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@suchnerve The current line for me is starting to talk about rent as a feminist issue.

I listened to this quote at the 14:00 mark of @theo latest video "we all fell for it" (link below) a dozen times "AI disincentivizes you from learning about the pieces. And I think that's the biggest problem. Humans are very pain—feeling dumb hurts. When you're trying a thing and it doesn't make sense, you feel pain. When you try a thing and it just goes as expected, you feel good. AI has made it easier to avoid that pain and feel that reward. And what used to be a upfront cost you would pay to learn the pieces and then you could get the reward of solving the puzzle is now a slot machine. And your choices are go learn the pieces so that you can actually solve the puzzle correctly or keep pulling the slot machine until hopefully the correct answer comes out because each pull hurts a lot less than reading the docs for a language you don't understand or learning a library that doesn't map with your mental model properly or debugging something that feels hopeless. I learned about this from skateboarding. The reason most skaters give up before learning to ollie, much less kickflip, is because it feels so bad. You hate the feeling seeing others so effortlessly jump on their skateboard, ollie downstairs, and do all these fancy tricks, and you can't even get the board to come up off the ground with you. And then maybe you try a little too hard, and you hit your shin really hard, and now walking's uncomfortable for a few days. Most people give up before they learn those tricks because the pain is so great and the feeling of stupid and incompetence is so strong that they don't want to push through it. At least in code you didn't have the physical pain. You just had to feel dumb. And I'll be real, I kind of miss feeling dumb."

Over the past decade, a new generation of retail brands have branched out from their Elizabeth Street origins and multiplied across the city. Of course, you won’t find them on mall-brand shopping corridors like Manhattan’s 34th Street or Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Instead, these chains have congregated in stylish shopping strips like Bleecker Street in the West Village and Cobble Hill’s Bergen Street — corridors that have a distinctly “neighborhood” feel and attract younger shoppers with plenty of cash and a taste for (mildly) adventurous fashion. It’s a positive trend for the city, says Jonathan Bowles, executive director at the Center for an Urban Future, who has been tracking the city’s chains for 18 years. “I think New Yorkers are after interesting retail and for a while, it seemed the phrase national chain meant something boring and generic — the same retail mix they have in Cleveland,” says Bowles. It also coincides with a noticeable exodus of the megachains. In recent years, some of the most prominent national brands, such as T-Mobile, Starbucks and GNC, shed dozens if not hundreds of locations within the city. But the mini-chains are making up for the closings. The city now has 19 Warby Parkers, for example, along with 19 Aesops and seven Buck Masons. Anne Kadet explores the phenomenon happening across the city: nymag.visitlink.me/dGCEVF

@buccocapital crashed out on it the other day, it was never a thing before 4.6, now i feel like i hear it every other day

Bollywood star Alia Bhatt hits the #CannesFilmFestival red carpet for the Opening Ceremony and premiere of Pierre Salvadori's 'The Electric Kiss' (Photo: Getty)

The end is near. @ladygaga’s MAYHEM Requiem, arriving soon. ladygaga.com #AppleMusicLive

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