#nyc event

[art]

Rhizome Presents: Some Tumblrs!

Recently, Rhizome accessioned 22 artist-made Tumblrs into the Artbase, their online archive of born-digital artworks. To celebrate, Rhizome Co-director Michael Connor will be chatting with Christopher Clary, Cat Frazier (@animatedtext), Molly Soda (@mollysoda), and writer Larissa Pham (@larissa-pham)— contextualizing the selected works within the larger story of Tumblr, and exploring perspectives on the site's history and its importance to artists. 

Tune in tomorrow, May 18, at 6:30pm EDT on Tumblr Live!

#rhizome #new museum #some tumblrs #born-digital art #artists on tumblr #nyc event

[fdmlovesfashion]

Old Hollywood Glamour: HALLOWEEN SOIREE New York City style

For the love of Glamour and celebrating Halloweeen! Actress, Philanthropist, and Author Leesa Rowland and Larry Wohl held her Old Hollywood Glamour: HALLOWEEN SOIREE New York City style at The Venue in the Hard Rock Hotel Times Square New York, bringing out the silver screen style! Fashionable and fabulous VIP friends wearing red carpet looks came to celebrate the New York style throwback to the…

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#brigitteseguracurator #CELEBS #nyc event #nyc halloween

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

A golden opportunity to see Indradyumna Swami, a great devotee & soul who has spread Krishna Consciousness all over Russia and the world for decades. admission – free https://bhakticenter.org/indradyumna-swami/…

#NYC #New York City #Events #NYC Event #The Bhakti Center #ISKCON #HARE KRISHNA #KRISHNA #INDRADYUMNA SWAMI

[xiaorawr]

For any models, cosplayers, and photographers in the NYC area— would love to see you at my event this Saturday from 1-5pm EST at FD Photo Studio! ALL LEVELS WELCOME !

To RSVP on iPhone: download the app here https://hulatheapp.onelink.me/FOK2/Pearlpeony and then rsvp on my event page

To RSVP on android: message HULA here https://instagram.com/hula.app?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= and let them know you wanna attend pearlpeony’s event

#nyc event #nyc #photography #workshop #modeling #cosplay #model #photographer #new york city #hula #Fd photo studio

[daughterofcoldharbours]

this is what our ruling class has decided what will be normal

-aaron bushnell

#palestine #free palestine #nypd #columbia university #nyc #current events

[mostlysignssomeportents]

2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:

https://www.2600.com/

2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:

https://www.2600.com/meetings

And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:

https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76

When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:

https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.

Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).

Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions

Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.

But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL

Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.

Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.

This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:

https://www.hope.net/

Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."

The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.

A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee

You can submit a talk to HOPE:

https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

#pluralistic #2600 #hackers #magazines #publishing #kindle unlimited publishing #kindle #enshittification #monopoly #end to end #competition #events #nyc #hope #hackers on planet earth #amazon

[wingedalpacacupcake]

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #israel #israel is a terrorist state #current events #genocide #important #nyc #ny #mayor #eric adams #genocide supporters #genocide funders #disgusting

[hack-saw2004]

HAPPENING NOW: mass arrests at the seder in the street protest outside of sen schumer's apartment continue, there are hundreds of people there, and they aren't budging.

#free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #let gaza live #west bank under attack #save palestine #bds movement #end the genocide #end the occupation #jewish voice for peace #if not now #jews for racial & economic justice nyc #new york city #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime

[phoenixyfriend]

Suggested Listening: Columbia Protests (as of 4/25/24)

Alright, folks, I've seen a couple different approaches to this situation, and I think there's something to be learned from each of the below. I know some of them have a contested reputation, but all media sources have a bias and I will be including some context on those biases.

The podcasts I'm sharing are:

The Daily (New York Times)

The Take (Al Jazeera)

Democracy Now! (independent radio broadcast)

Global News Podcast (BBC Radio)

It's come up a few times on NPR as well, but not in enough detail for me to include. I will be linking Spotify, but these are all available elsewhere, though official transcripts can take several days.

The Daily - April 25th, 2024: This podcast is a production of The New York Times. The paper is left-leaning, but has a noted bias towards Israel, and has run into trouble on trans issues in the recent past. The podcast is further left, though still more cautiously moderate than something like Democracy Now; the podcast has previously been responsible for fact checks against the more biased NYT opinion pieces.*

Why you should listen to it: This episode provides the most comprehensive timeline to what has happened, in what order, and why certain actions have been taken. It is notably more sympathetic to Columbia University President Shafik than other coverage, though that may just be the natural result of explaining the current political pressures. It is still more sympathetic to the protesters than to her, but I do think this is helpful for establishing a timeline of events. It is not the only one, and I will share another below.

* That infamous article about the alleged systemic sexual violence that Hamas committed on Oct. 7th was put through a fact checker by the podcast team when it came time to do an episode about it, and the inability to substantiate it led to not only the episode being cancelled, but the article itself being (quietly) edited to note that it was not substantiated. The NYT did not handle it well, but I want to make it clear that the podcast team is independent in many respects, and while I've taken issue with some of their episodes, they often have more comprehensive coverage of certain matters.

The Take - April 25th, 2024: This is a podcast from the English-speaking branch of Al Jazeera, a Qatari news organization that, while independent, does receive a certain amount of funding from the Qatari government. By that measure, I do hesitate to place it on a left-right scale due to existing outside the Western political spectrum. As a Middle Eastern, Arab news org, Al Jazeera provides a perspective much closer to the action than others, and one that is generally much more sympathetic to Muslim and Arab voices. It is also, like the others on this list, an award-winning journal. At this time, Al Jazeera is considered one of the most reliable news sources for information on what is happening in Gaza, through their Palestinian correspondents; they have also been banned in Israel as antisemitic propaganda.

I need to make it very clear that I am not in any way denigrating it for having Qatari government funding; the BBC shares many of those factors, just British.

Why you should listen to it: Al Jazeera got a reporter into the student protest encampment in Columbia, and got more direct interviews with some of the students on the ground. This is part two of their coverage of the protests; Part One (April 24th, 2024)provides another perspective of the timeline, which focuses on different factors, generally closer to the events in Columbia than the national factors.

Democracy Now! - April 23rd, 2024: This is a far left/progressive radio broadcast (repackaged for podcast streaming) that has been running since 1996. They often have interviews with people that I haven't necessarily seen other podcasts bring in, and while I would not consider them extreme, I do sometimes find that certain details get left out in pursuit of a more black-and-white narrative.

Why you should listen to it: Cohost Juan González has been in the field of progressive journalism for a very long time, but it's more relevant than ever for this episode: González was one of the original organizers for the 1968 Columbia protests that resulted in one of the largest mass arrests in NYPD history. The 1968 protests were massive, and deeply impactful on a national scale. González's perspective on how this current protest compares to the one he helped organize nearly sixty years ago is a fascinating way to think about the current events.

Global News Podcast - April 25th, 2024: BBC is a very centrist source for journalism, funded primarily by the UK government and advertising. As such, their coverage tends to lean in favor of the current party, though they do not 'toe the party line' as such. They do regularly platform right-wing activists, but they also have correspondents in the Middle East with a more progressive perspective. I would compare them to CNN in the US; ineffective in terms of opinion, and comparatively milquetoast on that front, but capable of getting access to high-level events that smaller networks aren't.

Why you should listen to it: ...honestly, this is just a 'round it out' kind of suggestion, to get an idea of what the international community is thinking of the events at Columbia. I don't think they necessarily contribute much in terms of factual discovery, but it helps with getting the lay of the land.

#phoenix politics #current events #gaza #palestine #pro palestine #united states #new york #nyc #new york city #new york times #nyt #the daily #the take #al jazeera #democracy now #juan gonzalez #bbc #bbc global news #podcasts #columbia #university of columbia #Minouche Shafik

[datshitrandom]

Darren Criss celebrates his 37th birthday at Racket NYC | February 05, 2024 | 📷 by Kristina Bumphrey

#darren criss #darren's 37th #jumperwall 2024 #racket nyc #darren x h&m #mancandykings #dailymenedit #malestarsedit #dailymusicians #dailymusic #musicsourcedaily #musiciansedit #popculturesource #omg am i back to posting d stuff regularly? #nope #not really #just this event #bc i'm weak 🫠 #my edits #please do not repost

[joskriverdaily]

Josephine Skriver at the CFDA Fashion Awards in NYC - June 1, 2015.

+33HQs

#hq #josephine skriver #events #cfda #nyc #june 1 #2015 #danielle snyder #jodie snyder

[ride-a-cow-boy]

Jacob Elordi attends at Tiffany & Co. Celebrates the reopening of NYC flagship store, the Landmark. | New-York (April 27, 2023)

#jacob elordi #tiffany & co #reopening #flagship store #store #new york #nyc #new-york city #event #aussie #australian actor #actors #valentino #euphoria cast #euphoria: jacob elordi #euphoria: nate jacobs #nate jacobs #beautiful men #beautiful man #menstyle #menswear #menfashion #fashion #style #mine: gifs #jacob elordi gifs #gifs: mine #gifset #*gifs #*gifset

[florencepughnews]

Florence Pugh leaves the reopening of Tiffany & Co.'s NYC Flagship Store, The Landmark

#florence pugh #fpughedit #filmedit #dailywomen #femalestunning #flawlessbeautyqueens #women in film #nyc #events #candids #film #userreh #usersugar

[nhlovesadri3]

Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes promoting the VS New Vintage Victoria Collection for Valentine's Day at the Lexington Avenue store, NYC, 11/02/09.

#Adriana Lima #Doutzen Kroes #vs #vintage victoria #collection #store #event #nyc #goddess #angel #gorgeous #2009

[amnhnyc]

In the Footsteps of Giants: Evolving Perspectives in Paleontology

Join us on Monday, October 23, for a fascinating discussion with paleontologists from around the world on the latest in dinosaur research. Discover what it means to be a paleontologist or paleobiologist working today, and how these scientists got into the field. Hear about their experiences on Museum expeditions and how their investigations continue to shed light on the interrelationships of major dinosaur lines, new molecular signatures in the evolution of dinosaurs, and more. Don't miss out on this dynamic gathering of experts in the field!

This panel will be moderated by the Museum’s Macaulay Curator of Paleontology Roger Benson; panelists will include Kimberely Chapelle, Diego Pol, and Jasmina Weimann.

For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: https://bit.ly/3Qf4rqX

#amnh #museum #fossil #dinosaur #science #natural history #paleontology #nyc events #events #fossils #fossil friday #upper west side

[nyc-looks]

Jane, 20

“My top, shorts, belt, and bag were all thrifted. The boots are by Shyanne. My style is inspired by anti-fashion designers who emphasize silhouette and texture. I love pieces that are almost ugly, like this top that has a toy spider trapped in plastic on it. You caught me on a day where I dressed more eccentrically than usually!”

Nov 12, 2022 ∙ Williamsburg

#nyc looks #street photos #street snaps #street style #style #clothes #outfit #thrifted #thrift2death #thrift event #shyanne boots