Years ago I did a video about "Link NYC" I was mostly concerned about the possibility of surveillance through the cameras. Link NYC is a massive system that puts screens on nearly every block in the city.
Mamdani has been cutting short informative videos about city services for linkNYC. He's using it to tell people things like "if you have a 3 or 4 year old it's time to sign them up for pre-k now"
Maybe he can really do this. No other mayor has used them like this.
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myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Some observations about how linkNYC is used:
* Emergency calls. This was the main reason something needed to replace the payphones. Even at time of removal payphones were still important for emergencies.
* Information network: the screens can get information to the whole city in an emergency.
* charging phones: they have USB ports where people charge their phones. Some annoying people complain about "homeless people" (how do you know) using them? IDK I've used them in a pinch.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Hey, people in other cities than NYC:
1. Do you have a way to charge your phone on the street?
2. Are there municipal information screens? Do they show ads?
3. Can you make a phonecall on the street even if you don't have a cellphone?
- we have a way to charge phones (5%, 15 votes)
- we have municipal information screens (10%, 30 votes)
- can make phonecall on street without cellphone (8%, 26 votes)
- none of these (83%, 244 votes)
291 voters. Poll end: 1 mese faElena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to myrmepropagandist • •@myrmepropagandist I'm not sure about cities, but here in Italy most municipalities, especially the small ones, have something like this
which tends to have municipal information and be pretty useless, since they only fit a small amount of text; they don't have ads, but they also don't provide power for phones nor a way to call emergency services or anything.
(in the cities there are some places where you can charge phones, but I think those are mostly private and paid for by ads, lots of ads)
Alexandre Oliva
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •in Campinas, São Paulo, big screens have been installed next to many bus stops, ostensibly to inform bus users about schedules and lines, but most of the time they show ads to drivers passing by, and the placement of the screens confirms that the primary goal was advertisement 😞
now, these screens are reported to also enable bus users to call emergency services. I've read reports focused on support lines for women feeling threatened of violence. that seems useful, but I wonder if the support line can do more than just watch and witness the violence as it develops 😞