UNC’s derailed plans for new basketball arena detailed in documents: ‘From Dean to Dream’ (Gift Article) An early timeline of design and construction milestones targeted October 2026 for construction to begin on a "Carolina North" arena.

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Months later, in February, UNC said it had considered seven proposals overall, but with three front-runners: renovation; Carolina North; and another on-campus Odum Village option, on a site formerly home to married housing, which was viewed by some loyalists as the best compromise option. A later AT assessment of those three options — which was shared with athletic director Bubba Cunningham in an email thread — described the Odum Village plan as the best "bridge" between parties.

Man what in the ever loving hell is going on with the UNC admin and athletics departments?

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Did it happen

There was a guy on X that set up his own speed camera from his window overlooking a downtown stroad and auto posted pics above a certain speed @recklessroxboro.bsky.social

Where Stephen goes we shall follow.

The problem often comes down to lease commitments, cross access easements, and utilities more than it does to the design problem of fitting housing on these parking lots. (In fact parking lots and housing use the same bay widths - 60 to 70’.)

Problem is that the person honking at you on your bike from their big ass truck won’t see it :(

Haha I had totally forgotten about the concept of a family cell phone. (Was also recently reminded of the existence of the “computer room.”)

Okay but did they just absolutely HAVE to put two plain white doors at the base of their monolithic concrete pedestal?

Also the elevators in new high rises are on backup power along with the rest of life safety equipment.

If it’s someone I might ever interact with a second time, I correct them right away.

It doesn’t bother me but I have learned to correct people quickly or else never at all. I made the mistake of not correcting my grad department chair when he first called me “Meekah”, felt awkward about correcting him later, and is why my name was mispronounced at my own graduation.

Racing toward the weekend like

After more than five years of prodding from local residents, elected officials and the MTA, Columbia University will partially pay for accessibility upgrades to the No. 1 line's towering 125th Street station, THE CITY has learned. The Ivy League school will contribute $33 million for an elevator linking the street with the stop's mezzanine level and to widen escalators at the southwest corner of Broadway and West 125th Street. The MTA will cover the costs for two other lifts that will connect to station platforms,

Oh my god it costs $33 million for a single elevator and wider escalators at a station that is *above ground*?? An elevator should cost no more than 300-400k plus the cost of the shaft.

Really wish Charlotte would stop with the training centers in uptown. This and the new Hornets facilities are such bad land uses.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

It doesn’t matter but Scott Bessent did not, in fact, come up with the idea of banking deserts.

No wonder Bluesky engagement is falling … If we’re not allowed to talk about transit policies and systems in places with spotty to atrocious human rights records, then what are we supposed to talk about!

That’s fair. Not much to add to that discourse at this point I suppose.

I read the NYT review. Is Kimmelman always this uninterested in how the building relates to its surroundings? He gestures to those criticisms but they are entirely beside the point - I’m not sure he’d care if you had to climb a rope to get inside.

Okay I’ll bite. What’s a “Helen Andrews”?

Okay what are the other vectors and how many died in them?

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Audio on, I promise you

These Cockroaches Shockingly Eat Each Other’s Wings — Then They Decide to Mate for Life “Even though they’ve got tiny brains, they can develop quite human-like characteristics.”

“Even though they’ve got tiny brains, they can develop quite human-like characteristics.”

dems are not perfect but they got this guy out in the span of a weekend, while the republicans made Hegseth the secretary of defense

which makes some sense as the political equilibrium. Everyone experiences inflation while a small subset of people experience unemployment in a recession.

This is sort of a reversion to the mean - maximizing employment was a lesson learned from the Great Recession and carried through into the COVID recovery. The inflation that followed seems to have swung the pendulum back to inflation…