There's no call for how invested I got in this.

The Film That Explains Contemporary America The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

A four-hour documentary from 1969 about life in Nazi-occupied France chronicles the way that many ordinary citizens simply lived their lives as if nothing had changed, @dgraham.bsky.social writes. "The Sorrow and the Pity" is more relevant than ever:

Housing Lottery Launches for Forte Living at 205 East 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan - New York YIMBY The affordable housing lottery has launched for Forte Living, an 18-story residential building at 205 East 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan.

It’s changed a little bit in places like East Harlem (a recent example newyorkyimby.com/2026/03/hous...) but given East Harlem was rezoned nearly a decade ago I think it’s fair to say that in many submarkets MIH is delaying production considerably.

Exactly what you’d imagine given where it sits geographically relative to adjacent country cuisines. Like Slavic Mediterranean.

Had Albanian food for the first time tonight and it was very good. 👐

Council Leader Urges City To Activate Ferry To NJ Before World Cup - Streetsblog New York City A ferry from W. 125th Street to Edgewater, New Jersey, could relieve World Cup-related traffic strain, Council Member Shaun Abreu said.

A ferry from W. 125th Street to Edgewater, New Jersey, could relieve World Cup-related traffic strain, Council Member Shaun Abreu said.

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Bandi, the new series on Netflix from the creator of Le Bureau, is great for several reasons, not the least of which is getting a taste of what life is like on Martinique, a place I know practically nothing about. I want more stories from forgotten corners of fallen empires.

The influencer who took down a politician A conversation with Arielle Fodor - aka Mrs. Frazzled

The rise of Swalwell was not surprising — stupid bad men succeed all the time.

His fall, however, has shocked me. Part of why he faced consequences is the horrific nature of what he did.

But I also suspect it’s partially bc of the way the story broke: Content creators were the tip of the spear.

Gowanus is a great project that took waaaaaay too long to get approved, and, honestly, should have gone 10-stories taller.

In addition to having much higher rents than anywhere else, Gowanus had another major thing going for it - the rezoning had been telegraphed for over a decade (much to the frustration of many YIMBYs) so many of the sites were already in the hands of developers at the time the rezoning was enacted.

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats When will they learn? The party remains far too solicitous of an industry that’s rewarded their fealty with four years of Trump and untold damage to democracy.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

If you were interviewing someone for a non-coding job would you consider it disqualifying if they used an LLM in crafting their response to an assignment you gave them as part of the interview process?

Oh I am not saying it’s that out of whack with American healthcare costs generally, I am saying that American healthcare costs are way too high if you compare them to other high income countries.

so the cost (to whoever Is paying for it) wouldn’t go up if you had more kids?

Regardless of the specific of this union conflict, I always found it puzzling how Americans look at the more confrontational way of doing demonstrations in France or Italy and call it a "riot". A totally different attitude toward economic and political conflicts "etiquette".

Crypto is Mary Kay for Men 💄

That’s an interesting datapoint. How many people are covered in your family?

It seems unreasonable independent of who is paying for it!

Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods

Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia

How do upzonings impact housing supply?

In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.

www.urban.org/research/pub...

Thousands of N.Y.C. Doormen Seeking Better Pay Are Set to Vote on Strike

Conflicts like this are good and healthy. Americans need to become more accustomed to regularly navigating conflicts in relationships that are inherently adversarial without catastrophizing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/n...

"Magyar wasn't engaging in a policy debate... His framing was Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are a criminal organization and we need to dismantle this... he connected the impact of the criminal organization to these rural Hungarians' experience."

@ambpressman.bsky.social on how Magyar beat Orbán.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.

And I think today was an important turning point

Mr. Jacobson tapped his phone on a conference table. "It's on the app," he said. In a year he had wagered about $4.46 million on DraftKings and FanDuel accounts, two of the nation's leading online sports betting sites, according to investigators.

Sports gambling is a scourge and it is a shame on our country that we’ve allowed this to proliferate

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/n...

lmao this is ludicrous spin. Hochul put forth this proposal (which nearly passed a few years ago and was even embraced by *Cuomo*) entirely to avoid implementing Mamdani’s proposals that would raise *far* more money.

Hochul Proposes Tax on N.Y.C. Second Homes That Are Worth $5 Million

lol this is the slopulism of property tax policy but sure fine let’s do it www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/n...

AOC: "The President of the US is a rapist. The President of the US is implicated in the Epstein files. He is convicted in court on 34 counts of felony fraud"