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Mia Winther-Tamaki
@miawintam.bsky.social
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Urbanist thinking about open places, open access, and open web On farcaster: https://is.gd/dzxcwF https://zora.co/@miawintam
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new yorkers, come hang with us next wed (9/17) to learn more about the political theory + purpose behind blockchain socialism.

we’ll read excerpts from @tbsocialist.bsky.social ’s book “Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and how to fix it,” discuss and ask questions as a group
Asked about Network States in the glen weyl vs curtis yarvin debate on tech CEO dictators
Anti-fascist protesters disrupted tonight’s debate in NYC between Curtis Yarvin and Glen Weyl, which was framed around the question: Should the U.S. be ruled by a CEO dictator?
Housing & affordability aren’t separate from tech or entrepreneurship. They’re the foundation. If people can’t afford to live here, if small business owners are squeezed, then the city can’t sustain the creative, risk-taking energy that makes NYC a hub for both startups and neighborhood businesses.
This is one I've been thinking about for a long time, and I do hope you'll read it, and share it. The stakes have never been higher, but it'ss never been clearer: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is exactly what NYC's entrepreneurial community needs. www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/z...
Zohran Mamdani is the leader NYC needs for innovation and entrepreneurship - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
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Here's the public comment I wrote opposing this anti-SB 79 resolution. Cowardice is the right word, especially after council opposed similar legislation almost a decade ago and then used that much-vaunted "local control" to turn the housing crisis up to 11. Kudos to the 5 progressives who voted no.
The increased ICE budget makes it more likely that Asian immigrants—comprising 24% of the state’s undocumented immigrants—get arrested, experience a workplace raid, or are separated from their family. About 501,100, or 27%, of non-citizen New Yorkers are Asian.

www.news10.com/news/ny-news...
- front image and caption for the truck carrying humanitarian aid, as if that’s the trend
- this meets the legal definition of genocide: mass killing, forced displacement, and deliberate conditions to destroy a people ‘in whole or in part nothing diluted about it
- “evacuation warnings” mean nothing when every zone gets bombed
- “chaotic food distribution system” is a lie: its not chaotic, it’s engineered starvation. Israel is intentionally limiting food and aid to punish and break a civilian population
-“Why hasn’t it been more deadly?” is obscene: Over 55k palestinians are dead, many in stage 5 malnutrition (the final, irreversible stage). suggesting it’s not deadly enough to be genocide is grotesque.
This is such an irresponsible article from the times. Just a few of the things that particularly infuriated me:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...
Opinion | No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
I love this building because it is beautiful, and because it is a physical manifestation of both the glamour and the rot behind the American dream.

If you want a clear view of both towers, visit the small public courtyard in the back. It’s especially wonderful at night when it’s lit up by lights.
He died suddenly of an infected tooth; he never signed a will. He left his fortune to a family he’d largely neglected. His wife suffered from chronic depression and died soon after; one daughter died by suicide, another was financially exploited by 7 husbands and gambled much of her inheritance.
Woolworth was a rags-to-riches story. he rose from poverty to become one of America’s first billionaires. He chose the Broadway & Park Place site for maximum visibility. you can spot it from the Brooklyn Bridge. It was also very important to him to “win” the race for Manhattan’s tallest skyscraper.
architect Cass Gilbert designed the limestone facade with ornately engraved neo-gothic details. Its twin turrets and their turquoise crowns is a nod to london’s Houses of Parliament, earning it the nickname “Cathedral of Commerce.”
F.W. Woolworth, the “five-and-dime” magnate, finished the tower in 1913. for 17 years it was the world’s tallest building.
Today I walked past my favorite building in NYC: the Woolworth Building. I wrote an essay on it in grad school and still love its story.
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It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/
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Thousands of New Yorkers march in lower Manhattan calling for ICE out of New York.

Starting at Foley Square and organized by PSL, the masses have flooded the streets and are moving west. This demo is permitted but even if it wasn’t, it would be far too large for NYPD to contain.
Sadly I will be in California but looks like a wonderful event!!! Cool to see the UN collabing on events like this