A Mitchell
@aem76us.bsky.social
Let's invent new words and then call ourselves those words.
Can anyone decipher this pair of billboards on the corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue in the West Village, a neighborhood popular among ad industry people and other creative types, where single het women outnumber single het men?
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Can anyone decipher this pair of billboards on the corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue in the West Village, a neighborhood popular among ad industry people and other creative types, where single het women outnumber single het men?
Climate cosmetics on deck at a film shoot in Greenwich Village. The fake snow looks more realistic after it's been watered down a bit.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Climate cosmetics on deck at a film shoot in Greenwich Village. The fake snow looks more realistic after it's been watered down a bit.
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Super interesting read. *gift link
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Super interesting read. *gift link
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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Me: I want to use the Internet.
Cloudflare: Quiet, piggy.
Cloudflare: Quiet, piggy.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Me: I want to use the Internet.
Cloudflare: Quiet, piggy.
Cloudflare: Quiet, piggy.
AI and the Future of Work — panel at CUNY:
During the industrial revolution in Britain, wages stagnated for ~80 years. We can expect wage stagnation now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYB...
During the industrial revolution in Britain, wages stagnated for ~80 years. We can expect wage stagnation now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYB...
AI and the Future of Work
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
AI and the Future of Work — panel at CUNY:
During the industrial revolution in Britain, wages stagnated for ~80 years. We can expect wage stagnation now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYB...
During the industrial revolution in Britain, wages stagnated for ~80 years. We can expect wage stagnation now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYB...
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A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
a black and white photo of a wolf walking through a tunnel .
Alt: A black and white trail cam focuses on a culvert (cement or metal cylinder for drainage). A coyote jumps to get the attention of a waddling badger, who then follows into the culvert.
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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Fonts go in and out of fashion, too.
Serifs are back, baby.
Serifs are back, baby.
The Skinny Font Taking Over Tech Companies and the White House
After decades of obscurity, a bookish style of lettering is everywhere. Some typeface connoisseurs say it’s gone too far.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Fonts go in and out of fashion, too.
Serifs are back, baby.
Serifs are back, baby.
Original Huey UH-1A on the Intrepid’s flight deck on NYC’s West Side. Door gunner, starboard side was my spot, in a newer, twin-engine model.
Joined at 17 on 2nd try. Initially rejected for forging the parental-consent signature required for a child to enlist. Glad to have never shot anyone.
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Joined at 17 on 2nd try. Initially rejected for forging the parental-consent signature required for a child to enlist. Glad to have never shot anyone.
1/
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Original Huey UH-1A on the Intrepid’s flight deck on NYC’s West Side. Door gunner, starboard side was my spot, in a newer, twin-engine model.
Joined at 17 on 2nd try. Initially rejected for forging the parental-consent signature required for a child to enlist. Glad to have never shot anyone.
1/
Joined at 17 on 2nd try. Initially rejected for forging the parental-consent signature required for a child to enlist. Glad to have never shot anyone.
1/
El sueño (La cama) or The Dream (The Bed) by Frida Kahlo is anticipated to fetch the highest price ever paid for a painting by a woman or a Latin American artist.
The highest price paid for art is $450 million for Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
www.sothebys.com/en/videos/wh...
The highest price paid for art is $450 million for Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
www.sothebys.com/en/videos/wh...
Why Frida Kahlo's El sueño (La cama) Could Break the Auction Record
Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) (1940) is one of the artist’s most haunting and introspective works—an image suspended between dream and death, intimacy and surrealism. Painted during a turbulent per...
www.sothebys.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
El sueño (La cama) or The Dream (The Bed) by Frida Kahlo is anticipated to fetch the highest price ever paid for a painting by a woman or a Latin American artist.
The highest price paid for art is $450 million for Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
www.sothebys.com/en/videos/wh...
The highest price paid for art is $450 million for Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
www.sothebys.com/en/videos/wh...
Meta's system for detecting scammy ads only deactivates an ad buyer's account if it's 95% sure. Otherwise, Meta charges more money from suspicious advertisers to discourage them from buying more ads — but when those accounts follow through, it pads Meta’s bottom line.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/m...
Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says | TechCrunch
These fraudulent ads purport to offer a product or service that isn't actually real, and may be intended to solicit payments from less savvy users.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Meta's system for detecting scammy ads only deactivates an ad buyer's account if it's 95% sure. Otherwise, Meta charges more money from suspicious advertisers to discourage them from buying more ads — but when those accounts follow through, it pads Meta’s bottom line.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/m...
In Manhattan, Cuomo prevailed in the West Village, Chelsea, SoHo and the Upper East Side.
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In Manhattan, Cuomo prevailed in the West Village, Chelsea, SoHo and the Upper East Side.
Andreessen Horowitz is paused its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund+program, launched after the murder of George Floyd.
It ran a 16-week training program & provided $175,000. Supported >60 companies, including Brown Girl Magazine, Myles Comfort Foods, maternity Villie.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a...
It ran a 16-week training program & provided $175,000. Supported >60 companies, including Brown Girl Magazine, Myles Comfort Foods, maternity Villie.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a...
a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff | TechCrunch
Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to multiple sources.
techcrunch.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Andreessen Horowitz is paused its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund+program, launched after the murder of George Floyd.
It ran a 16-week training program & provided $175,000. Supported >60 companies, including Brown Girl Magazine, Myles Comfort Foods, maternity Villie.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a...
It ran a 16-week training program & provided $175,000. Supported >60 companies, including Brown Girl Magazine, Myles Comfort Foods, maternity Villie.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/a...
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Gift article.
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Gift article.
An alert service is being launched as an alternative to Google Alerts, which like many Google projects, appears to have been left to rot on the vine. The new service, called Alertmouse, has a free tier.
www.geekwire.com/2025/worth-a...
www.geekwire.com/2025/worth-a...
Worth a mention: Seattle tech vets launch Alertmouse, a startup to track who’s talking about you
The co-founders of Alertmouse, from left: Nathan Kriege, Rand Fishkin and Adam Doppelt, along with Britt Klontz, founder of PR firm Vada Communications,
www.geekwire.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
An alert service is being launched as an alternative to Google Alerts, which like many Google projects, appears to have been left to rot on the vine. The new service, called Alertmouse, has a free tier.
www.geekwire.com/2025/worth-a...
www.geekwire.com/2025/worth-a...
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
Ballots for New York City's general election show candidates from the major parties also appearing in the columns of minor parties.
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Ballots for New York City's general election show candidates from the major parties also appearing in the columns of minor parties.
Next-gen robots are being presented as collaborators rather than replacements for humans -- as COBOTs not robots.
Big robotics mahoff dislikes the term "AI," says that only humans have intelligence.
www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
Big robotics mahoff dislikes the term "AI," says that only humans have intelligence.
www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
Amazon and the media: Inside the disconnect on AI, robots and jobs
Amazon’s big robotics showcase highlighted the company’s vision for “AI at work,” but the event also revealed a widening gap between its public messaging and media coverage about automation’s impact o...
www.geekwire.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Next-gen robots are being presented as collaborators rather than replacements for humans -- as COBOTs not robots.
Big robotics mahoff dislikes the term "AI," says that only humans have intelligence.
www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
Big robotics mahoff dislikes the term "AI," says that only humans have intelligence.
www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...
NCR air quality is maxing out the existing measurement and reporting systems today, which don't report anything above 999, so we don't know how polluted it is once it exceeds that extremely hazardous level and becomes immediately dangerous to life and health.
Map source: AQICN․org (Free -- try it!)
Map source: AQICN․org (Free -- try it!)
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NCR air quality is maxing out the existing measurement and reporting systems today, which don't report anything above 999, so we don't know how polluted it is once it exceeds that extremely hazardous level and becomes immediately dangerous to life and health.
Map source: AQICN․org (Free -- try it!)
Map source: AQICN․org (Free -- try it!)
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Today's nightmare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Today's nightmare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for