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I read 520 pp of McKinsey strategic planning documents for the University of Florida so you don’t have to. You’ll be shocked, *shocked* to learn these documents have nothing to say about the content of UF’s educational and research mission, and a great deal to say about workforce development. Long 🧵

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Plea for help. Looking for short literary texts or artworks or film clips about expressways, their impacts on communities, and non-automotive relations to them? (For ex. Manzanar Murakami conducting traffic in Tropic of Orange)

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The Chicagoan - Wikipedia

Thanks, Nathan

Unbelievable to me that it is 5 years since David Berman took his life. Thinking of him today. Wrote this last year about his indelible poems and their insights into the despoliation of American landscapes post45.org/2023/01/davi...

David Berman’s Edge Cities: Poetry, Commercial Real Estate, Municipal Feeling - Post45

In Roe Ethridge’s cover photograph for David Berman’s book of poems Actual Air (1999), two glass office towers rise over a row of pines (fig. 1). Below, a dry and grassy wastage does a poor impression...

I’d been back in Baltimore about 3 weeks when John Waters sidled up to my 5y.o. & friends as they gazed into the fountainwater at the BMA sculpture garden & asked “seen any sharks?” At first I disbelieved the truth before my eyes because JW sports the same, shameful “final sale beige” Allbirds as me

RIP James Scott, anarchic anthropologist and political scientist. I will continue to contemplate his accounts of tubers and taxation with deep admiration and a fragment of wonder. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Against the Grain

An Economist Best History Book 2017  “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian  “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by expo...

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