Mike Nam

Consumer reporter at the Daily Mail, ex-editor for CNN Business, Cheddar News, the NY Daily News, and more

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

we're not asking for much

[Jimmy Traina @JimmyTraina]

This is an amazing piece of old-school New York footage.

Local NBC news after the Mets won the 1986 World Series.

Chuck Scarborough. Sue Simmons. Al Roker. Len Berman. And a bunch of absolutely HAMMERED Mets players.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

It's been the coldest winter in more than two decades for swaths of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

In New York, you'd have to go back to the mid-1990s to find a colder one.

Some younger people would be experiencing the coldest winter of their lives so far.

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

Does anyone out there have access to someone who may have recently switched careers from a more 'desk job' oriented field to a more 'blue collar' industry? Looking to get their opinions for a story on mid-career change amid a difficult employment landscape

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

A super interesting new study from Harvard Business Review.

A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier.

Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred.

That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete.

Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away.

Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load.

Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

The Hudson Yards windtunnel

[Rain Drops Media @Raindropsmedia1]

Winds hit 50 mph combined with sub zero temperatures in NYC. 👀 🌬️🗽

[Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki]

The Demise of the Machine Era

I wrote about the NJ-11 cliffhanger, where an AOC/Sanders-backed progressive insurgency signals just how throughly the state’s Democratic culture has been upended by resistance politics

https://t.co/quB4xisJ0x

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.

We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.

But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.

Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.

We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.

My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.

The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."

I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."

There is no AI dependency matrix.

There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.

But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."

So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."

Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.

The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."

I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.

What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.

But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.

The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.

We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.

And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

[Erin Durkin @erinmdurkin]

They can’t run the ferry because the river froze this is crazy

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

@legen_eth Whoa, how do you even acquire that many pennies and how do you even transport and store it? Full disclosure: I'm a freelance consumer reporter for the Daily Mail, but I am legitimately wowed by this dragon hoard

[Casey Hudson @CaseyDHudson]

Don’t worry about the “not till 2030” rumors. Game will be out before then. I’m not getting any younger!

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

The Pitt video game tie-in

[HBO Max @hbomax]

Welcome (back) to The Pitt.

Season 2 of #ThePitt returns January 8, 2026 on HBO Max.

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

Can’t wait for HD Pazaak

[IGN @IGN]

Saber Interactive’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is reportedly still in development, and a KOTOR 2 remake may be on the way as well, with documents revealing it was “technically on the roadmap” as of March 2025. https://t.co/l8RS0gVwBb

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

Discovering Vertigo titles as a kid in the ‘90s was a profound milestone for me in reading fiction

[AIPT @AIPTcomics]

🖤 DC Vertigo is BACK for 2026! A brand-new trailer just dropped—and we’ve got March cover reveals for four titles!
@DenizCamp @StipanMorian @TheKyleStarks @stevepughcom @ThatJPhillips #comicbooks #horror @thedcnation #DCVertigo
🔥 Horror. Noir. Chaos.
https://t.co/wDio26L9kI

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

My name is Mike Nam, an experienced writer and editor, and I am open to work as 2025 comes to a close! https://t.co/4MHoI0LleY

[NYCT Subway @NYCTSubway]

REMINDER: Starting at 6 a.m. on Monday, December 8, F and M trains will permanently swap routes between Manhattan and Queens on weekdays, affecting eight stations. There will be no change from current service late evenings, nights, and weekends.

On weekdays, F trains will stop at Queens Plaza, Court Sq-23 St, Lexington Av/53 St, and 5 Av/53 St. M trains will stop at 21 St-Queensbridge, Roosevelt Island, Lexington Av/63 St, and 57 St.

This permanent service change is intended to reduce congestion and delays on the E/F/M/R lines.

For more information, visit: https://t.co/PjUbwjSTeA

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

Absolutely delightful

[AIPT @AIPTcomics]

🌟 Season 2 of Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake faces new challenges, deeper bonds, and mysterious dangers (including Finn’s illness). #AdventureTime
💫 @scribe999 reports from #NYCC:
https://t.co/hzhU9tXhGZ

[Mike Nam @scribe999]

I dropped in on an Image Comics panel

[AIPT @AIPTcomics]

⚠️🤖 At #NYCC2025, @ImageComics’ big panel sparked debate over the role of AI in #comics, with creators warning of its dangers and impact on the industry. Full story via @scribe999:
https://t.co/vCqg7BoQ0j

[New York Comic Con @NY_Comic_Con]

Labubu, who? It’s the pizza rats for us 🍕🐀 Adopt a rat at our Show Store Booth #4103 and accessorize your bag for NYCC. Choose your new pet (from our @squishable friends), outfitted in their own teeny tiny official NYCC shirts. Limited quantities available!

[The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein @LVMandM9onPrime]

This is going to be an EVENT! Don't miss our Critical Role x Prime Video #NYCC panel!
P.S. The Traveler said you totally have to come 🍭 💙 🍆