Cover of "The Death of the Automobile" by John Jerome, and illustrated by Robert Osborn. Text at the bottom of the page reads, "The Detroit car is an ecological, economic and engineering disaster - and the sixty-year-old love affair between it and the American people is ending." Illustration features a car in the style of a dying bug or animal.
I fell asleep watching it. Which is pretty hard when you're in the second row with a toddler in your lap. But I found a way.
I'm beyond thrilled to see Watermelon Truck in the @chicagotribune.com. Thanks @ninametz.bsky.social for highlighting this really special part of our collection. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/t...
art show when?
Cover of "US-285 and US-285-SR-74 Junction reconstruction, Rio Arriba County: Environmental Impact Statement" with an illustration of a landscape featuring a canyon, with a leaping deer and small tree in the foreground, and a looming human form in the distance on the horizon line.
They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...
An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.
An anonymous donor just gave 21 kg (46 lbs) of GOLD BARS…
…to the city of Osaka…
…on the condition that the ~US$3.6mil gets put towards FIXING MUNICIPAL WATER PIPES.
I would like the movie of the backstory of this, please. Like OCEAN’S ELEVEN meets @neorsd.org.
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What are you using?
Dress for the weather you want, not the weather you have.
Screenshot of graph titled, “Small-business importers’ tariff costs have tripled since April 2025.” Graph shows an increase in average total monthly tariffs paid per small business importer from January 2024 to February 2026 with a large spike after the April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day.”
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but Trump’s tariff taxes are backbreaking. Since the start of Trump’s “Liberation Day,” the average small business importer paid $300,000 in tariffs. That’s unacceptable—the Trump admin must refund its illegal tariffs NOW.
I am DEMANDING a Sheep Detectives / Knives Out Crossover movie.
truly, nobody is feeling more vindicated this week than airport dads
Not a book, but check out season 2 of the Big Dig podcast, a very in depth history of the Massachusetts state lottery and the politics behind it.
Halt and Catch Fire
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
one of the best things I've done with it is create a master project list that has links to the workspace for each project I'm working on.
Honestly, it's not the worst way to teach Knightian uncertainty vs risk
I am going to have to add a "why betting on war outcomes is a bad idea" module to my freshman classes. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Don’t get me started on entrepreneurship.
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
This is why he needs the ultimate academic death penalty: removal of his office and e-mail access.
"The correspondence reveals a system, @dannagal.bsky.social said, that determines who “gets to be a ‘smart person’ — not because of their brain, but because of the money that they have been given.”"
Preach!
Text saying "In 1916, Vladimir I. Lenin argued that the tendency of capitalism to produce oligopolies would be its downfall. In 1942, Joseph A. Schumpeter agreed. Little has changed since then."
I'm starting to write my paper on the relationship between industrial concentration (monoply power) and high-growth entrepreneruship. Does this first line go too hard, or not too hard enough?
Costco’s attorneys rn
Economics grad students, you now have not one but TWO natural experiments. Is there a Difference-in-Difference-in-Difference methedology?
a screenshot of text that reads "Thank you for the attention to improving the readability of the paper. The Chicago Manual of Style specifically says that it is acceptable to start sentences with 'because' and 'this.' (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0261.html). Indeed, longers article in the Columbia Journalism Review (https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/conjunction-itis.php) and the Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003723.html) discuss the pros and cons of starting sentences with conjunctions. They both conclude that the 'no initial connectors' rule is a 'zombie rule' that does not improve clarity or readability. However, you are right to ensure that every sentence is as readable as possible. I have given the paper a complete review and changed several of the sentences you highlighted."
Just wrote this response to a reviewer who accused me (ME!) of being unclear because I had too many sentences that started with 'because' or 'this.' If you wanna-be grammarians come for me, you'd better make sure you have your facts straight.
The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran