During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed.
In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic.
I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:
Wow, this was an infuriating read
This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.
This is the most obvious thing I’ve ever said in a post, but renters are citizens of a city. Full citizens. Because of course they are. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t just clueless about the affordability struggles that cities face — they’re clueless about the essential reality of cities.
One of the unexpected things about (most) administrative data is that they don't routinely come with family/relationship information.
Address is also usually removed for research because it's identifiable information, so household level analysis can be very difficult.
Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood.
12K people
6K homes
1.8K social rental homes
1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes
21.5K bike parking spaces
250 shared cars
2 parcel hubs
Parking structures on the edge
nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...
Not clicking on that but I will note, it's a great thing to have wealth and privilege and decide that redistribution needs to happen so you have less and others have more
Democratic Establishment, panicked, yelling:
"We need to energize young male voters to win elections!"
Zohran: wins, running a pro-Palestine, public transit, and housing platform:
Democratic establishment: NOT LIKE THAT
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Pict of article titled Adolescent and young adult access to opioid use disorder care
📣New paper out in Pediatrics about Adolescent & Young Adult OUD Care Access, by part of our UW team💕, & co-first-author, Dr. Alexis Ball!
📝Documenting part of what we already know in practice:
real care options & honest conversations @ drug use matter a lot.
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
Further motivation to learn Spanish: I would never have to listen to Doris Burke call an NBA game again
Pacers fans sound like they haven’t updated their ball knowledge since Hoosiers came out
Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"
from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
The type of photo you frame and hang above your desk
OKC exemplifies everything that people who don't actually watch the NBA, get wrong about the NBA.
Nobody plays defense. Really? Go watch the Thunder.
It's all about threes. Really? Go watch the Thunder.
Everyone plays exactly the same way. Really? Go watch the Thunder.
For anyone running a #Quarto website/report/whatever HTML, you might like to know about the YAML option
page-layout: full
I personally prefer wider content areas so pages don't feel as long, but each to their own
quarto.org/docs/output-...
#rstats #dataBS
Officially added three new initials to my name ☺️
On the blog: strategies for mapping dense point data in R.
Learn how to use:
🌎 Circle clusters
🌎 Dynamic heat maps
🌎 Point jittering for same-location events
Read the post: walker-data.com/post...
#rstats #gis #datavisualization
Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Image of first page of journal article mentioned and linked in post, Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in New York State.
Check out the latest study from CDUHR affiliated investigator Ashly Jordan - A Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in New York State
journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc...
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Print featuring a white woman holding her strong arms over the heads of three small children who look out from under with scared faces
"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in WW1 and death of her grandson in WW2 obviously profoundly affected the artist. This print reflects the theme of a mother protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt
Marvin Bagley hits a huge 3 pointer from 3/4 court at the 3rd quarter buzzer to get Grizzlies to within 49 points.
** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality...
Please share—no need for us all to write the same code!
Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding
