even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

speechless @ this article

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/camera-surveillance-san-francisco.html

"an alternative system of urban security"

I esp liked the last section entitled "Privacy Fears" which...didn't really address that?

generally a great idea though, put survaillance in the trusting hands of tech moguls

I saw that article, read one sentence of it, said to myself, 'guillotines,' then clicked out of it

I like the idea of letting the actual citizens decide what to share with the cops vs the cops just having a million cameras running 24/7 that they can monitor.

why can't we not have both

a clear majority of high net worth individuals are at least as worried about the future as average people.

Yes. They are extremely worried that their investment portfolios may lose substantial value, thus threatening to drag their future lifestyle down to the level of those with only moderately high net worth. If they can't make that half-million dollar donation to a top Ivy League school, there's not much hope their children will do any better than getting into Syracuse or Duke.

my god pic.twitter.com/mCHdo0j6vJ

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 24, 2020

lol they've already removed that quote in the second graf

Why does anyone ever agree to appear in these articles?

Because they are sick freaks with a lust for attention, I assume.

Guy who says he used to go to afternoon tea at the St. Regis but can’t now because of Black Lives Matter Plaza says ⁦@MayorBowser⁩ betrayed him so he’s leaving D.C. This whole read is... something else. https://t.co/uXD2fZvIFT

— Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle) July 25, 2020

What an enormous self entitled prick.

The whole thing is enraging but this paragraph maybe takes the cake.

Real city people have no bandwidth to lay down dead in the street or start fires as part of a “protest.” Look at our day: after our miserable commute to work, we have long days in the office, followed by happy hour, client dinners, drinks, maybe a fundraiser or two or having cigars at Shelly’s—and that doesn’t include going to the gym, picking up dry cleaning, seeing our actual friends or spouse, and that miserable commute back home. Quite honestly, we don’t have time for your cause—of which there are so many, so very many causes, so much so that even a city as liberal DC just does not care.

I'm not clicking on this article but there's no way that paragraph is real, somebody is taking the piss.

That guy’s twitter is exactly what you’d think

He's real, regular Fox News guest and runs a lobbying firm for the energy industry. His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.

Sorry xpost

I’ve witnessed the birth of entire neighborhoods: Shaw, 14th Street, The Atlas District, Navy Yard, Ivy City, The Wharf.

Um dude u must be really old because most of those neighborhoods date from the 18th century

erm 19th mostly but still

I presume he’s moved to West Virginia so I hope he gets eaten by a bear.

she told me she was from “Brook-LAN?”

His Twitter is a piece of work, guillotine would be too kind.

We always talk guillotine, but we never talk dull guillotine.

Just 20 pounds of dull steel repeatedly dropped until it either cuts through, breaks his neck or he has a heart attack.

Real city ppl don’t have arduous commutes their jobs. . . in the city. Dude clearly a suburbanite from Gaithersburg.

I saw that article, read one sentence of it, said to myself, 'guillotines,' then clicked out of it

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, July 20, 2020 12:21 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

this. every time i open this thread. i don't know why i keep coming back.

I think it's because I like thinking of guillotines

Real city ppl don’t have arduous commutes their jobs. . . in the city. Dude clearly a suburbanite from Gaithersburg.

Yeah I was gonna go with Potomac tbh

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/in-the-hamptons-the-rich-are-buying-up-quarantine-mansions

pretty sure Quarantine Mansions is a J.G. Ballard book

I had a Times Pick comment on a Bret Stephens column yesterday lol.

Already dreading NYT lifestyle articles on micro schools rich people form with their friends: Wilson renovated a hardware store that had recently gone out of business downtown. “I loved that my children would learn in a space like that,” he said. “Tools feel so metaphoric now.”

— Dean Bakopoulos (@DeanBakopoulos) August 3, 2020

excellent thread

^^good stuff

oh my god

did you see the spinoff account?

https://twitter.com/zebra_and?s=21

What the world needs now is: tools

excellent

http://i.imgur.com/9H1tCk8.png

Oh my god. They finally did it.https://t.co/JqYN12iGPt pic.twitter.com/Hkp2mpCNy2

— David Yanofsky (@YAN0) August 14, 2020

That's how he would have wanted us to remember him

Love that "EXCLUSIVE" above the headline

https://www.theringer.com/2020/8/18/21372181/nytimes-typo-twitter-account-copy-editing

I need to come up with a new joke, but good of me to quite literally rewrite your tweets for you, yet again. pic.twitter.com/oa3qBPYiSA

— Typos of the New York Times (@nyttypos) August 20, 2020

"I was recently told by a waitress at a fine hotel that I couldn’t have fresh ground pepper because of coronavirus. Really?” — Tyler Brûlé https://t.co/MsoSVG5JVB

— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) August 27, 2020

is he related to dr. steve brûlé?

cousin of irn brûlé

i would expect no less from a publication called monocle. all quiddities and agonies, all the time?

that guy is the worrrrrrst

MIT from Hawaii. Yale from Barbados. Students are renting houses with friends in far-flung locales to do college remotely.

That story from @TaylorLorenz and more, in today's @nytimes Coronavirus Schools Briefing, from me and @AJNierenberg https://t.co/MU57j6YRXM

— Adam Pasick (@Adampasick) August 28, 2020

that photo seems overexposed somehow

to be fair though

this seems... pretty cool? i was expecting it to be all super privileged kids but there's also non-affluent students doing it bc it's cheaper than campus housing. assuming they really are sticking to their bubble this seems like a neat way to have a social college experience https://t.co/o8horNumk7

— anna!! (@M_asinMerry) August 28, 2020