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Ink-stained wretch
In October, a month after Charlie Kirk was killed, Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, called the Southern Poverty Law Center āa partisan smear machine.ā
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Southern Poverty Law Center Got Rich Opposing Trump. Now Heās Trying to Crush It.
SPLC faces federal charges and has come under fire for accumulating a nearly $800 million war chest.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/southern-poverty-law-center-trump-587424b5?st=KN1QzW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
about 22 hours ago
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Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to
@doremus-schafer.bsky.social
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@srettberg.bsky.social
who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this!
jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...
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Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text.ā¦
https://jilltxt.net/genre-glitches-and-unexpected-promotional-phrases-as-a-sign-of-ai-writing/
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The Boulevard du Temple, Paris, by Louis Daguerre (1838) Possibly the first photograph to include an image of a human.
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By 2010, China was among Nikeās most lucrative markets. Today, Nikeās China business is flailingāa cautionary tale of an American giant caught in the tar pit of Chinaās hypercompetitive and increasingly nationalistic consumer market.
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Chinaās āTwo Billion Feetā Are Suddenly Running From Nike
Quick-moving domestic athletic brands are now able to match American quality and cachet in the hypercompetitive and increasingly nationalistic market.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/nike-china-competition-running-shoes-fbd3b8c6?st=4ZkQLt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
4 days ago
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Love the reference to "a horse with no name." Look it up if you don't get it. Thank you for sharing
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
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In history class, I never understood how āadvancedā civilizations could collapse. It just didnāt seem plausible. Anyway, Iāve seen enough. I get it now.
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Amen to this. (And definitely written by a human person.)
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1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondentsā dinner was staged. āIncreasingly, people on all sides of the political spectrum are distrustful of both this administration and also the media,ā said Sofia Rubinson, an editor at NewsGuard.
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Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds
About 1 in 4 say the correspondentsā dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.
https://wapo.st/4tYHkm5
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This is what the
@nytimes.com
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10 days ago
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For The First Time In More Than A Century, Baby Eaglets Are Born In Chicago !!!
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For The First Time In More Than A Century, Baby Eaglets Are Born In Chicago
Eaglets were observed in a Chicago cemetery and at a Southeast Side park this spring, marking a historic milestone.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/06/baby-eaglets-are-first-born-in-chicago-in-more-than-a-century-park-officials-say/
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Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung employs an āopen rescueā strategy, openly taking animals from facilities to fight charges publicly.
www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
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The Fight to Free Hundreds of Beagles From a Rural Wisconsin Research Lab
In an āopen rescue,ā activists struck breeder Ridglan Farms in daylight, courting arrest and setting up a tear-gas-fueled clash before a deal was reached to rehome 1,500 dogs.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-fight-to-free-hundreds-of-beagles-from-a-rural-wisconsin-research-lab-3c3a49ff?st=Gg4p9d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social-media accounts, and flight history, as well as data to track their daily comings and goings
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āWe Know You Live Right Hereā: No Secrets in Americaās New Surveillance Dragnet
Technical wizardry used to combat illegal immigration also funnels the personal data and whereabouts of U.S. citizens to federal agents.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/immigration-ice-arrests-surveillance-6f1cef64?st=o8MgV8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The Associated Press
17 days ago
Elusive street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new sculpture in central London.
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Banksy confirms a new statue in central London of a man blinded by a flag is his work
Elusive street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new sculpture in central London. The statue features a man striding off a plinth with his face covered by a flag.
https://bit.ly/4dhxvcV
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Gillian Brockell
19 days ago
A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules."
www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...
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'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC
15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5798775/drc-latin-america-deportees-asylum-migration
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In a separate memo, Meta technology chief Andrew Bosworth said the company is building toward a vision where AI agents primarily do the work. āOur role is to direct, review and help them improve,ā he said.
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Meta to Lay Off 10% of Employees in May
The company said in an internal memo that the cuts are needed to run more efficiently and offset other investments. It will also cancel plans to hire for 6,000 open roles.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-will-lay-off-8-000-employees-in-may-memo-ce8b97f0?mod=djemalertNEWS
24 days ago
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26 days ago
i remember when someone like this would play the kooky scientist in Independece Day, not trying to ruin human civilization.
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I had no idea the Marx Brothers were Chicago vaudevillians first.
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about 1 month ago
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Chicago Tribune
about 2 months ago
From the Editorial Board: Leave it to the always-canny Cook County treasurer, Maria Pappas, to issue a comprehensive report less than two weeks after voters made their displeasure known at the polls ā saying to residents, in effect, āNo, itās not your imagination. Property taxes really are that b...
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Editorial: Maria Pappasā property tax numbers donāt lie. Governance in Illinois has been a stark failure for 30 years.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/30/editorial-maria-pappas-property-taxes-inflation-wages-chicago-pritzker/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicagotribune.com&mrfcid=2026033069cae02d833af71ba918dd2e
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For employees at a Dell Technologies office, mornings used to start with a tiny dose of joy. The office coffee machines doled out free daily espresso shots. Then came the buzz kill: Last year the company started charging staffers a fee every time they used the machine.
www.wsj.com/business/how...
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How Working in America Became So Joyless
The loss of small perks and rise of AI have conspired to strip work of all joy, making the office āfeel like a funeral.ā
https://www.wsj.com/business/how-working-in-america-became-so-joyless-a1976fd2?mod=hp_lead_pos10
about 2 months ago
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A Fortune editor has cranked out more than 600 stories using AI; āThis wonāt be seen as some peopleās idea of journalismā What do you think?
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortuneās web traffic in the second half of 2025. Most are written by Nick Lichtenberg.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/an-ai-upheaval-is-coming-for-media-this-journalist-is-already-all-in-3511d951?st=3V2Mmj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
about 2 months ago
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As Mr. Milchick knows, that's a typo!
#ManholecoverMonday
#Chicago
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about 2 months ago
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Dare Obasanjo
about 2 months ago
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the governmentās payroll that he could find. Now? š¤·š¾āāļø
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Who is responsible for āthe mountain of crapā most of us accumulate over a lifetime? Margareta Magnusson's answer: We should sort out and sell or give away almost all of our stuff before we dieārather than leaving a dreary chore for friends or families.
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Margareta Magnusson, the Guru of āSwedish Death Cleaning,ā Dies at 91
If you have trouble closing drawers or closet doors, she wrote, it is time to start purging.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/margareta-magnusson-swedish-death-cleaning-dies-1b6259fd?st=2sEHS7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
about 2 months ago
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Supporters Of Skokie Woman Fall SilentĀ After Officials Deny She Was Held By Feds
blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/13/s...
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Supporters Of Skokie Woman Fall SilentĀ After Officials Deny She Was Held By Feds
"Sunny" Naqvi's claims that she was detained at OāHare Airport have been disputed by Homeland Security and other agencies. A German company denied she worked there, and she was previously charged for ...
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/13/supporters-of-skokie-woman-fall-silent-after-officials-deny-she-was-held-by-feds/
2 months ago
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Sheesh, even the
#WSJ
sees Trump as feckless:
www.wsj.com/opinion/in-a...
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Opinion | In a War of Words, Trump Always Defeats Himself
The public started out opposing the conflict inĀ Iran. That will be a problem if things go south.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/in-a-war-of-words-trump-always-defeats-himself-bdf6a71e?mod=hp_opin_pos_5
2 months ago
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Earlier, before it was really raining in Chicago, production crews for "The Bear" turned on sprinklers to produce a downpour for crowd shots outside the Armitage Brown Line station. No sightings of Jeremy Allen White.
2 months ago
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City News Bureau was my trial by fire introduction to Chicago. Back then, it paid $3.50/hour, barely above minimum wage
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DePaul Art Museum closing in June amid campus layoffs, financial troubles. The future of more than 4,000 objects in the museumās collection, including 1,000-plus photographs by Andy Warhyol and Chicagoans Dawoud Bey and Paul DāAmato, is unclear.
www.wbez.org/museums/2026...
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DePaul Art Museum closing in June amid campus layoffs, financial troubles
The fate of the museumās collection is unclear. The closure news comes after DePaul University laid off 114 employees in December.
https://www.wbez.org/museums/2026/02/26/depaul-art-museum-closing-in-june-amid-campus-layoffs-financial-troubles
3 months ago
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You have to read the alt text
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Grant Brisbee
3 months ago
you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two
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When you see this clinic on an upcoming episode of "Chicago Fire," you're really seeing a long-shuttered Baby Gap on the fringe of Lincoln Park that soon will be razed
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Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasnāt definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. And it's not just those getting deported.
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.ās enviable salaries.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa?st=TzfFMk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
3 months ago
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Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes, 1935 Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedā Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.)
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...
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Let America Be America Again
(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedā Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive norā¦
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again
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Karl Bode
3 months ago
nice exploration of how right wing propaganda and "pink slime" newspapers (fake local papers built by right wing propagandists to lie to locals) propped up the whole AOC "um" non news cycle
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative
https://spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class-case-study-i-caught-politico?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Chicago's own WGN TV lays off at least 8 camera-facing employees in a major shakeup
chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media...
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WGN TV lays off 8-9 on-air talents Monday in major shake-up
Newsrooms at Chicago TV stations are buzzing after hearing about a round of layoffs at WGN that affected several on-air talents, a circumstance that has touched local network affiliates but rarely has...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2026/02/23/wgn-tv-chicago-layoffs-chicagos-very-own-channel-9-nexstar-tegna
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Beautiful.
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3 months ago
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Chicago Bears stadium plan could mean new taxes for Indiana residents, including sales tax on food
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bea...
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Bears stadium plan could mean new taxes for Indiana residents
A fiscal note on the proposed Chicago Bears stadium construction package shows Northwest Indiana residents could pay millions in new taxes, which could grow with use by visitors to the region.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bears-stadium-bill-opens-door-new-indiana-taxes
3 months ago
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Bates Machine Co., Andersonville
#manholecovermonday
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Helen Kennedy
3 months ago
Quite apart from politics, which is how so many blinkered people see this issue, no reporter at your local school committee board or town council meeting means no one is watching when someoneās brother-in-law gets a no-bid contract. The increase in penny ante corruption must be breathtaking.
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Just found it: Charlie was found and has been returned to his home. A happy ending!
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3 months ago
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If you see this dog, please take a photo and call 574-286-3105. He was dognapped!
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3 months ago
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still unclear to me how the species made it this far
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Nobel Economist Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University on our future: Climate change is real. The population is inexorably aging. We can fix this through tech innovation, including AI. But we need the brightest minds and right now they're not welcome in the US. He spoke at
#ChicagoInnovation
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3 months ago
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Finally.... President Trumpās global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Trumpās Global Tariffs
Ruling finds president exceeded his powers by imposing duties without clear authorization from Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-decision-29c26fa2?st=9MGvrh
3 months ago
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Good question,
@jamellebouie.net
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Nick Ulivieri
3 months ago
@artinstitutechi.bsky.social
, instead
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Karen Schwartz
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A yellow what now
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She dances with her eyes!
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Who wants to be a Cook County judge? Not many. For the second straight Cook County judicial primary election, less than half of the seats up for grabs March 17 drew more than one candidate, continuing a decadeslong slide in competition.
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Who wants to be a Cook County judge? Not many.
For the second straight Cook County judicial primary election, less than half of the seats up for grabs March 17 drew more than one candidate, continuing a decadeslong slide in competition.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2026/02/16/cook-county-judicial-races-march-17-primary-overview?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=02162026%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=02162026%20Morning%20Edition+CID_1a56400697b666d4770b7f67865d75fc&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Who%20wants%20to%20be%20a%20Cook%20County%20judge%20Not%20many&tpcc=cst_cm
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Letters of Note
3 months ago
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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