What type of cap would you call this?

Pair of lunar ticks.

Two of the biggest American pop music originals -- Sly Stone and Brian Wilson -- died in the same week. Here are a pair of playlists with my faves. 1) music.apple.com/us/playlist/be… 2) music.apple.com/us/playlist/sl…

My wife's darkly moving piece on father's day nytimes.com/2025/06/15/opi…

Just responded seriously and thoughtfully to a tweet and only after sending did I see the guy's handle was something like "OxRacist" Ah, twitter.

Trailer for Nolan's ODYSSEY dropped:

Greatest movie director of images? (Write in other selections below!)

"Hey hey, my my. Rock 'n roll will never die." - Franz Kafka, born on this day in 1883

Favorite?

Great story from my friend Rich Cohen on the summer magic of the ice-cream truck, and the particular creepiness of that jingle... wsj.com/lifestyle/admi…

When you ask Grok to elaborate.

Some weird things about SUPERMAN 1) Superman loses at the start, but the character—the movie—seems to forget it 2) It also seems to forget one of its main villains, who just... goes free? Maybe? 3) There's talk of a "pocket universe" as if it's a real-life issue Cast is great tho

Wow, great candid shot!

All of the moments are beautiful

Only in a degraded culture would someone think it worldly to call readers of novels -- of Joyce, say; or Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Morrison, Bellow, Nabokov, Woolf, Proust, Goethe, you name it -- "unserious."

A.I.'s math is bendy.

To my ear, the sum of his achievement. music.apple.com/us/playlist/bl…

Dear MTA: It's so much worse if your signs alert us to wildly incorrect arrival times than to have no signs at all. PS Where's all that congestion-pricing money going? Subways remain, in every way, nearly intolerable.

Theory of MTA Relativity: when 1 minute is really 12 minutes. PS *Only* the A, B, C, D, E, F, and M trains are delayed in both directions? Great day for MTA.

the NYC subway just made me so late to a meeting that i had to cancel it.