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Nic’s Place Diner and Lounge, 1116 N Robinson Ave., closed for good on Saturday night, ending nearly eight years operating between Automobile Alley and Midtown. Owners Justin “Nic” Nicholas and Jovon Bunkley confirmed the news late last week, saying they plan to redirect their energy towards bringing breakfast service back to Nic’s Grill in Ten-Penn and expanding their current holdings. Nic’s Place opened in October of 2016, featuring a slightly smaller burger than the original Nic’s burger plus steaks, chops, chicken, pasta, salads, desserts, brunch on weekends and a gorgeous basement cocktail lounge.

On this week’s Moment of Zen, we discuss effective accelerationism and the AI debate. Speaking of AI, on this week’s Cognitive Revolution we discuss the BLIP-2 paper. Cool to see Moment of Zen chart at #65 and Cognitive Revolution at #88 on top tech podcasts. Note: This is part 2 in me trying to summarize Brett Andersen’s ideas, this piece quotes and summarizes from this piece. Read Brett for the full dose.

This poem was written for my brother’s daughter Simone. My brother Todd passed away on December 4, 1994, but for some reason he was on my mind tonight. I just came inside and still have my coat on. One of those tired restless nights but all will be well. The dead know nothing of time, they revisit when they wish. ncG1vNJzZmiokanBqr%2FMoquhZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe82inqGsXaW8prk%3D

In the 19th and 20th centuries, modernity came into its fullness and with this maturation, the vestiges of the religious worldview began to fall away revealing a crisis of meaning that we’ve come to call Nihilism. This emergence of Nihilism prompted philosophers to ask in earnest once again the long-since clichéd philosophical question—what is the meaning of life? Out of this renewed engagement with meaning, three trends emerged. There was the root problem—Nihilism i.

In between DC and Boston, I flew over to Paris for a big Nike blowout celebrating its proprietary Air technology. Nike On Air was held at the Palais Brongniart, the former home of the Paris stock exchange, and included an immersive experience highlighting the past, present, and future of Air.  The headlining event featured 40 elite Nike athletes—including Eliud Kipchoge, Faith Kipyegon, Sha’carrie Richardson, and Serena Williams—who unveiled Olympic team kits and something called A.

It is very rare that a sports marketing deal is breaking news in mainstream media. Yesterday it happened. The news about the German Football Federation leaving Adidas for Nike - after more than 70 years - was even sent as a push notification by major German media outlets. Some readers were confused about the relevance criteria for the breaking news, but the articles were the most read and commented on that day.

Hi hi hi. Okay, so I know that when you see words like “blonde” and “Taylor” in the vicinity of each other around these parts, you automatically assume I’m about to take you (willingly or not) into the Swiftverse—and you would not often be wrong. But not today, my friends! On Monday, I was scrolling through Instagram—likely avoiding a task I really needed to accomplish—when I saw a birthday post from Niki Taylor about her sister Krissy.

With her second-place finish in the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday night, Nikki Haley’s bid for the Republican nomination is all but over. The former South Carolina governor vowed in her concession speech to continue her campaign, looking ahead to the next round of votes in her home state. But the general consensus is that her path to beating Donald Trump is, at best, unclear. Given that we have reached something of an unofficial end, I wanted to take a look back at Haley’s campaign trail fashion.

I wrote about Nikola Jokić and the comments he made after Game 5 of the NBA Finals for Mockingbird. Here’s a taste: So there’s Nikola Jokić, the best basketball player on the planet. He’s standing on the court of Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, being interviewed by ESPN’s Lisa Salters just moments after he and his Denver Nuggets defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals. The confetti is just starting to fall for Denver’s first championship in its 50-year franchise history.