it's the espresso
11.03.2026 02:59
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it's the espresso
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
I'm gonna say...one of the Richards?
omg I dreamt this as a child
I thought that was where they parked and then walked up towards Gracie Mansion where the protest was?
EFF's Cindy Cohn unboxes her new book, Privacy's Defender! It hits shelves TOMORROW, March 10th. Order your copy today and see if Cindy is coming to a city near you for the tour! www.eff.org/Privacys-Def...
Congrats to Cindy and I for one can't wait to read the book, and also to see the streaming even tomorrow evening!
Oh, I'm 100% with you. This household is fiercely in favor of that. But I live in NYC so I want to nationalize the discussion and contemplation of "Yes, we can have good things"...but that also means I have to endure the shame of Chuck Schumer as a senator.
That's an issue of allocation? We could do that tomorrow by changing our priorities, right? I'm in favor of every single thing you mentioned, but why not just make his proposal revenue neutral and increase the tax on higher brackets and corporations?
I confess I don't fully understand the extent of the hostility I've seen to this proposal. Makes more sense to me than the absurd "no tax on tips" law, and as long as it is accompanied by significant higher bracket increases, it seems helpful. Also seems to learn a key Mamdani lesson: keep it simple
Keine Ahnung.
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I still marvel at how successful the 14th St changes are. It is so pleasant, I make it my preferred crosstown path, and I hop on the bus all the time because it runs so well. This needs to be done for 23rd and 34th to the same extent as it was done for 14th.
The Danes breathing yet another sigh of relief
Don’t know if the sandwich place is worth a special trip, but if you’re near, yeah. Only thing we haven’t done on that list is Lex Market, hopefully next trip. Baltimore is the greatest (and I’m a NYer, so I fucking know good)
My daughter is a Baltimore resident now and we go often now. Love the Saturday farmer’s market on E 32nd and Barclay and then going to the Peabody Heights Brewery afterwards. She also lives near Belvedere Sq and there is a sandwich place in there called Neopol Smokery I’m obsessed with.
Mike, it’s taken me 20 years of reading TechDirt to finally sort out what I think tech policy should be
Might not succeed, but it looks lately like the patriarchy is going to keep running head first into a wall trying to smash itself. Fingers crossed
I subscribe to your Patreon with Ganz, but still like seeing your stuff here
This is my district and Micah Lasher, a good candidate and also the very establishment candidate was my initial choice, but these attacks really put Bores on my radar (hello, Streisand!) and I’m at least considering him now. He is also a State Senator, like Lasher, so he is not a total outsider
So I was at the show…fantastic, btw…and I’ve been reflecting on how everyone says what they are doing is less a cover band and more a tribute. It’s more than a tribute, I’d say. It’s more like a scholarly exploration of the R.E.M. back catalog that you might find in a great graduate seminar
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
Oh man. I guess that’s what happens when someone reads something you write, but not anything on either side of it.
Read the story and it is all over the place. Reads like a story that contains a wishlist of the Iranian oppo (younger Khameini was opposed by his father, he was forced on the council by the IRGC, etc). No sourcing…could all be true but requires a lot of real reporting.
Great show!!
Michael joins Michael Shannon - Jason Narducy & Co. tonight at Brooklyn Steel for “The Great Beyond.”
same. those pieces of shit just come out in the laundry and jam everything up anyway
A little bit of that is also how we've been trained to think about crime in the civilian context. For example, the idea of felony murder subject people to the worst criminal penalties even for minimal or no direct involvement in a criminal act.
we need a Werner Herzog labeler
Am I missing something? Wasn't this already voted on by the residents??
