Just *one* NYPD cop’s abuses caused the city to pay out more in settlements than the amount of money saved with all the cuts to libraries. Cops aren’t content just to abuse and kill our neighbors, they want to abuse & kill our neighborhoods too. legalaidnyc.org/news/nypd-wo...
Glad to celebrate the release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, Tricia Romano’s incredible oral history of the Village Voice. I’m a tiny footnote amongst so many huge voices. And very surreal to read back what I remember about waking up the morning of 9/11. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/trici...
No one is doing it like her. Most goofballs are doing boring “EVERYTHING is a lie, the NARRATIVE controls you” vagueposting but Naomi puts her cards on the fucking table and says women can’t get pregnant anymore and Microsoft has a time machine
He really was! He was a big fan of the show and even made a playlist of songs that would have been played at the party depicted in the episode. I made a playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/63v... The set mimicked a version of his LA house that he invited me to, but I never got to visit, alas.
I wrote a little bit about the rise or AI-powered disintermediation of news and the threat to both accuracy and business models. Seven years ago. anildash.com/2017/03/01/t...