The Black Mamba

Anok Yai and Rafael Pavarotti are a match made in editorial heaven.

Monaleo on working with Beyoncé!

🚨 When Mayor Mamdani took office, NYC had a $12 billion deficit. It is now $0.

This actually happened to my friend last tv year on my birthday lmaoo. We were in New York day drinking and she was arguing with her lil boo. She blocked him and made him text her though cashapp. At first she was requesting like $1,$5 .. little amounts. Then she switched it and put 10,000… Why did this man legit send the 10k in 3mins then realized it said 10k and was like omg I didn’t mean by I send that , can you send it back. Why this girl tell him no then proceed to go to saks and tell him she’ll buy him something tho as a gift. 😂😂😂😭😭 we got soooo so drunk that day. Oh and the guy ended up texting her the next day and saying it’s all good, she can keep it and he’s not mad at her. 😭😭😂😂

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs. He was rejected from every single one. Several rejections came at 1am, within minutes of submitting. He just became the lead plaintiff in the largest AI lawsuit ever certified. May 2025, Judge Rita Lin granted preliminary certification of a nationwide ADEA collective in Mobley v. Workday. Workday's own court filings represent that 1.1 billion job applications were rejected through its software in the relevant period. The court discussed potential class size in the hundreds of millions. If you're over 40 and you applied to a Fortune 500 in the last 7 years, your application was probably processed by Workday. You may be in the class. The legal precedent matters more than the headline number. For decades, the vendor screening applicants for an employer was not directly liable under Title VII. The employer was the only defendant. In July 2024, Judge Lin ruled the AI vendor itself qualifies as an "agent" of the employer and can be sued directly. First time. The "we're just the tools" defense evaporated in a single ruling. Same precedent now extends to every HR tech AI vendor in the pipeline. Greenhouse. Eightfold. HireVue. Paradox. None of it is priced into any of their valuations. Combine that with the rest of 2024. Air Canada lost in February for $812 because its chatbot hallucinated a refund policy, killing the chatbot-as-separate-entity defense. iTutorGroup paid $365K to the EEOC, confirming the algorithm doing the discriminating moves liability nowhere. Gemini cost Alphabet roughly $90B in market cap in days for one weekend of bad image generation. Every legal shield around AI in production got tested in court and lost. The AI PMs interviewing for foundation model roles can recite all four by month. Most engineers shipping AI at work cannot.

Devil Wears Prada 2 is a business nerd movie at heart. Not as good as the first film, but a worthy follow-up. A love letter to publishing, journalism, brands/advertising, and NYC. There is a scene that anyone who worked at a fashion brand or media agency in the age of Magazines (prior to ~2015) will cause PTSD. I thoroughly enjoyed that part because it was really, really accurate.