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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@cstross

To save everyone else the work, I've located the original. It's from Adobe Stock, by someone known only as "dantada", and tagged 2006, which is presumably the year when it was taken.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/new-york-spring-street-manhattan-508749781/508749781

Amusingly, the stock image is a fair way down the #NewYorkPost article. The generated montage has skipped over some images of already pedestrianized school roads, 14th Street buses, and suchlike.

@vwestlife

#NewYorkCity #Manhattan #SpringStreet #ambulance

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@cstross @vwestlife

I have no idea, incidentally, who the random Stacey Rauch person is that the #NewYorkPost quotes at such length, nor why xyr opinions are given such prominence.

Gabrielle Fahmy has been quoting Rauch as xyr main opinion on #NewYorkCity traffic since at least June 2025, and possibly longer (I didn't check very far back.), though.

Rauch was also opposed back then (months before Mandami was elected — before even the primary) to the busway on 34th Street.

#buses #USPolitics

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@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

This is what malicious compliance looks like (sub-editor handed repugnant article: "hmm, I wonder what photo I can pair with this to undermine it …")
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115645966654210983

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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@cstross

To save everyone else the work, I've located the original. It's from Adobe Stock, by someone known only as "dantada", and tagged 2006, which is presumably the year when it was taken.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/new-york-spring-street-manhattan-508749781/508749781

Amusingly, the stock image is a fair way down the #NewYorkPost article. The generated montage has skipped over some images of already pedestrianized school roads, 14th Street buses, and suchlike.

@vwestlife

#NewYorkCity #Manhattan #SpringStreet #ambulance

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@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last month

Ultra- #rich media owners are tightening their grip on #democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back
The richest man on Earth owns X.
The family of the second-richest man owns #Paramount, which owns #CBS, and could soon own #WarnerBros, which owns #CNN.
The third-richest man owns #Facebook, #Instagram and #WhatsApp.
The fourth-richest man owns the #WashingtonPost and Amazon #MGM Studios.
Another #billionaire owns #FoxNews, the #WallStreetJournal and the #NewYorkPost.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy

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Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich

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@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last month

Ultra- #rich media owners are tightening their grip on #democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back
The richest man on Earth owns X.
The family of the second-richest man owns #Paramount, which owns #CBS, and could soon own #WarnerBros, which owns #CNN.
The third-richest man owns #Facebook, #Instagram and #WhatsApp.
The fourth-richest man owns the #WashingtonPost and Amazon #MGM Studios.
Another #billionaire owns #FoxNews, the #WallStreetJournal and the #NewYorkPost.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy

the Guardian

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich

The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
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