Urban planners think a lot about place and "the metastasizing influence of consumerism." Here's a good meditation from the lens of arts/lit.
What Comes After “Kmart Realism”? Writing Place in the Era of American Uniformity lithub.com/what-comes-after-… via @lithub
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A new book offers a counterargument to the urban cheerleading that promotes the model of privately funded showstopper urban parks trib.al/AqKvLwI
Mildly amused that in-person conferences now also start with a reflexive "Hi, can you hear me?" into the mic
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Join us this weekend for “Reforming America’s Food Retail Markets”, a conference on how antitrust enforcement and competition policy can improve food retail markets in America.
Sponsored by ISP, #ThurmanArnoldProject and @ysfp
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I solved Semantle #40 in 18 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 5.63. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #16. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 4.92. semantle.novalis.org/
A very interesting distinction:
"National narcissists are hypersensitive to criticism and underappreciation of their nation, more so than nationalists and political conservatives"
We found strong evidence across 56 different countries that this more narcissist form of Narcissistic national identity is a very strong predictor of the belief in conspiracy theories about #Covid19 (featuring research led by @AnniSternisko & @PolPsychKent)
This game is mildly chaotic and I like it.
I solved Semantle #37 in 23 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 4.36. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #18. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 15.64. semantle.novalis.org/
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Sociolinguists should get together and combine all their recordings of people saying 'I don't really have an accent' in all the different accents
oh my god what is this game.
I solved Semantle #30 in 83 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of -2.96. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #75. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 18.35. semantle.novalis.org/
"It’s ‘#NewAge capitalism’ at work: A robust system of knowledge is taken apart piecemeal, divorced from any philosophical or religious roots, and transfigured into a commodity, something that can be bought and sold to improve consumers’ lives"
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If anyone is wondering about the order in which the countries are appearing at the ceremony #Beijing2022WinterOlympics , it's based on the stroke order of the first character of the country.
As someone from a socioracial group that has clung especially tightly to "American meritocracy," who has internalized its logic, who sees its allure and its limitations - it stuns me that some adults think "we should never consider race!" is a legitimate opinion worth sharing
Wall St & Broadway is now S 31 St & 4th Ave. Take that, real estate developers and vanity addresses!
So I live at S 808th street or so, at 15,472nd Avenue extendny.com/
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I just found out about this program at Northwestern University that will give participants from underrepresented groups a $34,000 stipend to complete a 12-month course that will prepare them to pursue a graduate degree in mathematics. Check it out: sites.northwestern.edu/cause…