I wrote a short dystopian story about mandatory third place ft. decaf salted cardamom matcha latte with pistachio milk that you can expense it to your HSA

Hmmm

“The problem is the set of incentives that govern all platforms, the economic logic that turns every online space into either an engagement farm or a ghost town, and changing platforms without changing those incentives is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, except the Titanic is the entire attention economy an... Show more

People are out to PLAY!

So much joy in a snowy Brooklyn!!!!

Me and all my homies love participatory budgeting

“Bastard Chairs” by Michael Wolf, photographed between 2003-2005 “Photographed in the back alleys and streets of Hong Kong and mainland China, these hybrid seats were improvised repairs made by local residents using whatever materials were available. Broken plastic backs grafted onto wooden stools. Metal legs bolted i... Show more

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the split in “attention economy” discourse this is a term coined in political economy to describe the systematic harvesting of human cognition as a capital resource — one of the defining extractions of late capitalism, strip-mined for profit without meaningful consent in... Show more

In in my vibecode era

Public service infrastructure, delivery, and accountability needs to be better. looking forward to work on this at @decentralpark

Please be careful with your relationship to health & wellness industry. Remember that the best techniques to improve your physical and mental health are usually free, and don’t necessitate your entanglement into the hyper-consumerist web of subscription fitness models and obsessive body metric tracking.

Got my hands on @july ‘s roc camera and took a selfie (Not my camera sadly, it’s Ron’s lol)

Deconstruction Same, but different

Lounge lawn, Shanghai

“Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer t... Show more

Urbanism arc started early

I’ve been casting about this project for over a year, and now we’ve made a Decentral Park workshop around it :’) next step is to reimplement this again for real in NYC

Really excited for this workshop around participatory budgeting and quadratic voting. We’re collaborating with RadicalxChange on this one :) come through if you’re in NYC!!

@neynar what was my first cast

You have to change them from the inside bro trust me bro

Space is where you are, place is what it means

can someone explain to me what is happening

This is your sign to go to the New York Public Library Picture Collection and research-as-leisure max It’s a public and free archive of millions of clipped images, photographs, and visual ephemera organized by key words. you can scan anything you find and email it to your phone 📁📂 www.nypl.org/locations/sch... Show more

Please don’t buy shit today. Please don’t cross the picket line.

Strong agree

Why doesn’t farcaster have a clean way to manage multiple accounts the way x does? Rn, if I want to use my other account, I have to fully log out of my main one. When I tried to sign back in, the app pushed me into “account recovery” and made me generate a new recovery phrase. After that, I can’t log into my main accou... Show more

PEOPLE CAN DO THE WORK, SO THAT MACHINES HAVE TIME TO THINK

Machines can do the work, so that people have time to think

just launched our @decentralpark Farcaster account. 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I want to connect with tech folks that aren’t alt r*ght and f*scists

You can’t spend decades justifying mass shootings with the second amendment, but then also justify Alex Pretti’s death with “well, he had a gun” If legal carry is a protected right, it can’t also be the default justification when the state kills someone for legally carrying.

I love a mf sneckdown

Abolish ICE. Long live Alex Pretti 💔

Thanks to everyone who came to our Decentral Park meetup last night! @KibaGateaux shared his work on ZuCity Japan (zucity.org )—pop-up cities, collectively owned infrastructure, and what it’s been like building community in the abandoned houses of Nagano, Japan.

Another Decentral Park (decentralpark.nyc ) meetup at 7 PM at Fractal Tech in NYC tonight! 🙂‍↕️ We’re going to hear about Zucity Japan (zucity.org) located in the Nagano prefecture, Japan, operating at the intersection of crypto, collectivism, science, and underground raves

So cool to see this happening in NYC

It is really, REALLY important to know the difference between a fact, a claim, and an opinion.

New headshots just dropped

Guys I’m sad do we just leave Farcaster and go back to x like what

If anyone’s looking for pen recommendations… these are unbeatable

I wrote a cheeky little fiction piece about touching grass 👉 🌱

Highly recommended reading The highly interconnected web of Theil, Venezuela, Epstein, Palestine, ICE, etc, etc.

“As you scroll this abandoned mall LinkedIn”

"The people who understand AI don’t understand (or truly value) art and literature The people who do understand art and literature, in turn, don’t really understand AI—and are deeply fearful of it, hostile, or both"

No texting, no social media, no Reddit, no emails for 1 whole week I felt insane the first 2 days but felt a lot of the mental noise dissipate throughout the week. Highly recommend if you have the opportunity

I wrote a cheeky little piece on SF's AI billboards and how I want to brick them away from existence

Think of something beautiful

Welcome to my office

Me, I did

Switching to light mode for 2026

Happy holidays 🤍🩶🩵

On exchanging inner worlds open.substack.com/pub/velvetno...

Ready to de-lobotomize. Hardware for good 🙂‍↔️

What I’m reading:

Enshittification Posts with no meaning that automatically become coins and cross posted on 3 different platforms

The best sections in the bookstore.

California and dog maxing

Looking for ChatGPT personalization prompts (the prompt in the settings) that folks have had success with I had a pretty detailed one before (clear writing, no hyperbole, etc.), but after a while it started over optimizing and acting kind of weird. So curious what prompts have worked well for others

Curious to see platform-wide data/trends on Farcaster users and posting trends since the original rewards system ended

Reminder to opt out of / resist surveillance technology where you are able to do so

f/loss, build the solidarity economy

No context 😃

“seize the means of knowledge production”

How’s your moral compass doing?

It’s like Farcaster wants me to switch to Bluesky sooooooooo bad

"Jankspace is the grotesque and hollow realm of technocapitalist networks — the residue spilling out of the digital megastructure as it digests the material world and turns it into hallucinogenic sludge. It is the Uber driver’s chaotically wired, multi-screen setup of tangled cables, flickering displays, and incessant ... Show more

“Jankspace is how you feel when you just use Touch ID to access your keychain and you're desperately reaching for the power cord to plug in your phone and get it powered up so that you can get the code from the OTP text message and activate your hotspot so as to answer the email confirmation for a password change so yo... Show more

Fidi seagull

Portland’s 1978 bus network (TriMet) You can see that there’s very few crosstown routes. This kind of radial network design was very typical of American transit agencies prior to the 1970s

Technology is the answer, but what was the question? - architect Cedric Price

We're so excited to be joined by Josh and Beth to talk possibilities for decentralized tech in a progressive municipal agenda. Come through if you’re in NYC :)

Crypto access point for unhoused & undocumented www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

Thanksgiving conversation safety guide

Threads is funny sometimes

Micromobility is very important, but Citibike is just too damn expensive. NYC’s Citi Bike system is the most expensive bike share program in the US, by a lot. Citi Bike is the only US bike share system with no government subsidy. All the others have at least some public funding.

What

just one more lane bro please bro just one more broo i promise broo just one more lane will complete me broooo

JUST ONE MORE LANE WILL FIX IT

This is how I hold receipts now

The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine

I’m really interested in workbooks that help us imagine what is possible in our communities. Speculative design workshopping, spoonfed to you with really helpful framing. The first two images: is an architect’s activity book by Steve Bowkett (shoutout @opensourcekam who gifted this to me!) is designed for kids and adu... Show more

Ideally this is how I start my Sunday morning

Brand refresh or something

So… I loved this so much I had to recreate it Guess I love putting miscellaneous things in my hair

✨ My FID Azuki spirit has awakened! ✨

“Traffic jams are a problem that is not meant to be solved but managed—one possible approach to the challenge of distributing aggregate benefits and costs among individuals. The jam is a feature of traffic, not a bug—less a failure than the janky avoidance of failure, a necessary compromise, the sufficient but “dumb” m... Show more

This is the book that started it all for me!!! I read this 5 years ago and it helped me decide to go to urban planning grad school. It put words into what I’d felt for so long, growing up in a suburb. the design of our built environment shapes our quality of our life every single day. And that when that design is cen... Show more

Finally got a video of the 2 black bodega kitties on my block cuddling for @trish 🥹

I saw Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii perform last week at Carnegie hall :) he’s been blind since birth, and his notes simply sparkled He played some very famous pieces like Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. He closed with 5 encores, including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Liszt... Show more

They’re all sold out everywhere and now there’s 34 bids for $79 on eBay 🤯

Omg

WE DID IT JOE

By noon today, more people had voted in this race than in the entire mayors race last year www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Various ICE escape signs throughout the US , 2006 - present

It’s a great day

Brooklyn brownstones at Halloween

Very cute, MTA. Happy Halloween! 👻🎃

Lack of access to resources is a type of violence

The best way to fix imposter syndrome is to learn about the people in power www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

This makes my heart flutter

Saw Brad Lander and War on Cars with @mark ❌🚙✅🚴‍♀️

It’s a huge bummer that the three ballot proposals (prop 2, 3, and 4) on the NYC general election about affordable housing are incredibly misleading and work to take decision making power away from communities They claim to speed up affordable housing projects and simplify their review process. But all three erode co... Show more

I voted early in the NYC general election! Here’s how I voted: Mayor: Zohran Public advocate: Jumaane D Williams Comptroller: Mark Levine District attorney: Eric Gonzalez Borough president: Antonio reynoso Council member: Rita c Joseph Judge of civil Court County: Marisa arrabito Judges of the civil court: Juliet p ... Show more

A tree with a perfect haircut

Gm 🩶

How’s business?

Me on farcaster before @briang or @randomerror.eth tell me to go outside

Me asf and it’s devastating.

If ur app signs me out on a weekly cadence I will not use it

My man got drip fr

Web 4

We need more flexible reuse of public amenities that adapts our to our changing needs for each season We must get more creative with the public space and infrastructure that we already have. How can we maximize what our communities are getting out of the stuff we’ve already invested in? Amazing article from Urban Om... Show more

“Those whose bodies are small and frail are flippant in their behaviour. Those whose skin is flabby are soft and dull in will” -Mao Zedong, 1917

….This would be soOOoooo dumb….. …. ……. …………

I descended into the Chambers St subway station this morning and heard a resounding hum (was it an a minor chord?) coming from the walls. I walked down the platform and the noise got louder. I was drawn to it like hypnosis, or something. I found myself standing in front of a silver metal kiosk, enveloped in the warmth... Show more

The median household income for a family of 4 is $70,000 in NYC That’s fucking wild. How do they afford anything

Watching the NYC final mayoral debate live rn :)

I wanna f**k my computer Cuz no one in the world knows me better It says my name, it says Mia And no one in the world does it better

With ICE raids ramping up, it’s important to know how to be a good bystander. Our role as an observer is very important. Interference Archive has a great zine with info on this. Full document is available here: drive.proton.me/urls/A6G2JJ9...

ICE is ramping up in nyc. 50 fed agents conducting raids in Chinatown on Canal street today. Big up to the resisters making noise and being good bystanders

My brother biking around our home town in Japan gives me indescribable fomo