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Karl-Anthony Towns Helped Make Knicks History—Now He Wants More
Karl-Anthony Towns wears a Pelle Pelle jacket; Pro Club T-shirt; Caloy Deguzman custom jeans; New Era cap; Alex Moss New York chain and pendant; Audemars Piguet watch. You were traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the New York Knicks in 2024. In your second season with the Knicks, you helped New York City win its first NBA championship in more than half a century. What were your favorite moments during the championship run?
In pictures: Turnstile rocks Washington, DC
On Saturday, the hardcore band Turnstile played to tens of thousands of people in the shadow of the Washington Monument. Official estimates put the total attendance at more than 60,000 people, with many more being turned away at the gates due to capacity concerns. The conditions were ideal: blue skies, sunshine, temperatures in the lower 60s. Fans moshed and crowd surfed, singing while they glided along a sea of hands Fans like Isabella Steven see Turnstile as a representation of love.
¿Matará realmente la IA a todo el mundo? ¿Cómo, exactamente?
La inteligencia artificial podría acabar con toda la especie humana, según personas de la industria de la inteligencia artificial. Específicamente, dicen que podría exterminar a la humanidad en el transcurso de esta década. Políticos, importantes organizaciones de noticias y Sheryl Crow reaccionaron con alarma la semana pasada después de que un empleado de Anthropic llamado Jacob Coxon anunciara que renunciaba a la empresa de IA porque su trabajo era demasiado peligroso.
¿Matará realmente la IA a todo el mundo? ¿Cómo, exactamente?
La inteligencia artificial podría acabar con toda la especie humana, según personas de la industria de la inteligencia artificial. Específicamente, dicen que podría exterminar a la humanidad en el transcurso de esta década. Políticos, importantes organizaciones de noticias y Sheryl Crow reaccionaron con alarma la semana pasada después de que un empleado de Anthropic llamado Jacob Coxon anunciara que renunciaba a la empresa de IA porque su trabajo era demasiado peligroso.
¿Matará realmente la IA a todo el mundo? ¿Cómo, exactamente?
La inteligencia artificial podría acabar con toda la especie humana, según personas de la industria de la inteligencia artificial. Específicamente, dicen que podría exterminar a la humanidad en el transcurso de esta década. Políticos, importantes organizaciones de noticias y Sheryl Crow reaccionaron con alarma la semana pasada después de que un empleado de Anthropic llamado Jacob Coxon anunciara que renunciaba a la empresa de IA porque su trabajo era demasiado peligroso.
Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly? Original
AI researchers are saying that the technology could eliminate humanity if it achieves "superintelligence." Christoph Soeder/picture alliance/Getty Images/File See all topics Email Link Copied! Artificial intelligence could kill the entire human species, according to people in the artificial intelligence industry. Specifically, they say, it could exterminate humanity within the decade.
Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?
Why the AI Apocalypse Won’t Play Out Like The Terminator How everybody could die from superintelligence, according to a panel of AI doomers. Nate Soares, co-author of the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone …
A soccer star’s Birkin collection is turning heads at the World Cup
By Teddy Brown, CNN (CNN) — Norwegian striker Erling Haaland is used to attention. He’s six foot five inches with shoulder-length blonde hair that loudly gestures towards his Viking pedigree. He is also among the best soccer players in the world and has led his country’s men’s team to its first FIFA World Cup appearance in nearly three decades. But a couple of weeks ago, stylist and TikToker Jack Savoie pointed to something else Haaland is known for: his collection of Hermès bags.
A soccer star’s Birkin collection is turning heads at the World Cup
The knockout stage of the ongoing World Cup has impressed visiting fans on and off the pitch, as tourists continue to go viral with awe-struck …
How a speculative story about dead and missing scientists went from the fringe to the White House Original
President Donald Trump answers questions, including one about the connections between a number of dead and missing scientists, during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America/Getty Images See all topics Email Link Copied! In an April 15 press briefing, Fox’s Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt an unexpected question.
Burn, Memory
There are little patches of dryland chaparral and shrubs flanking many of the ramps that lead up to and down from the highways that crisscross Los Angeles. They’re sad, blown out little creatures. The color of the desert mixed with a century of smog and asphalt dust. In a city blooming with palm trees and emerald green lawns and manicured flower beds, the pale patches living on landfilled slopes are the ones I identify with California the most. They are home to me.
The Bad Jaguar Ad
When I was in London last week, a friend pulled up the new Jaguar ad that had been going around the internet over the previous month. I hadn’t gotten around to watching it. But as someone who doesn’t care about cars but does care about mass media, I had heard more about the shoddy rebrand than the ad itself so I was mostly expecting a new font or that they had gotten rid of the leaping pewter jungle cat or something. You know, something English people would lose their shit about.
The Gates and the Garden
Greeting from a plane bound for Puglia. My essay on the journalist Timothy Burke was published in the Baffler last week. If you’re not familiar with Burke, he’s the journalist who originally leaked the more insane stuff Kanye West said in an interview with Tucker Carlson a few years back. The conversation aired in primetime, but Fox News scrubbed a lot of 1) generally wild shit about aliens and clones and 2) a lot of wild racist and anitsemitic stuff.
Newsletter Bloat
A friend asked me if I had punted this newsletter given how infrequently I was sharing the dispatches of my brain with the few hundred people who subscribe to this newsletter. (Really, it’s more like a hundred-ish people who actually read it so thank you to that community theater-sized audience for sticking with me.) I had two answers.
Friday Roundup
A bunch of stray thoughts have been flopping around in my head like Barry Keoghan’s hog at the end of Saltburn so I’m sharing them with you before I forgot what they are. (Shout out the Vevo SEO team who added that “as featured in Saltburn” to the video title to really juice the numbers.) As much as we’ve been seeing ornamentation usurp minimalism in menswear the last few years, mainstream footwear had been staying relatively tame.
Fashion Boys
I have a little essay in the New York Times Magazine this weekend about the current stare of menswear discourse and how podcasts like Throwing Fits and Articles of Interestare making it easier for a certain type of guy (straight; fratty; healthy balance of green and red flags) to talk about fashion and what they wear.
What does football look like? 🏈 🦃
It’s gonna be a busy end of year but I hope everyone is having exactly the kind of Thanksgiving they need in 2023. As someone who moved every couple years growing up, the one thing I have always been envious of this time of year is the Wednesday-night-before-Thanksgiving hang for people who grew up in one place.
What do memories look like?
Some quick housekeeping: it has been a busy few weeks but I think we’re at the end of this editorial sprint and I’m really happy with the way this story about Chinese-language delivery services came out. I’m especially glad that I got some pushback from people about these platforms being a universal good. A lot of older Chinese New Yorkers told me they only use Hungry Panda and Fantuan to find restaurants to go to and then call the places directly to order delivery or pickup.
The things you care about are disposable to someone
Some programming notes: In something of an aberration in my usual publishing cadence, I ended up with three different pieces going live this week. So here ya go: A Pitchfork review of Slauson Malone 1’s new record Excelsior. The album is great! My review not so much. Honestly, not worth reading lol. A very personal essay on Defector about my nervous breakdown last year, and how tennis (among other things and people) brought me back from the brink.
A short word on the words we see
Just so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief: I’m not going to wade into any discourse around what’s going in the Middle East as no one needs another uneducated take. (There are a lot of them right now!) Instead what I want to talk about are words and information, and how both social and news media have bent the lens of inquiry in some really funky and damaging ways. One of the most damaging forks in history is when we all decided that the media should be objective.
What does culture look like?
I got a new tattoo last week at an airy 4th floor studio that looked out across Williamsburg like something straight out of a set from Girls. My tattoo artist Anaïs is maybe 24, from New Jersey, and just a gem of a human being, all smiling encouragement and curiosity. As I was flipping through her flash book, she told me she was getting tattooed later that day by a visiting artist and she still wasn’t sure what she wanted to get.
Burning Man at the Electric Zoo
Sending this out a day early as I have to go to the club during Fashion Week tonight to write a small story for [redacted.] More on that another time, but yeah I’m writing this on Tuesday and am preemptively tired. Also, the wonderful fellas over at Why Is This Interesting? adapted my piece on in-flight behavior this morning, give it a read. So Burning Man, huh? Well at least God seems to have a sense of humor.
Supreme's Clientele
A mini Friday edition of IISTLLT on the Supreme creative director’s resignation. Yesterday, Tremaine Emory gave up one of fashion’s most covetable seats as the first creative director of Supreme citing systemic racism present at the brand and its parent company VF. Honestly, I’m not a BOF premium subscriber type guy so I wasn’t familiar with Emory as a designer outside of his brand Denim Tears—which as a floral-and-patchwork guy I am very familiar with.
The View From the Dance Floor
First, a note: this newsletter project is meant to breathe and cough a little bit so I’ll be trying a few different things as long as I do this. Like today! There are times when I’ll go through the pitching process with a newspaper or magazines and realize that, hey, maybe this idea doesn’t fit into the container of an editorial outlet.
Erratic Flight Patterns
Greetings. This week we’re going to be talking about flying. Let’s begin. Lately, my TikTok algorithm has been feeding me an unending reel of people fighting on airplanes. Some of them are the same fight caught from multiple angles, some are the same video lifted from the original source or lifted from another lifter. (TikTok has really only sped up the social media machine’s ability to obscure primary sources. It started with jokes and memes and has now moved onto hard news.
Consider putting this on
I felt compelled to write a quick little diatribe about fashion and clothing after listening to Ed Zitron’s short conversation with menswear blogger Derek Guy, who many of you probably know from being annoyed with him on Twitter. Derek is great, he has a tailor’s eye for quality but also, like, understands how to dress larger bodies (something the big fellas hardly ever get to hear about!) and can tell you about a tiny little haberdashery in Vermont that makes really good indigo chore coats.
How much does a memory cost?
If you’ve ever met someone who halfway read Robert McKee’s how-to-write-a-screenplay-for-dummies-ass book Story, they’ll eventually tell you how movies are built. In order to make a modern blockbuster, you need to create scenes that snap audiences from either end of an emotional spectrum. In modern mainstream filmmaking, scene tension is a foundational rule that makes sure things are fun in the most predictable way possible.
Let's try this again
Cultivating a writing practice has never really been high on my to-do list. The longest thing I’ve ever written—5000ish words on techno for the New Yorker—was effectively written in a single overnight session in Florida. There was a paragraph I had to get out of my brain before I went to sleep one night, and I just kept typing and filed at 5:00am before passing out. What I’m saying is that save for the odd fugue state, I don’t really write that much.
Robotsssssssssss
For the last few months, I’ve been trying to figure out why I have no interest in the generative AI chat bots that have enamored most people on the internet. The only reason I’ve been thinking about this in more than a passing way is because A) it’s (kinda) part of my job to understand what’s going on in tech and B) everyone I talk to asks if I’m afraid of AI taking my job.
What do we do with goals?
So yes, this short newsletter is mostly to plug my first piece for the New Yorker which ended up being a near-5000 word reported article that ended up talking about culture, genres, community, and how to interrogate art. There are a ton of people to thank here, but besides all the folks I interviewed for the piece the most important person here is my dear friend Ethan Holben.
Turning followers into customers, one tap at a time
By TEDDY BROWN FOR FASTCO WORKS Sierra Tishgart, a former food writer and editor, had spent her entire career around iconic cookware brands such as Le Creuset and Calphalon. She admired their quality and durability but felt like they were targeting a consumer she didn’t have much in common with. The pots and pans were too suited to traditional tastes and, crucially, too expensive.
Why diversity can supercharge your business
By TEDDY BROWN FOR FASTCO WORKS A diverse company is a disruptive company. That’s according to a recent analysis from researchers at North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management. In their analysis of the 3,000 largest public companies, they found that more heterogeneous firms were more innovative and got more products to market than less diverse ones.
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