Allbirds’ Move to AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy The faltering shoe company says it will become an AI computing provider

The perfectly logical shoe company to AI pivot we should’ve seen coming www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

From Wired: Jim Dolan & his minions scan negative social media comments about the Knicks and Rangers to find fans to track via facial recognition. Chanting “fire Dolan” with your section can also ding you. And MSG tracked a Knick fan’s movements because she was trans. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I wish there were a Cole Porter bat signal. Cruise/Hormuz would be a dope rhyme

“Sure, I believe in censorship. I’ve made a fortune from it.”

~Mae West.

99 years ago today-4/19/1927-actress Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for “corrupting the morals of youth” charges stemming from her Broadway play “Sex,” which she wrote and starred in.

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19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. Their heroic battle lasted 27 days.

Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit.

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NOT NOW, North Korea

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How This Bass Riff Completely BROKE the Internet. YouTube video by Davie504

This is funny.

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Kash Patel tweet: Memo to the fake news - the only time I’ll ever actually be concerned about the hit piece lies you write about me will be when you stop. Keep talking, it means I’m doing exactly what I should be doing. And no amount of BS you write will ever deter this FBI from making America safe again and taking down the criminals you love.

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad

WHOO HOO! All-night latkes again!

I don't know if you hate Tocqueville but I see the drive toward the consensus-based, low key conformist liberal society he wrote abt. Our communities are divided for now, so our community education system tries to avoid conflict of any kind. Part of that may be training students to misdetect "bias"?

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I seriously do think it’s something that ought to be taught in high school—a lot of students confuse “bias” with “having a perspective” and I don’t understand where it comes from

What a perfectly gorgeous spring day in NYC. If you can take the pollen, get out for the greenery, the blooms

Why Are New York Restaurants Starting to Look Like Offices?

Restaurant design inspired by the glass boxes of Midtown Manhattan www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/t...

brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

lol. He just found out about Z taxing pieds-á-terre worth over $5 mil. That gaudy Trump tower penthouse qualifies now that Trump officially moved to Florida.

With government arts funding melting away, Bay Area billionaires started a nonprofit to work with SF communities on paying gigs for artists. They called it the Civic Joy Fund. Now it's a big part of the city's public life, and one of the founders is mayor. SF artists have opinions about all this.

This Kern County crew is harvesting broccolini. Unlike broccoli, which is harvested once, workers need to keep on coming back to the same field to select the individual, tender 6–8 inch stems before they flower. It's a challenging crop as it requires precise timing. #WeFeedYou

You could see if anyone's put the clues from the scavenger hunt online. That could be fun

Exactly

I feel like I may need to hook up the AC tonight

A man in a grey jacket holding up a sign that reads "Ayn Rand Tour"

Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.

American colleges and universities bear significant responsibility for plunging public trust in higher education, a Yale University committee suggested in a report released on Wednesday.

They named a professional basketball team after the velociraptor in 1995. That was peak velociraptor

“The only thing they have is history," he said of the French and their arch.

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

BREAKING on MS NOW:

Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.