AI in your pocket? What won’t they think of next!

 

From the humans@magica.ai, July 1, 2026

OpenClaw is finally available on Android and IOS

You better work!

 

The Beauty Products ‘Heated Rivalry’ Star Hudson Williams Uses to the Last Drop

Keep young and beautiful, / It's your duty to be beautiful ... especially if you’re a star.

Neon picks up ‘Artificial,’ hot potato movie about OpenAI

Independent Studio Buys Movie About OpenAI That Amazon Dropped 

Photo by Haiyun Jung/New York Times

 I was waiting for another studio to pick up Artificial. Take that, Amazon-MGM.

 

So much for taking the Mark Twain Prize seriously

 

Mark Twain must be spinning in his grave. According to this column by Marlow Stern from "Variety," Vance played Bill Maher like an old ukulele. I can't think of anyone less qualified to get the Twain Prize.

Bill Maher Gets Played

Sigrid Nunez had a surprising encounter at the Strand Bookstore

 Metropolitan Diary, June 28, 2026

Jay Kuo's “Just for Skeets and Giggles” for June 27, 2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/just-for-skeets-and-giggles-62726?r=1opwqh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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‘*****’s Ls for the Week’ from Amanda’s Mild Takes

 

Amanda's Mild Takes brings you the Dotard Leader’s “Ls for The Week.” It’s only Tuesday, and Everything is Going According to The Plan!™

https://youtu.be/rpqc-M2JCoU?si=1vBnd4My1SxhAErC

'Keep It Quarterly' call for comments

Not a good idea, no matter how you look at it. Consider also who tried to get it done in his first term, dropped it, and revived the proposed rule change this year. That's all I need to know.

Keep It Quarterly: Stop the SEC's six-month blackout 

Selected ‘AI Snacks’ for June 25, 2026

Here’s hoping that AI won’t cause the world to end for a while. Speaking personally, I have a lot of movies to watch.

In the meantime, software engineers’ jobs are safe. They’ll just have to turn out more code.

AI Snacks for June 25, 2026, from the humans at magica.ai

"Cats: the Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre is a must-see

Check-in: the Broadhurst Theatre for Cats: the Jellicle Ball.

This is not a post coded as a plea for help. It’s me, I’m at home, and everything is fine. What I want to tell you is that Cats: The Jellicle Ball is incredible. See it before it’s made illegal to have so much fun in public, and in a theater. Turning Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats into a gay ballroom competition was a stroke of genius by Zhailon Livingston and Bill Rauch, who absolutely deserved their Tony Award. The cast delivers everything they’re asked to do, and more, number after number. They “all own everything,” as RuPaul likes to say (I looked it up, so don’t give me shade), and the realness is off the hook. It’s also just about the gayest show I have seen in my life, and that includes the original La Cage aux Folles.

Don’t question me, just see it. I don’t want to hear that you don’t have the time. It’s been extended through January 17, 2027. You can thank me later, as I am thanking Randall David Cook, who reviewed it for https://therecs.co.uk/cats-the-jellicle-ball/ and gave the production .