James Sanna

A grid of black-and-white, often askew photos of buildings and kids and a horse-drawn carriage.

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

Embargo: Campbell’s Chunky Partners with Pabst Blue Ribbon for Bold New Soup Launch

i didn't agree to the embargo so i don't have many details. but the details i *do* have paint a pretty alarming picture.

This is worth reading in full, and is absolutely devastating.

Really think people need to start applying nonresponse bias in every facet of survey research!

Not sure how comp sci is dealing, but what happens to journalism when we lose our training system (apprenticeships, basically) because of this?

In my experience, many fresh j-school grads don't have the mental muscles that let them build complex stories, or even call BS on things sources say.

To make that work, though, you need an editor who knows the background, chapter and verse, to catch any AI hallucinations. And that's a bit like designing an airplane that needs a super-experienced pilot to land safely -- it just can't be guaranteed, in my experience.

Not the same league as this pissant stuff, but it's worth not losing sight of the toxic shit it also permitted.

By the same token, this is also the same ego-driven/ego-forgiving culture that made the ME at one paper I worked at feel entitled to pull a junior reporter into the glass-walled conference room and scream at him for 30 minutes for a minor infraction.

It's unfortunate, because those are the exact things young/new reporters need to become competent in the first place.

I'll cosign this. Was lucky enough to have this in my 20s and it helped make it worth re-upping the lease on an apartment with a linoleumed-over hole in the kitchen floor (and where I had the 0.5 of those bedrooms).

It’s *great* to have articles about the challenges facing recent college grads in the current low-hiring environment

BUT

I would also love to read articles about the similar challenges facing recent high school grads. If you’re a journalist, please consider writing about this!

Last week, Montana voted to:
- legalize 6-story apartments on most commercial land
- sharply cut multifamily parking mandates
- limit excess impact fees
- cut condo defect liability
- require equal treatment for manufactured homes
- legalize single-stair buildings up to 6 stories statewide

New guidance from DOJ on leaks and news media offers a new, more authoritarian policy

In a 2nd Trump term, Fed independence would go “out the window,” economist says Kai Ryssdal explores what would happen to the global economy if the Federal Reserve lost its autonomy.

ICYMI, back before the election we did a whole show on Fed independence and what happens if it goes away.

www.marketplace.org/story/2024/1...

this is so easy to do and so important for the people around you in the workplace and more people should do it

If a major transit project can't be completed in 4 years there's a risk that it will be canceled entirely if control of the White House changes parties. It's an under-appreciated aspect of the "separation of parties" thesis: Infrastructure is term limited www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...

Usually a good recipe.

To me the most importing thing about today is that they knew what this would do to the market, and did it anyway.

If nothing else, that ought to tell you what time it is.

An analysis of the first 2 months of New York City's congestion pricing policy shows that road speeds increased and emissions decreased inside and out of the congestion zone, from Cook, Kreidieh, Vasserman, Allcott, Arora, van Sambeek, Tomkins, and Turkel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33584

Lexington just went from the poster child for the MBTA Communities law's potential to making deep cuts to its multifamily zoning in the face of a development boom.

Agree with this. There’s a lot of downside to the 2023-2024 growth pace. Mechanically via lower immigration is a big part of it. But expectations can only carry that downside so far, so it’s talking about slow growth rather than a recession barring accelerating macro shocks from here.

67 Byron Rd, Weston, MA 02493 - 7 beds/12 baths (MLS PIN) For Sale: 7 beds, 12 baths ∙ 18725 sq. ft. ∙ 67 Byron Rd, Weston, MA 02493 ∙ $19,850,000 ∙ MLS# 73341360 ∙ Timeless elegance meets modern luxury in this extraordinary Weston estate, situated...

www.redfin.com/MA/Weston/67...

This 90s-tastic house for sale in Weston has me wondering when my childhood is going to enter the jurisdiction of historical commissions.

A New Way to Fix the Housing Crisis One man’s quest to fix the way we build.

I wrote about the new frontier in land use reform: building codes slate.com/business/202...

Re-upping this thread in your feeds as Bluesky seemed to be having ✨a moment✨ when we first posted it.

The logo of the Unlocking Housing Production Commission: a key whose teeth are shaped like houses, ADUs and apartment buildings

Legalizing two-family developments statewide? Eliminating parking minimums? Legalizing smaller single-stair apartment buildings?

Those are just a few of the dozens of ideas a Gov. Maura Healey-appointed commission has come up with to boost housing production in Massachusetts.

More cats with this name, please.

Poasting to policy pipeline keeps working

🚨🚨 indeed.

A source tells us the Fortis Property Group-owned building has $765 million in senior debt and $145 million in mezzanine financing.

High land costs & the appeal of living in single-family homes make it challenging for investors to want to replace single-family homes with just a few housing units.

Given the situation in places like DC, you need to enable many more units for projects to pencil out.

A very pig butt looking round marble like animal that is pink. Photo by MBARI.

The “front” of a pig butt worm showing tentacles and a round body. Image by MBARI.

The bottom of a pig butt worm showing it’s odd bilateral butt cheeks. Images by MBARI

Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.