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As a Brad Lander voter, I love to see this.

I don't understand why Brad Lander doesn't have more traction in the NYC mayoral race. He's accomplished, competent, has a lot of good policy ideas - really the Kathryn Garcia lane right there. What's missing?

I'm listening to an album I liked from 2005 and remembering what it was to be young, angry, and energetic, and that just is all to say, good luck, Zohran voters

I'll download Signal but not Telegram

@claremontrun.bsky.social Question: did Chris have Japanese or African friends while in NY in the 70s? How did he do his cultural research, especially in the 100s-110s?

I've just been walking around going CHICAGO POPE, BABY!

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

I found the winner

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

I spent yesterday testing the Apple iPhone 16e against a Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 phone. Yes, I am biased! But I'm also not wrong. First of all, the C1 is definitely short of our modem lineup on features. Here's a handy chart our engineers came up with based on the analysis they did over the weekend.

a funny rumor from the same tech sources that told me Elon was angling to be shadow president: Elon has more children than is publicly known. like, a lot more. a lot lot more

I'd say "Queens stands up," but we have a bizarre number of AOC/Trump voters, so heck if I know

It's called the iPhone 16 "E" because that's what your network status indicator is gonna say

Yesterday Qualcomm launched a Wi-Fi chipset for *midrange* smartphones which has 2x the peak performance of the iPhone 16 Pro. www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/202...

Do not vote for Andrew Cuomo for mayor.

"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

So does the favor of the King get Eric Adams reelected? Or does Andrew Cuomo find some way to bend the Sovereign's ear

Just can't shake the feeling that we have a government by completely random proclamation right now. No Congress, no courts. If Elon tweets "y'all gotta wear green hats" then we all have to wear green hats.

Just checking. Elon is king now and can do whatever he wants, right? I read that a judge told his guys to get out of the Treasury but there's zero reason or mechanism to make him comply, right?

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

He will run again, and with the current state of the opposition and the information landscape, he will win again. rollcall.com/2025/02/05/d...

The media now has to cover everything the President says as if it's an absolutely well thought through policy idea he intends to totally implement. It's surreal.

OK, tech journalism friends. Who's going to #MWC25? Feel free to reply or DM me.

Until I see someone in Congress take any actual effective action against this, I will assume they all at least vaguely support this. They must be so relieved to not have to make any decisions any more, to have it all done for them now.

Parceling it out now like caviar

I just learned what "autarky" is

Have totally thought of getting my hair cut here but they wouldn't get the joke, and thank God for that (yes, it's a diminutive of Enrique ... among other things)

Sometimes I hear a strange skittering noise somewhere in my apartment in the middle of the day and think "oh god, it's a giant insect isn't it" and then I remember I have a community college student living here

Why isn't a post on here called a BS

Looks like Microsoft is getting DeepSeek's tech onto the Snapdragon NPU, in three different sizes. blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

Reading the NYT today it's amazing how the whole paper has taken the assumption that Democrats are a small, beleaguered minority. If I was just presented this paper, I'd assume they got 25% of the vote and had 100 seats in Congress.

I went to the NRF 2025 Big Show to see the Qualcomm booth (our booth!) and found a big new trend in how we're going to pay for things in the future! What do you think?

I handled this laptop and it's one of those products which is even more amazing in your hand than on screen (because it's SO LIGHT)

Good morning! I decided to see how large an LLM AI model I could run on my Snapdragon-powered Surface Laptop 7 - and got to 100B parameters! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IeK...

Some transit person tell me why the Port Washington line doesn't run every 15 minutes at subway fares? (I'm asking bc of the specific characteristics of this line now.) Especially post City of Yes.

It's just stunning that something as timelessly naff as Dick Clark's Rockin Eve just plugs on. And thank God it does.

Just read the NYT story about One D&D. There's some silly culture war stuff in there, but are they really eliminating species characteristics?

I'm getting followed by a lot of pornbots on Bluesky now. It's nice to get my numbers up, I guess.

Was thinking today about how the lyrics of Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" show the difference between the 1970s economy and the 2020s economy in ways that the Boomer relatives we hung out with at Christmas can never viscerally feel.

With this post - if you are a reporter at CES please reach out, I am recording two episodes a day and would love to have you on, and even if you don't want to be on the mic, i will have drink (alcoholic and otherwise) and food. Please note this is for reporters/media, otherwise we get overwhelmed

I've noticed the NYT story about Copper and Impulse Labs, the battery-induction stove makers, is going around social rn. If you live in most of America you may not get it: a lot of older multifamily housing in the NE, Chicago, etc has 40 amps per unit and the cost to upgrade is $$$$$.

Wow, that was really more hookers and coke than even I expected to read about on CNN

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

Heading to Wilmington on Amtrak, I see this famous sign and think, what a vibe. What a vibe.

There's a dude behind me on the San Diego trolley mansplaining Milestone Comics to his girlfriend