@mayor.nyc.gov this cop car has been parked and flashing their lights for hours, in spite of multiple people in the neighborhood asking them to turn them off, and they told me the order came “directly from the mayor.” Could you directly order them to stop harassing crown heights?

*Laughs in my rent stabilized building didn’t have heat, hot water, or a working elevator for 4 days and then the front door broke*

The fact that she can sleep after doing what she does is actually the bad part

Fact check from the proud owner of a 2013 Honda Fit: true.

This morning at Tube Gym I learned that the “fire exit” which is also the accessible exit doesn’t actually open when you scan to exit and a staff member told me “we don’t have the code for that.” That staff member had to exit through a tube to open that door for people trying to exit. ffs

FOILed my own ALPR data and at the very least I have proven that my bike rack does not obstruct my license plate and I’m excited to send the NYPD’s own photos to them next time I have to appeal one of these tickets.

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...

I made an advent calendar of one thing you can do every day to improve your digital security and become more informed (ie paranoid).

I take personal issue with where this map has drawn the border of Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach.

This aged like fine milk.

Nothing has ever provided the kind of insight into neighborhood by neighborhood politics the way Hellgate's Election Day liveblog has today. hellgatenyc.com/election-day...

Ah yes, Election Day, when I am once again confronted with maps that make me think, “how am I from there?” www.michaellange.nyc/p/predicting...

AITA for how hard I laughed at people complaining about their goofy IoT beds?

Oops, I accidentally a whole Nazi tattoo.

I used to think that maybe a closed universe LLM just for research could maybe be "ok," but I've now tested a few and the AI will often tell you a holding in a case is the opposite of what it is. This is upsetting because Westlaw headnotes were good and useful and now I can't trust them.

It’s time for another edition of #cancelyourNYTimes subscription!! Apologies that all my previous episodes are lost to the former bad place.

:Surprised Pikachu: "When the assessment recommended ROR in a violent felony case, judges set it least often for Black people (26%), somewhat more for Hispanic people (32%), and most often for white people (43%)." datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/racial-...

Graffiti is good. Actually.

It’s gonna be cool trying to explain what freedom of the press was in 30 years.

Comedy is legal again, which is why we have used the power of the federal government to coerce major broadcasters into canceling the shows of comedians we don’t like.

We have reached the point of the Vuelta protest coverage where I can shift to being irritated at Regular News for not understanding Cycling, instead of being mildly irritated at Cycling Media for not quite understanding Regular News. Delightful.

Incredible how many people are saying "protestors shouldn't disrupt sporting events! What are they accomplishing!!" when meanwhile it has led every cycling outlet - not traditional places for political convo - to report on Gaza and significant pressure on IPT. escapecollective.com/the-war-is-c...

Absolutely not. No. www.nbcboston.com/entertainmen...

I got my tires via for cx season via PostNL in the nick of time and am now rich in Baby Limus like I was rich in 11 speed chains during the pandemic. May we all make it through the season, drive trains intact. 🫡

"What I want people to really realize is that this is not just a computer. There is human intervention. The idea that there is some sort of objective algorithm is misplaced and, certainly in this case, that's not what's happening."

The NYTimes is cool I guess, but my heart is with worker-owned media like @hellgatenyc.com. hellgatenyc.com/legal-aid-in...

And while I have your attention:

The Legal Aid Society has asked the city Department of Investigation to look into the NYPD’s use of facial technology and apparent violations of its own internal policies. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/26/n...

“It has become so clear that the NYPD cannot be trusted with facial recognition technology. They cannot even do the bare minimum in making sure it will not lead to false arrests.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/26/n...

The actual goal of the Digital Forensics Unit is to kill off as many bad surveillance technologies as possible. ❌knightscope ❌evolv FRT, we are coming for you. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

It just gets worse every paragraph.

We finally found one! theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

The Mango Lady who hangs out in the traffic jam on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel is my personal hero.

nobody wants to seem gullible and it’s turned into this pathological inability to simply enjoy a good old fashioned passion play of dipshits

I had nothing to do with this month's Decrypting a Defense newsletter and it's a really good one! Related? Seriously, it's a goodie. digitalforensicslas.substack.com/p/the-growin...

Hey I think everyone should read this before they travel. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

I’ve been a public defender for 12 years and no one needs to remind me the system is lopsided but then every so often I am presented with some numbers that make me want to hurl myself through a window

FYI: it is easy to tell when a cover letter is written by ChatGPT 🙃

Are you interested in doing anti-surveillance or criminal defense work but absolutely never want to be a lawyer (the right choice!!)??? You could be the Digital Forensics Unit paralegal instead! myjobs.adp.com/thelegalaids...

In the epic eternal battle between Teams and Zoom, I have to say it is completely unhinged that the Zoom default is to HAVE YOUR AUDIO ON when joining a meeting. Absolutely psychotic.

We are outraged to learn of a death in custody at Brooklyn central bookings on Friday. This human tragedy is not surprising. It is the product of political choices: the cowardly backsliding towards more incarceration and less due process. Our full statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ding dong.

This is a very important story. It is also important to understand that this is how ICE operates. They disappear people. Family members and lawyers often cannot get information from ICE about where inmates are located and they cannot contact them. It has been this way for a long time.

“Their project contains no measures that help female athletes at the professional level as laborers, and certainly nothing that even gestures towards new investment opportunities for girls pursuing their dream.” www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

Chief Justice Wilson out here spitting fire again nycourts.gov/reporter/3ds...

What the everloving fuck

Time for NYPD to start giving us those delicious, delicious documents. Transparency never tasted so good. Appellate Division Affirms Trial Court's Decision Ordering NYPD to Turn Over 100,000+ Pages of Surveillance-Related Contracts to Legal Aid.  nycourts.gov/reporter/3ds...

So far today in the news: 1. My union pushed back against ICE's presence at the NYU public interest career fair, leading to: nyunews.com/news/2025/02...