Ken Klippenstein shouldn't have killed everyone's grandma

Lander addressing his supporters: "I urge the New York Times to cancel its new feature, editorial riddles."

Bill Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas at 31 btw

Adams running on Department of Sanitation credentials is funnily reminiscent of Kathy Garcia

Political narratives are funny, because MAGA in the comments now fully believes that NYC is safe, because this can be a political argument against Mamdani

"Exponential means big" is a tragic casualty in the decline of our language

When you talk about the benefits of religion to birth rates or social fabric or whatever, you're cargo culting. It's not a social engineering project and no sincere believer thinks of it that way.

The Costco Guys found the Rizzler in the same way the Kansas City Royals might scout some great prospect and ride him for a few great seasons before inevitably the Yankees come calling

Is it now?

Of all the people who move out of "the city" to the suburbs, I don't know a single person who moved to LI - even if they grew up there It's always Jersey or Westchester

I wrote about the New York City Council's vote to make appliances more expensive by requiring a master plumber to handle the installation of any gas appliances -- and how regulations like this are an obstacle to Zohran's pledge to freeze the rent joshbarro.com/p/this-is-the-…

Thanks to the wonder of technology, we will no longer be antisocially staring at screens all day Yes - instead we will be quietly muttering under our breath

This is by far the most "end of the Roman Republic" American analogy that has ever happened

Council Member Sandy Nurse This is why permitting reform is important. Why does the Cloudburst program need an extended "listening" campaign to fix the storm drainage? Wtf is the point of a workshop where we discuss people's lived experience with flooding?

Always knew Eric Adams had good taste in corruption

Color Revolution Enjoyer Todd Phillips Joe Weisenthal It "makes sense" in that you could set up a government that way. The comedy is this institutional set up where some black-robed wizards pretend to divine the deep meaning of the phrase "take care" in a 200 year old document and whether it means the Fed chair can be fired.

@Rocky_1661 That's from "Casper" (1995), where Kat (Christina Ricci) freaks out meeting the friendly ghost. Classic! 😄

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December