Monday, August 25, 2025

Mamdani's scavenger hunt, suggestions for Cracker Barrell's rebrand, scented baseball glove instantly sells out, and other stuff that happened while I was on vacation

Game on.

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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM


Clue 2 for those playing at home! #MamdaniExSCAVeganza #ZcavengerHunt

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— MA (@simplyamahzing.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM




We finished #ZcavengerHunt around 6pm and waited in line for a little over an hour. This was a great way to spend the day. We finished it using public transport. We talked to some fun people in the line. It was nice to visit parts of the city I normally wouldn't go to and learn about past NYC mayors

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— Rupal K (@rupalk.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(Here's one nice thread about the experience.) ("It worked not as clicks or gimmicks, but rather as mapped routes, opened rooms, staffed corners, and kitchen windows that made movement legible and safe")








(a) This video is completely bonkers. (b) Do you think Rupert Murdoch's New York Post will continue to back Eric Adams for re-election? nypost.com/2025/08/22/u...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) August 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM








Terse write-up















Thanks AT&T for routing my traffic through Mississippi so I have to fire up a VPN on my phone to post.

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— George Pearkes (@peark.es) August 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
("Enforcement of Mississippi HB 1126 was put on hold by Judge [] last year and, in June [the judge] enjoined enforcement of the law again (after his first preliminary injunction went to the appeals court and then back to him). But the state appealed, and in July the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Mississippi could start enforcing the law as the legal challenge to it played out.")







The University of Chicago “lost tens of millions investing in crypto around 2021” Hahahahahahaha

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM


The University of Chicago has a debt of over $6 billion, against an endowment of $10 billion. They played with crypto. That's more than irresponsible. Their board of trustees contains a surprising number of people regarded as financial geniuses.

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— Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) August 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM


I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

— Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM


(Stanford Review says LOL: "While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked...The university carries nearly $6 billion in debt while running annual budget deficits exceeding $200 million, all on an endowment three times smaller than Stanford’s.")







The Cracker Barrel logo outrage is a natural replication of Asch's Conformity Experiment.

— John David Pressman (@jdp.extropian.net) August 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
(Wikipedia.) (Evergreen)

Checking in on Kash Patel's replies

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.writes.news) August 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM






(From the NYTimes write-up in 2004: "The laws under which the suit was brought did not allow the department to seek money. But in recent years some 100 blacks have pressed discrimination claims and are seeking money from the company in four lawsuits in Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina")











(Do they sell Funko Pops in Japan?)





















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