A reminder that while the laptop class at a16z move onto the new Current Thing with AI in San Francisco, the real builders are still grinding in Miami, laying the foundations for a new decentralized internet built atop the blockchain

I don't use Venmo much anymore, but whenever I do I'm just amazed to see that newsfeed showing various payments being made random acquaintances / plumbers / randos I once split a check with in 2013. One of the truly great deranged product choices of the social media era.

I'm not familiar enough with the details to have anything smart to say about the Tucker Carlson Hitler revisionist thing, but I do want to say I appreciate seeing a guy named Darryl in the discourse. Not so much Darryl representation these days?

Manhattan office fire drills are always a great brief moment of inter-class relations, hundreds of white collar people with laptop hands gathering in rapt attention for a monologue from a burly mustached man with an I’m-walkin’-here accent

one's gotta go, New York

All I have for you is a gesture, in combination with a word: TENET. Use it carefully. It'll open the right doors, and some of the wrong ones too.

Classic temporal pincer movement

Thing I learned: Steve Irwin was a surprisingly good surfer?

Hebron | Israeli soldiers from the 92nd Battalion took a mocking selfie with a kidnapped Palestinian elderly from the city Posted today on one of the soldiers' social media accounts.

I knew it in my bones, those constant NYC fire trucks with blaring sirens are never actually going to a fire

Biden Sunday: On the "verge of having an agreement” Sr Biden official Weds: ceasefire deal 90% completed Netanyahu Thurs: “There’s not a deal in the making...Unfortunately, it’s not close.”

truly incredible

Gotta say, seems like a lot of crooks in NY politics these days thecity.nyc/2024/09/05/fbi…

unbelievably funny underlying economics at work here

Amazing stuff, the French left teamed up with the centrists to prevent a far-right majority, now the elections are over the centrists are teaming up with the far right to appoint a right wing prime minister npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

First time using TaskRabbit in a long time and the cut they take now is fucking incredible —they’re charging a $20 *an hour* “trust and support fee” for a person charging $50/hr