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Will B. Payne

@willbpayne.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, studying spatial data and urban inequality through location-based services.

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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still my favorite two-track mashup (this rules out the Avalanches/Girl Talk/DJ Earworm sea of samples approach): www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxD...
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100dBs - 10 - Poppa Large In The US
YouTube video by Novalife
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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Park Police have had it in for Davey Hearn ever since 1995 when they tried to drag him out of his canoe for surfing a wave on the flooded Potomac and an officer fell in and fell ill with pneumonia. He was charged with resisting arrest but IIRC they floated charges of assault on a police officer.
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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nothing wrong with me that the Monster Energy canal boat can’t fix…
Photo of a Venetian canal with a single small canal boat entirely painted green with a Monster Energy logo on the hull
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 16/06/2026
How might digital mapping move beyond the conventions of traditional GIS? A new special issue of Cartographic Perspectives, co-edited by Bloustein's Dr. @willbpayne.bsky.social and Harvard's Dr. Evangeline McGlynn explores experimental approaches. cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/jo...
The cover of this issue features "Madison Area Dog Parks," a collaboration between cartographer Stephen Kennedy of
LATLONG.SHOP and illustrator Megan Stout. This piece reimagines Madison’s canine recreational geography with whimsical,
hand-drawn character. Different breeds denote each dog park, with smaller pups specifically indicating parks with areas
reserved for small dogs. See more of Kennedy’s maps of Madison and the Midwest at www.latlong.shop.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Why do faculty and students have so little say in the governance of American universities? This terrific new paper by Daniel Hemel and David Pozen asks why American universities are liberal autocracies rather than stakeholder democracies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 25/05/2026
NJ Senator @andykimnj.bsky.social pepper sprayed at Newark ICE detention center, which is owned by for-profit corrections company GEO Group. Feel like this should be a big thing. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim receives first aid after he was caught in a cloud of pepper spray during a clash between protesters and ICE agents in Newark, New Jersey on Monday, May 25, 2026. Jelani Gibson
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 30/04/2026
You can choose not to buy the $40 chicken, but you can’t choose not to pay your rent." Bloustein professor @willbpayne.bsky.social breaks down why pricey restaurants reshape whole #neighborhoods, even for people who never eat there. Read bit.ly/4t7TEPF
Chicken parmigiana lunch sandwich on a table with a glass of red wine.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My former student @dygottlieb.bsky.social has his amazing first book coming out in May. It's all about the way NYC helped create the "yuppies" and how those yuppies then remade NYC. It's brilliant. You'll never think about Zagat's or the NYC Marathon the same way, trust me. Pre-order here:
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
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christopher webb @christopherwebb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I wrote about Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism for @theguardian.com —it’s a brilliant take on why we ought to focus on the hellish 21st century update on Fordism rather than the man himself.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
You really should preorder @miriamposner.com's Seeing Like a Supply Chain. Out this fall and so so good. The sort of software studies project we need rn.
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Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu · 11/03/2026
🏠 Today #Rutgers researchers presented at the State House in Trenton discussing their recent and ongoing research into affordable housing and the corporate acquisition of property in #NJ. @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social @bloustein.rutgers.edu @ericseymour.bsky.social @willbpayne.bsky.social
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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have a new open access article in Geoforum, looking at how abrasive online “finfluencers” promise riches through buying cheap properties to rent to Housing Choice Voucher (“Section 8”) holders, using outdated spatial arbitrage strategies and AI automation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Section 8 (F)influencer economy
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV, colloquially known as “Section 8” vouchers) program is one of the largest affordable housing programs in the United S…
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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Really excited to share my latest paper in @ijurresearch.bsky.social on mapping (a more expansive understanding of) absentee housing ownership in Atlanta! 🗺️🏘️📌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)
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Jovanna Rosen @jovannarosen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New article with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social on the different geographies created by digital capitalism, urbanization, and global production networks
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 11/12/2025
‪The latest ‪@njpolicylab.bsky.social‬ report written by professors @ericseymour.bsky.social & @willbpayne.bsky.social looks at corporate ownership of 1–4-unit residential properties in #NJ. Between 2012 and 2022 ownership more than doubled. policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
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New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu · 08/12/2025
Between 2012 and 2022, corporate ownership of 1–4-unit residential properties more than doubled in #NJ, according to this latest report from NJSPL and authored by #Rutgers researchers @ericseymour.bsky.social & @willbpayne.bsky.social: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
OK, so I just got really obsessed with a very arcane question. There are 'land' and 'water' hemispheres that maximize the amount of each (below). But can you divide the earth into two hemispheres that are each 29% land, 71% water, just like the earth as a whole? The LLMs said no… but I persisted.
The land and waterhemispheres. Equal-area projection. Map from wikipedia.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 02/12/2025
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
AAG 2026 Call for Papers/Panelists: "Urban Politics from Bidenomics to MAGA Urbanism" organized by myself and @alanwiig.bsky.social. Please send abstracts and/or expressions of panel interest to us by October 24, and share widely!
AAG 2026 Call for Papers/Panelists: Urban Politics from Bidenomics to MAGA Urbanism
Sponsored by the Urban Geography Specialty Group

With the return of Donald Trump to the presidency, there is broad agreement that U.S. political culture is at a crisis point (Bouie 2025; Viala-Gaudefroy 2025). Since January 2025, the Trump Administration, an unusual assemblage of impresarios, hustlers, influencers, and hard-core ideologues, has deployed a chaotic program to remake American government and society in the image of authoritarian nationalism across the realms of foreign policy, immigration, trade, social policy, media, and energy (Townley 2025). In short, key figures in the administration have called for “repealing the 20th century,” and more proximately, key policy legacies of the Obama and Biden administrations (Davies 2025). Most recently, the administration has focused its attention on “crime” in “blue” cities and states, sending ICE agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Portland in a show of force against its political enemies (Ward and Fertig 2025; Wong 2025).

While most commentary on the Trump administration focuses on the transformation of the federal government, the changes underway are also profoundly urban (Wyly 2025). This session will explore the urban dimensions of the Biden-Trump transition across a range of domains. We invite paper abstracts and panelists discussing any of the following topics and beyond:-	Urban policy under the Biden and Trump administrations
-	Changing city, state, and federal interactions (conflict, cooperation, etc.)
-	Implications of legislative changes (IIJA, IRA, BBB, etc.) for cities
-	Specific sectoral dimensions (energy, housing, climate, social policy, etc.)
-	Urban voting patterns, gerrymandering, and partisanship
-	Urban militarization, policing, political violence, and spectacle
-	“Sanctuary cities,” immigration, and xenophobia
-	Interrelated housing, housing affordability, and homeowners' insurance crises 
-	Urbanism, suburbanization, and transportation investment
-	Nativism, racism, natalism, and cities
-	Energy, petronationalism, and urban climate response
-	Urban discourses across legacy media, social media, and administration figures
-	Tech, venture capital, AI, and cities
-	Structural and conjunctural dimensions of each administration in the longue duree

We anticipate at least one paper session and one more open-ended panel session based on this theme, depending on interest. Please submit paper abstracts or expressions of interest in panel participation (including topics of interest) to John Stehlin (jgstehli@uncg.edu) and Alan Wiig (alanwiig@ufl.edu) by 6:00 PM EDT (GMT -5:00) on Friday, October 24.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It’s your lucky day! We have identified your profile as a winner, but time is running out to claim your reward. Just send us 250 words within the next three days so we can process your claim. Act now! #AAG2026
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AAG 2026 CFP: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography
AAG 2026 CFP: Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography Will B. Payne, Rutgers University Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley Jovan Scott Lewis, University ...
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In which surveillance study scholars, computer scientists, digital geographers, and a random economic geographer (me) collaborate to unpack the black box of how/why cell phone companies model your location in cities. There's more ambiguity than you'd think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Article abstract for Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data. Click link to read abstract
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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Call for Papers: Locating Power & Resistance in Global AI Production Networks AAG 2026 Annual Meeting AI is not just “in the cloud.” It relies on global supply chains, with power concentrated in a few countries and corporations. fair.work/en/fw/blog/c... #AAG2026
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Call for Papers: Locating Power and Resistance Within Global AI Production Networks
American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2026 Annual Meeting
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Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
José Ramírez-Garofalo, an ecologist at Freshkills, “will soon defend his Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers…. He sees the park as a hopeful story at an otherwise ‘grim’ time for conservation efforts. ‘We’re seeing all these species come back… And they’re all here on Staten Island.’”
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The Birds Flocking Back to the Fresh Kills Dump
New Yorkers stuck their garbage in Staten Island for fifty-three years. As the landfill becomes a park, foxes, deer, and grasshopper sparrows are moving in again.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social
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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sea-level rise & flooding are ongoing due to climate change. How should coastal communities & decision makers respond? In a New Jersey study Geronimo et al. found cultural & institutional factors create barriers to transformative adaptation strategies @willbpayne.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1111/risa...
Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about the perspectives of various actors about flood risks and losses in a coastal area in New Jersey
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 12/08/2025
New article by Laura Geronimo, Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social, Clinton J. Andrews, Elisabeth A. Gilmore, Robert E. Kopp: Cultural and Institutional Factors Driving Severe Repetitive Flood Losses: Insights From the Jersey Shore. #research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 11/08/2025
New paper by former @bloustein.rutgers.edu PhD student and MACH postdoc Laura Geronimo examines how differences in values and worldviews shape attitudes toward coastal adaptation strategies
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Cultural and Institutional Factors Driving Severe Repetitive Flood Losses: Insights From the Jersey Shore
Decisions about how to respond to coastal flood hazards often involve disagreements over resource allocations. In the United States, large intergovernmental fiscal transfers have enabled rebuilding i...
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 31/07/2025
Dr. Will Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social and colleagues published a new article in JPER titled "Digital Twin or Digital Kin: Misunderstandings and Myths about Urban Simulation, and Directions for Change." journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RDXWS...
A digital city on a serving tray
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/
Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.
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New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu · 21/07/2025
Higher #corporate ownership rates of small, 1- to 4-unit properties appear in a range of #NJ municipalities, including Trenton, New Brunswick, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and Newark:
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Mapping Corporate Landlords in New Jersey - New Jersey State Policy Lab
As part of our ongoing research project supported by the New Jersey State Policy Lab, we are examining the growth of corporate ownership in the state’s small residential property market. Our focus is ...
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
OnlineFirst - "Mapping elite tastes along New York City’s gourmet gentrification frontier, 1990–2015" by Will B. Payne: #localreviews #commercialgentrification #NewYorkCity #geographicinformationscience #foodculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 09/07/2025
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
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Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/07/2025
Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/
Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"Text may get treated like a transitional medium, a temporary resting place for ideas." Joshua Rothman on reading in the age of AI www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu · 12/06/2025
Approximately 19% of Trenton's one- to four-unit #housing properties transitioned to corporate ownership between 2012 & 2022, totaling just over 4,000 properties in the Garden State capital, according to new research from @ericseymour.bsky.social w/ @bloustein.rutgers.edu: #Rutgers #NJ #NewJersey
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Who Are Corporate Landlords Acquiring Homes From? Examining Property Transitions in New Jersey - New Jersey State Policy Lab
In this fifth blog post on our research into corporate ownership of New Jersey’s one- to four-unit residential properties, we share more preliminary findings from our analysis of changes in property o...
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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Rutgers Bloustein School @bloustein.rutgers.edu · 05/06/2025
Professor @willbpayne.bsky.social has examined how user-generated review platforms can impact restaurants' reputations, and as the landscape of restaurant discovery evolves, he notes it is more crucial for restaurants to navigate online reviews carefully.
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She reviewed a Tampa restaurant on Yelp. Then came a lawsuit.
The legal battle illustrates the fragile relationship between chefs and restaurant owners and the people they serve.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New article out in Urban Studies! I examine Google’s urban-tech power from Fiber to Sidewalk Labs and argue that the company is less a cohesive strategist and more a shapeshifter, driven by the speculative ethos of Silicon Valley journals.sagepub.com/eprint/JIJUW...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/05/2025
SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:
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Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Looks great Gavin!
The calfire chat box. I ask Are Fires Dangerous? It says sorry I don't have the answer to that question.I ask how to put out a fire. It cannot answer the question.
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