It brings me no joy to report this, but it’s been almost a full day of the Mamdani candidacy, I walked from Midtown all the way to Greenwich and back, and the city is in SHAMBLES. I saw a man doing pull-up sets on scaffolding. There was a *jazz band* playing in the park, in front of CHILDREN!
A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on the...
I am someone who fucking loves sci-fi and AR and VR (I wrote about it and even did a TED talk (back when that wasn’t derogatory)), and this shit is not going to work due to two factors. 1: it’s still aesthetically awful 2: no one will trust they aren’t sending everything they record back to Zuck RE:
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Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk)
Meta just announced Oakley smart glasses. They start at $399, and they'll be available later this summer https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-...
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I love how you can instantly identify the new AI shit because all of it literally has the light orangebrown tint of fresh babyshit and Not Quite Ghibli™️ character design https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:oofa3qqoiszsmajbigfqskqv&cid=bafkreiczd64lkg3kcgrme3k6fjpy2cwmcipqlzoinoyoltux75umot3tjm
Also, apropos of nothing in particular, if anyone tries to tell you that the protests in LA are a distraction from the budget bill, kindly remind them that the bill will MASSIVELY expand ICE’s budget, so the two things are very much related.
It’s not a riot, but there’s a very good chance the Trump administration is gonna turn it into one
Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.
What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?
Enough with the fucking “this is a distraction” bullshit. That’s your cowardice speaking. It is incredibly easy to say “These people are exactly the same as the messiest disasters you personally know, and would you want those people in charge of your daily budget? Your house? Your healthcare?”
Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?