I guess it’s encouraging that I can’t easily find a parking spot for my e-bike at the main hospital. But maybe they could add some racks
If only Mamdani could appoint the UVA Board of Visitors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Mamdani Dismisses Business Leaders Advising NYC’s Mayor’s Fund
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dismissed the business and civic leaders who advised a multimillion-dollar fund that channels private donations into public programs, removing a longstanding group o...
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My social media gets very strange when there is a big sporting event going on and I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
I am disappointed that on their 2nd interview with a Harvard educated rock musician @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social did not talk about their interview with @dadadrummer.bsky.social and how terrible Spotify is. But I guess that would have been impolite.
Anybody know what the back story is here? Is there really something wrong with the zoning code or were the developers trying to do something outside the code? c-ville.com/lewis-mounta... @mtgillikin.bsky.social @stevenljohnson.org
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The If Books Could Kill ( @ifbookspod.bsky.social ) gang have another banger of an episode. I knew I should be suspicious of Sapiens but I did not see the “western colonialism was actually OK because they mostly cared about knowledge” argument coming. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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Usually I leave the NY Times criticism to folks more experienced in the genre, but wow I did not see this coming. Waxing nostalgic for a “clubby” world that’s “all but gone”. You know what folks did in that club, right?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York
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Everyone is saying how “unprecedented” it is that King Charles is stripping in his brother of his royal titles and paying for him to live in a slightly less nice house. Well Edward IV locked his brother up in the Tower of London, personally prosecuted him, and had him executed.
I am so relieved to learn that AI is not going to put folks out of work but rather give them super powers. And anyone it does put out of work was not a “real” worker anyway.
Found this in a letter from my dad to his dad, written Thanksgiving 1974. He had made full professor a few years earlier, and it's interesting to see the younger professors starting to freak out about the end of the post-war academic boom. Austerity never ends well.
Oh look, the housing crisis is going to solve itself as the baby boomers sell their houses. Now we just need to get those annoying YIMBYs to stop insisting that houses be in walkable areas with good public transit. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Forget YIMBY. The housing shortage could disappear on its own.
Demographic shifts and construction surges are likely to resolve the housing crisis without federal intervention.
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Here is a clip of Paul Mahoney, UVA's new acting president, at a Federalist Society panel. It's clear why no-one from the College was appointed to the presidential search committee -- Mahoney says outright that humanities professors are all a bunch of commies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUq...
Showcase Panel II: The Mission of Law Schools [NLC 2022]
YouTube video by The Federalist Society
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Two days of driving from mid Missouri and now back in Charlottesville. So nice to be greeted by the amazing entrance corridor on Ivy Road.