Sam O'Hana
@samohana.com
Poetry, demography and economics at the Graduate Center, CUNY. samohana.com
@samohana.com looks at Allen Ginsberg’s tax returns to understand how Ginsberg supported himself, and the point at which he finally started getting paid for the poetry he created. Read his findings, or listen to him on @cascadiapoeticslab.bsky.social. centerforthehumanities.org/dear-future-...
The video of this panel on affordable housing from @schoolofdata.nyc in March 2025 is up (with @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social colleagues @samohana.com & Holden Taylor). What a fun time. Thanks @beta.nyc for organizing this & having us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0l...
22 Defending Affordable and Stable Housing: Progress and Problems
YouTube video by BetaNYC
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As a father of a three year old, I am haunted by these horrors.
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.Photo of the Day Widely shared but rarely credited to the photographer, Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini. Gaza is the most dangerous place that has ever existed for journalists. But they work on, documenting a genocide for a world desperately trying to look away. May their images haunt us forever.
This is devastating. My heart is with Representative Hortman’s family and loved ones, and I’m praying for Senator Hoffman and his wife. Political violence, of any kind, is never acceptable, and it must not be normalized.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting
Officials said the suspect was posing as a law enforcement officer.
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Had a great conversation with Paul Nelson (@ryukanski.bsky.social) on why midcentury US poetry really was something unique– the time, money and resources they had is a situation we may never see again paulenelson.com/2025/05/20/s... @ryukanski.bsky.social
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Postcards from Mapes Creek was the coolest thing on Seattle on a 90 degree record heat day. Thank you Jim O'Halloran and Susan Pascal for the music, Sarah Koenig and Matt Trease for the poems.
This one is just as powerful. youtu.be/iQ0ct9bglYo?...
Don't Be A Sucker (1947)
YouTube video by Old TV Time
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feel like it's time to introduce the question of distribution behind an average into public discourse. not really enough to say eg. "Americans life expectancy going down" without pointing to inequality of distribution. MSM outlets should start adding some kind of Gini caveat to headline stats
maptiles for r experiment (plus rayshader, but not really visible here)
Some would say I have too many Charles Olson-related documents on my laptop
Course registration for the 2025 Summer and Fall semesters is now open! This summer, Special Topics in Computational Fundamentals: Studio for 3D Geospatial Rendering will be taught by @samohana.com
Cars are deadly, inefficient, and climate-killing. Cars aren't inevitable, and they are standing in the way of a better, transit-friendly future for our country. www.currentaffairs.org/news/carmage...
How We Reached Carmageddon
Cars are deadly, inefficient, and climate-killing. Cars aren't inevitable, and they are standing in the way of a better, transit-friendly future for our country.
currentaffairs.org
I hate fraud so much. I was lucky to be raised by a deeply ethical dad who worked in the real estate industry in Florida and so was constantly bringing home stories of the worst kinds of guys getting rich in ways that they felt were "illegal but fine" but were actually the worst kinds of theft.
"the largest office to residential conversion in American history"
Mark D. Levine@marklevinenyc.bsky.social · last yr.It’s happening: Empty office buildings in Manhattan are starting to be converted to housing—including affordable units. We need much much more of this.
Hosting a workshop on beautiful plots in R this friday with @gcdatavis.bsky.social #R #RStudio #ggplot
i sometimes wonder if we'll ever get an intellectual like Hannah Arendt ever again
