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What Happens When A.I. Runs a Store in San Francisco?

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“Luna, for one, thinks Andon Market is going well. The A.I. agent has an email address and responded to 10 questions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

Did the Onion also acquire Bluesky?

Mark Mobius, Pioneering Investor in Emerging Markets, Dies at 89

‘Mr. Peanut,’ by Adam Ross (2010): www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

San Francisco friends, this is a great deal.

Golfer walking around manhattan

Things do bad in Mamdani’s socialist hellhole that the millionaires are fleeing with just the golf clubs on their back

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Claude bless @colsonwhitehead.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

My Allbirds shoes telling me to kill myself

Dammit it’s already happening

Francis in Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Nayirah, 2026

Interesting that Sharon Simmons, the Door Dasher from Arkansas at the White House, is also Sharon Simmons from Nevada that testified at a GOP Ways and Means field hearing about trumps ‘big beautiful bill’ in Nevada last year.

What Lena Dunham (Still) Can’t Live Without “It seems to be a maternity item, but they could be for anyone with a sore saddle area, like two dads who took a really long bike trip.”

Attention? nymag.com/strategist/a...

Relief.

This could be us

Exciting: Random House officially released the cover of my forthcoming novel. Feel free to pre-order the book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/594494...

Excited for this to finally fix the Y2K bug: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

New Yorker cover by Christoph Niemann of giant robots dominating people.

The Fence cover of a bot taking a smoke break

Do BOTS sell magazines?

The Albanian Daily News got this scoop before The Albanian Post. Murdoch sunk millions into that launch! albaniandailynews.com/news/former-...

What Happened to Tucker Carlson? The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.

Tucker: the man and his dream My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Tim Robinson dressed as a hotdog

“I am not Epstein’s victim.”

36 years ago today...

#TwinPeaks premiered.

What if the real Satoshi Nakamoto is the friends we made along the way?

Cover of Modern Luxury San Francisco featuring Ali Larter.

Had no idea Allegra Coleman was alive and living in San Francisco. (bcc @beingmartha.bsky.social )

Apple News alert that reads: “Why more Gen Z men are turning to Catholicism, a favorite design trend that makes homes harder to sell, and more popular reads.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

Kids In The Hall - Daddy Drank YouTube video by FBIVideo1

Yep, and this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVn4...

Our entire lives are a Princess Bride gag now

Turner Doomsday Video YouTube video by Technophiliaphobia

Insane to think someone at CNN is tasked with cueing this up tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6f7...

Nothing would affirm jeevacation’s narcissistic belief that he was a Great Man at the levers of world power like a nuclear war ending civilization over his illiterate emails.