McCaffrey Blauner
@Macblauner
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Former NYCer writing about history, culture, and tech from the west Bylines: @thenation @theFP @thedailybeast Occasional combat sport participant
Denver, CO
Joined May 2018
There's something about red sunsets out here that have a sort of malevolent, demiurgic quality, instead of the riotous "every color of the rainbow" pollution-fueled sunsets we got on the East Coast. Very cool. Two thumbs up.
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McCarthy might have been onto something with this whole “Evening Redness” thing
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This is a must watch. They're blasting Empire State of Mind while the city demonstrates technology that places like Akron, Ohio have had since 1973.
Here’s a demo of New York City’s new automatic side loading garbage truck lifting large on street containers. A pilot program is expanding to all of Community Board District 9 in West Harlem.
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I’d heard that Bankman-Fried was going to be the subject of Michael Lewis’s next book. But the author’s questions were so fawning they seemed inappropriate for a journalist. https://t.co/AQBkoJJuuw
nymag.com
With Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.
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The NYC subway is a field where boys like to prove their mettle. They climb to the top of the train and take video for social media. They’re usually between 13 and 16 and almost always black and Latino. Sometimes, they die. By @macblauner
thefp.com
There is something worth admiring in the reckless kids who stand on top of moving trains.
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https://t.co/9590wgvgiv whenever the royal family discourse rises, I think of this piece. "Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns... ... also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown".
irishtimes.com
After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist. Well duh
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does anything else find it weird that media coverage of SBF often refers to him as a "boy" or being childlike? He is 30 years old.
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https://t.co/ZRrQawvxnD… the conversation around the toxic properties of social media platforms should be much broader than banning TikTok
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https://t.co/VmeRHelCf2 We had the automation labor crisis all wrong
thenation.com
It's long been assumed that truck drivers' jobs would be first on the chopping block. Not anymore.
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https://t.co/2lK1MGxATx if you are in a writing-based profession, ChatGPT should scare the crap out of you
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Curious if there's a reason that this tool can't be used to for complex legal contract writing- if so, a lot of highly paid lawyers are going to be out of a job
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my takeaway from ChatGPT: we are MUCH closer to automating content writing than trucking
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there's a great HBO show in here somewhere
crypto's inane week came on the year anniversary of its all-time high. a retrospective on the characters who made us laugh and cry along the way: https://t.co/yyVJ2AWerG
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#ohbaby 💥 Lets talk about Cryptile Dysfunction - @Macblauner explains the implications of the crypto meltdown as If you are 5 years old. Read more here: https://t.co/nEoMvxHTGn
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https://t.co/C4znzM9Jot Does your flim-flam detector start going off when people talk about the wonders of cryptocurrency? I explain why the latest crash may undermine crypto's primary reason for existing.
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