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Why did they make her look like Indian Ann Coulter

Sorry but can we be for real here. Asking "What's your name? What's your instagram?" with the flash on is rude and annoying. The whole "Judi Jupiter" man-on-the-street thing is great for art school kids strutting around Washington Sq park in weird outfits waiting to get "discovered." Azealia doesn't need instagram clout- she's already a star. Leave her alone!

Top large cities (min. 100k) by Wasian %, 2024 ACS: Honolulu, HI (5.1%) Berkeley, CA (4.6%) Irvine, CA (3.7%) Torrance, CA (3.6%) Seattle, WA (3.5%) Concord, CA (3.2%) Elk Grove, CA (3.2%) San Francisco, CA (3.2%)

He was in my year at USC and hung out exclusively with very pretty girls in the top sorority. Dress for the job you want, they say…

Shakira has been acquitted of tax fraud in Spain and will be reimbursed over €55 million, the country’s High Court has ruled.

so many amazing quotes in this, no idea where to start thefp.com/p/sergey-brins…

@KevinSabet Full story in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/exclusive-ca…

“This has the potential to be like the Master Settlement was for Big Tobacco,” @KevinSabet told me, referring to the $206 billion Big Tobacco deal in 1998—the largest civil settlement in American history.

Back to our regularly schedule Code programming (writing about drugs)

My inner millennial is touched and delighted by SF's newest celebrity, a sea lion named Chonkers who weighs about as much as a Smartcar nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/…

@metzgov Congratulations Bryan!

Some personal news: this week will be my last with Business Insider. I'm taking the summer off and traveling a bit, and then I'll be embarking on a whole new journey in August: starting law school at the University of Michigan.

@billybinion I always understood it as mafia slang for disappearing someone-- "8 miles out, 6 feet under" (I think the meaning within a restaurant is downstream of that)

I know we’re desensitized to the political moment, but it is genuinely wild that the federal government is prosecuting a former FBI director for boomer social media posting. Quite literally criminalizing speech. Dark and illiberal.

Full story: thefp.com/p/is-ibogaine-…

I spent months reporting on a once-obscure hallucinogen that's illegal in the U.S. but has thousands of veterans crossing into Mexico for a treatment they say is life-saving. I spoke with addicts, scientists, lobbyists, and even one woman who almost died during her trip.

That woman was Juliana Mulligan, who became an ibogaine advocate after a near-death experience while under the influence.

I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.

It's clear Mythos-class models are prompting people to rethink the relationship between AI labs and government. Who should gain access to such incredible capabilities—and in what order? I enjoyed discussing with @TheFP's Josh Code (@writes__code): "It’s likely that in the near future the AI industry will have to walk a tightrope between the poles of self-regulation and government takeover. 'The answer lies somewhere between two extremes,' said Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at @AEI. 'It’s a mistake to try to lock this technology in a box, and it’s just as dangerous to pretend the market alone will sort it out.'” thefp.com/p/who-should-c…

Anthropic’s latest model, Mythos, is stirring debate about whether AI must be placed under a Manhattan Project-style federal authority, writes Josh Code. thefp.com/p/who-should-c…