Wednesday Notes for June 11th, 2025

Mourners gathered in Harlem to honor the life and legacy of retired Congressman Charles B. Rangel, who passed away on May 26.

Bonhams is auctioning off the largest single-owner whisky collection in its history this June via an epic online sale and live event.

Two decades after the release of her landmark debut album Arular, M.I.A. has some new music for us. In January, she dropped “Armour,” a new track inspired by her recent conversion to Christianity. Today, she’s got another one called “Safe,” and it’s about many of those same things: “Straight quotes like quartz, you put your faith in crystals/ Here’s a quote, I put my life in Jesus Cristo/ Jesus let ’em know what I’m really here for/ I’m the type of woman many men really pray for.”

The iconicAir Jordan 5 “Fire Red” with the black tongue will retro 2025. Head to Nice Kicks to learn more.

Indiana needs the alpha version of Tyrese Haliburton, while OKC hopes Chet Holmgren can keep holding down the fort inside.

OpenAI’s CEO believes that AI systems will be capable of figuring out “novel insights” in 2026, he said in a blog post.

Linear, an enterprise software maker that competes with many of Atlassian’s products, announced that it raised $82 million in a Series C funding round led by Accel.

Tuesday’s 4-0 capitulation against Switzerland will no doubt leave USMNT boss Mauricio Pochettino wondering what he’s got himself into.

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