chicago-style ai rejection

poob has it out for you

truly unsustainable levels of recently-baked carbohydrates at chez harper currently

Support your local independent news outlets in whatever way you can

Dropout, The Onion, Maximum Fun, Criterion, Wired probably dozens of other media companies i could think of that have come about or turned around or pursued a new business model to actually produce things people want and have proven they can be pretty successful we just need to support them

Whether it’s a kid at Oberlin asking for a trigger warning for the president of the United States convincing ABC to fire one of its biggest stars, both sides have shown a great deal of disrespect for the principle of free speech

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

the oh fuck continues, day by day!

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

An instantly-leaked internal bulletin at the politicized federal law enforcement agencies just so happens to say what the Trump admin and its allies want it to say. This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.

as a member of the "sometimes references Borges when writing about the internet" community, today's If Books Could Kill was really hard for me

The DEBATE ME BRO sect aren't trying to create a fucking dialogue of ideas. They want to make TikTok edits of smugly smiling as a college sophomore is upset at thier shit views so they can sell rations and dick pills to 55 year olds

Interestingly GamerGate was perceived *at the time* as a flashing red warning sign that drew quite a lot of people into the field of working on trying to counter extremism and halt political violence, many of whom have been waving their arms gesturing for other people to see this as well

Anyway, 72 percent of Americans support universal background checks and 76 percent support extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). Maybe Congress should take those things up

have been catching up with the Project 1933 series by the In Bed with the Right pod and, oh fuck.

Watching this strangely insightful documentary/commentary on Joe Rogan and his comedy cult, thinking: we seem to be living in a time of cultlike devotion to celebrities/influencers mediated by new and social media, a kind of parasocial cult culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

The t-shirt game at this event is intense. Real "that 'support PBS' tee did not have to go that hard" vibes.

CHICAGO!!!! Our Punks for Progress show is TONIGHT!!!! We’ve got a great show, cool merch, and an outlet for anyone else who is unbelievably angry and determined to make a better world. Get your ticket at katforillinois.com/concert

Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

bulldozing the U.S.'s second largest export

come over I am making so many baked goods

calling him the gym teacher is wild

"ai isn't going away" ok but neither is death and you don't see me here drinking poison and hitting myself with a hammer

/11 In short, fuck these fascist shitbirds, fuck you if you voted for them, fuck you if you apologize for or countenance them.

'None of this is an accident. The Project 2025 devotees who have poured into the second Trump administration have an explicit goal of destroying our nation’s universities.... "Write your congressional representative and both senators RIGHT NOW, TODAY... Stand up and save your school."

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

More of this! 👇

Apparently channeling Chappell Roan, the crowd along Walker Street in Houston has begun singing, “G O T T O G O this motherfucker has got to go.”

The important thing as this Trump v. Musk feud escalates is that I want them and their teams and all of their supporters to suffer as much pain and humiliation and degradation as is possible, and I feel as if a few strokes and fistfights and the odd stabbing would be proportional as well

gentleman, gentleman, please, there's no need for this! you are both in the epstein files.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

mom said it's my turn to post sickos dot jpeg

Taylor Swift announced on Friday that she had bought back the rights to her first six albums. Swift said that her record-breaking Eras Tour helped make her acquisition of the masters. She did not disclose the price. nyti.ms/3FgfXzZ

my review of the new Mission Impossible:

absolute brain-opener. critical, timely, a few laugh out loud moments, and even a little optimistic?

Chicagoans: the Starbucks at Clark and Ridge just abruptly closed for the day after an employee showed up wearing a Starbucks Workers United t-shirt and management is on the way to fire him. @andrefor40th.bsky.social is on the scene and calling for folks to show up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86gHETu/n

internet roadtrip is pointing my senioritis towards Maine/Acadia/Bar Harbor SO BAD neal.fun/internet-roa...

G K Chesterton on point: “You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man.”

We have confirmation. The Weiner Circle in Lincoln Park has responded to the Chicago Pope 😂

Increasingly common JD Vance Catholicism L

Malört is now sacramental.

A bold first move by the Pope would be to post an AI generated image of himself as POTUS.

the most Chicago mentioned anything has ever been