kind of remarkable how little political heat comes from tens of thousands of annual traffic-related deaths

i grew up here

i think not enough people listen to music as a standalone activity. like not listening to music as a background to some other activity. just sit and listen to some music. i don’t think anybody does this anymore

Loved @citylab MapLab and still v proud of my work once profiled in it bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Madlib making beats on a train (with a seat for his records too)

jeopardy is such an outlier in tv and just in general. its got the humble student of the world mentality, an absurd breadth of subjects, quick but thoughtful pace, one brief contestant chat, completely devoid of soulless clap-and-smile game show garbage, plus such a lovely blue

In the 3rd verse of “Lost One”, JAY-Z raps candidly about his late nephew who tragically passed away. Ty Ty told Hov that the lyrics “can’t run from the pain, run towards it” is what motivated him to finally visit his mom’s grave site. And in turn, that revelation motivated Jay

When you think about the long history of frontier companies and labs there — Menlo Park, Bell Labs, RCA, Sarnoff, and now Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Merck — and the fact it’s located next to *the* global hub of finance — then it becomes obvious that America’s Shenzhen is New Jersey.

How New Jersey politicians talk about the state: “I’m proud to raise my family in a state I love.” How I want New Jersey politicians to talk about the state: “I tremble to represent New Jersey, the cradle of global modernity; indeed, the pivot point of world-history itself.”

Paul Kedrosky In an almost too-perfect parallel to the bygone age of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, some of today’s power-hungry data centers are actually being put on the sites of former steel mills, because of their proximity to energy sources. 3/🧵

Working on a ai tool that can change the world lol

Kind of crazy how New Jersey could have had both Silicon Valley and Hollywood but then Bell Labs screwed William Shockley out of a patent and he moved back with his mom in Palo Alto, and the movies left for California because they kept being sued by Thomas Edison

The grand slam result chart on tennis players’ Wikipedia pages is a very underrated data viz

🚀 Big news in the DuckDB spatial world! The DuckDB spatial extension has just added support for ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom. This functionality will be included in DuckDB v1.4 (releasing next week 🎉). We will be able to stream vector tiles directly from DuckDB using large