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Drunk Bears Fan Grating Ram

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Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)

New York Times:
Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor  —  Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.

You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale

It's relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Vale is the longest continually running fiction podcast out there. (Some will argue it's actually We're Alive, but that has taken a few significant breaks between seasons.) The story of […]

CoinGecko: 53%+ of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after October 10's "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
CoinGecko: 53%+ of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after October 10's “liquidation cascade”  —  Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.  —  What to know:

With Multiple Train Megaprojects Ahead, Hochul Builds Her ‘Transit Legacy’

Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA Chair Janno Lieber walk along tracks in Borough Park slated to become part of the Interborough Express, Aug. 1, 2025.

New York City’s mass-transit system is potentially on track for what could be its most ambitious expansion in close to a century thanks, in part, to a booster from the state’s western edge. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal last week to advance the possibility of someday extending the Second Avenue Subway west to three new stations […]

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