In Brooklyn’s ‘commie corridor,’ a phone-free room of Democrats agreed a blue wave is coming — and fought about who gets the AI money
Source: Fortune ·
At a phone-free Newsreel event in Brooklyn five days before the midterms, the talk kept coming back to who gets rich off AI and its data centers.
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I checked my phone into a pouch at the door of 100 Sutton St. in Greenpoint on Thursday night, along with about 300 other people, five days before the midterms. It was deep in the so-called “commie corridor” that runs from northwest Queens through northern Brooklyn, and the crowd for Newsreel’s “Midterm Mania” panel and campaign staff, consultants, organizers, founders and journalists were gathered: the people who make a living off the feed, spending a night without it. Chi Ossé, the youngest member of the New York City Council and a democratic socialist, got the first big reaction. “Make some noise, Brooklyn,” he said when he walked onstage. When he called for Democrats to come out against the war in Iran and part of the room didn’t clap, he had a ruling ready: “Everyone who’s not clapping is supportive of war.” Newsreel founder and CEO Jack Brewster had asked everyone who RSVPed, “What’s the one election question you want answered?” More than 150 answered, and the walls were…