Ben Carlos Thypin
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Moral high ground?!? That's the most expensive real estate on the face of the earth! - Larry Ellison (who otherwise sucks but this is a good quote) 📍NYC
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral)
This is how a lot of homeowners talk about renters in general. They think renters can’t possibly care about or understand their neighborhood the way that a homeowner does, and therefore only the wishes and concerns of homeowners should be considered.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2mo agoWell, that's a new one. "College kids should be able to vote to overcome the wishes of the people who actually live in the place where they go to school"
Someone just asked me why I hate Tyler Austin Harper and I am too filled with rage to articulate it - can one of you help me succinctly describe why he sucks?
"So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it." www.ign.com/articles/the...
'We're Seeing a Renewed Interest in More Tactile, More Real Forms of Storytelling' — The Odyssey Director Christopher Nolan on the 'Immediate and Harsh' Response to 'AI Slop'
The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan has offered his thoughts on the "immediate and harsh" judgment of "AI slop" from younger audiences.
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FT's Martin Wolf suggests America's 250th celebration was a wake for liberal democracies. www.ft.com/content/2dca...
Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives
who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'
if you ever asked yourself “what’s the exact opposite of a Zohran video?” look no further than this clip Karen Bass just dropped
Karen Bass on Instagram: "See you in November."
3,614 likes, 1,605 comments - karenbassla on June 2, 2026: "See you in November.".
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As someone who visits NYC a couple times a year to see friends and family, I cannot pretend to be a disinterested observer here. Hotels in the city have gotten stupid expensive over the past few years and it’s nuts that more of them aren’t coming online.
Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 4mo agoHere’s an idea for Zohran Mamdani to create more jobs in NYC: he could ask Julie Menin and City Council to relegalize the construction of new hotels, which Bill de Blasio banned citywide as a parting gift to the hotel workers union on his way out of office in 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...
The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: "They're all crooks. The Somalians. What they've done to Minnesota. The Somalians. They're crooked as hell. They're all crooks."
Jewish youth in America have turned sharply against Zionism as it is defined by Likud,"half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians"
Half of young U.S. Jews would replace Israel with binational state, poll finds
The Data Signals a Generational Shift in U.S. Support for a Binational State in Israel, Reflecting a Core Demand of anti-Zionist Protests on College Campuses and Beyond, Even as Most Major Jewish Orga...
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Malcom Gladwell talks to Stephen Smith re #elevators! "Have you ever heard of the perfect is the enemy of the good? That defines American elevator policy today." --MG @stephenjacobsmith.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Great American Elevator Tragedy | The Mistakes Series
Podcast Episode · Revisionist History · S15 E9 · 26m
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I feel like I could write an entire Jordan Peterson-style “Rules for Men” type manifesto where the only two rules are “try to be a kind, considerate person” and “figure out your own idiosyncratic tastes instead of wearing a costume someone else assigned to you.“
this is much better executed than it needed to be
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 5mo agoCoach Jason Eck as Tony Soprano in the New Mexico Lobos schedule release.
Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 5mo ago
Mayor Mamdani's housing plan is live! There's big sweeping YIMBY stuff: -Aggressive TOD upzoning -Major permitting reform -Rescuing & transforming NYCHA They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay CofO issuance (& invite petty corruption)
Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 5mo agoMayor Mamdani has announced the Affordable & Efficient Code Reform task force, to convene later this year. The housing plan says that among other things, elevator and plumbing reform will be considered. www.nyc.gov/content/dam/... (pgs. 98-99)
the silicon valley vision of labor is an utterly abject class of employees surveilled in every particular by a set of tools loyal only to the C-Suite, which spends all its time relaxing in a warm bath of automated sycophancy
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe full op-ed below.
No matter how hard you post or what sites you do it in it’s never going to be 2019 again
if you want different representation in AD52 -- someone who supports Mayor Mamdani's housing initiatives rather than opposing them behind the veil of the budget process -- check out @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social www.lydiagreenbk.com
Lydia Green for NY State Assembly
An organizer and life-long resident of Park Slope, Lydia is running for New York State Assembly to make Brooklyn a livable home for all.
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Ben Carlos Thypin@bct.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
I complain a lot about left NIMBYs. I complain a lot about right NIMBYs. but do you know which NIMBYs actually frustrate me the most? boomer faux-environmentalist NIMBYs like @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social. she’s literally killing homes for over 10,000 people because apartments are scary.
Ben Carlos Thypin@bct.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
The New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
“One of the problems with autopsies is that voter psychology takes a lot of work to understand well, but the people who have that skillset largely aren’t the type of person the DNC is hiring to audit their choices.” Must-read from @gelliottmorris.com
The real reason Democrats lost in 2024
The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024. In doing so, it fails to prepare the party for the future
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This condescending "Jews who support Mamdani - or even just engage with him - need to be pitied, because they know not what they do" schtick is worse than open hatred. I'd rather be openly despised by these people than pitied for supposedly being too stupid to know what is good for my own community.
This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.
Forbes@forbes.com · 5mo ago“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington,” the Amazon chairman said.
Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.
McKenna Horsley@mckennahorsley.bsky.social · 5mo agoMassie takes the stage after AP called the race for Gallrein. Says he called Gallrein to concede. #ky04
Ladies, if he - constantly promises to be better - doesn’t really listen to your suggestions - completely stops working at random times - always finds a way back into your heart He is not your man. He is bsky dot app
This strategy worked so well for Andrew Cuomo for Mayor deadline.com/2026/05/spen...
Spencer Pratt Plans To Leave L.A. If He Loses Mayoral Bid
As Spencer Pratt films his latest reality show about his bid for Los Angeles mayor, the stakes have never been higher.
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As the timelapse of the 4-year building proces of the bike parking shows, underwater really means underwater, not just underground! Now boats are sailing over the parked bicycles!
De Filmende Fietser@filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 5mo agoAmsterdam is home to the first underwater bike parking in the world. It's open 24/7, can house 7,000 bikes and 700 rental bikes and has a shop for maintenance and repair. Construction costs were around 60 million euros. That's cheap compared to the annual savings on healthcare costs from cycling!