"He was visually unflashy, almost to an extent that it became his signature as a director. I'm not sure what a Rob Reiner film 'looks like.' He mostly picked great scripts, made his visual and storytelling choices, and got out of the way to let his actors cook."

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It’s the size of the cars and the enforcement of laws and the car dependence and the speed and probably some other stuff too, stupid

Residents of Lower Manhattan have been demanding pedestrianized streets for decades, but the city and Big Business keep thwarting them. Sounds like a job for Mayor Mamdani.

More than anything else, it’s just sad that people start with an impression that NYC isn’t safe for humans, impressed upon them by the nastiest lying humans to ever walk the earth

imagine a world where business owners did some basic arithmetic and realized they got more business from transit users than drivers

This is your city on traffic engineering.

I’m sorry what are WHAT WHAT

This man has the correct energy about sweaters.

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

Abundance!

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There obviously needs to be accountability for these parents, but until the purveyors of this misinformation start facing consequences we will continue to see these problems.

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

COVID broke everyone's brains, now they're slowly getting their shit together

Prediction: zero of the people who are certain New York is some sort of post-apocalyptic chaos zone will find this news at all comforting. Because they don't want it. They want to be scared of the Big Bad City. It's validating to them.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

When the IAC Building was first built, there wasn't much height around it. As far as I can recall it was the first of his buildings I'd seen. I took cabs past it at night occasionally, and I found it so beautiful. It was fun and a bit ethereal, and I loved how it seemed to twist and follow the cab.

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

The people who have been the absolute worst about this in my experience are, of all people, ISPs. What do you think I was trying to do? You think I WANT to be on the phone?

Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

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The reason this ends in tragedy is that financialized news is the most convenient tool for fraud in human history. There’s a not a single newsworthy topic that’s possible to bet on that isn’t also possible to manipulate or insider trade. Watch what happens when we start betting on celebrity deaths.

Good news for me I have been Zissoucore for a while

The man’s third career basically was just fixing artistic movies that needed script work and he was a fucking genius at it.

“Uncertainty is the normal state. You’re nobody special.” “Empiricism!? Is that all you have to offer?” “Who are we that so much should converge on our little deaths?” “You are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. That is enough.” I think about—and quote from—this play *all the time*. RIP to a master.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...

"While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy." Good thing I don't work for the economy, huh?

heavy is the head that clings to its happiness crown

Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more

This is exactly why this piece is so important. The national conversation has largely flattened the effects of the VRA -- and it's potential demise -- to which party controls Congress. There's so much more to the VRA than that, and so much more on the line

This is all true but I have a hard time calling something that actively pursued harm to life, flourishing, American soft power, and government effectiveness a failure. In the same way I wouldn’t call throwing a Molotov cocktail through a window a failure if the whole neighborhood burns down.

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Injuries are increasing near last-mile warehouses and advocates want to change the model for more accountability.

I think I'm also coming to believe that anyone whose work requires maintaining a public, personal brand should have to take ~a week off every month from either writing from that perspective or thinking about themselves privately in those terms, for sanity reasons

This is, indeed, the only relevant piece of new information in the Ryan Lizza substack post And it is relevant!!! I have a lot of questions for my former employers at NYMag!!!!!!!

MTG retiring the day her congressional pension vests gets a hearty little chuckle from me. My tax dollars at work.

The Big Chill is largely a ridiculous movie (not that I don’t like it) but the good vibes of the soundtrack are unimpeachable. Gotta hand it to the boomers for mid tempo 60s R&B/soul music, they nailed that one.

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They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

Need to print this up on a fancy flier and stick it under every windshield wiper in my neighborhood nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...

We need to give editors arrest powers.

uhhh yes please come for the dangerous and uneccesary 0-60mph times