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1 month ago | nymag.com | Choire Sicha

Three tiny titans - rich man, poor man, Canadian - came to New York. Barry Diller, of Beverly Hills, arrived here in 1966 in his mid-20s, finding the city so "overstimulating and disorienting" that he had "severe stomach cramps" each night. Keith McNally arrived a decade later, in 1975, at the time of his arrival also about 25 and late of bumming around the world.

1 month ago | substack.com | Choire Sicha

I have been obsessed with Kevin on TikTok for ages and I made the mistake of trying to assign a straight man who’s not on TikTok to write about it and he was like “???” Anyway, here is a great interview with Kevin from TikTok; his feed is one of the only places on the entire internet that feels good! —Choire Sicha IT HAPPENED TODAYYou take the bad. Eric Adams hates the weather this spring (and isn’t afraid to say it).

1 month ago | substack.com | Choire Sicha

This absolute savaging of OpenAI (and “human verification”) honcho Sam Altman’s kitchen equipment and cooking techniques is amazing. —Choire Sicha IT HAPPENED TODAYI am also asking drug companies to please lower their prices. We got a big update on congestion pricing over the weekend, and everything about it is great, from improved emergency-response times to decreased noise to fewer car crashes.

1 month ago | substack.com | Choire Sicha

Listen, I have seen your computers. I have seen the tabs, the notifications, the desktops littered with screenshots and downloads. It is time to close it. It is time to shut down the computer for the weekend and start afresh. —Choire Sicha IT HAPPENED TODAYSome crimes. The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was "handcuffed and detained" or "taken into custody" today at Delaney Hall, a private facility operated by the GEO Group with ICE as a client.

1 month ago | substack.com | Choire Sicha

Start your timers for the end of John Fetterman’s Senate career. —Choire SichaIT HAPPENED TODAYNew woke Pope, old broke problems. New pope (Bob from Chicago) may not and church abuse victims, but he also definitely thinks J.D. Vance sucks. The EPA has stopped filing cases against polluters. Our government is happy to deport American citizens who were born in America — particularly children. BEST LIFESocks, sandals, and such.