Tim Shey

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

A chart showing NYC mayoral primary results (still being counted) by regions from largest to smallest, showing the top 12. Not going to recount all the numbers, but Cuomo leads in the top two neighborhoods: the upper west side and the upper east side (generally the "older" people's neighborhoods... and then Mandami wins bsically everywhere else. Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, Astoria, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Washingtong Heights, Harlem, Flatbush, Bushwick and the East Village.

Fascinating...

Shahana Hanif raises a hand to her mouth as she gasps in astonishment. She's in a bar, looking up at an off-panel screen. Cuomo just conceded. It's glorious.

I just got back from the @shahanafrombk.bsky.social victory party in Brooklyn! And it was awesome!

Here's Hanif at the moment she found out Cuomo conceded!

What a photo Greg!

YouTube video by NFL Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

Here's Kendrick Lamar's full Super Bowl performance.
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We all need to take this energy into the coming weeks and months. What a delight.

Just added one more to your count.

one of these days! 👋

Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.

The Techno-Utopian Dream of the 1990s Is Alive on RedNote (For Now) Will Americans actually use an app where the captchas aren't even in English?

I wrote about how American and Chinese internet users are accidentally cobbling together a techno-utopian version of the “global village,” even if it’s unlikely to last.

If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television

This is fantastic, thank you @rio.akasaka.org

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

Ms. Robbins, who grew up in Manhattan but now lives in Queens, compared navigating the intersection where she works, at Canal and Lafayette Streets, to a game of Frogger — at least in the old days. “It would stress me out just getting lunch,” she said. Thursday was her first day there post-congestion pricing. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I was able to cross safely, and cars weren’t honking. It was like a whole other world.”

“It was much easier to cross the street,” said Mr. Dandia, a 32-year-old native of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. “Definitely quieter. Definitely calmer.” Mr. Dandia, who also teaches a New York City history course at CUNY Guttman Community College, added that he saw great potential in congestion pricing. “I think it could lead to a renaissance — a street renaissance.”

In an email, Mr. Sethi, 42, reported that his Lyft driver got him from downtown Manhattan to Newark Liberty International Airport in just 23 minutes. “No honking, zero congestion around the Holland Tunnel, no need to leave an extra half-hour early to account for traffic,” he said.

On Tuesday, a social media user named Ali Lyles posted a video on TikTok in which he compared being charged a toll as he crossed a bridge to “being robbed without a gun.” Just a short time later, he posted another video, acknowledging that he had saved half an hour from his commute. “There wasn’t no traffic, bruh,” he said. “I might actually like congestion pricing!”

Can’t get enough of these congestion pricing anecdotes via @dodai.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing-reaction.html

Brilliant use of vacant office space in NYC:

Two empty floors of 307 W. 38th St have come back to life as new home of the famed Paul Taylor Dance Company. With beautiful studios, classrooms and rehearsal space.

A win for dance. A win for NYC. Thrilled to join today’s ribbon cutting.

Cults and mind viruses run rampant. Powerful algorithms hijack our minds. No wonder we all feel so deranged. They say my novels are surreal. But when I watch Elon Musk playing the jester in Donald Trump’s court, I’m not so sure. His latest novel is “Absolution.”

Written before the election. I have found that immersive reading is saving my mind right now. That means without my phone nearby to doom scroll, btw. Immersive reading does not work with constant distraction.

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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

How To Help Animation Industry Workers Who Have Been Displaced By The L.A. Wildfires Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses – here is how to help them directly.

Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses due to the LA wildfires – here is how to help displaced individuals in the animation industry. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY SO WE CAN HELP EVERYONE OUT!

‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster

The dystopia of Los Angeles' fires are horrifying, mundane, and everything in between.

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Who Are the Victims of the Los Angeles Fires? At least five people died in fires raging across Los Angeles. Several of them lived near each other in the ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

so far, seems like the first few victims are black folks who've lived in altadena for several generations and were trying so hard to hold onto their homes that they were willing to fight off the flames by themselves. man, they are so familiar to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

@rio.akasaka.org is there a way for google maps to keep / permanently archive the photos of neighborhoods like Palisades and Altadena destroyed in the LA fires to help people with rebuilding or just preserving the history of what was there?

The Watch Duty app has been without peer the safest and most reliable source of information around the fires in the last few days. Lives were saved because of them. Give if you can, they have earned our admiration and support. app.watchduty.org/donate

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

‘Like Winning the Lotto for Kids’: Remembering Nickelodeon’s Super Toy Run For close to 20 years, Nick gave kids a chance to indulge in toy greed. Not everyone came out unscathed.

If you were a kid in the 80s & 90s, winning a 5 minute all-you-can-grab shopping spree at a Toys 'R Us was the ultimate fantasy. This is a fun read from on how that all happened and what went down (including cameos from @fredseibert.bsky.social & alan goodman): www.mentalfloss.com/nickelodeons...

I like turtles!

AI trains itself on said book and then sues itself out of existence for using its book for training without its consent

Even worse, they’re pitching investors right now that their real business model is the data they’re aggregating about when people turn their lights on.

YouTube video by CNN CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention

This video is incredible youtu.be/mUzruGhBVpI?...

“no way out but through,” perhaps

It’s already so far along…