Steven Bodzin

So when they say they are afraid of subway, this is what they mean?

Do you remember how four years ago the Negative Nellies said that Open Streets would be abandoned to homeless people and drug dealers once office workers returned to their desks?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men And she’s never been happier.

All of my business is now in the newspaper!!
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

screen shot of Bluesky, showing someone named "Propter Malone" discussing the physical force implications of having Donald Trump commanding military forces in the US capital, followed by the world's best-resourced news organization writing, "This easy peach cobbler is simply spectacular" with an appetizing photo of a peach dessert in a cast-iron pan.

the coup never ended, it won. trump and republicans understand that control over key buildings is often determinative in a power struggle and are making sure that (unlike on jan 6) they have full control over the guys with guns in the DC region.

Wait is this all about big balls? Is there a good write-up somewhere?

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM Bolivia goes to elections, US gets confusing about Venezuela, and Brazil is getting wild

The Big Stories to watch this week in LATAM

Bolivia goes to elections, US gets confusing about Venezuela, and Brazil is getting wild

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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"What's your AI strategy for your university?"

"Tripling the size of our faculty, offering twice the number of classes & cutting the others to half the size...oh, that's not the answer that you were looking for?"

I have been hearing this line for years but in a country with a history of slavery I don't think that will happen. If the food system starts getting disrupted, I expect a revival of contract labor from Ice detentio

This whole Cuomo discourse about housing is very funny considering that he's trying to move into public housing

Thanks. Though I read that release and don't really see what he did wrong there

linkedin bio says: Highly regarded for his impressive skills inside and out of the courtroom, Hartley T. Bernstein is recognized widely as a persuasive advocate for the distinct interests and concerns of each client. A thoughtful and meticulous problem-solver, he is a sought-after advisor to executives, an architect of innovative and winning business strategies, and a successful litigator who has achieved notable victories. His client base is wide, deep, and varied, running the gamut from global publicly traded corporations and investment banks to privately held companies, small businesses, and individuals. Hartley’s broad-based litigation practice includes high-stakes advocacy on a comprehensive array of civil claims. He has successfully tried cases and argued appeals in both federal and state courts and appeared as counsel in hundreds of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, achieving a notable record of success. With extensive expertise in commercial and residential real estate transactions, including property sales, leasing, management, and financing, Hartley’s clients include real estate developers, management firms and property owners. Hartley provides legal counsel and strategic advice to private and public companies across a broad spectrum of issues and transactions. These include corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, employment and employee compensation agreements and contract matters. Over the course of his career, Hartley has represented investors, as well as companies and broker-dealers in connection with public offerings, private placements of securities, and corporate financing transactions. Hartley counsels employers and employees on a broad spectrum of employment and workplace matters and practices, and has represented them in claims and actions alleging discrimination on the basis of gender, age, disability, and LGBTQ status.Highly regarded for his impressive skills inside and out of the courtroom...

If you look at his extravagantly adverb-heavy (ChatGPT-esque?) LinkedIn bio you can see that he took part for years in an investigative reporting project exposing stock scams, so he definitely knows the line between "saying bad things" and "defamation"

www.linkedin.com/in/hartley-t...

The funny thing here is how there is a paragraph accurately describing facts up to now and then the goofy paragraph warning Miser not to defame people. Mr. Bernstein doesn't say that any of the actions up to now were torts, because he knows they aren't. He just says "don't defame people." OK pal!

sounds like they are about to give a bunch of oil companies permission to operate

Stop and smell the concrete

I'm definitely a self hating Steve

Like my elementary school class the entire government is now going to be named Steve. Bannon, Miller, Miran...

Steveocracy.

Take it from a Steve, this is a bad idea

Support the troops, they said

a message; a word.

Senior Agent Who Helped Oversee F.B.I.’s Response to Jan. 6 Is Fired

Mamdani is going to have plenty of options if he wants a new police commissioner

(Gift link)

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Eater the Rich

Scruffy beards are the new M dash

I would much rather have parking attendants covering zones of the city and collecting $40 per vehicle every night, towing illegally parked cars, and maybe refunding some money.

I don't see how permits get people to pay for parking, unless you're referring to the permit fee being the payment. In most cities that is an amount that is barely sufficient to cover the processing costs of the permit system. If the permits are thousands of dollars a year, okay, maybe

I think it's really counterproductive. The people who should be parking on the street are people who have a car in the city for a very short time. People who are passing through, renting a car for the weekend, etc. Anyone who owns a car in the city should have dedicated parking.

I would rather see everyone pay some amount for overnight parking and residence who are able to prove compliance with basic laws can get a partial refund at the end of the year or the end of the month. Drivers with lots of tickets, obviously, would not get that refund.

The problem with permits include forgery and a sense of entitlement. People in most cities have even more possessive attitudes about parking spots than in NYC, and it's because there are inevitably more permits than available spots.

Parking permits in most cities are very bad. We should not have permits. We should simply charge for parking. $40 a night to park on the street. Maybe give a refund to cars that are registered to NYC addresses, with NY plates, and are fully insured all year.