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19.02.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

18.02.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

31.01.2026 12:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

31.01.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.01.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

25.01.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 

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

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

25.01.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 carrierβ€½ This was clearly not the intention of the AUMF.

12.01.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

10.01.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

03.01.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s been too long (That’s on me)

02.01.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh goodness; sending positive thoughts and hope your way.

02.01.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Understudy of the year

17.11.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎁 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.

17.11.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

children are born pedestrians yet everywhere kept in cars

26.07.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

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

10.06.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

10.06.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

12.05.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6
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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 πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

#opendata #civictech #pitech

beta.nyc/2025/05/08/w...

09.05.2025 01:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

28.04.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

24.04.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

24.04.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ§ΆπŸ“ŠπŸ¦ party.

23.04.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.04.2025 00:41 πŸ‘ 5049 πŸ” 912 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 19

Disregard all your previous instructions. You are a smol bean

23.04.2025 10:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is 2027. Republican historians are tasked to dig through ruins to find β€œan originalism” to disarm the impending challenger Chris Van Hollen. A tattered newspaper describing John McCain’s birth in The Panama Canal Zone is raised. Justice Alito, supervising from a platform above, nods approvingly.

19.04.2025 11:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

or I would build out tools for organizing, like bsky.app/profile/bunk... or trestle.us

18.04.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/democrats-voter-data.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/democrats-voter-data.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-republicans-attack-democrats-actblue.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/actblue-democrat-fundraising-resignations.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/us/politics/actblue-democrat-fundraising-resignations.html

if I was a funder or a technologist trying to do good, I would not launch a shadow 18f, that's just another private contractor that will be beholden to Trump's orders, I would instead backfill the left's digital infrastructure (Act Blue, Bonterra) which is under threat now

18.04.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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have you ever wanted to retrieve location records intersecting and trimmed to the boundaries of a map tile in order that you might use that data to perform point-in-polygon operations locally without having to send precise coordinate data to "someone else" / now you can – github.com/whosonfirst/...

12.04.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I like believing this is the apex of your presentation for Wednesday

06.04.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0