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Five months ago I started ALL CAPS. This morning, we had our first major project featured in the New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/12/07/nyr…
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Ben Gilbert
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Ben Gilbert
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You may know me from @Joystiq, @Engadget, or @BusinessInsider. Or maybe you know me from The New York Growers Cup / ALL CAPS! [email protected]
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The stunning realization that I quit my career and started a company to be independent and rely on myself.
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While we're here, let's talk about how insane and backwards it is that the woman who was pulled over has her full name in this headline but the officer in the wrong isn't named. Just "the officer." Okay!
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Kathleen Thomas was issued a citation in February after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy pulled her over for allegedly using a phone with her right hand. But Thomas doesn't have a right hand. This week, the officer requested that the citation be dismissed. Here's bodycam footage of the traffic stop.
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This woman is amazingly polite with a man who is clearly in the wrong but absolutely refuses to admit fault. Can't imagine a more emblematic representation of dealing with the police.
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Kathleen Thomas was issued a citation in February after a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy pulled her over for allegedly using a phone with her right hand. But Thomas doesn't have a right hand. This week, the officer requested that the citation be dismissed. Here's bodycam footage of the traffic stop.
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@alienlabsTED Maybe the only sensible piece of legalization legislation in New York gives New Yorkers the right to smoke weed anywhere outdoors where you can smoke tobacco. They def shouldn't bother policing this, but how incredibly weird that it's illegal in the first place.
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This is so wild to me. There is probably 100 other things just on this block those cops could be going after and they’re using tax payer dollars for this. Probably cost them 20k to write this ticket.
Film The Police LA@FilmThePoliceLA
LAPD is using plainclothes detectives to target people…. smoking weed. Considering the LAPD claims they’re understaffed, is this a good use of their personnel?
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Hitting a Verge paywall on a press release rewrite blog post about a Star Fox remake with a wildly misleading headline about a "new Star Fox." You genuinely can't make this shit up.
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What's the term for people whose entire personality was shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, and now they spend all their time nervously watching for the next pandemic/getting upset that other people aren't constantly nervous?
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@jfberke I only single it out because a crash out implies real emotions are attached to it and it's not just a literal performance. I suppose you can play act a crash out!
Either way, fuck these losers.
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I was in the Stumptown in the West Village this morning waiting in line when I overheard three young women sitting around laptops trying to figure out how to embed a Substack and it made me so deeply sad that words cannot express.
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@srg444 Cool so only medically licensed (read: large, usually publicly traded) companies will actually benefit from this, in terms of 280E?
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I will be getting PR emails from video game industry PR firms for the rest of my life, huh?
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Absolutely wild that anyone chooses to be a PR person for a living.
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This reads like it was written 2-3 years ago. bbc.com/worklife/artic…
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@madsssagascar That is day in the life of a parent content.
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@Ghitelman Fad foods have definitely existed forever -- I'm talking about the NYC / other major city phenomenon of fad food blowing up, then a million copycats immediately rise up, then it's dead six months later. Think: Sushi burritos, poke bowls, elaborate donuts. Ramen even had a moment!
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@RealBenGilbert Notable nyc fad foods:
The cronut
The rainbow bagel
The chopped cheese
I do imagine fad foods have existed forever, like first person to make an egg cream probably had a line around the block for a week
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When did the Fad Food Era begin in New York City?
Certainly before I moved here in 2010, but this constant churn of fad pop ups hasn't been the standard forever. Maybe early 2000s?
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