Yinnon G

Yes but have you tried kindergarten teachers

This thread could be an assignment for either my municipal finance or housing courses: Answer yes/no and explain why

Alt headline: Corporation Resolves Performative Crisis with Performative Investment

ספרית ארן, נדלר-נדלר-ביקסון שתכננו גם את סוראסקי

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Austin Powers (1997)
Mulholland Drive (2001)

The best unsung brutalist heroes IMO are Israeli campus libraries

Is Mayor Olivia Chow ‘raiding’ Toronto’s reserves in the 2026 budget? Coun. Brad Bradford is accusing the mayor of using the city's bank accounts to "buy Torontonians' votes" with an artificially low tax rate. Do his allegations have any merit?

I can't be that upset at the reporter, they asked city staff and got misdirection and obfuscation, but this article on reserve funds will leave you worse off than if you'd never read it. So I guess I'll do a quick overview of what the reserves actually are. 🧵 1/
www.thestar.com/news/gta/is-...

אם אהובייך יפקירוך
אם תחניק אותך בגידה

This chart from @bcpolicy.bsky.social should be posted in the background of any productivity discussion (or any Rotman event for that matter)

The Ed Glaeser Doctrine

one more $100m budget boost will fix the police force, bro

One can ask how on earth were pools considered permeable landscaping in the first place

OLP leadership race picking up…

Thrice shoveled, thrice covered by plows. Feels like they’re testing me

Not forgiven, not forgotten (I still love the pre-crazy albums though)

The good people of Tarabeen would disagree

American progressives, this is a good time to reconnect with your Israeli friends

Time to start teaching basic sapping in Canadian schools

Preparing my Michael Storper class for next week and realizing the GTA falls squarely in the worst part of this chart

Unpopular opinion: Green Line trains should be green

Let him cook, as the young ones say

נראה מדהים, הלוואי והייתי במצב

Quite an interesting take on my employment prospects courtesy of the LinkedIn algorithm

Thank you but I'm aiming higher than 10

YouTube video by Stu@Tas Gotta Have Neu!

Also mistyping "reveneu" every single time so obviously thinking of Neu!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jC...

I'm teaching municipal finance this term which means I finally have an excuse to show that clip from the Simpsons' monorail episode in class

Saw this one for the first time as god intended: age 15, in a friend's basement, on MTV, at 4 am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiG...

Things that the 4-year-old did in the past 24 hours, while sitting on the toilet:
- explain the plot of K-pop demon hunters to me (not sure she watched the movie)
- sing Jesus is a Biscuit

Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich

My one major takeaway from this piece is how little correlation there is between wealth and intelligence, or even financial acuity

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

32 Lisgar encapsulates all the problems of Toronto's old community benefits (Section 37) regime: meager compensation for massive development, symbolic nods to "the arts", capital investment without operational strategy. Maybe an idea for a paper...