Mary K Jacob

With sprawling listings commanding record prices, upstate New York is finally having its ultra-luxury moment trib.al/EehgT5E

Meet one of the last elevator operators in NYC: ‘It feels good to know I have a rare job’ trib.al/pTnZNVe

I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

it seems clear now that the human soul is built for labor, that there's a reason god required the garden to be tended to and that by removing that labor we've made everyone genuinely insane. no physical activity, no meaningful labor, is a one way path to mass violence.

I don’t think I’ve watched a video of these fires that has captured the meaning of home so completely. Pray for these people. 💙

I think about this moment from Bob Dylan's 60 Minutes interview a lot

Site of US’ worst nuclear disaster is reopening — and Microsoft wants its power to fuel AI ambitions trib.al/wQ8mSY0

imagine telling this guy in 1988: if you stick with it, the company will go from $1B to $120B, and you'll go from intern to CEO

Every year around 9/11, I watch "The Man in the Red Bandana." It's a tribute to former Boston College lacrosse player Welles Crowther, who died after saving nearly 20 lives that day. Political debates don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Heroes like Welles do. ❤️🇺🇸

EXCLUSIVE: Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts trib.al/AXMIVU5

US home prices have soared 47% since 2020 trib.al/yhBoPDf

Don’t worry, NYC! An earthquake magnitude of 6.5 or higher is needed to put skyscrapers at risk trib.al/tOAi8Cs

WE WILL REBUILD

A grand Hamptons compound that sold for $118.5M in 2021 now seeks a new owner — for $99.5M trib.al/kmtUzS9

In China this would have been expressed in numbers of days, not years. We need to re-figure out how to make physical things with haste if we want to be a competitive society.

quad axel to the succession theme? this absolute diva twitter.com/skatingarchive…

U.S. Justice Department: "Apple repeatedly chooses to make its products worse for consumers to prevent competition from emerging." This might be the stupidest thing I have ever read.

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. @kscalelabs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were stuck in customs for a month. Pre launch. Will be first shown at @ycombinator demo day in April. Company didn’t exist three months ago. This is the purest form of the startup drug.