I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.

same way many streaming services work, which has achieved a remarkable situation where businesses are only able to promote their products and services with commercials specifically to consumers who necessarily would find spending an extra $10 more per month beyond their comfortable budget. geniuses🤯

The same road this picture was taken. My neighborhood.

The rapid increase in battery storage that made solar so much more feasible should really be the technological revolution everyone talks about rather than the fucking plagiarism probability machines

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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester

On my hands and knees begging them to try this. Go ahead and do it, drag a decorated veteran astronaut United States Senator in for a literal court martial on charges that he said it's good to disobey illegal orders. Let's fucking go.

A quiet but important milestone for Git.

Toad put the thin button in his pocket. He was very angry. He jumped up and down and screamed, “The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!”

the reason the USA doesn't have a national ID card, the lack of which led to the social security number being treated as a really flawed way to do it, is essentially independence concerns that the government could someday misuse it to do exactly what it's now using the social security number to do

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/SQ0LTb0

He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times

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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

the cook county public defender's office not mincing words in its response to a plan to allow all chicago cops to directly file felony weapons possession charges. "This policy abandons prosectors’ duty to review felony charges and simply hands that responsibilities over to police."

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Chrono Trigger (Steam) is $6.30 on GMG XP Offer buff.ly/UF3uikJ Deck playable

One step closer to building Judge Dredd from the famous sci-fi book Don’t Build a Robot Executioner.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

Chicago has seen its share of exotic animals — crawling, slithering and swinging through neighborhoods. Here are some unusual creatures spotted throughout the city and suburbs.

Officer Jenny stopping Ash from bringing Pikachu to the Pokemon Center and asking for his ID before letting him go is peak cop behavior.

I love that picture, a version of which is also on the magazine cover. Photo illustration: Clayton Hauck and Dave Rentauskas

TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot. TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

dear lord. these people. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)

The TRiiBE is doing incredible work in Chicago and this is an amazing opportunity for someone with audience experience.

lol this is such an annoying review jacobin.com/2025/11/del-...

A new AI industry super PAC has picked its first target: a New York Assemblymember who co-sponsored a bill that requires AI companies to publish safety protocols for serious misuse use of their tech, like creating biological weapons or carrying out other criminal activity.

hell yeah any coward can display a skeleton in october but 3 weeks into november now it's something so much greater, a charming reminder that all of us are going to die ☺️

Taxes are when we all give a little money into a pot and then use the accumulated money to buy complex or expensive things

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

This should be the standard for every museum around the world. Return the land that was stolen, too. All of it.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

lawyers posting about trump news every day

New pick for Lenny’s book club @sheaserrano.bsky.social

2 Big 2 Short

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken