A.I. millionaires are buying celestial rocks.

Plus a Substack design lesson.

Good morning, everyone.

Today in Feed Me: A historic midtown bar is looking for a new operator, Teddy Kim on movies to see this weekend (including one I’m introducing), women are getting facelifts on their hands, the fate of Anna Delvey’s members club, which A.I. millionaire is going to the T-Rex auction at Sotheby’s next week, a new Hamptons cooking show is coming to Netflix, and SF’s tech companies are setting up shop in New York City.

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I was a little surprised by the reactions to the events roundup I included in yesterday’s newsletter. Substack’s CMS launched a new callout block feature a few weeks ago, and I’ve been playing around with it to try to figure out the best way to integrate it into Feed Me. Substack is notoriously limited on the design front, but I think I’ve done a good job at working around it with designing elements and manually adding them to here, plus using the Substack-provided customization tools like line breaks, colored text, and fonts.

I will use this as a moment to advise any person trying to find success in media at large, or specifically on Substack, to think more about design. If you like how a brand looks, develop the language so you can articulate why you like it. The reasoning behind my investment in Feed Me’s design is twofold: I respect my readers too much to put something ugly in their inboxes, and I identify as an artist before anything else.

I frequently work with illustrator (and fellow FIT grad) Sara Rabin on physical and digital Feed Me projects. When I worked with my designer Justin on Feed Me’s design system in 2024, I brought a variety of references to the table — Japanese car ads, old Apple Computer guides, worn out embroidered gym bags that you see bankers carrying on the A train.

Feed Me’s ouroboros symbol brings together two heavyweights of internet history: It’s a reconfiguration of Susan Kare’s command symbol for the keyboard of the original Macintosh computer, with an 8bit snake head that is evocative of Taneli Armanto’s Snake game preloaded on many of our first Nokia phones. The ouroboros also illustrates the theme of consumption, and the fact that Feed Me’s tone has a bit of a bite to it.