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@benjamin_horne idea: get ice cream outside of lower manhattan problem solved

NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.

@sierracatalina “2 weeks for the MVP”

@thatabdou lol the timeline projection for that would probably be hilarious.

hot (and probably incorrect) take: LLMs are fun to use because they have 0 baked-in concepts of time. you could probably ask an LLM to help you build a dyson sphere. would it succeed? no. but will it work it’s little heart out attempting to do so? yes.

@lenne0816 🤣😭

@thatabdou That finger is definitely not attached anymore. Should I quickly order a sewing kit from Wish?

okay so: - Apple has Carl Zeiss - Meta has Ray Bans and Oakley - Google has Gentle Monster and Warby Parker boring. which company is gonna be bold enough to slap wearable technology into some 3M safety glasses

this this funny fuck you guys

@hellbetterthnsf amazing shot

Gotham is so back

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers will def check them out! just moved to another area of the city so gonna use it as an excuse to walk around and explore

@thatabdou @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers yessir! add some spots, would love your feedback

NYC has a hidden listening room and café. It's called Silence Please and it's one of the most unique spots in the city: - hundreds of vinyl records - high-end speaker showroom - delicious coffee, teas and patries - private listening stations w/ headsets - 2,000 sq ft of gallery-style space - long communal tables + couches It's part café, part teahouse, part event space. They do tea ceremonies, vinyl painting sessions, and live DJ sets.

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers all good. i rock with what you do, and please keep adding to the map. it’s fire 🤝🔥

@thatabdou @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers ur right king

@michaelmiraflor @jonaswillett1 yes it’s supposed to be an insult (sorry if that wasn’t clear). gatekeeping is wack. thought experiment: ask yourself if the michelin guide was a net good or bad. and then interpolate from there to what we are discussing here. enjoy the surf

@thatabdou @jonaswillett1 Is that supposed to be some sort of insult? I live in LA, lived in NYC for 17 years prior, and spend about 1/5 of my year there. Let me know if you need further explanations or breakdowns.

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers expeditiously

@jonaswillett1 @michaelmiraflor @Specsavers explain to this man how a twitter reply thread works and then check his vision

ngl this was originally a shitpost. but if one of you madlads actually builds this, all i ask is that you give it a real developer SDK. current ecosystem has so many safeguards / walls, building software within it evokes the same feeling as eating at weenie hut jr’s

@michaelmiraflor @jonaswillett1 your location being set as “LA / NYC” with “LA” appearing first explains a lot here

@jonaswillett1 this is the type of place that should be gatekept and not ruined by tweets like this.

everyone has a plan until google finally says fuck it and replaces SearchBar.tsx with GeminiInputBar.tsx 😂 some product guy making $10M TC at a competing firm just did a napkin math forecast for the usage metrics, crawled under his desk and threw up

Reddit is completely scrubbing every thread discussing the NYT Israeli Prison story.

"My favorite place to get cocktails is the #1 ranked cocktail bar in the world" Real groundbreaking insights right here

Huge fuck you to whoever planned the weather this week

@paz_marceliano @GuyFidi LOOOL

@GuyFidi That's just in the Financial District. Hopefully, the real NYC is spared

@hcsrih colissseeeeee

Hearing Quebecois French in a Bed-Stuy vintage store is probably my worst nightmare come to life