Ben Carlos Thypin

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

This is how a lot of homeowners talk about renters in general. They think renters can’t possibly care about or understand their neighborhood the way that a homeowner does, and therefore only the wishes and concerns of homeowners should be considered.

Someone just asked me why I hate Tyler Austin Harper and I am too filled with rage to articulate it - can one of you help me succinctly describe why he sucks?

"So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it." www.ign.com/articles/the...

FT's Martin Wolf suggests America's 250th celebration was a wake for liberal democracies. www.ft.com/content/2dca...

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

if you ever asked yourself “what’s the exact opposite of a Zohran video?” look no further than this clip Karen Bass just dropped

As someone who visits NYC a couple times a year to see friends and family, I cannot pretend to be a disinterested observer here. Hotels in the city have gotten stupid expensive over the past few years and it’s nuts that more of them aren’t coming online.

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

Jewish youth in America have turned sharply against Zionism as it is defined by Likud,"half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians"

Malcom Gladwell talks to Stephen Smith re #elevators! "Have you ever heard of the perfect is the enemy of the good? That defines American elevator policy today." --MG @stephenjacobsmith.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I feel like I could write an entire Jordan Peterson-style “Rules for Men” type manifesto where the only two rules are “try to be a kind, considerate person” and “figure out your own idiosyncratic tastes instead of wearing a costume someone else assigned to you.“

this is much better executed than it needed to be

Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff

Mayor Mamdani's housing plan is live! There's big sweeping YIMBY stuff: -Aggressive TOD upzoning -Major permitting reform -Rescuing & transforming NYCHA They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay CofO issuance (& invite petty corruption)

if you want different representation in AD52 -- someone who supports Mayor Mamdani's housing initiatives rather than opposing them behind the veil of the budget process -- check out @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social www.lydiagreenbk.com

I complain a lot about left NIMBYs. I complain a lot about right NIMBYs. but do you know which NIMBYs actually frustrate me the most? boomer faux-environmentalist NIMBYs like @joannesimonbk52.bsky.social. she’s literally killing homes for over 10,000 people because apartments are scary.

The New York State Assembly continues to be the place where good housing policy goes to die www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

This condescending "Jews who support Mamdani - or even just engage with him - need to be pitied, because they know not what they do" schtick is worse than open hatred. I'd rather be openly despised by these people than pitied for supposedly being too stupid to know what is good for my own community.

Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.

This strategy worked so well for Andrew Cuomo for Mayor deadline.com/2026/05/spen...

In New York and man it really is the fuckin best huh

Go outside and touch rock

This website’s least favorite senatorial candidate has a big interview in the NYT today and somehow people on here aren’t frothing at the mouth. Are we growing up or have people just not noticed yet?

The driver was going 108 miles per hour. On the Upper West Side. Cars should literally not be allowed to go that fast. pix11.com/news/suspect...

Having interacted w some of these Third Wayish folks as they tried to co-opt YIMBYism, I cannot even begin to describe how deranged these ppl are about DSA and how that derangement is totally detached from either electoral outcomes or what a given DSA politician actually supports in terms of policy.

“Is Adam Friedland my neighbor or is that just one of what I assume are many guys around here who kinda look like him?” is a question I ask myself weekly as a Brownstone Brooklyn resident.

I used to have the heart of a True Poster but now I think of things that I know would generate a bunch of heat and light and I think to myself "yeah I'd rather just go for a run and not have to wonder who is getting mad at me on the internet"

Interesting study that undermines some widely held impressions (including some of my own) about the behavior of large landlords versus small landlords.

The condescending assumption that young Jews voting for Mamdani must not be “educated” sufficiently in Jewish history - as opposed to simply drawing different conclusions from that education - is why they’re losing young people.

Median American voter

We've removed major hurdles to building affordable housing —  a move that will get homes up nearly 2 years faster. We’re in a race to tackle our housing crisis, because working New Yorkers can't afford to wait.

NYC’s new development market is so hot that this narrow ass site next to the Franklin Avenue shuttle that’s been stalled for as long as I can remember is seemingly finally getting built.

Another Midtown South rezoning site just hit the market and it’s so large that it will serve as another good test of whether 485x’s large project construction wage and/or affordability requirements need to be tweaked to make projects viable

“I think that during the period from the middle 1970s through the 2008 financial crisis, we, the professional class made a rather catastrophic error in judgment.”