This came to me in a vision last night and now I’m posting it here for posterity in case a Scarry-Vuitton lawyer drone strike annihilates my underground bunker
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This came to me in a vision last night and now I’m posting it here for posterity in case a Scarry-Vuitton lawyer drone strike annihilates my underground bunker
Reposted by Garrett Dash Nelson
Dreaming of a snowy winter? ❄️☃️
Every $15 donation from now until December 31 will make ½ inch of snow “pile up” in our snow tracker. And, instead of having to shovel out afterwards, you’ll receive a gift in the mail as a thank you for supporting our mission!
www.leventhalmap.org/donate/decem...
Every $15 donation from now until December 31 will make ½ inch of snow “pile up” in our snow tracker. And, instead of having to shovel out afterwards, you’ll receive a gift in the mail as a thank you for supporting our mission!
www.leventhalmap.org/donate/decem...
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Dreaming of a snowy winter? ❄️☃️
Every $15 donation from now until December 31 will make ½ inch of snow “pile up” in our snow tracker. And, instead of having to shovel out afterwards, you’ll receive a gift in the mail as a thank you for supporting our mission!
www.leventhalmap.org/donate/decem...
Every $15 donation from now until December 31 will make ½ inch of snow “pile up” in our snow tracker. And, instead of having to shovel out afterwards, you’ll receive a gift in the mail as a thank you for supporting our mission!
www.leventhalmap.org/donate/decem...
Just finished this and I think it might be my favorite work of fiction by an American author in the past decade www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...
Lonely Crowds
Luster meets The Idiot in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the gla...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just finished this and I think it might be my favorite work of fiction by an American author in the past decade www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...
Genuinely wild to me that a company would forcibly inject AI front and center into the user experience, then *utterly hallucinate* a false ability to accomplish a core functionality of the program (in this case, creating a calendar invite).
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Genuinely wild to me that a company would forcibly inject AI front and center into the user experience, then *utterly hallucinate* a false ability to accomplish a core functionality of the program (in this case, creating a calendar invite).
"If AI can diminish some of the monotony of research, perhaps we can spend more time thinking, writing, playing piano, and taking walks — with other people." @dancohen.org
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"If AI can diminish some of the monotony of research, perhaps we can spend more time thinking, writing, playing piano, and taking walks — with other people." @dancohen.org
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
I did a lot of @mbta.com griping on social media ca. 2020-2023. So credit where it’s absolutely due: competent management and the fruits of much-delayed capital investment have made the Orange Line an amazingly functional piece of public infrastructure this year.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
The Orange Line has gotten so much better it has a new problem: Traffic
An "unintended consequence" of all the recent improvements, Orange Line trains are now running into delays due to congestion at the end of the line. However, the MBTA has a plan to ease the issue. Mee...
www.wbur.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I did a lot of @mbta.com griping on social media ca. 2020-2023. So credit where it’s absolutely due: competent management and the fruits of much-delayed capital investment have made the Orange Line an amazingly functional piece of public infrastructure this year.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Gen Z does not have the drive to run away and join Van Amberg’s Mammoth Circus & Menagerie in order to prep for a future career as a financial buccaneer
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Gen Z does not have the drive to run away and join Van Amberg’s Mammoth Circus & Menagerie in order to prep for a future career as a financial buccaneer
In my lifetime since childhood, I have completed a full “watching lots of TV makes you an idiot” => “don’t be elitist and snobby, all forms of media are good and bad in equal measure” => “no, actually, watching lots of TV makes you an idiot” opinion cycle
I’m sorry, the average American spends 6.75hr watching tv PER DAY????? www.emarketer.com/content/us-t...
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In my lifetime since childhood, I have completed a full “watching lots of TV makes you an idiot” => “don’t be elitist and snobby, all forms of media are good and bad in equal measure” => “no, actually, watching lots of TV makes you an idiot” opinion cycle
Reposting this over and over until it stops being relevant
I originally posted this in semi-jest, but in retrospect I think it really explains a lot about what went wrong over the past 5 years.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reposting this over and over until it stops being relevant
people have been torturing themselves over "regards," "cheers," "very best," and whatever else to sign their emails when "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" has just been sitting there
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
people have been torturing themselves over "regards," "cheers," "very best," and whatever else to sign their emails when "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" has just been sitting there
Telling my children this is Danny Go’s full name
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Telling my children this is Danny Go’s full name
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
For #30DayMapChallenge 3: Polygons, I'm re-sharing an old favorite: the 200 roundest waterbodies in Massachusetts. (Because technically a circle isn't a polygon ... except in GIS.)
glitch.leventhal.center/birds-eye-ca...
glitch.leventhal.center/birds-eye-ca...
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
For #30DayMapChallenge 3: Polygons, I'm re-sharing an old favorite: the 200 roundest waterbodies in Massachusetts. (Because technically a circle isn't a polygon ... except in GIS.)
glitch.leventhal.center/birds-eye-ca...
glitch.leventhal.center/birds-eye-ca...
For #30DayMapChallenge 2: Lines, I've visualized the @mbta.com @mbta-cr.bsky.social Commuter Rail lines as they traverse geographies of very different home values outside of Boston.
observablehq.com/@garrettdash...
cc @masshousing.bsky.social
observablehq.com/@garrettdash...
cc @masshousing.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For #30DayMapChallenge 2: Lines, I've visualized the @mbta.com @mbta-cr.bsky.social Commuter Rail lines as they traverse geographies of very different home values outside of Boston.
observablehq.com/@garrettdash...
cc @masshousing.bsky.social
observablehq.com/@garrettdash...
cc @masshousing.bsky.social
A pointy-headed, pointless exercise for #30DayMapChallenge 1: Points.
All of the official “Point” names in Massachusetts, with ortho imagery from @massgis.bsky.social
All of the official “Point” names in Massachusetts, with ortho imagery from @massgis.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A pointy-headed, pointless exercise for #30DayMapChallenge 1: Points.
All of the official “Point” names in Massachusetts, with ortho imagery from @massgis.bsky.social
All of the official “Point” names in Massachusetts, with ortho imagery from @massgis.bsky.social
me in 2009: I probably can't go into politics, I have a few mildly left-of-center social media posts and a handful of vaguely cringe facebook photos
politics in 2025: would the nazi tattoo guy be an effective opponent to the diarrhea video president?
politics in 2025: would the nazi tattoo guy be an effective opponent to the diarrhea video president?
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
me in 2009: I probably can't go into politics, I have a few mildly left-of-center social media posts and a handful of vaguely cringe facebook photos
politics in 2025: would the nazi tattoo guy be an effective opponent to the diarrhea video president?
politics in 2025: would the nazi tattoo guy be an effective opponent to the diarrhea video president?
Vito Marcantonio
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Vito Marcantonio
Ghosts of unwritten books / in the land of undone things / unsung songs [W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. 1900] credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ghosts of unwritten books / in the land of undone things / unsung songs [W. E. B. Du Bois, ca. 1900] credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...
Turns out the right wing’s critique of wokeness was not “this is bad” but rather “we are the ones who should be doing this, and with the power of the state behind us”
September 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Turns out the right wing’s critique of wokeness was not “this is bad” but rather “we are the ones who should be doing this, and with the power of the state behind us”
Now *this* is Abundance
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Now *this* is Abundance
My daughter's reverse-side embellishment of this "digital citizens" handout makes me think she was working on commission for a magazine looking to illustrate a "dark side of the internet" longform essay this week
September 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My daughter's reverse-side embellishment of this "digital citizens" handout makes me think she was working on commission for a magazine looking to illustrate a "dark side of the internet" longform essay this week
Reposted by Garrett Dash Nelson
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
Adding Value | Phenomenal World
Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
Age of Asymmetries
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Age of Asymmetries
Reposted by Garrett Dash Nelson
I originally posted this in semi-jest, but in retrospect I think it really explains a lot about what went wrong over the past 5 years.
February 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I originally posted this in semi-jest, but in retrospect I think it really explains a lot about what went wrong over the past 5 years.
Will be talking every day in my office, located in a Charles F. McKim-designed building, about how the people who wrote this are big dumb babies
August 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Will be talking every day in my office, located in a Charles F. McKim-designed building, about how the people who wrote this are big dumb babies