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Alex Brook Lynn
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Alex Brook Lynn
@AlexBrookLynn
Multi-Media Journo, @CityAsSchool Alum @FAQNYC @spy_pod Past: @thedailybeast, @gizmodomediagroup, Gawker @VICE, NY Sun @NYDailyNews, & NY Press
NYC Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Pick up THE INFORMATION STATE, out today, to read about:
- The threads that tie US defense policy to hippie icons like the Grateful Dead.
- The origins of the digital computer as a technology invented in the 17th century to imitate the mind of God.
- How the US govt created the Total Information Awareness program in the war on terror to make that 17th century dream a reality.
And more ...
us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
Jacob Siegel@Jacob__Siegel
One of the more fascinating threads in my book traces the intersection of US military strategy and the Grateful Dead. In 1996 RAND published a strategy paper on information warfare that argued the Internet is "blurring clear boundaries," including boundaries that define a sovereign nation-state. That same year, the former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow delivered a famous speech at the Davos World Economic Forum addressed to the “governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel." Barlow speaks in a different register, but his countercultural cyberutopianism resonates with the RAND report. "I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind," Barlow declared. His message to the weary giants: "You have no sovereignty where we gather.” Barlow and the RAND authors were both trying to explain and master a phenomenon larger than any particular ideology. That is the force of the Internet itself, a global communications architecture built to protect American national interests, which, by extending its power over the globe, began erasing the concept of nation itself. The full story in THE INFORMATION STATE: POLITICS IN THE AGE OF TOTAL CONTROL. Buy it here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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It's publication day on brother Jake's brilliant The Information State, a niche book that you should only buy if you're one of those people who uses the internet or a phone or… us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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Physical copies of brother @Jacob__Siegel’s book!! Get your own here—> us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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A 2-hour, 45-minute omnibus of my Mamdani & the NYPD trilogy.
Featuring the Pickleball Rapist, the WSP & Tompkins Square Parks bathrooms, overtime fraud, cop-on-cop rape, mosque-raking, and the Tisch Family Supremacy
TrueAnon@TrueAnonPod
EPISODE 528: NYPD BLUES @awinston joins us to talk about the NYPD and the many strange practices of the department, plus Zohran Mandani’s Jessica Tisch problem
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Positioning a casino on parkland as righting “the wrongs of Robert Moses” is very funny when you really think about it nytimes.com/2026/03/06/rea…
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Fresh new Lit NYC pod, strolling down memory lane with the son of the brilliant writer who managed the original "no more bullshit" campaign thecity.nyc/2026/02/27/joe…
Harry Siegel@harrysiegel
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A comprehensive and crucial explainer on the city’s property tax system from @sssmaldo thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/pro… via @THECITYNY
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A sun fish - we figured it out
Alex Brook Lynn@AlexBrookLynn
“Mommy, what is this kind of fish called?”
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Big shoes to fill in a great reporting job open now at THE CITY, and we also have a great editing job open running accountability and investigations city-report-inc.breezy.hr/p/78f4124f8f8c…
Yoav Gonen@yoavgonen
For the journalists and editors out there, there's some really great job openings at THE CITY, including my former position reporting on the NYPD and city government thecity.nyc/jobs-internshi…. If you have any questions about it feel free to DM me 3/3
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I get daily job alerts from LinkedIn and I don’t think I’ve ever seen this so explicitly. @politico not hiring specifically but listed a job “to build a pipeline of qualified candidates for future openings.” Given the crap job market, is this cruel?
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New York City Free Grocery Store by Polymarket opened today as a 3-day pop-up.
Over 400 people waited in line, some as early as 6:30am for a chance to get free groceries
Video by Ed Quinn (@FreedomNTV)
Desk@freedomnews.tv to license
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The Mamdani administration is going after the self-storage industry. The city filed a lawsuit against a self-storage company, alleging that, among other claims, Extra Space Storage routinely charged customers increases that “seem to have no correlation to any market conditions or costs.” The suit is asking $5 million in penalties, hundreds of thousands for swindled customers, and immediate changes to how Extra Space does business.
The suit is a parade of horrors. Bills allegedly spiked from $120 to $320 in a single month or rose nearly that far within the first 30 days of moving in. People who did pay — or thought their checks were being processed — said they sometimes learned too late their units were being cleared out. Others learned only by happenstance.
“Extra Space is, like, the demon of all the storage companies,” says Raquel Gerardo, a 43-year-old paralegal named in the suit. In 2023, she says she was shocked by a $200 jump in the bill for her 10x15 unit in Queens. And the contract she signed described a window of 30 days’ notice before rent increases. She hadn’t gotten that, she says. When she went by the next day to deal with what she thought was a mix-up, there was a lock on her unit. An employee in the office didn’t have answers. Instead, she says he threatened her — and jumped over the sales desk.
Read the full update: nymag.visitlink.me/a14xCa
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