MadBack

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[MadBack @madback]

Celebrating an amazing year of hard work with @4AMNYC — culminating in a big New Year’s Eve for our DJs.

Thanks for the feature @nytimes 🥹🥂

https://t.co/ieuKoVdKf9

[MadBack @madback]

@jrzychick @SenSchumer Well, exactly. It was selfish.

Then he slept through it and cost local businesses potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.

[Pranav Sriraman @PranavSriraman]

The people who have it the worst from Trump’s appearance at MSG tonight are the local workers, restaurants, bars, and other businesses. Tonight was going to be their best day of business possibly ever. Trump robbed them of that entirely. Very unfortunate, yet very on brand.

[Kait Maniscalco @askkaitt]

Newer basketball fan, why are they allowed to beat up Brunson?

[Gus Saltonstall @GusSaltonstall]

The American Museum of Natural History lit up its Planetarium Sphere orange and blue last night in honor of the New York Knicks.

The sphere will be lit orange and blue every evening through the end of the NBA Finals.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

They’re rolling a big timb past Bryant Park

[FLEEKNIK @Judnikki]

my biggest #RealNewYorker opinion is that 2013 was the summer yall think 2016 was.

[Dotan @PianoAround]

🎉NYC IS BUZZING THIS WEEK🎉

NY Tech week
Tribeca film Festival
Knicks NBA Finals
Prada Mode at the Chelsea Hotel
World Cup at MetLife
The Tony awards
Yankees vs Red Sox

There has never been a better time to be in this city. Go outside.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The genocide in Palestine and the mass murder in Lebanon must be stopped

[MadBack @madback]

Because it is

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

Walking around Manhattan right now feels so good it’s like being kissed by god

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

food and drinks consumed in a movie theater doesn’t really go into your body. it goes into your movie theater body which is separate & holy and harm-proof

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.

And the wildest part?

One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.

Think about that.

[MadBack @madback]

We’ve been waiting for a change in leadership in our district for quite some time. We are ready for this.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

BREAKING: New York City Mayor @ZohranKMamdani endorses @DarializaforNY against AIPAC's Rep. Adriano Espaillat in #NY13!

[MadBack @madback]

We are literally turning New York City back into Sesame Street and I love it

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

We received hundreds of submissions to our 2-K jingle competition, @Lin_Manuel and @iamcardib helped us choose the top 5, and now it's time for New York to vote on a winner. Head to https://t.co/NjuhJ87aZl to pick your favorite, voting is open from now until 10pm on 6/3!

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

He raped her, she won in court, and his response is to terrorize her. Because he is a rapist.

[MadBack @madback]

This administration … marketing geniuses who understand the digital landscape so well it hurts.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[HUX @myconautic]

You should do whatever it takes to visit NYC this summer. The energy loading is palpable. Generational shit.

[CLAUDIA MORALES @CLAUDIAPOSTING]

walking from penn station to union square and it is straight up sesame street vibes in manhattan this morning. everyone is cheerful as hell. just watched two strangers high five from their respective citibikes at a stoplight because they were both wearing knicks jerseys

[niy @niyaaahx]

It’s really the United States of New York City

[MadBack @madback]

You can’t convince me that Timothee Chalamet didn’t make a deal with the Bene Gesserit to trade what would have been his first Oscar win in exchange for a victorious Knicks season…

That’s my Lisan al-Gaib fr fr