absolutely insane clip from the Michael (2026) teaser where it's implied Michael Jackson had to write down "mama se mama sa mama koo sa" (twice) to be reminded how to sing it

7 of 9 city councilors endorsed by Cambridge Bike Safety

bike lanes win

let's call it the mobility mandate!

check for escaped lab monkeys in the news?

what do I do if I answered "No" to this?

so fucking sick of this asshole

What do you notice about the framing differences between these different headlines?

A very zero-sum game way of looking at things, on candidate Elizabeth Bisio's site. How to preserve parking for those demographics specifically? If street parking is in such high demand, we should disincentivize multiple car ownership, so that the people who really need the spots can have them.

dutch planners have a way with words

the food thing is cool too. C Pam Zhang can say it better than I. at any rate, maybe the colonial spew of the Anglosphere has something to do with an inferiority complex brought on by shame of its own linguistic origin story. would make sense then that we might think Dutch silly or German robotic

music practice obsession du jour for me has been triad pairs and hexatonic scales. wrote myself a little tool (as part of the MaNePu suite) to iterate through all possible triad pair collections and then spit out one at random for me to tinker with. I mean, how fun is this?

This is largest population group by neighborhood, which doesn't show dimension.

Why not use diversity index?

0 = population homogenous
1 = all different

Clear to see where segregation is here—southie, back bay, west roxbury; whereas DOT is most diverse even with nonwhite majority

Is this the most cursed bus in Boston? The route I’m on has two stops that are *in* the Newton supercollider!

The Beekeeper (2024)

"playing a roll"

thinking of putting one of these in front of my place

Just bought this book on ska—had to head down to the store earlier to Pick It Up! Pick It Up!

board game geek is cool because where else can you see Mark Vonnegut comment on his late father's newly released game?

"73-year-young R. Buckminster Fuller is taking a two-day crash course in computer science and programming from Sister Mary Kenneth"

what did they do with the butterfly thing??