Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 29/09/2026In fairness to the America.gov AI bot... it got the answer right. 110
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 25/09/2026"Workers in meeting-intensive firms report greater on-the-job learning...suggesting that knowledge transmission within firms is an important mechanism. Meetings are the broccoli of work – widely disliked, but probably good for us anyway." Horrible study. www.nber.org/papers/w35706nber.orgMeetingsFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 26/08/2026Yeah, the length isn’t nuts - it’s a combo of other things. For instance, most college kids are already gone which depletes the childcare pool. Most camps ended on 8/21 but school doesn’t start til 9/10. 110
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 26/08/2026Local parents going nuts, The City reports. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/n...thecityreporter.nycNYC Families Struggle With Late-Summer Childcare Due to Later School Year StartWhile most major U.S. school districts are already back in session, New York City students don’t return until Sept. 10. The late start leaves working parents struggling to cover weeks of costly childc... 142
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 09/08/2026AP stats and one college political stats class and I am continually the person most able to grok statistics besides our data scientists. It’s nuts. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 29/07/2026There are the people who take their backpacks off on the subway… and then there is everybody else. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/07/2026And yet we are still waiting on Kathy Hochul to sign NY's balcony solar bill. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...canarymedia.comWill New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sign a balcony solar bill?The legislature passed a measure to allow DIY plug-in solar panels, and clean energy boosters are hopeful that Hochul will sign it to promote… 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/07/2026Watching someone on the train read Donna Tartt’s Secret History for the first time and I’m just so excited for them. Are you kidding me???? What a rush. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 25/07/2026As a person who recently drove on the FDR during the recent storm… I appreciate this. 000
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 20/07/2026Obsessed with @nycferry.bsky.social's new merch. shop.ferry.nyc 011
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 15/07/2026Pair this with resident parking permits and regular enforcement and it's a slam dunk. 050
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 15/07/2026I do! Sometimes I love it, sometimes I want more policy wonks and fewer activists. But when it's good it's excellent. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 15/07/2026I found this interview with Kevin Rudd on China to be fascinating. What long-form interviews should I be listening to? Volts.wtf (energy/climate) and 80,000 hours are my others like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...volts.wtfVolts | David Roberts | SubstackA newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week. Click to read Volts, a Substack publication with tens of thou... 200
Reposted by Ezra MechaberLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 14/07/2026How humiliating to be an apex predator in your ecosystem and sound like that. 1281
Reposted by Ezra MechaberKeith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 07/07/2026it is very cool to be able to say this. the back-end is down, but all of the data is just.... out there and safe. even if the site never came back, ppl could easily build a replica 111
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 02/07/2026Using the internet in Europe is just so deeply unpleasant. So many modals. So many modals. 000
Reposted by Ezra MechaberMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/06/2026When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed… Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org. 572234903708
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/06/2026Trump administration is picking winners and losers. The winners are large companies and the losers are small startups. Reserving the most advanced models for the largest companies will only increase their moats. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 22/06/2026Haven't opened Ableton in years, but Bat For Lashes "Daniel" would go so hard over Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money." 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 19/06/2026Everyone talks about leaving their laptop open for long-running agents, nobody talks about doing it with a three year old in the house. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 16/06/2026Politico is resending election night 2024 breaking news alerts to my email in an act best described as a war crime. 030
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 14/06/2026Mr. Softee and NY Ice Cream putting down their baseball bats to hold hands and yell “Lets Go Knicks.” 030
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 12/06/2026Get a projector, put it on at the party. I do not understand the issue at hand. 000
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 06/06/2026I don’t know if it’s Prince Street Pizza or the guys who live above it on Smith but someone is really doing the most by moving their living room onto the street. Truly incredible. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 05/06/2026I'm not asking for much. Do not give me a brussel sprout you haven't cooked. Do not give me a kale leaf you haven't massaged. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 01/06/2026Yeah, seems like "America is an investor and so our citizens/'LPs' get checks" is the way to make it palatable, but ideally you might want to also invest in something like, idk making the grid more sustainable w rising energy use, etc. 110
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 01/06/2026This is basically the Alaska model for AI profit? Or the idea here is that it finances specific government services generally rather than UBI-type distribution? 110
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/05/2026You're not a dad until you're in a group chat debating the merits of different Jack Ryan actors. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/05/2026Damn. Knew it had to be coming soon, but still wasn't ready. Saw him live in 2008 maybe? Absolutely burned the house down. Sonnymoon For Two was one of the first jazz songs I ever learned how to play. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 27/05/2026It blew my mind when I heard someone describe batteries as electron time machines. www.volts.wtf/p/sooner-tha...volts.wtfSooner than you think, electricity is going to be cheap, abundant, and boringHow batteries can enable big new loads like data centers to reduce electricity rates and increase grid reliability. 020
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 25/05/2026It’s just just painful, it’s disrespectful. The tells have started grating on me in a really intense, nails on a chalkboard way. 090
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 20/05/2026My very first participation in democracy was, at age 4, sending a letter to Barney Frank to ask about the status of the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist investigation. He—or his LA and an autopen—wrote me back. I still have it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...nytimes.comBarney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 11/05/2026I guess the idea is “isn’t popular with any other generation” which is a hard prompt. 000
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 07/05/2026I read it yesterday from here and thought “thats gonna front page at some point.” It was good! 000
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 07/05/2026Leaned against an NYC subway station wall after a rainstorm and I’m now covered in an unknown combination of liquids. Expecting superpowers any moment now. 000
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 06/05/2026withpod@gmail.com still the right place for emails about the show? 100
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 05/05/2026As someone who _does_ know and only has a few brainworms, I am very happy to walk any and all high info people through what’s actually out there, useful, etc. But really the absolute best person in this space is @simonwillison.net who authored Django (a legendary python framework) and knows a ton. 010
Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 05/05/2026I have moved towards "You're an extremely terse colleague" for similar reasons. 020
