Hoboken Local

Mile-Square Machinations by Timothy Karr

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"... for real and unalloyed enjoyment of scenery, the rocks, trees and green meadows of Hoboken will have a charm that all of Switzerland cannot boast."

- Asher B. Durand, 1840

#heh #Hoboken

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@Tiffanie_Fisher @HobokenEmily @HCPOProsecutor @NewJerseyOAG Give it a rest, Tiffanie.

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@MunSecConf @sundarpichai @GabrielMariya @KerstiKaljulaid @ianbremmer During @IanBremmer's @MunSecCof panel on AI, Google CEO @sundarpichai and Estonian Foreign Minister @ElinaValtonen mention the platforms' AI accord as though it were a fact on the ground, but, I can find zero evidence that it has been released in any final form. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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cc: @ianbremmer

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During the evening main-stage session, Google CEO Pichai and Estonian Foreign Minister Valtonen mention the AI accord, but it has yet to be released for public review. What gives?? #MSC2024

[Hoboken Local @HobokenLocal]

@Kent_Walker @sundarpichai @FT Thanks - I'm also interested in seeing the final draft of the joint accord on Deceptive AI Election Content. Press reports have it being released during the #MSC2024, today.

[Hoboken Local @HobokenLocal]

@Kent_Walker Will you also be releasing the "AI Accord" on election disinformation agreed to by Google, Meta, OpenAI and others?

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Low turnout in Hudson County (16% of registered voters) is how the Machine maintains control over local government.

Don't complain if you're not showing up. #Hoboken

[Hoboken Local @HobokenLocal]

I voted for Marla in the 2nd Ward. You should too. #Hoboken

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@elonmusk @ThierryBreton Musk here behaving like a three-year-old with his hand stuck in the cookie jar.

[Hoboken Local @HobokenLocal]

@Libertarec @ThierryBreton @elonmusk Real grown up, Libertarec.

[Tim Karr is now on Bluesky @TimKarr]

Musk has only himself to blame for the mass exodus of advertisers from this cesspool.

But he's attempting to deflect this blame on (and bully into silence) any who shed light on his catastrophic mistakes since taking over Twitter.

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https://t.co/KInqpokKzU #StopToxicTwitter

[CBS New York @CBSNewYork]

Hoboken is now a "Book Sanctuary City." https://t.co/PE4pp9BnAy

[Tim Karr is now on Bluesky @TimKarr]

I'm shocked, shocked that major ISPs like AT&T are lobbying against a new FCC rule that would no longer let them hide their Byzantine broadband-fee structures from customers.

How dare we expect price-gouging behemoths to be accountable & transparent. https://t.co/YhG1pIKnTO

[Hoboken Local @HobokenLocal]

Seen in the #HudsonRiver just off #Hoboken's Pier A on Friday afternoon: Large schools of what I deduced to be Gizzard Shad. Thousands of them were circling near the surface with mouths open (plankton feeding?). Many broke the surface causing some turbulence.

cc: @riverkeeper

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@HobokenTroll yeah - right

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We had similar issues a couple weeks ago in #Hoboken.

[ACLU of New Jersey @ACLUNJ]

Restricting access to books limits New Jerseyans right to access information. Cedar Grove library must resist these attempts at censorship and keep Gender Queer on the shelves.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

"It’s about as diverse as all the people that have been plucked out of Synagogues and all the Synagogues that run the city of Hoboken" - Melissa Blanco, Hoboken city council meeting

Blanco is thankfully a failed 2015 Hoboken city council candidate

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They're baaaack....

Seen on Alianthus Trees throughout #Hoboken: Spotted Lantern Flies in their nymph stage.

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Soybean aphids are swarming #Hoboken right now. They're small, greenish and gnat-like. Don't know why they've appeared here in such large numbers. I don't recall ever seeing this here. Possibly due to the warm winter.