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YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Why did so many New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump?

Why did so many working class New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump last week — and even more not vote at all?

I went to Hillside Ave in Queens and Fordham Rd in the Bronx to find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...

Main stage showing speakers names

Zoomed in photo of people on stage

And just like this, @couch.studio is on stage for Figma Site #FigmaConfig

Config 2025 (May 7) Main Stage: Figma Deep Dive

If you’re the type of person who geeks out about their design tools, I highly recommend you attend/dial in to watch this deep dive I’m doing with Lauren Budorick and @rog.ie on Wednesday. config.figma.com/san-francisc...

Profile shot of The Jones facade and entrance with an Elvis bust in the window.

The Jones was a regular stop for me when visiting before I moved here, I miss it and its fish sandwich a lot.

The Case of the Missing Elvis When a kitschy bust of the King was swiped from the East Village restaurant where it had lived for thirty-seven years, the theft ignited a fight over the soul of downtown.

Just an incredible story, a return to form for The New Yorker, that’s incredibly downtown Manhattan coded www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Half of that is property taxes but yes

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

The NYer excerpt brings to mind the famous slide from an internal 1979 IBM presentation

why are we putting the bad software developers in charge of everything? if we have to be ruled by people who make websites i reckon the figma team can run the treasury department a lot better than facebook guys

On the latest episode of How Long Gone, Ira Madison III said Bluesky “gives big building co-op board meeting energy” which made me lol but also I’m here for

The exquisitely precise articulation alone had me sat for all ~14min

Video: Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

This deserves all of your time and demands far greater exposure www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

As I believe I was the inspiration for Tony’s post, you were then a quick follow.

helpful and important to stop thinking of x as a social media platform and see and talk about it for what it is: a political weapon

bb yes, this is more widespread than you’d imagine

YouTube video by Jacques Greene Addison Rae - Aquamarine (Jacques Greene Edit)

New winter chill worth the time from Jacques Greene youtu.be/Q1VU6z_2R0Q

I knew there was a reason he and I got along so well.

When I spent 7 months unemployed between jobs, I was so ready for structure and insurance again. Now I want that free, creative time back.

All I want to do is shoot photography, resume my Studio newsletter, add and curate a linkblog on my @ghost.org instance, read books and magazines, scour for new-to-me music, and get rid of private vehicles in cities.

Wait I can’t tell who is on what side. Jacob on the bright light and you on the dim?

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

Essential reading for navigation app users 🤔 a brilliant blog

ciechanow.ski/gps/

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

Early signal of traffic on Broadway with congestion pricing indicates its complete pedestrianization is significantly more feasible than it was 4 days ago.

The congestion pricing roll out is genuinely so exciting, feels like an epoch event

It’s happening! Tonight, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber unveiled one of the signs at the entrance to the Congestion Relief Zone. Tolling begins at midnight.

Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info

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