Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸’s Tweets

May 26

1/ Quick thread: A few years ago, when I was starting to think about moving on from

@Foursquare

(after 13 years!) and I was struggling to think about what I’d do next, a buddy gave me a great piece of advice: “Go be the CEO of Your Own Interests”.

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“Why is everyone looking at us?” asks my 6yo at a restaurant as our 1yo is screaming her head off for no good reason. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus

My phone auto-corrected “dystopian non-fiction” to “dystopian mom-fiction” and I think I just invented a whole new genre of sci-fi.

Journalists: what's the plan? Options include: * Same as ever: who's ahead, horse race coverage. * Why are you asking? We're non-partisan. * Election denier attached to every mention. * First question to them is always about denial. * Clearly show THE STAKES if they're elected.

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@ClimateHuman

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I'm in deep grief over all we are losing. So much change is here already, and what's coming soon is almost too big to put into words. It could have been avoided if society had ignored the lying fossil fuel flacks and started ramping down fossil fuels in the 90s or 2000s.

In the City That Never Sleeps, Some Doors Now Close at 10 p.m.

Sep 18

“The City That Nods Off a Bit Early” is the headline used in the NYT app (and it’s great) 😂

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Is New York still a 24-hour town?

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Shoutout to MassDOT (or Cambridge or Boston?) for cleaning the bike lanes Also for doing it at 2:07 AM, when I’m probably the only cyclist affected

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"This contract company they treat us like animals ... This is how we live six people per room." I still get WhatsApp messages from the migrant workers I walked up and introduced myself to at FIFA hotels in Qatar. Read my detailed new story about it here: grantwahl.substack.com/p/premium-the-

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10 pickleball courts up and running at Horatio Park, NYC at 10am.

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Clever!

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Emily Wilkins

@emrwilkins

· Sep 16

If you can't change the system ... profit from it? Two new ETFs will be based on what positions members of Congress, their spouses and their dependent children are buying and selling. From @kgreifeld > bloomberg.com/news/articles/

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The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting

Sep 15

“Pretty much every star you see in the night sky has a planet around it, if not a family of planets...” -- NYT

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There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe, home to an unimaginable abundance of planets. And now there are new ways to spot signs of life on them.

Getting Dressed for the Metaverse

Sep 15

Re: Balenciaga Fortnite skins: "Why worry about cultivating new customers with entry-level items when you can just sell the branding itself, unhindered by being attached to a physical product, for a few bucks..."

"... if the metaverse is about being seen, then fashion should be one of its killer apps..." (same article btw... doing some research on this idea of "getting dressed for the metaverse")

"... a headset I could afford only because it’s been subsidized by Facebook advertising money, because Mark Zuckerberg wants every single one of us assimilated into his virtual world...." -

@TimMaughan

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You’re going to need a closetful of virtual clothes if you want to hang out in this brave new world. But what will they look like, and who will be selling them to you?

I'm speaking on a panel in October and I had to ask to clarify whether my fellow speakers would be video'ing-in in human-form or avatar-form.

Heads up, IF you plan on ordering a USMNT kit, paying with a VISA (including a debit card) gets you free #/name. Save you $50.

Sep 15

I wish Nike took more of an “outfitting superheroes” approach for the USA 2022 World Cup kits. These are much too boring for how exciting this team is: gonna be to watch.

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Classic Football Shirts

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· Sep 15

The US get a centralised crest with the Nike Swoosh on the sleeves.

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SpinLaunch Suborbital Accelerator

Sep 14

Life in NYC: Pickup soccer game cancelled due to a fashion show 🤷🏻‍♂️⚽️

This thread of teachers sharing what class supplies they will use for weapons (because we have to think about that) is the most heartbreaking thing you will ever read.

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Nicholas Ferroni

@NicholasFerroni

· Sep 13

Is America the only country where teachers know exactly which objects in their classroom can also be used as a weapon in the case of an active shooter?

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TIL'd about

which is basically a catapult for launching small satellites into space (!!)

spinlaunch.com

Located in SpacePort America, the SpinLaunch Suborbital Accelerate is the largest span vacuum chamber ever built, and is capable of launching test payloads to altitudes in excess of 300,000 feet.

BTW I have some really devastating information that would save American democracy and countless lives. I shall not be revealing any of this until my next book tour. Let's hope we all survive until 2025.

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Pink and Polarizing: The New Tennis Shirt

Sep 13

"Nike’s ideology when it comes to outfitting athletes is moving away from the idea of an athlete wearing a uniform and more toward the idea of a superhero wearing a costume.” –– Paul Lukas, NYT //

@UniWatch

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Frances Tiafoe and others at the U.S. Open wore a Nike outfit that spurred a colorful conversation online.

Some people have kids and stop living their life, others bring their kids along for the ride

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This thread has been living in my head all day. (giant EV SUVs have giant batteries that make them heavier/more dangerous)

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David Zipper

@DavidZipper

· Sep 10

This is @GM's new Hummer EV. The car is terrible for both road safety and the environment. The Biden administration needs to regulate it, not praise it. A

explaining why

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Will be totally fine never hearing this 🎵This is how legends are made! 🎵 song ever again. 🎾

Me: how do I do my taxes Public School: shut the fuck up and square dance

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Just noticed they’re both wearing the same shirt. 🎾

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Someone asked the group “oh is this a run club?” to which we relied “oh no, this is THE run club” 🤣

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#pitchandrun

@PitchandrunNYC

· Sep 9

WE BACK IN FULL EFFECT

this morning we welcomed @MathiasVissers to our 5x #pitchandrun club, @estanleydott from @tracksmith, and #nyctech legends @joemarchese @inakib @dens come join us every MF 9a @BluestoneLane behind @ChelseaPiersNYC, all speeds welcome!

This is both very cool and terrifying.

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Runway

@runwayml

· Sep 9

Make any idea real. Just write it. Text to video, coming soon to Runway. Sign up for early access: runwayml.com

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No bigger NYTech rite of passage than visiting a brand new USV office on opening night :) (@ Union Square Ventures -

@usv

in New York, NY w/

@fredwilson

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A Species Between Worlds (Teaser Video) | John Mack | NYC 2022

Art project that takes the map from Pokemon Go and overlays the real world places they represent. "Humans are on a mass migration from reality -> virtual reality" youtube.com/watch?v=j8XHNq (ff'd to 2:15)

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A teaser into artist, author and lecturer John Mack's month-long immersive exhibition A Species Between Worlds: Our Nature, Our Screens, a gamified meditatio...

Anyone know of a Discord bot that will let me count MAUs or WAUs of a server? (sent 1 message? read 1 message?)