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One prompt, job gone: anti-AI notes in the New York’s subway

editorJune 5, 2026August 23, 202601 mins

Vandalism is common in New York City, especially in the subway. But recently, a unique kind of civil resistance to artificial intelligence has emerged. The city’s subway system is increasingly plastered with ads for various AI services, and New Yorkers are actively responding to them in their own way: “The AI for Work. One prompt,…

Photo: New York City Subway, 1980

editorFebruary 23, 2026February 23, 202601 mins

📷 Photo Jamel Shabazz

New York Transit Museum

editorJuly 3, 2025October 14, 2026016 mins

The New York Transit Museum is housed in a real subway station that was closed to passengers in 1946. You descend two flights of stairs as you would in any ordinary subway station, but at the bottom, instead of waiting trains, you find vintage subway cars that carried New Yorkers throughout the early 20th century….