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We Are All Jocks Jamming
How did sports and music get so entangled? Prelude: Let's Get Ready To Rumble Let’s say you are an alien, perhaps even a Monstar: a creature sent to earth to steal the prowess of this planet’s athletes, just like your forebears leeching NBA talent in order
Is this what power feels like?
Is this what power feels like? Inside the Zohran Mamdani Election Night Party The wild diversity of New York packed into Zohran Mamdani’s election night party, but as I walked the floor of the Brooklyn Paramount all of them started to sort into three kinds of people. The first
Will Jewish leaders atone for their sins next year?
Falsifiable fearmongering and the Zohran Mamdani election. Maybe because they’re clergy so bad behavior takes on an fancier form, or because their worst conduct has played out in the shadow of the High Holidays, or because a Satmar sect in Williamsburg went so far as to say that “portraying
AI is the enemy of help
What if asking for help means you’re a worthless loser? Take it away, Malcolm: Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell here. I recently recorded the first episode of Smart Talks with IBM, where I learned how AI agents are joining AI assistants as a major productivity tool. Let's start with