Jacob Romanow

degenerescence (Derridean)

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

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such a right-handed take

Wait did everyone else already just know that What I Got is Lady Madonna 🤯

I completely agree that refusing to develop principles of selection is nothing more or less than yielding the field

I've found it kind of helpful to think about curricular design less in terms of canon and more in terms of repertoire

Yessir! I always find Patti inspiring but I was beyond moved tonight

Jeff I should’ve guessed you were there! Really walked out of there feeling like it might be THE best album

A giant

Nonsense from Castro. Clearly having well-funded candidates across statewide races is a good idea, but JC could obviously run for AG in any case! The idea that having a high-profile Lieutenant Governor candidate is make-or-break for an AG race is bizarre and self-serving.

this still counts as evidence of scholarly impact

is THAT the portrait of Locke

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

The NYTimes review theorized that it was all about enabling the photography motif. IMO though it's more about the film's (disappointing) reversion to trope re class. Remaking Victor as aristocratic vampire rather than middle-class striver is simpler outside an Age of Revolutions setting

New York City is the Kampala of America, etc

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)

www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

Oh my god

In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.

Anyway:

The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.

It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.

In real ways I think a film better understood as an adaptation/remake of Oppenheimer than of Mary Shelley

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Cut Ali Smith, such a tiresome book 😬

Two "ideas" about universities are gaining stature today:

*universities should declare institutional neutrality.

*professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded.

Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent.

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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

John Thorpe cannot talk about anything but FanDuel

Henry is a podcaster

Oh you know I think you're right and I take everything back, it'd just be true crime

I think the things are—it has to be mass-cultural (but also fandom-oriented), it has to be horny, it has to be feminine-coded, it has to be scary, it has to something Isabella would also be into/that would bridge them erotically, and it would have to be something JA would adore and sneer at both.

I said what I said