2025 Empire State Pen Show - Recap and Report Card — The Pen Addict
The 2025 Empire State Pen Show scored 72.5/100, which is pretty good given that it’s the first show. Being in Midtown Manhattan made the Location and Food scores higher than a lot of other shows. The Size score might go up if they added more vendors, and the After Hours score definitely has room for improvement. The biggest drawback to this show, if you’re not local, is the cost of travel and lodging
Lost in AirPod Translation - The Atlantic
Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.
When to Claim Social Security: How Much Does It Matter, Anyway?
If you’ve paid attention to this matter, you’d know Open Social Security. It’s the best tool for a Social Security claiming strategy, and it’s completely free.
What Your Favorite Author Says About You (Behind Your Back) - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
65 Essential Children’s Books - The Atlantic
Shohei Ohtani Just Played What May Be the Greatest Game of All Time - WSJ
The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century - The New York Times
Heist at Louvre Leaves Museum Missing Priceless Jewels - WSJ
Over the course of only seven minutes, three or four individuals used a truck-mounted elevator to reach a balcony outside the Galerie d’Apollon, which houses France’s crown jewels, French officials said. There, the thieves used an angle grinder to cut a hole in a window to get inside, they added.
The thieves smashed display cases, and early indications were that they took Napoleonic jewels and jewels related to French royalty, a police official said. The thieves fled via the roads along the Seine River, the official added.
Some N.F.L. Players Are Finding Second Careers as Nurses - The New York Times
The path from a bone-crunching contact sport to a healing profession may seem odd at first, said Patrick Hill, a former fullback and running back for the Tennessee Titans who described his roles as two of “the most violent positions on the field.”
But a football career is actually solid preparation for nursing, he explained; players learn “mental toughness and resiliency.”
Apple is the exclusive new broadcast partner for Formula 1® in the U.S. - Apple
Apple TV will deliver comprehensive coverage of Formula 1, with all practice, qualifying, Sprint sessions, and Grands Prix available to Apple TV subscribers.
ESPN NFL Primetime Music Compilation (24 Tracks) - YouTube
My favorite starts are 8:41.
Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? | The New Yorker
Why Is the Drug Kingpin Daniel Kinahan Living Large in Dubai? | The New Yorker
Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29 - The New York Times
Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million in Vegas playing blackjack
Why Are More Retirees Going Back to College? - The New York Times — This sounds like a fun way to retire.
“Apocryphal Inventions,” an exploration of Generative AI — Jonathan Hoefler
The objects in the Apocryphal Inventions series are technical chimeras, intentional misdirections coaxed from the generative AI platform Midjourney. Instead of iterating on the system’s early drafts to create ever more accurate renderings of real-world objects, creator Jonathan Hoefler subverted the system to refine and intensify its most intriguing misunderstandings, pushing the software to create beguiling, aestheticized nonsense.
Surrogacy Is a Multibillion-Dollar Business. Sometimes the Money Goes Missing. - WSJ
Project Indigo - a computational photography camera app — My new favorite photo app.
Our Wedding Gifts: Ten Years Later - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Charting the course of the M5 processor – Six Colors
Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier arrested in gambling inquiries - ESPN
Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones have been arrested as part of a pair of wide-ranging investigations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities announced Thursday.
What we know about the Billups-Rozier NBA gambling cases - ESPN
Why The iPhone Keyboard Sucks - YouTube
U.S. Inflation Picked Up to 3% in September - WSJ
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine