I find this very alarming. AI is being used in explicitly prohibited ways. No doubt this will soon be the norm. The consequences of this will be dramatic. Over the holidays, the publishers and the whole of academic community are doing nothing else but working on a solution to this, right? RIGHT?!

Chicago: ICE heavily active in West Ridge and Edgewater. Landscapers heavily targeted. Put on your whistles and patrol if you can.

Multiple abductions and ongoing sightings across Rogers Park/West Ridge reported just now.

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

2026 Primary Woke Wave

A caravan of Border Patrol and ICE agents, including a van with abducted individuals, drove out of the Target on Peterson Ave across from Rosehill Cemetery around 11:30 this morning, Nov 3. They came from the service vehicle loading dock, where it seemed Target allowed them to remain for some time

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.

Good morning, Ye Mighty I hope these works find you well. If you could look upon them by EOD today and get back to me, that would be great. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Best, Ozymandias

Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that

TLDR they spoke anonymously for the same reason ICE agents wear masks.

Since we’ve outstripped our costs to date, I’m happy to help anyone who’s starting up a whistle event in Chicago with supplies and any comms or logistics support they need. It’ll be your party, but I’ll help you make it happen! gofund.me/01742db4b

A tenant union representing 150 residents across four buildings in Rogers Park has approved a rent strike to begin Saturday after a new owner announced a spike of several hundred dollars in monthly fees.

if you turn away every time you feel discomfort, your world will contract and contract and contract until you are incapable of connecting to others or imagining other ways of existing in the world

"They’ve simply taken the dystopian and declared it wholesome as-is." This is true of more "cozy" media than not, btw Really good piece

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.

ice and border patrol and continuing their terror campaign across chicagoland this morning. masked agents are active and making abductions in waukegan, des planes, and along the northwest side of the city. abductions from windy city produce and yet more tear gas near schurz high school.

IDK what that means going fwd but it is a Very Big Deal that people with a lot of wealth and political power suddenly feel a personal stake in this issue It's VERY important that it translates into *solidarity* rather than the usual crime/policing "keep this unpleasantness contained to Over There"/

LOCAL COMPANIES BETRAY CHICAGOLAND. Chicago-area companies have made millions in lucrative contracts supporting Operation Midway Blitz’s immigration enforcement actions in the area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

The Tribune reports Elgin cop Jason Lentz posted specific addresses on Facebook for ICE to check out. He was fired years ago after he posted that Ferguson PO Darren Wilson “Did society a favor” when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Later an arbitrator put Lentz back on the job.

Venturing a bit further afield this week: musing on speculative-adjacent ideas of irrealism, and mostly just enthusing about Barthelme's 60 STORIES with @timothymoore.bsky.social. A very fun conversation about a remarkable stylist, check it out: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/20/a...

The Chicago flag is symmetrical and cannot be flown in distress.

Chicago coyote yawn

Between Friday 10/17 and Saturday 10/18—just this weekend's demonstrations—Illinois State Police and Broadview PD arrested 30 people outside the ICE facility.

Every day for weeks it feels there is no day gone by without an alert about the BOTY area. There is an action tomorrow led by southwest side rapid response team in which they are demanding the property owners of the Yards Plaza in BOTY stop allowing ICE to use their space as a staging area.

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

For all that I'm happy to say I love & respect @govpritzker.illinois.gov, this thread, up & down, is some real bullshit + state troopers have been doing this for a couple of wks. I'm calling JB's office today; if you're in IL, I hope you will too: 217-782-6830 217-782-6831 312-814-2121 312-814-2122

My neighborhood has two FB groups because one is so conservative and right wing that people created another one to get news with less annoying comments. Since last week, both groups are posting 80% ICE sightings and organizing rapid response.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

How many alleged TRO violations is that just today

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people. They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks. Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛

feds have been all over chicagoland today. reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview. feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

Spoilers: it's AI data centers and climate change Stop using generative LLMs

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

it's one of America's technologies of "other people aren't real" something you have to consciously work against when driving

when people are in cars they arent in society

Roberts (unconstitutionally, voidably) gave immunity to Trump - not Miller. Miller needs total victory to escape accountability. That goes for all the fash in power not named Donald Trump My point’s not “there will be trials!” but that these people will get more vicious to prevent the chance of one

New weekend project just dropped.

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