I’m being told they’re going to pay for it with points

It’s called ice football now

I would pay extra for a channel that does not have the NBC commentary

It is tempting to see what‘s happening to the Post as a unique product of our time but “rich guy buys newspaper so he can steer it in more favorable direction” is a way more common occurrence in journalism history than “national newspaper develops reputation for solid, hard-hitting reporting”

I thought the food dye people were his rank and file

The three credit unions in Ithaca are now called Beginnings, Visions, and Alternatives

Owning a newspaper is like owning a football team. You can either win a lot of trophies or you can squeeze money out of it, but you can’t do both.

Wow ok; I see now why everyone’s mad at him

that Onion headline about Trump scrambling to fill the summer jazz calendar came true

I generally think that pretending we can put the AI genie back in the bottle is bad pedagogy but it became clear in the Claudine Gay discourse that there are some fields where the words you choose are part of what makes your work original and others where they are considered an annoying obstacle.

Parking in Ithaca has gone up to $2.50/hour but a parking ticket remains $15 so we’ve got some fun moral hazard potential here

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Now having watched HEAT for about the sixth time my take is the vibes and “love letter to LA” location shooting are impeccable which allows it to skirt the fact that the plot makes absolutely no sense

Most of the people who say their ancestors immigrated "the right way" are describing an era when you could basically just show up at the dock

Oscars: ok generally I know these people despite not being a movie buff Grammys: Jesus Christ I’m old

I could swear before the age of influencer moms no one used the terms “hubby” or “little ones”

The experience of writing a book can be summed up by finding a note you wrote to yourself eight years ago that says "see also Plotkin" with no further explanation

I have lived my whole life in places that have real winters and if there's a place where "people know how to drive in the snow" I haven't found it yet

The main funeral home in Ithaca is Bangs Funeral Home and the main ambulance company is Bangs Ambulance. It just seems like a conflict of interest, is all I'm saying.

The Ravens job is the most appealing job up for grabs this year, thus I predict it will go to the top available candidate: John Harbaugh

My printer now mostly exists to print return labels

This is completely unprecedented from a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

My dry cleaner went from extremely low tech to extremely high tech all at once. A year ago they were cash only and hand wrote their tickets. Now there’s an app where each of my shirts is tracked like they’re making me a pizza.

Everyone knows that if you win a championship in New York, you get a parade down Broadway. I propose that if you win an NBA Cup you should get a parade down 10th Avenue.

Something I've really come to believe is we spill oceans of ink on the question of what precise mix of policy views is politically optimal when reality shows that sufficiently charismatic candidates can get voters to agree with pretty much anything

“I wish for the Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime” [monkey’s paw curls]

lol Susie Wiles is Pat Summerall's daughter?

ah yes, the New York Times, famously antagonistic toward [shuffles notes] Hollywood liberals

normal people: this is insane academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit

Charging for Tweetdeck was the beginning of the end

Time for my annual rant about how “Hanukkah“ is the worst transliteration

Time for my annual Hanukah hot take: these are not latkes. These are hash browns. If this is what you are trying to make, just admit you don’t like latkes.

🎶I’ve never really been but I’d sure like to go 🎶

Very hard to watch Staples struggle to come to terms with the fact that it’s just the Returns Store now

People's degree of risk aversion when it comes to air travel itineraries is quite something. Found a thread online where people are advising *against* a 5 hour layover at JFK because OP has to collect bags and recheck at a different terminal. 5 hours! They're telling him to stay overnight instead!

For those wondering what upstate New York is like: parking in the covered garage at the Syracuse airport doesn't prevent your car from being snowed on, it just reduces the amount somewhat.

the answer clearly is that the Bay Area's natural beauty is like the Ark of the Covenant; gazing at it without divine authorization drives one to insanity

Lots of stories out there about people outside academia not understanding this world but my mom has a humanities PhD and even she sometimes texts me like "what if you just wrote to the Ford Foundation and asked for a job"

If you want to know what life is like in this part of New York, 80% of the local ads on the Syracuse CBS affiliate are for roofers. The remaining 20% for heating companies.

Old enough to remember when Black Friday meant sleeping in tents for $100 plasma TVs or whatever and mistreating low-wage workers and there was a lot of hand-wringing over What This Said About America

I believe it was @freedaaron.bsky.social who tweeted this originally but good luck to everyone rediscovering this weekend that their parents have radically worse food prep safety standards than they do

What’s remarkable is how persistent this has remained even across all the changes in planning teaching and practice that have taken place since activist planners started to note this in the mid 1960s

There was a distinct period of time when American real estate developers were like ”you know what screams classy? The Welsh language”

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There's no greater evidence of an NFL coaching hivemind than the fact that the pendulum swung violently ~5 years ago from punting on 4th and 1 so you didn't look stupid in the eyes of your colleagues to going for it on 4th and long so you don't look insufficiently "aggressive"

Props to Coors for getting decades of advertising material out of the idea that "our beer is really cold," a premise that makes only makes sense if you've had a few too many

The problem with Mamdani putting all of his eggs in the cost of living basket is now he has to bring down the cost of living

My “My Cause My Cleats” would be the fund to finish the renovation of the Ithaca Farmers Market parking lot

Anyone trying to find some deeper meaning out of Trump’s reaction to Mamdani—especially as it relates to the rest of the Democratic Party—is going to be embarrassed over the long run

Everyone knows kids need diapers and food but did you know they also increase your household consumption of alkaline batteries by six billion percent