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I realize that the formal and legal mechanisms, designed as they to arrest the malfeasance of mere gunpowder kings, are too slow and clunky for the mad dreams of a thermonuclear monarch with a globe-spanning petroleum empire, but I'd still rather see them tried than resign myself to nothing.

Huge thank you to the mom in the local schools group text who reminded us that the most apt precedent for AI in education is probably the airdropping of One Laptop Per Child OLPC XO-1’s throughout the global south

You might be able to shut down Horizon Worlds, but I'll still have my VRML.

Everything old in information architecture comes back around again as the new hot trend. They're coming to appreciate file hierarchy and great indexing because it's 40 years of CS and HCI we've totally taken for granted but are perfect for making chatbots that do things and don't completely suck.

Scattered clusters of Bird scooters but for crushing toddlers

Ultra unofficial but you can get a full text rss feed that stays logged on for six months at a time (As long as your rss client supports cookies)

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Google Driverless Car Punks NYC as part of F.A.T. GOLD: http://eyebeam.org/events/fat-gold http://fffff.at/ Camera by members of FAT and Jonathan Minard

Saw the craziest test Waymo in Manhattan today vimeo.com/63542427

Just wait til someone includes Moltbook in their RL harness. No penalty for concurrent sessions either so no reason a few from the same cohort couldn’t be grinding it out simultaneously.

the frozen east river continues to amaze me every commute this week

If only we'd solved the remote hiring of foreign sleeper agent engineers in crypto firms problem, this wouldn't be so bad.

Excuse me, sir. Have you heard the good news about the eyeball scanning cryptocurrency?

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Neverending Uranium Storage Facility 2. Eggplant AI Compute Facility

Update #425 from SBIRS GEO-5 (ACCM)

1. Neverending Uranium Storage Facility
2. Eggplant AI Compute Facility

I spent the entirety of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie fighting my instincts to lean over to my (then) five-year-old in a packed theater and give him my running commentary on the political economy of Adventure Bay. Who gives dogs an aircraft carrier‽ This was clearly not the intention of the AUMF.

I wonder what ontology they’ll use to represent national ID cards

You must understand that to manufacture consent requires a manufacturing capacity. Instead, we must retrain to learn to code consent.

It’s been too long (That’s on me)

Oh goodness; sending positive thoughts and hope your way.

Understudy of the year

🎁 With 6 weeks left in office, Eric Adams responded to a request I made nearly 3 years ago for the gifts he received as mayor.

The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.

children are born pedestrians yet everywhere kept in cars

This is truly a beautiful and transformative experience of a course. Worth making space in your life for it type thing.

So you’re saying getting Embedding Explorer a few weeks ago was the start of the advent calendar for us on the outside?

As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.

Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.

What’s New in NYC Civic Tech – May 08, 2025 - BetaNYC First, we at BetaNYC work hard to ensure that information and data are used appropriately. Second, we respect all those we work with. We truly believe that no one is above the law and that our neighbo...

i just finished my longest into to @beta.nyc's weekly newsletter.

this one covers the NYPD's gang database & the new QoL unit that might be using 311 data 🤷🏻‍♀️

#opendata #civictech #pitech

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Building a custom Placeholder geocoding database Placeholder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: The inclusion of airports, historical records and SFO Museum architectural reco...

"The Placeholder geocoder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: ... I am happy to say that we are now able to build our own custom databases which address all of these issues." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/04...

You may be familiar with its previous name "The Manahatta Project"

I was able to slop together a historical analysis of HTS a few months back, but now there's no way to "reason" through the meaning this new garbage no matter how many flops are thrown at the problem.

This is tomorrow!

I'll be sending out the e-mail with event details this afternoon, so register soon if you want to join our 🧶📊🐦 party.

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities