Ezra Mechaber

I don't know, but I've been holding some since 2015 as a personal meme at this point.

King Princess’s Homecoming Mikaela Straus grew up in a recording studio, mimicking the artists who passed through. For her new album, “Girl Violence,” she returned to find a sound that’s hers alone.

“They’ve tried to media-train me at least eighteen times." www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

I mean, great - he lacks the charisma that makes the Trump shtick work

This is some Foundation / Brother Dawn stuff

We're due for another excellent cover of Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay".

omg. zaboomafoo about to become a euphemism for something absolutely nasty isn't it.

This story is incredibly dark and I don't really recommend reading it past the headline.

3 Charged With Abusing Toddlers at Manhattan Branch of Child Care Giant

Free sessions with Bright Horizons is frequently offered as a perk to working parents and after several experiences with different parts of their network (and feedback that was never taken seriously) I would simply never put my child in their care again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/n...

on main?!

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@dieworkwear.bsky.social did... Donald Trump get better fitting suits? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

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I think basically everything you need to know about it is that 2/3 of the founders of Safe Super Intelligence picked up and left for Meta’s (presumably less safe) AI lab.

Cat Mummy Mummified cat, neatly wrapped. Features painted on face. Decorated with various crossings and interlacing of bands from foot to neck. Single cloth over head on which features are indicated in line. W...

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They are literally right next to each other and both have exhibits and are both frequently beloved institutions with Brooklyn in the name. When Jay Z's exhibit at the Library was on, even news outlets got it wrong!

small nit: Brooklyn Public Library is amazing and does exhibits but is different from the adjacent Brooklyn Museum! Both are worth your time. There's a dead cat at the Museum.

I have spent so much time lost in Fulton / WTC

The Brooklyn to 59th and Lex sojourn on a bad train day is really singular.

The bartender, Jesse Sheidlower, wore a trilby equipped with a headlamp. "By now," he said of the event, "when you hear about one of these, you don't ask, 'Is it going to be a sex club, oga trivia night, or a speakeasy?' You pretty much know it's going to be a speakeasy!"

I need someone good at social media strategy to figure out how i should share the last 2 months’ worth of columns that I didn’t post on socials due to a combo of it feels weird doing restaurant reviews while Gaza is being starved and also (perhaps relatedly) I am paralyzingly depressed, I will pay u

Perplexity got very close (with a picture and brand name) - each button was correct, but it swapped the nightlight and vibration and couldn't get it's head around the fact that it got them switched.

Silver Street Strategies A boutique firm providing pre-crisis communications strategy, optics consulting, and political research founded by Obama White House Research Director Alex Platkin and Deputy Director Kristen Bartolon...

God yes. In fact, there are whole sectors of politics devoted to this field, including some really talented folks from the Kamala Harris campaign etc. I'd start with www.silverstreetstrategies.com and they could refer you to individuals if a firm isn't the right move.

Brigadoon! Hell yes.

Winner?

Every piece of this sentence is bleaker than the last. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Holy shit.

Watch the brand-new trailer for Tron: Ares and experience it in theaters, filmed for IMAX, October 10. Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The f Tron: Ares | Official Trailer

The full official trailer for Tron: Ares. I want this to be good. Can this just be good, you know, as a treat? [youtube.com]

I could imagine a world where yesterday's news (that Trump got briefed on his name in the Epstein files just a week before Musk said it out loud on Twitter) would make this potentially interesting.

But I'm guessing it's just that people find the Musk/Trump relationship interesting/gossipy.

I’m glad Marisa mentioned this. In certain circles there is - correctly! - laser focus on this catastrophe but it can be hard to get the story through to people, in no small part because it’s so upsetting and bleak and enraging that some deep part of people shuts down and rejects it.

Every profile of Mike Allen in the late aughts always seemed quite clear on the specific strangeness of his worldview.

Specifically: power and winning are “the” thing, divorced from the effect on anything outside the newsletter.