Peter W.
@kinographer.bsky.social
Getting mad at software and cars. He/him
Hi @lawandordertv.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @madein-ny.bsky.social - please remove these ice piles created by Law & Order crew before the start to melt and collapse. Location: McNair Park opposite Brooklyn Museum. Have surveillance footage. cc @nycsanitation.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Hi @lawandordertv.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @madein-ny.bsky.social - please remove these ice piles created by Law & Order crew before the start to melt and collapse. Location: McNair Park opposite Brooklyn Museum. Have surveillance footage. cc @nycsanitation.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social
Can @nycsanitation.bsky.social please move this dangerously parked tip truck at McNair park in vicinity of deaf school? Possibly related to Law & Order production. (Also note dangerous snow pile around tree the production crew created). cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Can @nycsanitation.bsky.social please move this dangerously parked tip truck at McNair park in vicinity of deaf school? Possibly related to Law & Order production. (Also note dangerous snow pile around tree the production crew created). cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov
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The winners of a recent safe streets hack-a-thon have put together an easy-to-use tool to sort through data on New York State's worst recidivist speeders.
How to Use Data to Fight For Safe Streets and Stop Super Speeders - Streetsblog New York City
College coders built a simple tool for DMV staff and administrators to identify repeat dangerous speeding behavior.
buff.ly
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The winners of a recent safe streets hack-a-thon have put together an easy-to-use tool to sort through data on New York State's worst recidivist speeders.
Reminiscent of when businesses in my home town refused to serve federal employees, except in this case it’s for a good reason not because the Forest Service wouldn’t repair a dirt road in the literal middle of nowhere
"Day after day, can't eat in restaurants"
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Reminiscent of when businesses in my home town refused to serve federal employees, except in this case it’s for a good reason not because the Forest Service wouldn’t repair a dirt road in the literal middle of nowhere
My father witnessed a mafia hit in Naples
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
The novelist who took on the Italian mafia — and lived to tell the tale
In the biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, who first exposed the rampant, murderous corruption that had infiltrated Italian society
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 AM
My father witnessed a mafia hit in Naples
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www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
The novelist who took on the Italian mafia — and lived to tell the tale
In the biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, who first exposed the rampant, murderous corruption that had infiltrated Italian society
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
"By the end of the 1970s the mafia was dispatching more than $1 billion worth of heroin to the US. In Sicily, the cadavere eccellente (excellent corpses) began to rack up as anti-mafia lawyers, judges, policemen and journalists were gunned down."
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commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about
January 26, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Hochul's Uber-backed bid to make car insurance affordable hides harmful policies for victims of car drivers.
New Details: Hochul's Car Insurance 'Affordability' Pitch Will Shortchange Crash Victims - Streetsblog New York City
Hochul's Uber-backed bid to make car insurance affordable hides harmful policies for victims of car drivers.
buff.ly
January 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Hochul's Uber-backed bid to make car insurance affordable hides harmful policies for victims of car drivers.
This is really the biggest risk IMO. While we shouldn’t take chances, I don’t think the right can pull off a military dictatorship—they’ve just about played their hand. However society oscillating to the point it becomes nonfunctional doesn’t seem so far fetched
This is the moment where all of this stops being symbolically weird and becomes structurally weird. It requires the institutions to EXPLICITLY abandon the pretense that they're all on the same side.
January 25, 2026 at 11:49 PM
This is really the biggest risk IMO. While we shouldn’t take chances, I don’t think the right can pull off a military dictatorship—they’ve just about played their hand. However society oscillating to the point it becomes nonfunctional doesn’t seem so far fetched
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I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.
Hi @mayor.nyc.gov @nycdot.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social - once again asking how we can enforce and impede vendors driving on Brooklyn Museum sidewalks (78pct disclaims responsibility). Dumpling Spot fv14147 featured here. Also Halal Plates
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Hi @mayor.nyc.gov @nycdot.bsky.social @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social - once again asking how we can enforce and impede vendors driving on Brooklyn Museum sidewalks (78pct disclaims responsibility). Dumpling Spot fv14147 featured here. Also Halal Plates
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It is your civic - and moral responsibility - to share this widely.
You MUST expect that major news publications will water it down, hide it on page six, and parrot copganda from the govt.
They were martyred.
You MUST expect that major news publications will water it down, hide it on page six, and parrot copganda from the govt.
They were martyred.
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
It is your civic - and moral responsibility - to share this widely.
You MUST expect that major news publications will water it down, hide it on page six, and parrot copganda from the govt.
They were martyred.
You MUST expect that major news publications will water it down, hide it on page six, and parrot copganda from the govt.
They were martyred.
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insincerity > vice signaling
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
insincerity > vice signaling
Hit and run this afternoon. Pedestrian at fault, however the N-bound signal turns red 15 seconds before the S-bound to accommodate left turns. Even I sometimes start to cross prematurely. @nycdot.bsky.social defends timing as federally compliant. Washington Ave at Eastern Parkway
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hit and run this afternoon. Pedestrian at fault, however the N-bound signal turns red 15 seconds before the S-bound to accommodate left turns. Even I sometimes start to cross prematurely. @nycdot.bsky.social defends timing as federally compliant. Washington Ave at Eastern Parkway
Hi @homedepotofficial.bsky.social - how do I report one of your rentals repeatedly being used in an unsafe and illegal manner (reversing aggressively down a busy sidewalk) as well as having a defaced license plate?
September 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hi @homedepotofficial.bsky.social - how do I report one of your rentals repeatedly being used in an unsafe and illegal manner (reversing aggressively down a busy sidewalk) as well as having a defaced license plate?
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“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said.
@nytimes.com #Hyundai
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
@nytimes.com #Hyundai
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said.
@nytimes.com #Hyundai
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
@nytimes.com #Hyundai
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
Cats Effect style resource?
so, how would you do this in a language without async exceptions (I.e. most except haskell):
imagine you have some piece of pure, long running cpu bound code that takes a long time to complete and uses some resources that need cleanup.
how do you abort the computation?
imagine you have some piece of pure, long running cpu bound code that takes a long time to complete and uses some resources that need cleanup.
how do you abort the computation?
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Cats Effect style resource?
Outcome of the IAB complaint about this: unfounded, vehicle not in confines of assigned precinct (admits they should have transferred). Unsurprising, but it does make reporting at precinct boundaries nearly impossible since this will always be available as an excuse. cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Outcome of the IAB complaint about this: unfounded, vehicle not in confines of assigned precinct (admits they should have transferred). Unsurprising, but it does make reporting at precinct boundaries nearly impossible since this will always be available as an excuse. cc @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social
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A new minor release of Scala.js features bug fixes, performance improvements and support for some new JDK methods! 🎉 #scala www.scala-js.org/news/2025/09...
Announcing Scala.js 1.20.1 - Scala.js
Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.
www.scala-js.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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These are people who literally think Obama was an illegal immigrant DEI hire.
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
These are people who literally think Obama was an illegal immigrant DEI hire.
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Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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There was a bill introduced at the state level to allow the city to put cameras on street sweepers to fine drivers who don’t move their cars, but it doesn’t look like it went anywhere www.brooklynpaper.com/street-sweep...
Street sweepers may soon issue tickets as Brooklyn pols move to crack down on alternate-side parking violators • Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn drivers who ignore alternate side-parking rules may soon face automated fines, as the City Council pushes for a state-approved pilot program to mount
www.brooklynpaper.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
There was a bill introduced at the state level to allow the city to put cameras on street sweepers to fine drivers who don’t move their cars, but it doesn’t look like it went anywhere www.brooklynpaper.com/street-sweep...
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this is a flippant analogy but an idealized state for public services is when people see them as akin to apple products. not “run like a business” but glossy and respectable to feel like using them makes you feel cool
Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
this is a flippant analogy but an idealized state for public services is when people see them as akin to apple products. not “run like a business” but glossy and respectable to feel like using them makes you feel cool
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and yet somehow noone seems to care about concatenation, the one operation that is used *everywhere*, to the point that all the Monoid functions in haskell have to be right-biased because the default use case for them is with list concatenation
August 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
and yet somehow noone seems to care about concatenation, the one operation that is used *everywhere*, to the point that all the Monoid functions in haskell have to be right-biased because the default use case for them is with list concatenation
Two steps forward, one step back. These are on different days but for same vehicle at same location. 77 and 78 precincts each say the other has jurisdiction, close as unfounded. State the same in follow up calls.
August 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Two steps forward, one step back. These are on different days but for same vehicle at same location. 77 and 78 precincts each say the other has jurisdiction, close as unfounded. State the same in follow up calls.