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Paul Ford
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · Aug 9
It’s Summer Streets in NYC! Gonna bike from Ditmas to Inwood right after this cup of coffee. Can’t lament the wholesale destruction of civic life without participating with wholesale enthusiasm in civic life! www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 22h
I only wanted to find out how long it would take to get to Bamboo Garden for dim sum and now I’m six levels deep in a platform capitalism gig economy fossil fuel postcolonial military hegemonic semiotic turducken.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 22h
The US Navy paid Lyft to make the little cars into fighter jets on Columbus Day, all circling around your exact location.
Screenshot of a map with lots of little fighter jets all over it, but also notices of available bikes. It says The Navy is Turning 250!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 1d
Consciousness was a mistake
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 1d
I’m reading up on these Girardian dudes and it seems that they got all Antichristpilled and forgot that Jesus is the resus for the mimesis.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 5d
Goddammit Healy
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 6d
This was nice
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 6d
ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com and the great @ftrain.bsky.social talk about fixing the equally wretched AI problem flaminghydra.com/podcast-how-...
PODCAST! How to Fix AI, with Paul Ford
Special guest, writer, editor, technologist, and entrepreneur Paul Ford talks with Maria Bustillos about, in Paul’s words, “the thing, which is they launched Frankenstein’s Monster, but inside of Fran...
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 6d
Thank YOU!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 6d
It rules. Rode it Sunday. Genuinely useful to me. Sent a note!
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6d
If you like this change to the street, please let Brooklyn CB6 know by emailing [email protected]

I'm on the board and we're already getting some cranky emails. The folks who are using this and benefit from it don't know they have to stand up for good things, so help us stand up for good things.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 7d
This hits different from when it came out in 2020. “Allyship. While federal law and local militias forced us to shut down our Critical Program in Race, Gender, and Institutional Studies, we are still legally allowed to offer this half-semester seminar in allyship....“ www.wired.com/story/course...
It's Time to Pick Classes for the 2073-74 School Year!
Welcome back! Among the many courses offered this semester, students may elect to study essential climate-mitigation skills like underwater basket weaving.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 11d
A just described something I read in the local paper as a “three-dimensional circlejerk—so essentially a spheregasm.“ I wanted to share that with my Internet friends.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 12d
It doesn’t explain why Peter Thiel is always glistening about the face nor the origins of his furtive and musteline manner.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 12d
Looks like a wonderful trip!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 12d
This is really, really great. It explains the whole Peter Thiel/Antrichrist thing and its roots in Carl Schmitt. www.wired.com/story/the-re...
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 13d
Perfection!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 13d
We’re here whenever!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 13d
Just window glare I think!
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 13d
I like thinking about the people in that picture—a million, maybe, or many more during the day, esp if you count Jersey. We’re all equal and at least a little bound to each other. Any two of the 20 million people in the metro region could meet up in Manhattan in an hour or two.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 13d
I thought this was nice.
A view of the New York City skyline facing West, at sunset. The colors of the sunset, deep orange, and yellow, fill the sky behind the silhouette of a water tower atop a 20 story building, with some of the windows illuminated as people do their work into the evening. Avenues stretch towards the Hudson, and on the far right the cluster of buildings that make up Hudson yards glow suffused with the orange of the sunset. Even Hudson yards can be made beautiful, especially at a distance.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 14d
I love the bus so…
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🚇 Riders Alliance @ridersalliance.org · 14d
Riders Alliance endorses @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor of New York City for our first-ever political endorsement! youtu.be/j_zuBKPzpuM
Riders Alliance endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor
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Beatrice Murch @murchstudio.com · 20d
Many thanks to @mariabustillos.com for this beautiful write up about the new headquarters of @internetarchive.eu at Oudeschans in downtown Amsterdam. We were blessed with glorious weather and an incredible group of people came alive with voices, laughter, ideas, and shared commitment. /1
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 20d
TODAY: @mariabustillos.com visits the new headquarters of Internet Archive Europe and chats with Brewster Kahle. “Let’s go! Move forward with a game of many winners, and put it within our own value system.” flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...
Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe
On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 20d
I find this album kind of ridiculous but I also have it memorized and find it verrrry soothing
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social · 21d
I’ve been trying aggressive wholesomeness as a strategy but I might just need to switch to shrooms.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21d
Here it is: The @wired.com Politics Issue is now live, with more stories rolling out all week. We're so proud of this one.

Behold this cover; truly a work of art.

And we're treating it that way: Starting today, you can find it on murals, billboards, and posters across in five U.S. cities.
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 21d
I'll be discussing what happened to the dream and what the Trump embrace means in a livestream on Tuesday, September 23 at 11 am ET / 8 am PT. Join and ask us question! www.wired.com/story/livest...
Livestream: Tech Went All in on Trump. Now What?
Our panel of experts discuss what the tech industry's allegiance to Trump really means, and how it will shape our future.
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