Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲

“a narrow club of vastly wealthy plutocrats sits on a ballooning share of the nation’s resources. One per cent of Americans at the apex of the economy are hoarding over 31% of the nation’s total wealth, a cool $55tn in net worth.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cal pep. There are only a handful of restaurants I will repeatedly visit. This. Is. One. Of. Them. #YOLO #seafood 

Here is a fun little convergence — my Brooklyn buddy is starting up a new mapping tool and yesterday I got a list of restaurant recommendations from a local business owner in Barcelona. squidmaps.io/noel/barcelo...

I’m fascinated that soooo many people can walk around with a deep respiratory illness and not wear masks. After our collective mass casualty event in 2020, these people seem so selfish.

Good morning Barcelona! I’m here for #OpenTechWeek and #Mozfest. HMU if you’re here for the week. Also, I have @beta.nyc stickers.

This week in NYC's #CivicTech, week 43 of 2026. Early voting starts October 24. Know your five ballot questions. Brooklyn's community board applications are open. How AI education reaches New York's neighborhoods. Read it: www.beta.nyc/news-2026w43

Caucus AI found nearly 1 in 5 ChatGPT answers about the midterms is citing an AI-generated voter guide. These sites are mostly anonymous, mostly registered in the last year, and they don’t rank highly in traditional search. Report - caucus-ai.com/reports/Cauc... Fm - caucus-ai.com

Help train murdering robots!!! Only 50% off. /s Btw, this is a real ad fed to me by LinkedIn.

My frustration with scraping @council.nyc.gov's Schedule C will benefit you!! On Friday, a few collegues and I will walk through a number of #opengov #opendata #civicAI tools in #BetaBagels 017. Come share your tools and tactics. www.beta.nyc/event/e261023/

Most PTAs have fun discussions. Tonight, our PTA is discussing what food we should stock in our school's food pantry for families who live in shelters and don't have kitchens. A good portion of our PTA funds goes toward supplementing families' nutritional needs.

The @nytimes.com Fellowship is now accepting applications for its 2027-28 class. The program offers early career journalists the opportunity to work in the newsroom for one year. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 20. www.nytco.com/press/applic...

BDB had EIGHT YEARS to transform NYC’s streets and public spaces usage. Boy was that a waste of an administration. No offense friends, but this guy dialed it in and boy have we hurt from it.

META (n): a horrible group of business practices. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

📣 The NYC School of Data 2027 Call for Proposals is OPEN! Got an idea for using publicly available data for the public good? We want to hear it. We’re especially excited about ideas involving digital equity, smart cities + AI. Submit your proposal: schoolofdata.nyc

🤖 Can you trust an AI-generated answer about NYC government? Join us for BetaBagels 017! We're exploring AI hallucinations, misinformation, and tools that help verify answers using public data. 📅 Oct 23 | 2–3:30 PM ET Free virtual event! www.beta.nyc/event/e261023

The weirdest part of Cleveland, Ohio: sooooo many windows laptops.

Curious about your NYC Community Board? 🏙️ Join BetaNYC + Data Pride NYC on Oct. 21 for a free event on getting involved locally, understanding Community Boards through data, and meeting fellow New Yorkers. 6–7:30 PM | 124 E 14th St. www.beta.nyc/event/e261021

Ask your AI assistant: "Which registered expense contracts over $500,000 did the Department of Transportation hold in FY2025?" nyc-checkbook-mcp reads Checkbook NYC spending, contracts and payroll. No API key. npx -y @betanyc/nyc-checkbook-mcp github.com/BetaNYC/nyc-checkbook-mcp

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BetaBagels 017: Building Civic AI for NYC's Open Government. Can you trust current AI tools? How do you connect government data to AI? Demos and tools, Fri Oct 23, 2–3:30 pm ET, free on Zoom. Got a tool to share? Let us know. Register: beta.nyc/e261023-rsvp

BetaBagels 017: Building Civic AI for NYC's #OpenGov. Can you trust current AI tools? How do you connect government data to AI? Demos and tools, Fri Oct 23, 2–3:30 pm ET, free on Zoom. Got a tool to share? Let us know. Register: beta.nyc/e261023-rsvp #opendata #civictech #civicAI

This from @ethanmarcotte.com is very good, and hammers on an important point I've been making for years: "personalization" is just something desperate execs push because they have no other ideas, so they translate advertising logic into product features. "Here's more of the same" is a shit pitch.

Not for the people…

AI is everywhere!!! I really want to know the prompt that made this slop.

Parent’s view: School leaders need to realize what makes showing up for school on time difficult and work with families to overcome those barriers bit.ly/4AR8ajS

“It will be up to civil society to remind elected leaders that AGI/ASI is far from a certainty, and that we shouldn’t base policy decisions on the assumption that it is inevitable, or even desirable.” www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Instagram is a cesspool.

As I have said time and time again, makers of ADS should be as liable as the humans.

CONGRATS SARA!!!!

I want to remove Apple AI queries from my watch but leave them on the phone. AI everywhere is not needed!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOO

Please join us on October 14 at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for a panel discussion on “AI and the Future of Education” co-sponsored by the CUNY AI Lab and moderated by CAIL co-founder @lukewaltzer.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...

Very good live thread.

Whether AI will become a force for good or ill depends on us.

META’s person just keeps pimping their tools… BRO HAVE YOU READ THE NEWS HOW MUSE IS A SECURITY RISK?!?

The circus.

To be absolutely clear, NYC needs to be a leader in #govtech #opendata #servicedesign AND AI. Here are my preliminary/prepared thoughts from @beta.nyc & the community. www.beta.nyc/2026/10/05/c...

20 years to get a crosswalk here. Finally happening this Wednesday!! Once it is done, I will host a personal ribbon-cutting ceremony for my son and I. #safestreets #LTN #greenpoint

Some young dude in a BMW tried to bypass ppl in line to exit via the breakdown lane. Unfortunately, my car was already straddling the lane to prevent these a-holes. Normally, they get the hint move to the travel lane. This guy did not & wanted to fight ON THE BQE. #bancars #bmwdrivers

I’m so old — I remember when NYC safe streets advocates had to create a “biking rules” campaign so they could argue against the blue hairs who supported the bike lash. That campaign advocated for vehicular cycling mentality — ride single file, wear a helmet, wear bright colors, etc. etc.