atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

I think yeah, it’s liberal arts focused and semester length

*continuing lol

the University of Chicago Graham School of Contuing Study, it’s your time to shine

Exile on Main St, proof that the UK extortionate post-war tax rates were stimulative

Option Value of Apex Predators: Evidence from a River Discontinuity Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

NBER paper on the option value of wolves:
“wolf presence has caused a 38% reduction in the share of animal-vehicle collisions relative to all collisions...the presence of wolves in N America has the potential to reduce damages from AVCs by $6.36B per year” www.nber.org/papers/w34377

Seems kinds risky to compare your romantic partner to Ryan Giggs www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

SAM NEILL GENERAL JOHN MACARTHUR If you were to commit a murder, how would you do it? It's got to be big! No slipping something into someones drink, that's just pathetic. I'd use a steamroller, just leave a stain on the road. There's probably a couple of people I'd put under a steamroller, but I won't say who they are, otherwise when they see a steamroller coming their way they'll be on full alert. And steamrollers don't go very fast...

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Also at a certain point, the noise is so constant and dispersed that unless someone is yelling *at you* it just white noise

(I say this as a native Portlander whose childhood friend’s dad was the lawyer who got Damon Stoudemaire off after that illegal search)

Blazers are getting arrested? Man the 90’s/aughts really are back!

NBA head coach charged in illegal poker operation Heat guard Terry Rozier was arrested in a separate but related betting case.

The widespread normalization of gambling — aided by legalization and turbocharged by elite sanction — is very clearly a moral rot that is already having devastating consequences on American society and will get worse www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/126789...

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

Not great news for john chell and kaz daughtry

Broadly, it’s more modding out bsky.app/profile/bend...

Mamdani Plans to Keep Tisch as Police Commissioner if Elected

Tactically makes a lot of sense: Mamdani, Tisch, and the rank and file are all united in their desire to fire the top level officers installed by Adams www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...

someone smart in local politics told me they think Mamdani is going to spend the first chunk of his time as Mayor “modding out”

Doing a big splashy announcement on… DOE procurement reform makes ir seem like that’s going to be the case

the owner is a well known crank nimby

See, the predictions were right, AI is leading to job losses

This whole episode is giving me big Richard Ojeda flashbacks

sports analytics is effectively a stress test on a game's rules and on its governance

analysis will find better ways to win, and then the leagues need to align their rules with what the game ought to be

the NFL model of regular rule tweaks in response to stress-testing is the right one

And this is why the “just did a set-piece clock” is the wrong (or at least, incomplete) reaponse. You don’t just need to speed up stoppages in play. You need to reduce the xG value that comes from stopping play

Are set plays ruining the Premier League? How throw-ins are boosting Arsenal, but adding boredom As Premier League teams learn set pieces are a more efficient way to score, open play goals become rarer. Can the game withstand such a shift?

I've always wondered (and feared) what might happen if everyone started taking set pieces seriously. The first eight weeks of the Premier League season might be giving us a glimpse into the future, where soccer no longer features much, well, soccer: www.espn.com/soccer/story...

www.ft.com/content/6332...

ug so apparently this is like a fintwit urban myth! I went to find it and apparently ritholtz has talked about it but it doesnt exist so now I feel dumb and am deleting!

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We lived walking distance from an absolute God-tier video rental place that’s still going strong and *browsing* was a visceral experience. Truly amazing place run by a movie obsessive who collected and displayed weird horror props www.moviemadness.org

Solo: Ben’s Escape

Also “george lucas thinks it’s great” has been a reliable contra-indicator for decades

If Disney is flagging *Star Wars* scripts for plausabiliry it must have been absolute dogshit

And also, if you did indeed have this in a 401k, you were effectively investing at a discount of something like 33% or whatever your effective federal tax rate was so it actually wouldn’t have been 13 years and 4 months