Another great session at #AERA25: Organizational theory SIG symposium at 9:50 am on Saturday 4/26. Looking forward to this one! @maxyurkofsky.bsky.social @sarahlou6.bsky.social @mayakaul.bsky.social Susan Bush-Mecenas, Julie Marsh, Josh Glazer, & Britney Jones
who wants to start a newsletter of “here is what happened in executive order land that’s relevant to the class you’re teaching tomorrow morning”
smoking in restaurants
lost california tourist driving through pike place
Smoking in restaurants used to be ubiquitous — despite it degrading the experience for everyone else.
It was the way things had always been done — it's tradition! Smokers are essential for business!
Then we banned it in 2005. Now no one wants to go back.
This is a post about cars in Pike Place.
Bwahaha
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Classic Netherlands pic, teenagers riding on elevated/separate bikeway,...just having a great time. Young lady/teenage girl on left w bag strapped on the front, young man/teenage male w thumbs up, another teenage female and male to the right Walk, Bike, Bikeways, Common Sense, EU, Density, Housing, Separate Bike, Netherlands, Mobility, Multi-Modal, Pedestrianization, Protected Bike Lanes, Urbanism, Utrecht
Group of teenage females/young adults riding in a group all w baskets on their bikes w athletic gear/clothes on a separate bikeway, pedestrianized street
This is freedom. Infrastructure safe enough for kids and teenagers to ride to school & almost anywhere.
Netherlands
Woot!!!
Justin Timberlake got to experience the #BikeBus Magic in Portland!!
Mmhmmmm
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
Look how few cars there are (and how they are zipping along) compared to American school drop off mayhem
This paper is a great example of solid evidence of systemic discrimination:
"Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers."
This reflects a series of choices built into the IRS audit algorithm: focus on the EITC, and overclaiming of credits.
#goals
Once you've seen noticed the "Gormless Gap" you see it everywhere
Pedestrian space stolen so that careless motorists don't scratch their cars
What unintended consequences might emerge from building a world where people are systematically protected from any consequences when they drive carelessly?
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Take good care
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For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center.
But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.
Oooofz
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LOLZ
Republicans worked the ref relentlessly - bad faith accusations of censorship, congressional hearings, Trump threatening to imprison Zuckerberg - and it worked because Republicans also have power to act on their threats. This is what you get when politicians who attack liberal values are empowered.
Some 🐔s coming home to roost here. I have long warned about the dangers of putting so much power over speech in the hands of one billionaire. That goes both ways - when Meta intervenes too much (e.g., the Hunter Biden laptop) and when it pulls back from reasonable content moderation (possibly here).
"The most recent data indicates that abortion bans come at the cost of more than 36,000 residents per quarter...more for single-person households...also suggestive evidence of impacts for states that were hostile towards abortion in ways other than having total bans." www.nber.org/papers/w3332...
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A pile of research shows that huge SUVs/pickups are a menace to public health.
Oversized cars pulverize smaller ones in a crash, while their height enlarges blind spots and leads to pedestrians being struck in their head or torso rather than their legs. (US ped deaths recently hit a 40-year high.)
91 years old
Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous
- despite 1 million pre-orders, demand has evaporated
- Tesla delivered only about 10,000 cybertrucks in the 4th quarter
- this issue isn't production, it's demand
electrek.co/2025/01/02/t...
Cycle lane for 8-80 yr olds alongside a main road between two villages 👌
