btw did you know the City of Chicago has published a list of "financial and strategic reform options" that includes using AI in PAYROLL and recruiting to "improve process speed and accuracy" they believe this will save $6-8m

"The judge issued an opinion" cool I issue opinions all the time. I'm issuing an opinion right now

this is beautiful and moving.

This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)

And of course the clowns pushing this garbage have no humility of any kind, intellectual or otherwise

So the people responsible for enforcing the decisions of federal courts against the executive branch are in *checks notes* the executive branch

While @anthonymoser.com is a Gen AI hater, I believe hating something that's pure evil makes you a lover of humanity. The latest in Stop Gen AI's Anti Gen AI Heroes series! stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-... (Art by @phineas.bsky.social, link in blog.)

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

The body is an archive No I will not explain

thinking about this again. any chart that includes the 80s should have a reagan annotation

money is like mass, and billionaires are black holes. they collapse in on themselves and consume everything in their vicinity, and this is not a testament to their intelligence

a solid idea, food drives in your building or on your block an apartment building did a food drive and needed someone to pick up the collected food to be sorted and distributed we picked it up, sorted it last night and it's getting distributed this week have a food drive!

this is a good thread

passive tense is the wrong way to phrase this, but that's also true of the headline

Lmao they're so mad

thinking about this again

I am angry because I deleted the google maps app from my phone, and when you try to use it on the web on mobile, they make it so hard! ask you over and over if you want to get the app or go back to web! ignore your answer! send you to the app store as soon as you input an address! IT'S SO ANNOYING!

sincerely, has anyone asked Bovino under oath if he is obligated to follow the orders of the court

it's like carcinization but instead of evolving into crabs everything turns into colonialism

nowadays every app wants to be a platform, and platform logic requires that they become the *only* platform. that's why they all start as Specific: The Tool That Does A Thing and five years later announce they're rebranding as Totalizr: We Manage Your Life

“I do understand: you want permission... You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"live updates" — surely not anymore?

My local food pantry is in need of paper items, like feminine hygiene products, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, and adult diapers. I'm planning a trip to Costco to get as much as I can afford, and if you want to chip in, shoot me a DM and I'll give you my Venmo.

Name that city

update: it was a smoke alarm with a low battery

*ms frizzle has entered the chat*

it doesn't have to be this way, of course. it's possible to e.g. create meetings that let people join without creating records of it. they could mark attendance manually. but CPS has administrative requirements and they would consider that to create liability around district compliance

i was talking about structured data with @anthonymoser.com yesterday and FOIA with @aoife.bsky.social and @sashaspark.bsky.social on Tuesday if CPS were to move to a remote learning option, it will automatically make a structured dataset of who is logging in

was thinking about media ecosystems this morning and then teen vogue got eviscerated this afternoon

Teen Vogue politics has had some of the best political coverage out there but also notable they had multiple articles about covid and mask bans in the big year 2025

The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.

The correct unit of municipal budget analysis is not dollars but "Cost of Policing (CoP) days/hours" You take total money spent on cops over the year (including OT and settlements) and divide by 365 to get one CoP day

BRAIN INSTEAD

ICYMI: I've proposed a rule change that would protect the ability of undocumented and disabled people to appear in court remotely, increasing access to justice and reducing the incidence of vulnerable people losing cases simply because they can't show up in the courthouse.

I love metafiction, and i think this gets at something important: when humans write metafiction, it is always in a sense pointing *outside the text* it makes frames visible to show the story is always limited, always taking place in a larger world that includes the reader, the author, and the text

it makes me really glad to see this

so i was thinking again about the right wing media ecosystem and what it would take to fund meaningful alternatives, and I think there's kind of a conversion factor involved that has to do with power and control

whew the tail on this graph

school attendance boundaries are a tool of white supremacy

making an LLM that doesn't hallucinate is the third one

feature requests come in 3 flavors: trivially easy, probably doable, and logically impossible. And the fun part is until you look closely at how it works you don't know which one you've got

Just finished recording as a guest on @politechs.bsky.social about why I am an AI hater Idk when it will air but their season 1 episodes include a lot of interesting conversations (I recommend this one with @hypervisible.blacksky.app)

I would like the people who explained at length that Actually It Couldn't Go Faster to publicly apologize, or at least never speak again

PSA

what he said

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

bluesky: we don't have an algorithm! bluesky: ...but what if we could

@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!