3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

That’s my State Senator @gracielaforsenate.bsky.social looking entirely badass – grateful to know I’d have this kind of backup of I were snatched off the street

Happening now: ICE tear-gassed a protest crowd outside its Broadview, IL facility which includes elected officials (Illinois Lt Gov & US Senate candidate Julianna Stratton was there at one point) and local news crews just a bit ago

Anyway, enjoy this incredible mural they’ve painted on the Horner Park mangoneda stand

us gov't is about to find out what koreans are like when they have a grudge.

I just blocked the WaPo channel on Apple News since they mete out publishers’ share of revenue based on engagement. Small thing but easy to do, especially now that they’ve fired or driven out their best.

I don’t know if media will start verifying police statements with external evidence (especially when they’ve shot someone) before they die of irrelevance but independents on a shoestring budget are showing how it should be done

Today's Garbage Day was really great if you want a succinct explainer about today's news from folks that actually understand the corners of the internet this guy was steeped in: www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Just here to share my kid’s total excitement about taking the Tiger line this morning

Kiddo school drop off happens to be at the perfect time and place to get in line at Del Sur 10 minutes before it opens 🤩

TIL the CTA has an emergency rerail truck

Wide-leg jeans: 0 Bike chainring: 1

this is truly jaw-dropping — if the name of the school wasn’t specified as the University of Chicago, I would have guessed this would be a cratering regional school or a Christian vanity college, but yeah, it sure looks like they’re in a remarkable death spiral

Nabbing my kid's new elementary school's rss feed uri from the page source and subscribing a private slack channel to it has proven to be the most reliable way of getting info so far 🙃

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Sheepishly admitting to my kids’ preschool teacher that I knew the name of a bug because of Animal Crossing

I just learned what a croffle actually is and no wonder the French hate us

Genuinely can't tell if my wry 3-year-old named her baby doll "Meat" knowing that it's unbelievably funny.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Haha," said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. “Hahaha. Fuck."

NYT is mostly a game company now; anti-trans right wing op-eds are hooks to grow their app business

Oh my god I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve seen this in the 13 years since I dropped out L: “At least you got lesbianism out of it” (Tbc, I have zero regrets about my time in grad school – I got a ton out of it and met so many incredible people)

I am going to reboots this because today is devastating and I’m exhausted But it is obvious we need to orient and move, it is obvious how fundamental hate and chaos is the method How do we move beyond looking to doing How can we make better ?

brb, getting shirts made with a family photo for every day of the week for my kid that starts public school in the fall

*youth pastor voice* you know I can think of another 33-year-old socialist who establishment politicians hated

My 5-year-old coincidentally chose “Hot Dog” by Doug Salati as his bedtime book last night, which is a beautiful love letter to New York and always makes me miss the city dearly. So lovely to wake up to good news this morning – congratulations y’all!

Sloooowly making my way through “Empire of AI” and so far my main takeaway has been a renewed conviction that CS schools need to replace their ethics requirements with an STS course. Just maddening, the things that these AI execs purport to believe about the history of tech.

Wrath month comes early this year

This is actually even worse than it appears if you’re at all familiar with Whittaker’s academic work scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Neighbor keeps handing me coronas while I use power saws outside and my Spanish isn’t good enough to refuse politely. Its fine, I don’t need all ten fingers anyway, right?

Went to the Jefferson Park protest send-off & chalking this morning, which was a really great way to show up with the 5yo without dealing with the massive crowd downtown. Thank you everyone that organized that!

Can’t believe how many people are praising Newsom for this venal turn after having Steve fucking Bannon on his podcast 🙄 Our Great Khan of the Prairie would _never_

Weird thing about working in the same room as your spouse who's also in tech is being able to corroborate a global service outage with each other

Heron party at River Park this morning (you can see four in this photo, two night herons and two gray, I think) Also, fuck ICE

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Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

We did this with Portuguese egg tarts that we grabbed from a bakery in Lisbon immediately before heading to the airport, and ate them with our downstairs neighbors as soon as we got home

Keep an eye out around east Albany park and in Horner park for a lil guy having adventures he shouldn’t be having

Maybe it’s razor-blade Covid, maybe it’s smoke from the Manitoba wildfires (maybe it’s Maybelline ✨)

First time at Walking Stick Woods today which has fantastic natural play areas – the kids had a great time. We didn’t see anyone else the whole hour+ we were on the trail. If you’re biking you can get there from a chill section of Central Park Ave just north of Ardmore through Peterson Park #Chicago

I’m always a bit wary when I see things that swap out C for K as the first letter, which means I 😒 pretty much the entire Kubernetes ecosystem

Helicopter was parked above my place this morning and then I couldn’t take my usual route back home after biking my kids to school because the street was blocked off and SWAT was parked there – rumor is it’s because the guy who killed the Israeli embassy workers in DC lived 2 blocks from me 😳

This is the end result of the Sun-Times gutting its arts and entertainment staff through layoffs and attrition

Might have to cancel my Sun-Times subscription and give the money to 404 😒

My 5yo asked me today to take him for a haircut, and as I suspected it was because the mandoo sample lady at the Korean store loudly asked if he was my GRANDDAUGHTER yesterday.

Vibe coding has been great for me to be honest, but my coworkers have told me that they find the buzzing noise distracting.

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Vibes on the North Shore Channel Trail are totally different at night

Noted for the next time we have an apocalyptic dust storm to leave the playground as soon as the warning comes up on your phone *cough cough*

Solo parenting for the next three days – edibles can be delivered to my place after 9pm, thanks in advance