Adrien Delessert
@drien.com
Programming / wilderness adventures / cybersecurity / livable cities
CTO @ GetMelior.com
Brooklyn, NY 🇨🇭🇺🇸
https://a.drien.com
CTO @ GetMelior.com
Brooklyn, NY 🇨🇭🇺🇸
https://a.drien.com
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Blades "air mobility activation" for the Ryder Cup was a goddamn plague.
A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.
A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Blades "air mobility activation" for the Ryder Cup was a goddamn plague.
A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.
A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.
Over the past 2 years we've averaged 25 low (<1000ft) helicopters/day over my part of Brooklyn.
Yesterday we had 107, and 108 so far today. The previous one-day record was 73 in 2024.
Convenience for a few and noise pollution for everyone else.
Data from noisy.today
@stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
Yesterday we had 107, and 108 so far today. The previous one-day record was 73 in 2024.
Convenience for a few and noise pollution for everyone else.
Data from noisy.today
@stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
It’s people flying back and forth to watch golf on Long Island. Drove me nuts yesterday and woke me up this morning.
www.jobyaviation.com/news/blade-n...
www.jobyaviation.com/news/blade-n...
Blade’s air mobility activation will be one of the largest multi-day civilian helicopter movements in U.S. history | Joby
Blade announced its role as the Official Air Mobility Partner of the 2025 Ryder Cup, taking place September 25–28, 2025, at the iconic Bethpage Black Course in Farmingdale, NY.
www.jobyaviation.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Over the past 2 years we've averaged 25 low (<1000ft) helicopters/day over my part of Brooklyn.
Yesterday we had 107, and 108 so far today. The previous one-day record was 73 in 2024.
Convenience for a few and noise pollution for everyone else.
Data from noisy.today
@stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
Yesterday we had 107, and 108 so far today. The previous one-day record was 73 in 2024.
Convenience for a few and noise pollution for everyone else.
Data from noisy.today
@stopthechopnynj.bsky.social
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Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist?
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August 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist?
nyer.cm/voWmBqs
nyer.cm/voWmBqs
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This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
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The US traffic fatality rate is 12.7 per 100k.
Canada is 5.3.
If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually.
Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.
Canada is 5.3.
If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually.
Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.
Sean Duffy is having his daily pants-pissing session about public transit: "They force people into the subway, and the subway's not safe. If you're a liberal and you want people to ride the subway, make it safe. Take the crazy people out."
July 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The US traffic fatality rate is 12.7 per 100k.
Canada is 5.3.
If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually.
Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.
Canada is 5.3.
If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually.
Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.
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One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
July 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.
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I mean, come on folks
July 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I mean, come on folks
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Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
www.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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Today there will be
*spins small wheel*
200%
tariffs on
*spins large wheel*
sending emails to Americans
I am the President
*spins small wheel*
200%
tariffs on
*spins large wheel*
sending emails to Americans
I am the President
May 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today there will be
*spins small wheel*
200%
tariffs on
*spins large wheel*
sending emails to Americans
I am the President
*spins small wheel*
200%
tariffs on
*spins large wheel*
sending emails to Americans
I am the President
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In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
July 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
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As countries across the world turn to renewable energy, there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As countries across the world turn to renewable energy, there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy.
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I grew up in NYC when crime was much worse, and I never knew anyone who had been hurt on the subway. Then I moved to Maine & became car-dependent. After just 8 years there, I needed both hands to count the number of people I knew who had been badly injured or had lost family members in car crashes.
But let me go back to why I love the subway. I can drive and I’ve driven a lot. I hate it. It gives me so much anxiety. That anxiety IMO is warranted because car accidents are so common and can of course kill and injure you. I’ve been in car accidents and so have most people I know who rely on them
July 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I grew up in NYC when crime was much worse, and I never knew anyone who had been hurt on the subway. Then I moved to Maine & became car-dependent. After just 8 years there, I needed both hands to count the number of people I knew who had been badly injured or had lost family members in car crashes.
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I guess AI safety work isn’t just woke censorship.
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I guess AI safety work isn’t just woke censorship.
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The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.
July 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The New York Times has now hired Grok to cover the Mamdani campaign.
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The modal pedestrian killed in Montgomery County is an older person (often an immigrant), crossing a state road, in the evening, on their way to or from a bus stop.
If you get off at the bus stop on the south side of Veirs Mill Rd/586 at College View Dr, and you want to cross the road in a marked crosswalk, you have to walk half a mile out of your way.
July 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The modal pedestrian killed in Montgomery County is an older person (often an immigrant), crossing a state road, in the evening, on their way to or from a bus stop.
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Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
The glossy edgy-stylized-photoshoot NYT interview with this guy earlier this year really drove me nuts because he obviously just completely sucks, while it's fully possible to simply report that mainstream republicans are listening to his unhinged ideas *without* lending him coolness or credibility.
Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
July 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The glossy edgy-stylized-photoshoot NYT interview with this guy earlier this year really drove me nuts because he obviously just completely sucks, while it's fully possible to simply report that mainstream republicans are listening to his unhinged ideas *without* lending him coolness or credibility.
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the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life
July 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life
"Sometimes sources have their own motives"
Yes like Ahmed Chalabi.
Yes like Ahmed Chalabi.
NYT responds to criticism of its Mamdani story, likening the concerns about their source to “Wikileaks or Edward Snowden” (lol)
July 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"Sometimes sources have their own motives"
Yes like Ahmed Chalabi.
Yes like Ahmed Chalabi.
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And, tonight, the eugenicist/racist is promoting bets about the mayor's race on Polymarket.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
And, tonight, the eugenicist/racist is promoting bets about the mayor's race on Polymarket.
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so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
July 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
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media stories are boring, Ivy League admissions stories are even more boring, so I’ll leave it to others to determine whether Zohran allegedly gaming Columbia’s admissions is a bigger deal than NYT attributing a prolific scientific racist as an “opponent of affirmative action”
July 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
media stories are boring, Ivy League admissions stories are even more boring, so I’ll leave it to others to determine whether Zohran allegedly gaming Columbia’s admissions is a bigger deal than NYT attributing a prolific scientific racist as an “opponent of affirmative action”