The first line of everybody's root-level CLAUDE.md file.

This is not a thing.

Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...

Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.

Next thing you know we’re gonna get bright red alternate road jerseys or (sob) City Connect uniforms. What is this world coming to.

The book republished the now famous exchange btw Lincoln and Greeley in which Lincoln says if he could restore the Union without freeing any slaves he’d do it. But reading the letter in full it’s clear he’s talking about the scope of his authority not his personal conviction.

From the (glowing) NYT review. www.nytimes.com/1914/10/25/a...

The Grammy data absolutely abounds with hilarious-in-hindsight examples like this. Here’s Best New Artist, 1979.

Did The New-York Historical Society change its name by dropping the hyphen and the word “Society”? How did I miss this?

Who pays tariffs? (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1892)

An homage to the William Bailey map from 1911? makingmaps.net/2008/02/19/1...

Sometimes when I’m killing time I give ChatGPT old Learned League trivia questions. I’ve never seen it be wrong. It has demurred when the question involves something more recent than 2021, though it conjectured (correctly) about this one.

There’s no place to sit, you still have to rush to a gate when your train is called, and they use this giant screen for looping ads, not train departures. How is this better than the previous Penn Station? I’ll give it this: it’s not in a basement.

One of these guys has a bridge named after him in NYC.

Come for the astonishing chart. Stay for the deep reporting.