Gabriel Snyder

The current value proposition of working with AI seems to be: Would you like basically free labor from someone who knows vastly more things than you, with the catch that they have a few, but serious, cognitive impairments?

insightful report on the persistent problems of reforming corrupted Mexican police forces

I really think you’re underestimating the power of concerted propaganda ob this point. Some corrective crime reporting would be nice, but everyone knows that’s not the issue here. “Send in the troops” has been one party’s urban policy for decades.

“no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe” … and yet the Perelman Art Center has been open for two years, designed and under construction for many more. Tablet is losing their fastball if they’re just catching up to this “not a conspiracy theory” now.

MAKE SALSA SPICY AGAIN

Spotted at a really good birria taco sidewalk spot in Roma Norte

Agreed. No longer seems to be a social norm.

Afaik what exactly the AI data center capex is crowding out is still largely unknown, but “sunbelt housing” sounds like a good candidate.

Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom

It reminded me of this blog post demonstrating how the capex level of AI data centers is already reached the IT spend of the dot-com boom and is on a scale with peak railroads. paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-cap...

Atlanta’s Growth Streak Has Come to an End “Welcome South, Brother” is turning into goodbye as many residents look to smaller, more affordable metro areas.

It only gets a single mention in this fascinating report, but the competition between housing and data center construction is real and probably on an under-appreciated massive scales . www.wsj.com/economy/atla...

a photo of a table-side gancho that’s ubiquitous in CDMX

I’m astounded every restaurant in Brooklyn doesn’t already have the table-side ganchos for hanging handbags and jackets that are ubiquitous in Mexico City.

The question for Mamdanism is not just whether it will play in Park Slope or Prospect Lefferts Gardens-it's whether it will play in Plano.

Plano, TX, hasn’t been represented by a Democrat in Congress since 1968. Plano has gone close to +20 for Trump every time.

www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

Peak Jeet!!

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Thing I’ve learned on my visit to Mexico City: From the perspectives of people who were used to visiting the US frequently is that they see the border as closed. The experience of being denied entry by Border Patrol and put on a plane back seems to be far more routine than I had appreciated.

How did New Yorkers rank their mayoral candidates? The data is in. Gothamist analyzes New York City Board of Elections data on how voters ranked candidates on their ballots last month.

While “70% of Democratic voters didn’t rank Cuomo” rightfully gets all the attention, just consider how tiny the “No One But Cuomo” constituency is. It’s a point missed the people who are completely out of touch with NYC voters trying to make hay of Mamdani’s victory. gothamist.com/news/how-did...

That said, one of the big differences between COVID-19 and the 1918 flu pandemics seems to be that while COVID was experienced almost simultaneously due to the internet, the 1918 flu seems to have been experienced more locally as when the flu came to your town which was different from another town.

Early on in the pandemic, I sought out histories of the 1918 flu and was surprised to find how little there was ... the main historical lesson was that people seemed to just wanted to forget it.

It's a statement of some kind that the reaction to a GenAI that makes historically inaccurate images is "woke AI!" instead of "dumb AI." This might be a reason Grok keeps having anti-Semitism fits: the effort to correct the wokeness without fixing the dumbness leads to some utterly bizarre behavior.

(reposting minus typos)

After all, if a story quotes someone accusing someone else of being a liar, the proper journalism practice is to give that person a chance to respond. I don't think news orgs are getting very far with letting their reporting speak for itself.

For instance, in this story, it would make sense journalistically to follow Cheung's statement with a line, "Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker said, 'We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting.'"

A modest proposal: if the Trump White House's policy is to respond to news outlets with a blanket response that they are, effectively, lying and making things up, perhaps outlets ought to append statements from EIC level officials saying, no we're not.

After all, if a story quotes someone accusing someone else of being a liar, the proper journalism practice is to give that person a chance to respond. I don't think news orgs are getting very far with letting their reporting speak for itself.

I was surprised to find them at the Bed-Stuy Home Depot which is (sadly) my best nearby nursery. They haven’t had them before. I’m giving credit to the local Caribbean community. Everything fun I grow has to come from seed.

This isn’t shaping up to be a bumper year for me … the standards: serranos (my fave for cooking), jalapeños, cubanelles, habaneros and, for the first time, scotch bonnets. Last two years I had some purple buena mulatas which was fun!

Excellent harvest! From one hobbyist pepper farmer to another

"The Lord may have rested on the seventh day of His creation, but the New Jersey Turnpike is open seven days a week." www.indignity.net/chicken-caes...

I noticed because rides that used to cost (on top of the annual fee) around a subway fare of $2.90 are now costing me about $4.00.

TIJRN: When CitiBike lowered their e-bike max speed from 18mph to 15mph because of Eric Adams’s misguided on e-bikes, it also means a fare increase because CitiBike charges for rides by the minute not the mile. Slower bikes = longer rides = higher fees.

It’s not just that I think they are wrong, it’s just another example of how much dumb rules our discourse these days.

It’s always disheartening to see the people crying the loudest about “media bias” then propose as the solution putting blatant ideologues (who they like, not the bad ones running media now, of course) in charge of things.