Simon Fondrie-Teitler
@simon.overgrown.garden
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It’s 97 degrees with an AQI if 157 outside, but they’re painting the walls of my buildings hallway and I’m thinking of opening a window
Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!
NYC PIT Crew
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I made the most ridiculously fancy rice and beans yesterday. Cranberry beans from Rancho Gordo with Hokkaido Nanatsuboshi (10% mill) from The Rice Factory.
If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...
Corona currently matching the energy of Brooklyn for Knicks game 6
We’re living in the age of AI-generated legal service billboards
We just increased the maximum number of pinned chats from 4 to 10, so you can show 6 more people how much you love what they have to say.
The was mitigating context, but I was accused of this after saying “you clearly didn’t go to preschool in France”
Damien Owens@damienowens.bsky.social · last mo.Back on the other site, years ago, there was a thread about the most pretentious thing people had ever overheard. Someone said they witnessed a guy at an ice cream van asking for 'two Magna'.
With a massive score of 6.3, Curacao Is now winning the "group stage points per mullion residents" competition
Amazing that the loser in the Curacao - Germany game was Brazil
The ref head cam footage isn’t cool enough to justify how dorky it looks
20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it. We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian. escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...
Fake cycling news, real money: How content farms are hijacking cycling media
Inside the automated ad-tech machine flooding Facebook with AI-generated cycling misinformation.
escapecollective.com
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... "this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."
FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service
The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer
ftc.gov
I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo agoSources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
P s. (It does not specify, so I am assuming international sign-ups are allowed.) And I just found that @jelaniya.bsky.social is here in the blue firmament, though they do not seem to be regular.
Peter G@zigzackly.bsky.social · 3mo agoColumbia University in the USA has an online course on opinion writing led by Jelani Cobb that has a limited-time free registration offer (otherwise USD 99). Use the code WRITEFREE on check-out. Particularly useful if you are an expert in your field but have no formal writing training.
Nine of these are within five minutes of my apartment, and there have been weeks where I've been to three or four of them. I love JH/Elmhurst.
Best Restaurants in NYC
The annual list is back. Our new chief critic ranks her favorite places to dine in all five boroughs.
nytimes.com
An interesting finding here is that TikTok’s “sensitive data” filter for state health sites is a bizarre keyword list with terms like MAGA, antifa, Teamsters, bhagavad, mulatto, queer, and nationalist. If your answer isn't on the list, it could still get sent w/ @suryamattu.com and Tanaz Meghjani
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 3mo agoExcellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
State Healthcare Sites Are Sharing Personal Data with Big Tech
Race, location and immigration information has been sent to TikTok, Meta and others.
bloomberg.com
Curious to see what DOT does with this road they're merging with the adjacent park (h/t @capntransit@urbanists.social on Mastodon)
NYC DOT Projects Bot@nycdotprojects.bsky.social · 4mo ago
it’s happening. a safer grand army plaza is on the agenda.
Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.
nytimes.com
It is delightful that the tense space adventure has turned into an IT help desk call
New, by me at TechCrunch: The developer of the widely popular Wireguard VPN says he is also unable to ship software updates to Windows users after Microsoft locked his account, marking the second high-profile app developer (VeraCrypt) in the past few weeks to face this issue.
WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.
techcrunch.com
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