just saw a posting for a job at the NYPD on a Civic Tech newsletter lol u gotta be kidding me
27.02.2026 02:23
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just saw a posting for a job at the NYPD on a Civic Tech newsletter lol u gotta be kidding me
this is the first anniversary of the revolution, and port said massacre, that I'm seeing tons of identical AI generated slop about it and it's starting to drive me crazy
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)
congrats Doctor Ingrid!
consistently
feels nice to be from the greatest city in the world
idek anymore!!!!
has NYU considered hiring someone who can fix elevators instead
snow in nyc is like the most beautiful sight you've ever witnessed for 24 hours, then you're on the brink of death every time you step on the sidewalk for the next week
can a benevolent nerd please make a streaming platform-agnostic jamming tool (you can jam to the same songs across diff platforms) and a playlist sharer (you can share a playlist of songs and it opens in any platform) thank you very much
alright funs over we need to get everyone to trash their ring doorbells
why the hell do doctors offices want me to scan my palm with amazon one palm scan reader or take a selfie to verify my identity to check into my appointments
my favorite completely placebo pseudoscience is that i somehow convinced myself that i can relieve physical pain by listening to the strokes. i can't explain it but it works
thanks so much for reading (and sharing) brendan, it means a lot!
Great piece!
> I argue that skateboarding, too, is a pedagogical instrument…
> The playfulness skating allows is not about turning cities into playgrounds but turning individuals into people who can find playgrounds in cities.
yes!! i had similar thoughts about walking with a camera after writing this piece :)
Aw thank you so much Sacha!!
THANK YOU FOR READING YUSUF means the world! also this is the only time I don't bail when it comes to skateboarding lolll
“In Seeing like a State, James C. Scott examines mapping as a way of making territories legible to state power – planning, surveillance, and control.15 By seeing like a skater, skaters can subvert the gaze of the state, imagining an alternate mapping of public space.”
“Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ‘rolling ethnography’, Alia ElKattan positions ‘seeing like a skater’ as a new way to approach urban landscapes.”
@aliaelkattan.com lands a gnarly reflective shred without bailing
you should write a paper about that
I wrote about skateboarding, Graeber, and Weizenbaum for Mediapolis' special issue on "Playable Cities". Had lots of fun with this one :)
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/seei...
Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."
donate to hafiza's fundraiser: gofund.me/f7798e0be
put money on tarek's books: chuffed.org/project/1356...
today I found out a 20 year old former NYU student who has been put thru hell & back by this institution is now facing a life threatening disease, then watched a 20 year old palestinian kid get sentenced to 17 months in jail for bogus hate crime charges. so much grief and rage.
sometimes reality is even worse and more ridiculous than parody. i'm losing my mind
www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/res...
