Sam Goodson

Fwiw, I saw very few instances of my students using AI this semester, had many students who showed they cared and worked really hard, and had several great class meetings and discussions. My small sample of the youth here at CUNY left me optimistic.

The end of every one of these books melts me into a puddle

Agree fully that enclaves aren’t natural and that segregation is bad, but that example again seems to be the composition of the electorate changing rather than diversity shifting the ideology of those who were already there.

If anything happened yesterday that makes you want to explore NYC neighborhoods. . .

I think this might be showing that he did well with young whites moving into Black neighborhoods, rather than diversity moving ideology to the left

Misreading Ulysses by Sally Rooney December 7, 2022 – “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that very soon after the publication of Ulysses, critics started to speculate that the novel as a form might be dying.”

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12...

Happy Bloomsday, I love this address Sally Rooney gave on Ulysses

Look at this beautiful animal.

I had been teaching in the same system since 2021, cheating had always been there but this was something new.

Cats in Spring

Winter shovel turns to Spring shovel

Brooklyn in bloom

Surely someone in this fair city can write a catchy "don't rank Cuomo" jingle we can play nonstop on radio and TV all May and June

Here’s my chairs

Got some film developed, here’s my shovel

Made this tool to make some of my dissertation work interactive. You can explore many different ways to cluster NYC election districts. Give it a whirl if you're into such things.

samgoodson.shinyapps.io/district_clu...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Where should I send my application?

If you would like more Spotify content today, give Find Your Bob a whirl

Top comment on the video I’m about to show to my college class

I made this very goofy app to find your best Dylan match based off of your Spotify listening history:

find-your-bob-ea38f1b2c6af.herokuapp.com

Millie, an urbanist since her kittenhood in a Brooklyn alley, was also intersected.

Very cool subway photo spread in the times this morning. Good to see these workers get some recognition.

What Comes After Auden’s epic Christmas poem helps us negotiate the post-holiday shift from the transcendent to the quotidian.

Beautiful piece on Auden and post-Christmas melancholy

www.commonwealmagazine.org/what-comes-a...

SIL said we looked like this meme at Christmas Eve Eucharist

Advent with Pynchon

Advent with Cormac

This happens in Brooklyn all the time now, you have to treat every crosswalk like you’re walking against the light

“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have ‘broken his digester.’”

Sure, but you’d be the curator in residency for the week