MathewBurnett

“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.” Jim Harrison, The Beast God Forgot to Invent

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@cattybk “Objectively good” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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@washingtonpost Cowardice

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@lauren_wilford @roryisconfused Artificial illustration is slop. I don’t think I would call it “illustration”

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@DarioAmodei “That’s totally on us…” Where have I heard that before.

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@Jerrwu @dartunorro Lame

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@Bradsongeye Are 18 yo’s really adults

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@ThoughtCatalog Gross

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@AmericanAir Kudos to Gloria and the crew at gate B18 @ Logan for tirelessly getting us onto our next flight. Cash bonuses for them! 😉

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@MV_Hospital Scott however could use some bedside manner lessons 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Kudos to Bob and Natalie who are taking great care of my child.

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@MV_Hospital Waiting here with my son.

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@nikitabier They broke you NB

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@aaron_renn @pointsnfigures1 Is there a Sinatra song about your city?

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@MTSlive This is excellent

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NYU Prof. Ruby Thelot on the split he keeps hearing across America: everyone says they hate AI, and everyone says they love chat

"I find that Americans don't like AI. AI is a very broad umbrella here, because they all use chat, and they'll say, I love chat. But they don't like AI. There's a bit of a divergence there. There's the boogeyman of the data center, the boogeyman of, I'm gonna lose my job."

"If you take a look at an Anthropic survey, they surveyed 85,000 people to ask how they were using AI for career advancement or life management. When I talk to mothers in Bryan, Texas, they say, oh yeah, I had a leak in my faucet, I took a photo, and in about an hour or two I was able to fix that thing."

"But to them it's kind of like Google. It's not the thing that replaces their work and puts them on unemployment. So there's a language issue here around what does this technology do for me, versus what is the negative impact that's coming in a somewhat near potential future."
@being_on_line @NYU

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We’re full

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

We were in Wicker Park this weekend and overwhelmed by the level of pedestrian activity there. No empty storefronts. Shops are PACKED with people shopping for books, records, clothing, etc.

It made me think of this Economist piece that included Wicker Park among affluent neighborhoods defying suburbanization. Family formation no longer automatically means suburban departure
Households with children increasingly remain where schools, parks, shops, transit, and social life are accessible on foot.

Importantly, the premium attaches to low-rise, fine-grained neighborhoods with streets, small blocks, active ground floors, parks, and family-sized homes.

Artificial scarcity has made these neighborhoods into luxury goods, which is very sad. Their premiums demonstrate demand, but also reveal the failure to produce more comparable places.

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@darustudio @every 🙌

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Rental car shuttles are soul crushing

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@4evagem45 The Limey would like a word

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I’m surprised more baseball fans aren’t soccer fans, they are both sports where nothing happens until it does.