Links for June 6
AI, Martin Scorcese's childhood storyboards, baby boomers, James Talarico, Dusty Baker, rehab, grocery store pickles
Hope you had a smooth week. Go Knicks.
Links
This is on the longer side but this Kyla Scanlon piece titled “Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?” gets into the ambiguity around some of this (like the actual lack of job loss so far, and the corresponding warnings about it to come).
Via this sharp little Sonny Bunch look at the issue with AI in creative work, there’s a good quote from the Backrooms director and a link to something I had never seen before, which is storyboards that Scorcese did as a child.
Worth reading: A whistleblower says there was a plan to change pretty dramatically how Social Security treats some undocumented immigrants.
In the campaign realm, this is an informative story on Talarico’s church.
We did a focus group with baby boomers that has some thoughtful stuff in it.
Nice story alert: This Queens man (and friend!) has been replacing basketball nets in parks on his own initiative.
Nice story alert II: The Athletic has been running this little feature where they ask retired athletes who the best three leaders they encountered were, which is always sort of interesting to see who people said, and this one from LaTroy Hawkins has thoughtful things about Dusty Baker and Trevor Hoffman.
The Cut interviewed one of these people who does intense, private interventions and rehabs for the very wealthy and famous, which is ancillary to what’s interesting about it, which is more about family dynamics and emotional states.
Wirecutter ranked grocery store pickles, which I would honestly have to be the true judge of, as a real lifelong connoisseur who defaults now to a local brand of pickle (basically I am this portion of this Alison Roman video). But apparently Mount Olive1 has introduced sort of a premium brand, which is news you can use.
In terms of vibes, a beautiful Jalen Brunson move and a nice space.
Light book commentary
Very light.
A note on all this
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you enjoy. The goal here is just to offer up some links you may have missed, and maybe the occasional commentary on something in politics or a book I may have read that you, the reader, might enjoy. If you have thoughts on any of this, hit me up at katherinemillernyc@gmail.com.
In 2024, I went to North Carolina for some campaign events, and I had driven up to Goldsboro from Wilmington. It turns out you drive right through Mt. Olive and this is truly the kind of thing I never do, but I had an hour to kill, so I stopped off at the corner of Cucumber and Vine!!! Sadly the gift store had closed for the day.