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Tyler Kolek and Mikal Bridges at today’s Knicks parade

Before his election, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized FIFA for encouraging a secondary market. On Friday, the World Cup-inspired jersey drop fell into the same resale trap where people waited on line for affordable $50 kits that sold at a 2000% markup on eBay fortune.com/2026/06/12/n...

'Buy a ticket for 60 bucks and resell it for $6,000': NYC Mayor Mamdani criticized FIFA's resale market, but his jersey drop created the same thing | Fortune

The New York City mayor has been very vocal about FIFA's resale market and how ordinary, working class New Yorkers were priced out of a limited supply.

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The line for the Zohran World Cup jerseys stretches from the CityStore at the Dinkins building to 1PP back around to the courthouse

Going around the bar asking people who they’re rooting for

The whole Ditmars platform jumped when Tom Hanks as Woody started blasting at 75db as part of the new MTA audio ads piloting this week

Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrote about two things very important to me: The Sopranos and urban infrastructure. Unfortunately I had to cut plenty of the sopranos references but if you followed my 2021 city council campaign run, the urban infrastructure points are pretty good fortune.com/2026/05/25/f...

The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s 'D' rated infrastructure | Fortune

Welcome to the World Cup, where the bus is a school bus, the train costs $98, and there's no sidewalk to the stadium.

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Poured through 100s of pages of filings to follow the power lines in the Lake Tahoe region, sitting in geographical and jurisdictional ambiguity. Now the 49k residents are in between California electricity rates and Nevada power sources. fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...

'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Went through hundreds of pages of documents to find exactly where the power flows through Lake Tahoe. It turns out it’s a big jurisdictional and geographical mess and no one wants to take responsibility

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

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Catherina Gioino @catgioino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last night’s Met Gala saw a record $42 million raised for The Met’s Costume Institute, but it came from an unusual source for the typically fashion- and celeb-driven event: Silicon Valley. Jeff Bezos was the lead sponsor, forcing some celebs to skip it. fortune.com/2026/05/05/m...

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million as Silicon Valley picked up the tab—and as celebs protested Jeff Bezos' sponsoring of the event | Fortune

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million this year, powered by Silicon Valley sponsors. Other usual regulars decided to skip because of their presence.

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Been on a NASA x food kick lately. First, Nutella was seen floating on the Orion ship Integrity. Then, the Artemis crew said they wanted Uncrustables and today @smuckersbrand.bsky.social said they’ll give them a lifetime supply fortune.com/2026/04/09/n...

Nutella jumps on the best product placement money can’t buy: A trip to the far side of the Moon | Fortune

The chocolate-hazelnut spread goes where no other spread has gone before. Now the company is eating up the free product placement within the Orion spacecraft.

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4mo ago

🚨ERIC ADAMS IS ALBANIAN🚨 albaniandailynews.com/news/former-...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo ago

We’re at the final step before King Croesus “destroys a great empire” after going to war with Persia Diogenes with “deface the currency”: Yuan vies the petrodollar Croesus dismissed the army: Hegseth fires the generals

Iran responds to Trump

Fortune @fortune.com · 4mo ago

Individual tax returns cost American taxpayers a combined $146 billion in time and out-of-pocket expenses this year—roughly $576 per person in labor hours alone, according to a new analysis from Postal. https://bit.ly/47XcqBx

Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | Fortune

There are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 4mo ago

“He basically laid down a credit card right then and there, and said, ‘ Book the flight, book a medical flight,” said Alexandria McMahon, mother of Stella McMahon. https://bit.ly/4sBT9hp

A toddler needed a life-saving flight, and the insurer said no. Then Mark Cuban called | Fortune

Stella McMahon, 16 months old and fighting T-cell leukemia, needed a medical plane to Cincinnati for a federally funded study. Her insurer said no.

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Got taxes? You’re paying for more than just the tax return. Americans are spending billions of dollars and hours on filing their taxes, and a compliance expert I spoke to said there’s a simple fix: digitize it all. Read on @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/03/24/t...

Americans spend $146 billion and 11.6 billion hours doing their taxes, and most of it is just filling out paperwork | Fortune

There are more than 10,000 forms you have to sort through to file your taxes, and the fear of going to jail over a mistake has never been higher.

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I interviewed the researcher behind the first study quantifying just how dangerous “AI psychosis” is, and how sycophantic chatbot models validate a user’s thoughts, worsening symptoms of delusions and mania fortune.com/2026/03/07/c...

Chatbots are 'constantly validating everything' even when you're suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is | Fortune

It's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the problem with chatbots.

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The team behind #Subnautica was well on track to receiving a $250 million bonus for the hit game’s highly anticipated sequel. That was until the Krafton CEO asked ChatGPT for help to avoid paying it out fortune.com/2026/03/17/k...

A gaming CEO asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying a $250 million bonus. It didn't work | Fortune

Krafton's AI-assisted scheme to oust the makers of Subnautica 2 just collapsed in court after a judge ruled the company had to reinstate the CEO and payout the bonus.

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The cover letter: written by AI, read by AI, and universally hated by all. For @fortune.com, I spoke with @upenn.edu Professor Judd Kessler on what the future holds in store for the cover letter—and it looks grim (but you might be happy about that): fortune.com/2026/03/23/i...

'AI killed the cover letter.' This Wharton economist says the hiring ritual's days are numbered | Fortune

Let's be honest: You didn't spend hours researching and writing your cover letter. You used AI, and that's fine, because AI is going to read it anyway.

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I interviewed @columbiasipa.bsky.social professor and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz about his book, The Road to Freedom, and what he thinks inequality means in the age of AI. The verdict: it’s not looking good

“If we don’t do anything about managing AI, there is a threat that it will lead to more inequality,” professor Joe Stiglitz said. “And since inequality is such a bad, serious problem in our society, that is a great concern to me.” https://bit.ly/46K2Hho

On Tuesday, Nitra, an AI-powered healthcare financial and operational platform, announced a $50 million Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to $205 million. https://bit.ly/4s3Lwjz

This Harvard dropout took a company public before 30. Now he's raising $205M to fix the business side of medicine | Fortune

Tim Hwang, who's also a former Obama campaign staffer, now has his sights set on a $10 billion valuation, and the numbers suggest he might not be bluffing.

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A new feature that’s rolling out next month on Teams will allow your admin (and coworkers) to pinpoint exactly what desk you’re sitting at in the office

Employers will be able to track where specifically in the building you are with the new Microsoft Teams update. https://bit.ly/4s5lJr1

Some truly original reporting here: I was scrolling through the US Mint’s site for unrelated reasons and noticed something’s off with the new dime design

The U.S. Mint unveiled new designs for the country’s 250th anniversary and it left out one key detail: the olive branch from the newly designed dime. https://bit.ly/40taFYU

You’ve heard it: “if I could go back, I’d invest everything I owned in ____.” Well, this week, Microsoft’s IPO turned 40. To say you’d be a millionaire is an understatement

40 years to the day since Microsoft went public in 1986, many investors are riding on a high never-before-envisioned for a simple concept that came from that magazine cover decades earlier. https://bit.ly/4utbxds

Washington has not changed its tax code in almost a century— an every effort to do so until now has ended in defeat. Now, after a 25 hour filibuster complete with 81 amendments, the state has an income tax