Writing and rewriting the "Generative AI Policy" section of my syllabi. Regardless of where I ultimately end up, I am going to require my students read this, by Russell P. Johnson. divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/ar...

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

“Once metrics like speed and optimization replace reflection and dialogue, education mutates into logistics: grading automated, essays generated in seconds. Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Rich reporting and storytelling here from the team at @blockclubchi.bsky.social. Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...

“Every single AI app is subsidized, its price is fake, you are being lied to, and none of this is real.” - @edzitron.com www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Teach like a Luddite kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

She was deported to Mexico. He’s in detention. Now, this Chicago couple has to figure out what’s next. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

Not great. WSJ: America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @newrepublic.com

You can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT investigation that Bari Weiss spiked here: archive.org/details/60mi...

Merry Christmas.

One of my favorite tracks from 2025. youtu.be/uD3Zl2rDBJo

Yeah… THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED

NYT: T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Not gonna lie, this is as excited as I have been for a show in a long time. Hope to see some friends there tonight!

Excellent reporting (and storytelling) from @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social ans @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong www.wired.com/story/karen-...

Bloomberg reporting that "US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...

DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of 737 jets for deportations www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“She is clean, thin, ritualistic, and has nothing but time for herself — a Patrick Bateman for people with Pinterest manifestation boards.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/c...

AI slop is going to take over everything that isn’t verified/curated. Verification and curation requires time and resources, which is the opposite of our current setup that privileges frictionless/free content creation and consumption in exchange for data. www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...

Great stuff here from @miasato.Baku.social Verge: Luigi Mangione trial is all about narrative control www.theverge.com/policy/83905...

North Cascades National Park (July 2024) #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #naturephotography #nature #bnw #hiking #monochrome

It's all just so hateful, bigoted, and stupid. NPR: "Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait." tinyurl.com/4sdturpv

AI agents and the 90% problem tinyurl.com/5n77wyjd

"Africa" gets 3 paragraphs in the new National Security Strategy document. Can be summed up as: trade not aid, access to critical minerals & energy, end wars, and remain wary of resurgent Islamist terrorist activity in parts of Africa while avoiding any long-term American presence or commitments."

“The time has come to declare war on AI,” by @drewmagary.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

How The Feds Used Propaganda To Frame Their ‘War’ On Chicago: ‘They’re Lying Constantly’ blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/04/h...

"Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing over 250 people. Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Big Sur, California (March 2021). #classicmono #monochrome #bw #blackandwhitephotography #naturephotography #nature #bnw

The president of the United States, calling for ethnic cleansing straight from the Oval Office.

Livestock market. Agadez, Niger (November 2022). #bw #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #monochrome

Great deep dive here from @ddayen.bsky.social on surveillance pricing. prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...

“The goal here is not the creation of anything beautiful or even coherent so much as it is the making of constant, obliterating noise.” Perfectly stated by @davidjroth.bsky.social

Another match in which none of the midfield three want to be on the ball. Even Bergvall is tentative to show for it in our own half with his back to goal. This is why Xavi Simons *must* play. #COYS

W Trek, Patagonia. Chile (November 2024). #landscapephotography #bw #blackandwhite #patagonia #hiking #naturephotography #photogrophersofbluesky #mountainmonday #classicmono #photography

The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley restofworld.org/2025/what-th...

Also, agents are using ChatGPT to create their "use of force" reports for them. We should just go ahead and make that illegal.

Released bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz shows a constant stream of violence and crimes committed by CBP/ICE in Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...

Inside the Fight Against the Growing US Surveillance State inkstickmedia.com/inside-the-f...

A thoroughly fascinating read.

"Yes, an AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Le Niger va mettre son uranium sur le marché international, actant définitivement la rupture avec le groupe français Orano

Ok, we can file this one under “good/cool use of AI.”

New euphemism alert: “ethical complexities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

¿Un paraíso perdido? La lucha de Ecuador contra el crimen organizado www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...