I'm not a big AI hype guy, but this feels like one of those moments where a really thorny and previously time-intensive/expensive problem just became much, much more straightforward: generativehistory.substack.com/p/gemini-3-s...

This is, unfortunately, correct

Hook it to my veins — if the NYPost is sputtering mad, it’s good enough for me

21 years ago today I paid $5 to sign up for Metafilter, just after signups were reopened. I’d been a lurker on the site since late 2000. So I’ve been reading that damn website, on and off, for 25 years. Computers were a mistake, but that website has brought me a lot of insight (and agita).

Denis Villeneuve’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Remember, while there's a lot of bad news nationally, there's plenty to be enraged about locally also! Driver Mariam Yarimi who murdered an entire family on Ocean Pkwy had a suspended license, 93 traffic violations, $10,000+ in fines, but ... whoopsy doodle!

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

Quoting one of Mario Cuomo’s best lines without attribution is such a delightfully classy hater thing to do, I love it.

At this rate, Cuomo only has to run for mayor 3 or 4 more times this year before he wins.

Regular reminder that the best work covering this city is done by local outlets - @wnyc.org @thecity.nyc @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social @hellgatenyc.com and others. You don’t have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!

Our team will be out all day covering the election, and we want to hear from you. Are there problems or long lines at your polling place? Electioneering? A voting sticker shortage? Drop a line at [email protected].

I think this is right, sadly

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Very hyperlocal question, but does anyone know why there’s no Working Families line for Chi Ossé? I’m positive it’s not an interesting political reason, but I’m still curious. Does WFP not endorse at the council district level? I thought they did but perhaps my memory is failing me.

After we uncovered a pattern of altered data, CCRB officials confirmed the police watchdog is deliberately miscategorizing some NYPD misconduct allegations in public data to protect officers' reputations, at the request of unnamed "stakeholders." hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-lying-a...

This is obviously terribly annoying armchair editing, but also: this is the most egregious widow syllable I’ve noticed on A1 in years, right up top in the 4th graf

Heading into the booth for early voting and confused about the three housing proposals on the ballot? We got you covered 👍 hellgatenyc.com/nyc-housing-...

I don’t mean this in the sense that I don’t believe it, but this article reads a bit like something hallucinated by AI — totally plausible, presented with confidence and explanatory heft, but somehow still feels completely made up in a way I have no means of verifying myself

this election isn't ONLY about the mayor, there are also a bunch of ballot referendums to sort through, most of them to do with the future of our city's housing supply. @davecolon.bsky.social waded into the policy weeds so you don't have to: nygroove.nyc/housing-refe...

I'm old enough to remember when Eric Adams stood up at Gracie Mansion and said “Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar." I am a two month old baby

Wowza! The anti Prop 2, 3, and 4 mailer from the NY City Council sure as hell feels like illegal electioneering

Slavic drink question: Kvass is a thing that small Polish/Ukrainian/Russian children regularly drink, right? …he asks as he reflects on sharing kvass with a 4 year old, only later realizing that it is (hopefully negligibly) alcoholic on account of fermented grain sugars.

On one hand: furloughed 👎 On the other hand: afternoon pinball with a 4 year old, hell yeah (2-player cooperative grand champion to boot 💪)

In the most delightful possible way, this thread identifies the petty delights made possible by print magazine editing and layout choices (I worked in magazine publishing for years before I became a librarian)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Shohei Ohtani makes me understand Lex Luthor more deeply.

This is such an obvious, well-known, long-running issue and no one with the power to do anything about it cares nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

The fact that kids look similar to both parents is simultaneously the most self-evident fact in all of human developmental history, and also somehow shocking to me every time. “That kid looks a little like his mom, and a little like his dad!”, I say gobsmacked as I fall out of my chair yet again

Can’t believe I am going to wash dishes on a Sunday evening while listening in on arguments in federal court, but here we are

Oh hell yeah @nygroove.nyc — no nostalgia in the world like NYC dive bar nostalgia! bsky.app/profile/nygr...

On one hand: furloughed On the other hand: weekday visit to NY Transit Museum with a 4 year old, hell yeah

Is @hellgatenyc.com or someone else working on the Gen X/Xennial “Bars That Shaped a Generation” oral history feature? I’m hearing Siberia, Continental, Alibi, Fish Bar, so many others…

I learned a lot about how to be (and how not to be!) an adult in NYC by drinking at Siberia.

The best evidence that this new speed limit is a haphazard, half-assed initiative is that the Adams administration seemingly has no coherent plan for implementing it. hellgatenyc.com/15-mph-e-bik...

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

Tired: getting into 3D printing and generating cheapo schlock Wired: Marrying a sculptor/ceramicist and asking for ridiculous custom hand-crafted artisanal kitchen gadgets based on hare-brained ideas

This is the hat I wear every day. RIP to an all-time great who led the ensemble cast of one of the greatest caper films of all time.

I first saw Sneakers in college. The year was 1992 and I was 17. They did a special screening on campus because Lawrence Lasker was an alum. Anyway, it was the first movie I saw Robert Redford in and it was CINEMA. Best movie ever. RIP to that handsome unproblematic man.

Much like Bean Dad, when my children ask for the tablet I give them a 286 cpu, boot disks for MS-DOS 3.3, and a C:\> If they can figure out how to get in trouble online from there they’ve earned it 💾

Crystal Hudson just sent out an email blast telling ebike riders to "SLOW DOWN!" Where's the email blast to car drivers responsible for 99% of the injuries & deaths? Where's the outrage about ghost plates? Or how about the single 2024 Kia Forte terrorizing her district and racking up speeding tix?

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Imagine going to prison because you wanted speaking lines on a TV show and some people who *really* hate bike lanes arranged for you to have a scene with Forest Whitaker so that you would in return kill the bike lanes that they *really* disliked.

I'd like to emphasize that you can make a totally above-board donation to support @katiehonan.bsky.social's work at @thecity.nyc right here. All you get in return is great journalism, and a tax deduction. It's up to you whether you itemize any potato chips you include.

The corruption is bad, but the ham-fisted execution of the corruption is ASTONISHINGLY STUPID

Once again, the people accusing safe streets advocates of controlling city government were the ones doing the bribes.

Lmao they’re being indicted for bribing Adams to kill a bike lane.

Whoever picks the WNYC music interludes is going hard on Mingus Ah Um this morning, and I am here for it!

when I lived in brooklyn, I didn’t know my rental was stabilized until the WHISTLEBLOWER IN THIS PROPUBLICA INVESTIGATION literally sent a letter to my apartment. I am so serious, that’s how I found out I had lived there for years without knowing