Richard Scarry was way ahead of his time on stagnant labor productivity in homebuilding

I’ve got really bad news about the politics of, like, 98% of male professional athletes

What made old New Yorker humor great (but also extremely mockable) was it captured that awareness of what the New Yorker is and that mix of pride and self-loathing that derived from it

Someone should write something about how the New Yorker, once known for dry self-deprecating humor, now leans into what I heard a comedian call “applause sign humor”

the biggest conspiracy involving Denver International Airport is that it somehow is the 10th busiest in the world

Emerson has a Dem '28 poll out today that is very different from the consensus

ended up being closer to 7 million (from the LA Times, 1997)

I mean I have a general sense of the process

on the contrary this sounds like a realistic Greyhound experience

"West Village" with no "the" seems bad (to say nothing of "Bronx") but I'll admit that I say "Back Bay" whereas Bostonians over ~70 definitely say "the Back Bay"

per new Echelon poll, cost of living exceeds by *50 percent* voters' second most important issue

Via @cszabla.bsky.social on twitter, entry-level history teaching jobs in the UK have declined 32% since 2016-17 (the year I started grad school 😬)

I think what Vanderbilt’s leaders saw was there was an underserved mass of students who want a good school that is also a party school that isn’t in Hanover, New Hampshire.

the most viewed videos on the FIFA YouTube account suggest that soccer, globally speaking, is really just a pretext to get some artists to jam

Traditional bank advertising: Built on a Foundation of Trust, There for You at Life's Most Important Moments Venmo: hey we noticed you don't gamble nearly as much as you could

I mean he couldn't have gone far

“Prices so low, you’ll think it’s a conspiracy!”

Lots of legit criticisms of new cars but these are literally all safety features

Guess when this was written

Are you not entertained?

It's not the biggest problem facing history as an academic discipline, but my sister's high school graduation program has a fake Emerson quote

MINORITY REPORT (2002)

I knew soccer was European but jeez

dangerous levels of New York Type of Guy here

sorry to get all rah-rah-humanities but, like, does anyone at Microsoft know that this is wrong?

1981

hate to go all historian-writing-a-book on this but I think the SF housing shortage slightly predates AI

Once in a lifetime opportunity to gather intelligence about why American homebuilding productivity has regressed compared to peers

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