“Today, a tweet can determine a drone strike target, kill civilians, halfway around the world…Now that the internet is a war zone, success largely depends on one’s ability to wield the power of information to mislead, misinform, or scare one’s enemies”
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Next Tuesday we will be joined by Josh Davila @tbsocialist.bsky.social (author of Blockchain Radicals) & Beth McCarthy of @web3privacy.info for a strategy session on decentralized technology possibilities in a progressive municipal agenda.
Come join us if you’re in NYC!
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Took the A-train
Car-specific wayfinding!
A schematic of the multiple types of communication and weapons systems: laser guided munitions, GPS aided bombs, SATCOM jammer
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
new yorkers, come hang with us next wed (9/17) to learn more about the political theory + purpose behind blockchain socialism.
we’ll read excerpts from @tbsocialist.bsky.social ’s book “Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and how to fix it,” discuss and ask questions as a group
Asked about Network States in the glen weyl vs curtis yarvin debate on tech CEO dictators
Anti-fascist protesters disrupted tonight’s debate in NYC between Curtis Yarvin and Glen Weyl, which was framed around the question: Should the U.S. be ruled by a CEO dictator?
Housing & affordability aren’t separate from tech or entrepreneurship. They’re the foundation. If people can’t afford to live here, if small business owners are squeezed, then the city can’t sustain the creative, risk-taking energy that makes NYC a hub for both startups and neighborhood businesses.
Whoa hostile
Here's the public comment I wrote opposing this anti-SB 79 resolution. Cowardice is the right word, especially after council opposed similar legislation almost a decade ago and then used that much-vaunted "local control" to turn the housing crisis up to 11. Kudos to the 5 progressives who voted no.
The increased ICE budget makes it more likely that Asian immigrants—comprising 24% of the state’s undocumented immigrants—get arrested, experience a workplace raid, or are separated from their family. About 501,100, or 27%, of non-citizen New Yorkers are Asian.
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- front image and caption for the truck carrying humanitarian aid, as if that’s the trend
- this meets the legal definition of genocide: mass killing, forced displacement, and deliberate conditions to destroy a people ‘in whole or in part nothing diluted about it
- “evacuation warnings” mean nothing when every zone gets bombed
- “chaotic food distribution system” is a lie: its not chaotic, it’s engineered starvation. Israel is intentionally limiting food and aid to punish and break a civilian population
-“Why hasn’t it been more deadly?” is obscene: Over 55k palestinians are dead, many in stage 5 malnutrition (the final, irreversible stage). suggesting it’s not deadly enough to be genocide is grotesque.
This is such an irresponsible article from the times. Just a few of the things that particularly infuriated me:
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I love this building because it is beautiful, and because it is a physical manifestation of both the glamour and the rot behind the American dream.
If you want a clear view of both towers, visit the small public courtyard in the back. It’s especially wonderful at night when it’s lit up by lights.
He died suddenly of an infected tooth; he never signed a will. He left his fortune to a family he’d largely neglected. His wife suffered from chronic depression and died soon after; one daughter died by suicide, another was financially exploited by 7 husbands and gambled much of her inheritance.
Woolworth was a rags-to-riches story. he rose from poverty to become one of America’s first billionaires. He chose the Broadway & Park Place site for maximum visibility. you can spot it from the Brooklyn Bridge. It was also very important to him to “win” the race for Manhattan’s tallest skyscraper.
architect Cass Gilbert designed the limestone facade with ornately engraved neo-gothic details. Its twin turrets and their turquoise crowns is a nod to london’s Houses of Parliament, earning it the nickname “Cathedral of Commerce.”
F.W. Woolworth, the “five-and-dime” magnate, finished the tower in 1913. for 17 years it was the world’s tallest building.
Today I walked past my favorite building in NYC: the Woolworth Building. I wrote an essay on it in grad school and still love its story.
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It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/
