Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

How deepfake AI job applicants are stealing remote work

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Explaining Mr. Rogers to kids who didn't grow up with him is a trip because he sounds like a political juggernaut. When public pools were segregated, he put his feet in a kiddy pool with Officer Clemmens, a Black man. He saved PBS by addressing senate. He made his show accessible for blind kids.

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

In this piece I wrote about how AI is harming teaching and the academic job market, but of course it’s also undermining scholarship

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Where we're going, we don't need roads.

This is so bad I’m actually offended

Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"

And the result is the core of people who *are* dedicated to things like program design and the student experience outside their individual classes are, comparatively, overworked. Equity issues abound (at the individual level, yes, and often along lines of sex/gender).

The thing about collegial governance at a university is that it takes collegiality. By this I don't mean *congeniality* (being nice) but a shared sense of responsibility and dedication.

Mistakes have been flagged in The Washington Post's AI-generated personalised podcasts that launched this week, with the title's standards editor describing them as "frustrating". The issues include the misattribution or invention of quotes www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

"The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus."

Human lives have value, and it’s urgent that we do everything that we can to preserve them even if they don’t contribute to capitalism. I would say: I can’t believe we’ve forgotten this basic concept, but I wonder if we, as a society, broadly understood– that is to say power – ever understood it.

Back last year, I wrote a piece about how Tim Walz and his family’s embrace of Gus offered a template for how parents of neurodivergent kids could embrace their loved ones. Thinking about that now as Trump’s supporters are hurling the r-word at the Walz family. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

This tech is destructive of human creativity and intellect. It is burning the planet so people can avoid thinking. Administrators who embrace it are hastening their own demise.

I agree. I think elite SLACs will be at the forefront of this.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

What's the chance you'll get snow — and how much — from tomorrow's Nor'easter? This gem of a story/tracker/tool will always let you know. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

"As of right now, there is no compelling evidence, to us, that genAI is useful to promote the development of learning as framed by a model of expertise (i.e., the MDL) or any other scientifically backed model of learning." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Genuinely surprised that this isn't a bigger story

Love this story!

People in institutions facing a legitimacy crisis fail to understand that while their individual actions can often be reasonable and well-considered, it *does not matter,* because a long series of larger actions have wholly eroded people's willingness to believe the institution is a good actor

A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...

Popular discourse attributes falling college enrollments to the rising cost of four-year college. That story is wrong in multiple ways, as @mattbarnum.bsky.social points out in his latest roundup of the evidence (citing a new working paper of ours): www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.

Enough is enough already

Good morning. Every reporter should be asking Kathy Hochul if she’s asked for Jay Jacobs resignation yet. He didn’t support the Dem nominee for mayor, he didn’t invest in Long Island, and because of that we were a lone red wave in an otherwise blue sea. We need change now. He has to go before 2026.

To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball

Halloween in a walkable neighborhood is life affirming

to everyone considering adopting baseball, welcome, it’s a great sport, you’re going to have a wonderful time an important PSA: do not look up the politics of any baseball player, because they are - with rare exceptions - horrendous

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

I agree with much in this article. Human thinking improves by engaging with ideas through language. Education should develop students’ abilities to engage in these ways. But we also must reckon with why students AREN’T doing this. Perhaps it’s laziness, but often I think it’s…(1/2) (Gift link below)

When you get to this point in baseball, it's a sign your season is over

Fired up in Philly, workers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania are joining a wave of cultural workers in their city and across the country who have formed a union through AFSCME. www.afscme.org/blog/more-ph...

I just remembered that goofy ass half Yankees/half Mets hat that Eric Adams wore lol

Relevant: In one of the few longitudinal (pre/post) studies of critical thinking skills around, Arum and Roska found that business majors showed no change, on avg, in critical thinking, complex reasoning, or communication skills after 4 years. Other majors did better. This was well before GenAI.

Walked by Kramer Books on my way home and signed a copy of my book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. Go pick it up if you don’t have a copy. The staff is also great too.

We couldn't have planned this better