Throwies in a tunnel beneath Lincoln Square, Manhattan.

"Defining characteristics of skilled throw up include letter height consistency, letter shape conformity along the top and the bottom, minimal negative space, and clean lines. The line between pieces and throw ups is sometimes blurred, but throw ups tend to be faster to paint, have fewer colours, and prioritise speed over style."

We're about to throw our best & brightest into a war with no clear goals, and when they come back there won't be services for them, as the VA is firing social workers and mental health specialists en masse.

Arms and armor exhibit at the Met.

Authoritarian regimes are awful at both governance and military strategy, thanks to an unwillingness to consider consequences & alternatives.

US mil strategy now resembles our national budgeting process, where budgets are increasingly backward looking, not completed until a budgetary period concludes. This reactive process drove Argentina into default and may do the same for US.

Hoped to see sim games modeling escalation paths before they’re taken, using something like this EMD.

New graffiti on the Avenue of the Americas. This artist's best work is alongside some old railroad tracks in da Bronx.

The New York Artists' Memorial Garden in Jackson Park can be a great place to sit in the shade and read during the summer. The fountain is well maintained.

The all-voluntary U.S. military is coming to an end.

Conscription is baked in.

At the top, it's seen that there is therefore no continuing need for livable housing for servicemembers, adequate cost-of-living adjustments, or veterans' healthcare. The list goes on.

It's over.

Annualized returns (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for Post-War and Contemporary Art compared to the traditional investment classes of the S&P 500, gold and real estate, based on historical data from 1995 to 2022/2023.

With numbers like these, it’s odd that art isn’t taken more seriously.