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love this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/s...

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something for dansk fans in the latest episode of severance

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

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L O L "For Mayne, the point of OTM is dialogue, not single voices—and certainly not the whiny takes of downer naysayers: 'Architecture doesn’t need critics right now. It’s hard enough.'" www.archpaper.com/2025/02/of-t...

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very here for the john portman revolving restaurant revival that's happening - here's a look inside the view, the restaurant atop the marriott marquis in times square, renovated by rockwell group.

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Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

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Some thoughts about how our public schools have become the frontlines of protection for just about every emergency families are facing right now in LA — plus the latest megaevent headlines, new air quality resources, 26 essential post-fire reads, and more

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what did the keepers of some of L.A.'s most famous homes take when those sites were threatened by the recent wild fires? a bread knife with a bow around it, a rare Charles Moore sculpture, and fireplace andirons. www.fastcompany.com/91273383/eam...

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this is brilliant framing: "The invisible and often unspoken ways we show up for each other in cities are at the core of romantic urbanism, a term we developed to imagine how cities can be built to foster love between friends, neighbors, family members, and lovers." urbanomnibus.net/2025/02/find...

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reading 'the riviera of the middle east' in this story gave me an instant migraine apnews.com/article/trum...

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SO COOL that Vox Media had two rounds of layoffs in the past three months and keeps cutting our budgets and yet somehow there's $20 million for one person

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I just received a stop-work order from HUD on the grant we won at Urban Institute to support our Housing Market Forecaster. This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability. www.urban.org/projects/hou...

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We are seeing a lot of new people on bluesky recently, including many of our own contributors and favorite writers, so we put together this handy starter pack. go.bsky.app/Jx9zvYU

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We took 100+ hours of footage of Lexington Ave in Manhattan, capturing some 75,000 vehicles before and after congestion pricing started, and found the drop in vehicles appears to be coming entirely from fewer personal cars. Also no change in avg car value. Congestion pricing is working (for now).

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You've probably read about the spreadsheet naming and shaming rent-gouging landlords. But with many displaced Angelenos fleeing to Airbnbs, now the team is taking on price gouging claims for short-term rentals, too

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It probably got buried by Covid because it was released in 2021 but there's a documentary called Fire Boys if you want to learn more about the juvenile incarcerated firefighters

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no better take on the l.a. wildfires than @awalkerinla.bsky.social's newsletter today: "It's the same story I write over and over about how the lack of regional goals is hampering LA's ability to get it together for its megaevent era." www.torched.la/zero-percent...

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Jimmy Carter was the only US President to have lived in public housing. He lived a life of service and consequence. May he rest in peace.

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Please remember that President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench. A key aspect of his legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

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My favorite Jimmy Carter x childhood story is that he had a tree house built for Amy at the White House www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/presi...

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Look at this.

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"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

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When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By denying care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

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love this: "We're doing civil disobedience"

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how do we respond to new tools of our time? @ctrlzee.bsky.social talks to @pentagramdesign.bsky.social's paula scher on the backlash against her use of generative AI. www.fastcompany.com/91240809/pen...

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The AIDS quilt is such a striking example of quilting and other traditionally feminized crafts as radical queer politics and I hope this encourages people to learn more about the rich history of protest textiles in the US.

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caught the closing of 'materials of solidarity' at the a/p/a institute and discussion about archiving student movements. found these formal design drawings of the nyu solidarity encampments to be super interesting

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The Brooklyn Defenders obtained all nine years of data from the NYPD's ShotSpotter program—and found that more than 83 percent of the gunfire detection system's alerts were never confirmed to be gunshots at all. @nickpinto.bsky.social has the story: hellgatenyc.com/nypd-shotspo...

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it's just so fascinating how the building went from being at the center of the financial crisis to the heart of the influencer bubble. (and how immense sums of public money are involved in both.) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/s...

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commence the battle of the beige: "Sometimes, you can be so basic that copyright law doesn’t even protect you." via @theverge.com www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

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super exciting to see more mass timber projects coming online, this time a google office in sunnyvale: blog.google/outreach-ini...

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update: someone on the bird app found it! imagelocations.com/hermosa-house

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For @archpaper.com, I visited an artist-led land remediation project, which is slowly undoing the harms of colonization: “We don’t try to ‘restore’ an ecosystem that has never existed there before. We’re inviting more native plants back into the current landscape." www.archpaper.com/2024/11/forg...

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who's got a lede on the immaculate mid-century house featured in (the very charming) netflix show "man on the inside"?

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In the past, designers would join a big organization to network (you know the alphabet soup of all of them) but now they're entering multi-disciplinary clubs, private invite-only Slacks, and identity-based advocacy groups. For @fastcompany.com, I explored why. www.fastcompany.com/91232076/des...

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