NYC be like “imagine all the parking you could put here”. RIP, street dining.

Nellie Bowles with some great ones today. "If you’re gonna call yourself a Jacobin, you best be ready to operate the guillotine."

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

new project: cleo (kindle + llm) 📚 cleo is an ios app that pairs whatever book you're reading on kindle with an llm (o3) — ask questions, get recaps/summaries, or listen/discuss (think audiobooks but interactive). the llm has context on exactly where you are + the book

Walk down a Bucharest street, see a guy lingering and think to myself “wow he looks like a pimp”. Walk past, and he accosts me: “hey man, wanna have fun with my girls tonight?” I’ll pass, but the casting director for this reality is killing it.

Sam Altman Like really very very very good? Does that clarify matters? A lot of the betterness I cannot even grasp, because the quality improvements are often over my head.

Someone at Novo Nordisk failed to pay a $450 maintenance fee, which would have kept its patent on Ozempic in force for another two years... A very expensive mistake!

7:45pm on a Saturday: primary thoroughfare between manhattan and Brooklyn. These are not the headways of a serious city.

continuing my public library adventures with this beauty from 1482; Ptolemy's Cosmographia, updated only slightly after 1200 years by Nicolaus Germanus, printed in Ulm by Leonhart Holle

Off on another trip so let the American transit griping commence! ⁦AirTrain JFK⁩ what is up with these headways? The whole point of letting the robots drive ought to be frequent service!

The urbanist in me greets the urbanist in you (Berlin)

Potsdam

Berlin

Diocletian built his retirement palace just to have dinner with this view (Split, Croatia)

Scenes from Diocletian’s magnificent palace, Split. (the headless sphinx is 3500 years old. The building behind it a comparatively youthful 1700)

I’m the captain now

Šibenik. Traveling feels like falling in love when you do it right, cuz it is.