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Here’s the Oppressive Surveillance You’ll Face If You Protest in NYC
For years now, New York City has tried to distance itself from its embattled and racist Stop and Frisk policing tactics that were responsible for creating over 100,000 interactions with police annually during the early 2000s. Though these physical stops have mostly tapered down, activists say it’s been replaced by a digital equivalent with equally…
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The Infamous New York City Trar
Today’s car companies love to tout ideas of modular platform, where you could stick any kind of body on one mechanical chassis. Allow me reintroduce the trar. It’s a truck frame with a car body on top of it. Not a revolution, but a joy.
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NYC Bans Zoom In Classrooms Following Porn ‘Zoombombings’ And Security Failures
As reports of security issues surrounding the video conferencing app Zoom continue to mount and accounts of video “bombing” grow increasingly disturbing, New York City has taken the extraordinary measure of banning the service from the city’s classrooms. New York City Mayor de Blasio said this week that the city was “not going to put…
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The Last O.G.
To get to Roland George’s shop in Brooklyn, you take the A or C trains out to the Shepherd Avenue station, deep into the part of the city where the tourists don’t visit. But all the world passes through New York, and all the legions of Saab devotees up and down the Eastern Seaboard pass…