Geographer. Prof at Temple University. Author of 2 books. Elephants. Maps. Archaeofuturist Transportation.
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Apr 11
Can't stop staring at this GIF of the lower mantle's anomalous slow-wave mega-blobs...which might be last remnants of the paleo-planet Theia which collided with proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago to create "our" Earth and the Moon.
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Hey did they consider tweaking the “analytics” to factor in how consistently NYK was awesome in the 4Q all season? Or was this about baiting people into dumb bets
According to ESPN Analytics, in the 4 games the Spurs lost in the NBA Finals, they had a...
— 91.6% chance of winning Game 1 up 13 points midway thru the 3rd
— 72.8% chance of winning Game 2 up 2 points with 1 minute left in the 4th
— 99.6% chance of winning Game 4 up 20 points with 9:33 left in the 4th
— 95.4% chance of winning Game 5 up 10 points with 7:54 left in the 4th
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It’s weird, in 00s grad school Marx seminar, the “redistributionists” were low-status, mocked. Of course the point was production, factories, riding the wave of new industrial dynamics birthing new smarter neo-proles. Yet it’s true: “pop marxism” after ‘16 has been allergic to this
Unlike orthodox marxism which is *obsessed* with matters of production and the distribution of its means, modern “pop marxism” takes production and logistics concerns as a solved problem; essentially presuming we already live in a state of post-scarcity.
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Growing up in Boston in 90s I remember certain HS classmates (male, pretty rich) used to say stuff like "if the Red Sox ever win, we are burning the entire city down." Because...they really liked the Red Sox? I didnt understand this energy and still dont.
WATCH: School Bus driver attempts to defend his bus from unruly crowd
"It's coming out of my paycheck!" Driver Screams As Crows DESTROY School Bus Smashing it in TSQ after Knicks WIN
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Always thought this was a beautiful looking map, even if the point of the scene is that cartography wasn't good enough for him :(
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It was a good “young people at their absolute physical prime arent ready to rule yet. Wisdom from seasoning matters” series. Argument against some of the “vitalist” stuff in the mix these days…
The basketball gods, through Jalen, decided how this series would go. It wasn’t about strategy. It was spiritual.
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Idk. Remember a certain Finals Game 6 2013, final play, when Spurs couldnt get a rebound bc Pop had put Duncan on the bench? Ball found the hands of Ray Allen as I recall…🤔
What's not being said enough is how the Spurs - a franchise considered one of the smartest and best-run basketball teams in the NBA over the last 30 years - played very low-IQ basketball in the finals.
- Fox at the point guard position was clearly a detriment. Yes, he was hobbled with an injury, but his decision-making was very poor. He can't blame that on an injury.
- Wemby (and others) shooting three-pointers early in the shot clock to allow the Knicks back into the games in the second half.
- Coach Johnson not taking timeouts in game 4 when the Knicks played their way back into the game. Not resting Wemby more in the first half of games when they had leads, so that he was more of a factor in the second.
- Lots of dumb turnovers in the second half to the games. Fox was the chief culprit.
That just didn't look like Spurs' basketball from the Popovich era, when they typically played a lot smarter than their opponents.
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Oh usually these things are exaggerated among Americans so they can justify fear of seeing whats beyond Branson Missouri
“…in a neighborhood surrounded by armed security” because there are poor people who would come in and do terrible things to you — Nah. That’s not the kind of “luxury” — or clueless elitism — that a lot of us are interested in.
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Maybe critical mass of Americans owning landing Uganda would deal with security in the same way that the Mamdanis do. Maybe some other way, idk
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Nice 👌. I’m jealous of new Americans who get to have the best of both worlds like this. It’s also why I support liberal immigration policy being tied to new treaties that make it safe and easy for middle class Americans to buy land in Global South. These things should be 2 way.
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Reminder: Zohran and his family keep an extra luxury home in Uganda in a neighborhood surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.
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The point of OP is the “hypocrisy.” Whatever 🤷♂️. Id rather more Americans have access to this kind of dualism than linger on Mamdani’s failure to arrive at an ideology that makes sense of his own biography.
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Idk what "worst title team" means if they defeated what was supposed to be the second best team which had defeated what was supposed to be the first best team. But yeah I do think the Spurs lost this more than NYK won it
Objectively this has to be the worst Nba title team of all time right?
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In Kim Stanley Robinson's 2002 alt-timeline novel "Years of Rice and Salt" (premise is a 15th c plague wipes out the whole population of Europe), the Chinese build a great city on SF Bay but select the Marin Peninsula instead.
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It may sound from POV of 2020s like an annoying proto-woke "anti-European" premise, but it's actually not. In many ways--not all--the subsequent history goes worse than the real one.
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Prob the best thing that could have happened for NYC was Knicks closed out on the road, mitigates intensity of midtown rioting by hooligans
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Anyone else remember 2016's SXSL -- South by South Lawn, where it was that Austin festival SXSW which is actually professional networking conference for creative class...but it was on the White House South Lawn.
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It exemplified this pure fusion of govt, industry, media and entertainment that Obama II was going for and I think assumed they'd permanently secured.
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