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Dennis Crowley
@dens.nyc
I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs

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The BeeBot team and @dens.nyc have been hard at work building the perfect "proactive, ambient, and context-aware" AI companion that chimes in conveniently to share the best intel about your city.

It's finally time for everyone to experience the magic of DJ BeeBot 💖
👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a loooooong blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to...
Say Hello to DJ BeeBot
Building proactive & context-aware software for cities and sidewalks.
dens.medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yo @djbeebot.com, I think it's raining in the Meatpacking District. #testing
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I'm not sure who in the Republican Party thinks 42 million people with absolutely nothing to lose hitting the streets is a good idea, but what is their plan exactly? Trying to arrest 1/6 of the country?
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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what stage of capitalism is this
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
To all the peeps testing BeeBot – thank you, appreciate you. The product is in it's ROUGHEST shape that it'll ever be (dup content, rambling, stuff that is not personalized to you) BUT we have a bunch of fixed coming...
Say Hello to DJ BeeBot
Building proactive & context-aware software for cities and sidewalks.
dens.medium.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Whoa, lots of BeeBot love so thank you! If you're using the app, make sure to ADD KEYWORDS. Keywords are what make it go from "it works" -> "it's pretty good".
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Mamdani hasn’t even been mayor-elect for a day yet and @dens.nyc is bringing back the peak-era Foursquare energy of NYC innovation and city exploration with @djbeebot.com: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to... I’m excited to check it out!
Say Hello to DJ BeeBot
Building proactive & context-aware software for cities and sidewalks.
dens.medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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As an OG Foursquare fan, I'm reallyyy intrigued by this new project from @dens.nyc ... it also reminds me a bit of the very-much under-appreciated Foursquare app Marsbot which also attempted proactive recommendations (and was low-key one of my fave ways to find places to eat when I was traveling)
The Foursquare founder's new app is an AI-powered 'DJ' for neighborhood updates
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley has unveiled his latest venture and yes, it's another location-based social app: an AI-powered "DJ" called BeeBot.
www.engadget.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a loooooong blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to...
Say Hello to DJ BeeBot
Building proactive & context-aware software for cities and sidewalks.
dens.medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Love this quote.
"Politics can be a team sport for building the New York of our dreams. That’s what Zohran is building. That’s what all of us are building." - @bradlander.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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1 in 2 cars sold in China today are EVs.
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I love this guy.
An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it’s more Fox News tho? It’s a modern day Death Star.
The GOP is a factory for turning regular people into monsters
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I’m enjoying the retaking of frogs. I always felt incredibly sad for the original illustrator of pepe who had his creation stolen and exploited
October 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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it's going to be like when we got rid of smoking in restaurants and on airplanes and within a matter of maybe a year everybody was like "we allowed WHAT?"
It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This was very clever:

After collecting fines from speed cameras, Stockholm ran a lottery where non-speeding drivers could win the money.

www.wired.com/2010/12/swed...
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
iPhone SSBB (Same Size Beefier Battery) > iPhone Air
September 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I always explain ChatGTP to my 9yo as “you know that one friend that pretends to know the answer to everything, even tho they don’t? …”
A little solace for the Anti AI crowd. The greatest weakness of AI is its inability to say “I don’t know”.

Our ability to admit what we don’t know , will always govern humans an advantage.
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Anyone here got any REI discount codes? I am about to order a boatload of stuff for a camping trip w/ my daughter. xo! (I missed the big sale by like a week, ugh)
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
cue: scene of baseball game getting cancelled in Inception
Incredible video from Arizona State University Football of the haboob that moved through the Tempe area earlier this evening
August 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM