or has she not even accessed her subscription yet

just transition means bringing those people to work on decarbonization, not arguing that anyone who ever worked on. O&G projects is beyond redemption

Public service broadcasting rules

My brother in Christ you rapped about leaving used condoms on Nas' daughter's baby seat.

Hubert Davis beat Duke in K’s last home game and then beat Duke in the Final Four to end K’s career. The other 177 games do not matter.

Man, the effects of the ICE occupation are vast and ongoing. A family I am helping, like so many others, is trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives. Trying to make rent, needing to find work, adjusting to an existence without family members. There may be less ICE but these are huge wounds.

People get very out of sorts when you gently point out that actually Apple did it. In fact, sometimes it makes them madder. 😞

That was some US Open final stuff from The Coco Gauff. Absolutely unreal defending and problemsolving. Comes from a break down in the third to beat Bencic and move into the QFs vs. Muchova.

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

It's bad that the former Speaker of the Knesset and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, who has since renounced Zionism, is doing interviews with Tucker Carlson. But it is also bad that no other major journalists, for places like CNN or CBS, would be remotely interested in talking to him.

Will Polymarket take my bet, for one gazillion dollars, that Adam Silver will use the phrase “fresh look” to address this issue at his next press conference?