Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

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.

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast

And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Ha!

A photo from 1975 shows artist Andy Warhol in the foreground and, in the background, Pope John Paul II with others in a Vatican City courtyard.

A photo from 1996 shows the profile of John F. Kennedy, Jr. in silhouette, in front of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC.

A photo from 2019 shows Greta Thunberg, her arms crossed, with President Barack Obama at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden.

A photo from 1984 shows Isabella Rossellini holding the collar of her black sweater. Reflections in the glass protecting the framed print mostly obscure her two eyes.

Highlights from the Contemporary Art and Design auction at Bukowskis: an Andy Warhol creepshot of Pope John Paul II (1975), Bert Stern’s silhouette of JFK Jr. (1996), Max Modén’s capture of Greta Thunberg with Barack Obama (2019), and Terry O’Neill’s portrait of Isabella Rossellini in London (1984)

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

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Cases at Warlord, Noma prompt fresh questions about how to protect restaurant workers Locally, the effort to bolster the safety of hospitality workers has been galvanized, in part, by recent aggressive federal immigration tactics.

“The fear of retaliation is 100 percent real.” bit.ly/4tTtVvk

Bukele cede a la IA de Google la gestión médica en El Salvador: “Estamos creando el mejor sistema del mundo” El programa se sustenta en Gemini y podrá crear desde un expediente clínico hasta dar seguimiento al tratamiento de pacientes con enfermedades crónicas. “En algún momento estaremos tratando el cáncer”...

Bukele will give Google access to the health data of all Salvadorans.

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It’s not good!

Everything Is Hacked Now Trapped on a Zoom call with fake co-workers when we could just be making donuts.

Helpful summary of our current waking digital nightmare from @rusty.todayintabs.com bit.ly/484Sflf

After 7 Years, CPD Now in Full Compliance With 25% of Consent Decree: Monitors The monitors praised CPD for making “significant progress” between July 1 and Dec. 31 in effort to comply with the consent decree, which has been in effect for seven years.

The Chicago Police Department by the end of 2025 had fully complied with 25% of the court order that requires CPD to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights.

https://to.wttw.com/4cJVdOM

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

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Money Talks: Are Psychopaths Better at Business? Dr. Leanne ten Brinke explains the connection between “dark personality traits” and success in the real world.

Many thanks to @espiers.bsky.social and @leannetenbrinke.bsky.social for having and sharing this conversation, especially what it includes about recognizing and responding productively to psychopathy in the workplace bit.ly/4mtAHFx

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

City life, plain onstage SkateparkMette Ingvartsen April 10–11, 2026Dansens Hus, Stockholm Earlier this year, filmmaker Brett Novak released The Shape of Paris, a nine-minute video featuring Andy Anderson skateboarding throu...

Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s SKATEPARK has been on tour almost continuously for the past three years. Kids seem to dig it but I thought it too often seemed satisfied with its premise — skateboarding onstage! — alone. bit.ly/3PY0rOd

The most valuable worker in the AI economy is Nurse Dana from ‘The Pitt’ | Fortune Nursing has become the most structurally durable career in America. A hit TV show and a top economist help explain why.

“This is the detail that ‘The Pitt’ gets right that most workforce commentary misses.” bit.ly/4dMUOw8

City life, plain onstage SkateparkMette Ingvartsen April 10–11, 2026Dansens Hus, Stockholm Earlier this year, filmmaker Brett Novak released The Shape of Paris, a nine-minute video featuring Andy Anderson skateboarding throu...

Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s SKATEPARK has been on tour almost continuously for the past three years. Kids seem to dig it but I thought it too often seemed satisfied with its premise — skateboarding onstage! — alone. bit.ly/3PY0rOd

Exclusive | A Rare I.M. Pei-Designed Home in Texas Hits the Market for $22 Million The roughly 19,000-square-foot house, designed for an oil-and-banking heiress and her husband, is the most expensive for sale in Fort Worth.

“One of only three private homes known to have been designed by the late architect I.M. Pei is coming to market in Texas for $22 million.” bit.ly/4mojLzY

Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve? Expo Chicago and its orbit of shows reveal both the joys and pain points of the city’s current creative environment.

“Chicago’s fair week is a microcosm of the churning, tense, contradictory discourse surrounding art and its support networks in the city.” bit.ly/4dKET1i

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Varsågod — thank *you* Leor!

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

As proof, here’s yours truly racing one-dog juniors in or around 1987

Cropped screenshot of LinkedIn’s desktop site, showing personal network metrics including 2,306 connections

Cropped screenshot from X, formerly Twitter, showing a since-deactivated profile in September 2023

Fairly trivial, personal milestone: As of today, I have more connections on LinkedIn (2,306) than I had followers the day I quit The Other Place (2,305), more than two and a half years ago. (I quit Instagram, too, last summer.)

“Sled dog races in North America are vanishing almost as quickly as the snow and ice that mushers rely on.” As a person who grew up around sled dogs — both of my parents were Colorado mushers — I greatly appreciate this report on the new, 100-mile Yukon Odyssey in northwest Canada. bit.ly/41rmGys

Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist Born into slavery, Gustav Badin became part of Swedish royal court and left legacy of books and letters In 1760, a Black child around 10 years old arrived at the Swedish royal court as a “gift” to the queen. Adolf Ludvig Gustav Fredrik Albrecht Couschi, who became known as Badin (derived from the French for joker or prankster), later held titles including chamberlain, court secretary, ballet master and civil servant. He is thought to have been born into slavery between 1747 and 1750 in the former Danish colony of St Croix (now part of the US Virgin Islands), where he was “owned” by Christian Lebrecht von Pröck, who took him to Denmark. He was “received” by Gustaf de Brunck, a Swedish councillor of commerce, who later “donated” Badin to Queen Louisa Ulrika. Continue reading...

Swedish exhibition explores life of 18th-century Black diarist

Frog was trembling. “I am not afraid!” he shouted.

Charles Joseph Smith brings his music aboveground  - Chicago Reader Charles Joseph Smith is a beloved fixture on Chicago’s DIY scene, but the ambitious music he's been making for decades has gone mostly unheard—until now.

Like many Chicagoans, I regularly saw Charles Joseph Smith at cultural events all over town — but I never knew most of what’s in this comprehensive, caring profile of him by @imleor.bsky.social for @chicagoreader.com. Beautifully done. bit.ly/4skSboF

Surprise inspection finds ICE stuffing migrants 'like sardines' into a facility with no bed, showers Three lawmakers visited a Mesa ICE facility unannounced and found overcrowding, with 250 detainees packed into rooms "like sardines"

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said, fighting back tears. The Tucson Democrat described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “It is frightening in there,” Grijalva said. “It is disgusting.”