This a good opportunity for New Yorkers to watch this short video by ProPublica about this case. propublica.org/article/the-ny…

NYPD officials orchestrated smear campaign of police critic using confidential details of her rape, lawsuit alleges thecity.nyc/2024/04/08/nyp… via Yoav Gonen Gwynne Hogan

Incredibly, BuzzFeed is adding new trash links to our stories revealing the detention camps in Xinjiang. Our work on the camps' capacity now has links out to clickbait (the original links to research/other reporting that Megha Rajagopalan and I put in are still there).

🫡 to the real heroes of municipal government: the NYC DOT contractors installing these boulders (and whomever approved this) to combat the most flagrant placard corruption spot in the city.

USGS page is up: 4.8 in Jersey! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

YES THAT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. Waiting for further information ⤵️

just refreshing the usgs site over and over again. didn't i build a bot to do this for me once? John Keefe where you at?

Earthquake?

Went to (gatecrashed) Nigel Farage's 60th birthday party last night for Londoner's Diary. His half melted ice sculpture will stay with me for many, many years. A lot happened:

People keep talking down this NYC compliance chatbot but I think it’s pretty helpful.

Tying up court cases in endless appeals isn’t just for Trump anymore.

At least two congressional districts challenged as discriminatory will be used this November.

Judges threw up their hands as the legal battles dragged on.

Marilyn Thompson explains:

propublica.org/article/electi…

Today, ProPublica committed to working with news organizations in all 50 states over the next five years to publish investigative stories. It's a major focus for us and sends a STRONG message that #LocalNews matters!
propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

Days after the The Markup/THE CITY broke the story of NYC's hallucinating chatbot, Mayor Eric Adams defended the tool, promising the city was ironing out the kinks. So it's still online.

Today, it suggested I serve rat-nibbled cheese to customers at my hypothetical cheese shop

when tech blogging becomes performance art theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117…

It is a little funny that they appear to be using the app in the safest way possible: by not letting almost anyone else on here interact with them

BREAKING:

According to FOIA docs obtained by Hell Gate *subscribe today!*, the surveillance tech previewed by Mayor Eric Adams last week had a 25% (!!!) alarm rate during a pilot in the Bronx, with 85% of those yielding false positives.

Basically, it's useless.

hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons…

I think it’s sweet that the Greenpoint cops drew lines for themselves on the sidewalk to help them illegally park :-)

New satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings after nearly six months of war and multiple Israeli military raids, strikes and widespread demolition.

Left: June 1, 2022
Right: April 1, 2024

Trump's Truth Social company posted its new financials to the SEC today.

The firm generated just $4.1 million (with an M) revenue for all of 2023, while racking up $58 million in net losses.

Market cap is > $6 billion.

(This isn't an April 1 joke.)

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Absurd quote from a Vanderbilt — a school with a First Amendment center — police officer:

“If you come to Vanderbilt property or the hospital without a legitimate reason, you are subject to arrest... Doing a news report is not a legitimate reason.'

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