Anthony Townsend

When is New Jersey going to do something about these drones and attack Iran!?

I bought my family the plates from “The Bear” for Xmas. So does mean I can yell “I need hands!” from the kitchen?

In a Growing Utah City, Residents Are Turning Against Their Mayor Residents voted to rein in a mayor who they say has a penchant for secrecy and is overly deferential to developers.

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“Hey Siri… WTF?”

Can Psychedelics Help CEOs Boost Their Leadership Skills? A growing cottage industry is dedicated to the theory that mind-altering drugs can improve business leadership.

Makes you wonder what these self-absorbed bros might have done if they’d tuned in at a younger age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

Colleges Warn International Students to Return Ahead of Trump Term Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans.

To say my Chinese students are freaking out would be an understatement www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/u...

Every birthday for Some reason I end up eating Georgian food and drinking this crazy tarragon soda that looks like antifreeze

Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.

Zeynep got it www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

Watching “The Madness” and all I can say is PHILLY LOOKS HOT

Take A Dump for Trump: Make America Go No. 2 Again!

What a legacy he leaves behind!

Which one?

The Kia and Hyundai EVs are so hot

For anyone that thinks BlueSky is all unicorns and rainbows, here’s the bile coming in over the spillway

PBS News Hour | Detroit's 'Little Village' gives local artists a home | Season 2024 Detroit's 'Little Village' project transforms a neighborhood and gives local artists a home

off to Ann Arbor, Detroit and Little Village tomorrow. www.pbs.org/video/little...

Whoa Bader-Meinhoff back in Manhattan

im all for these programs, i just dont understand the rationale for deep discounts. these are the deepest-pocketed riders and systems should be recovering as much as they can

i guess my point is why subsidize these rides at a higher rate than everyone else, when these institutions can afford to pay more. they benefit enormously from participating beyond the direct services received

New York City says goodbye to outdoor dining sheds as we know them | WNYC News Much of New York City's outdoor dining infrastructure is out.

"Not every restaurant is a subsidiary of a hedge fund..." Mitchell Moss on NYC's new street dining shed rules

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"cities should act now to raise as much money as possible for adaptation before the municipal bond market starts pricing in physical climate risk. It's only going to get more expensive later"

yeesh.

Seriously, if I'd had AI in engineering school, I would have invented time travel.

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

This feels like a fire sale and a slippery slope towards deeply unfair fare structures. These rides are already heavily subsidized and now white collar workers pay less of their way than the people that clean their offices?

I'm looking for adaptation + resilience tech taxonomies if people have them, please share! (For instance, Tailwind Climate's www.tailwindclimate.com/taxonomy/)

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Github Copilot multi-file edits

Sometimes David Brooks really can nail it: "An administration of narcissists will be a snake pit, in which strife and self-destructive scandal will snuff out effective action. Running things is hard, and changing things is harder, and it’s rarely done well by solipsistic outsiders."

YouTube video by SENSI 🌐 WORLD Dag Nasty - The Godfather live

Driving around empty Cape May blasting Dag Nasty like it’s 1987 again

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iBk6...

Traverse City, Michigan is pretty good

YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer

Has never seemed more timely. Take a look in the mirror, America! m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSv...