Is this really the best California Democrats can come up with? That question has hovered over this year’s gubernatorial race, in which the state’s voters will choose a replacement for term-limited Gavin Newsom. Ka… More »
How California’s Governor’s Race Became Such an Unholy Mess Read More »
One spring afternoon in 2022, Leslie was home alone in Park Slope with her 15-year-old son, Hunter. She asked him to clean his room, or take a shower, or something innocuous — she can’t remember exactly. He viewed her request as too demanding and flew into a More »
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As Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes a transit agenda centered on speeding the country’s slowest buses, he has less than a month to fill a pair of longstanding vacancies on the MTA board. The mayor has just four seats on the panel that sets fares, operating and capital budgets for a regional transportation authority that is
Who Will Represent Mamdani at the MTA? He Has Less Than a Month to Decide. Read More »
Three days before a fatal fire May 4th at 207 Dyckman St. in Inwood, housing inspectors appeared at the six-story walkup and issued a dozen code violations. One of those was for a non-functioning self-closing apartment entry door that was deemed “immediately hazardous.” After the blaze was put out, firefighters discovered severe fire damage in
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This past week, California finalized regulations to implement its packaging “EPR” (extended producer responsibility) law, after an initial version was rejected by Governor Newsom as being too expensive for California consumers. Apparently, those concerns extend to the revised rule as well, with a lead California environmental activist quoted in the LA times citing its “exorbitant”
For the Sake of All New Yorkers, Don’t Pass Bills that Keep Raising Prices Read More »
Lit NYC, the podcast all about the ABCs of arts, books and culture in New York City, debuts as its own show with writer and artist Molly Crabapple discussing her new book, “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund,” how her New York City family history led her to
LISTEN: From the Pale of Settlement to Occupy Wall Street, With Molly Crabapple Read More »
Feuds between the founders of tech companies are quite common, to the point that there is a subgenre of More »
The ‘Chaos’ Inside OpenAI Is Spilling Out in Court Read More »
For emergent artists, the path into a sustainable career has rarely felt narrower. In the wake of the pandemic, amid a prolonged cost-of-living crisis and years of declining public investment, artists are facing increasingly difficult decisions and being pushed out of the industry. If we want a thriving cultural life, we must face an uncomfortable
Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity? Read More »
Tech workers are burning through massive amounts of A.I. compute in a race to code faster and automate more work. In Silicon Valley, the practice is known as “tokenmaxxing,” where employees push their use of ChatGPT and other large language models to the limit to maximize productivity. The trend has accelerated alongside the rise of
ServiceNow’s Customer Chief Warns ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Is an A.I. Hype Cycle Read More »
There’s a good argument to be made that Mayor Zohran Mamdani should not have gone to war with Ken Griffin, the hedge-fund billionaire and one of the wealthiest men on earth. As Mamdan… More »
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