Outside the Field Building on Adams street in Chicago, Mertes Contracting left this bronze embedded logo for a rehabilitation project in 1988. It features a 7 digit phone number, presumably belonging to the 312 area code.

At the Loop Center Building in Chicago, designed by the Burnham Brothers in 1928, a bronze plaque is cast in concrete boasting insurance of savings up to $10,000. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation became insolvent in 1989 following Reagan deregulation policies.

At the northwest corner of Jackson and State in the Chicago loop, this penny has been cast into the concrete. All the finer details on Lincoln’s head have been worn away by years of footsteps

I found this survey marker from the Revive Wacker Drive project started in 2001. It’s at the corner of Monroe and Franklin, so likely was used in 2011 during the reconstruction of the north/south portion between Randolph and Congress Parkway.

While walking in Chicago, I started to notice these bits of bronze cast into the sidewalk that look like annotations on architectural site plans. This one denotes a system embedded in the Federal Reserve Bank sidewalk.

Ai coding has all of the boring parts of development (reading someone else’s code and babysitting someone while they make updates) and none of the fun parts (solving problems and writing code that both functions, and communicates how it functions)

I’m so happy to have left software development right at the rise of ai coding. On my commute, I see people on the train prompting Claude and it seems so bleak.

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

I fixed the costume

telling my kids this is the Centre Pompidou

random photo study wip cos i got nothin else

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

Every single loser criticizing No Kings looks like this to me

The Gang Says #NoKings.

They were trying and failing to get people to subscribe at $20/mo and each 60 second video was costing the company $15-18 in costs to make. That’s it, everybody, right there. That’s the Economics of AI. Visionary stuff.

Sora is a bad sandcastle on a beach, about to be washed away. Nobody asked for it to appear and nobody will miss it when it’s gone

When vine shut down people made supercuts of the best vines. I still say ‘I sure hope it do’ every time I see a ‘road work ahead’ sign. Not a single memorable Sora exists, nothing I would care to watch a second time, and certainly nothing I would share with the people I love

Have you ever wanted to see a close up of Kathleen Ryan's gem studded, larger than life sculptures? Now is your chance all thanks to han.imal for this close up of Katie's work, Holy moldy raspberry! Via thejealouscurator #beautifulbizarre #KathleenRyan #gemart #contemporarysculpture #art

My painting CANNON BEACH

You’ll Find Me There - 18x24” acrylic on canvas. Available.

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Here is an email that Elon Musk, current world’s richest man and owner of a social media network that generated child sexual abuse material on demand, sent to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on November 11, 2012: “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” www.404media.co/musk-to-epst...

The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

when little kids are being brave and trying not to let you see their feelings it’s so heartbreaking. this strong little guy is a rebuke to the whole rotten system & the ideology that drives it. we don’t reform that system. we end it so that kids like this don’t have to live like this.

For the past decade, I’ve been sharing US news with my family, who prefer to limit their news sources to a handful of conservative evangelical magazines and Facebook posts from their fellow church members

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

We beat NFTs we will beat AI.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Happening Now: Thousands out for a “No Kings” protest in Chicago

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

My takeaway from being on juries is that the Ivy leaguers are weaker than you think it’s just that they apply to everything and are overrepresented because others are under-encouraged. the blood is in the water however so apply for that competition, that grant, that fellowship — you never know

A little peek into how the job search is going after graduating with a Masters of Architecture into a sluggish market

'mike why are you shutting down larch lab?' ah well www.architectmagazine.com/practice/thr...

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

If a 33 year old socialist immigrant Muslim can win the Dem mayoral nomination in a landslide in the biggest city in the entire country Fuck it man, the game is on, get this shit moving and start fighting

FOLKS

Brought the whole family out for #NoKings. A thousand or so demonstrators even in the sleepy Chicago suburbs!

Even with the amateur 2009 camera work and sound equipment from a Hoboken festival tent, Neon Rainbow by the Box Tops still hits. It's been one of my favorite songs since I first heard it 20 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0W...

Carbide & Carbon is one of Chicago’s best examples of Art Deco architecture. Legend has it that C&C was designed to resemble a champagne bottle...perhaps a nod to the ostentatiousness of the roaring 20's. It opened in 1929, so the "party" didn't last long even though the architecture endured.

future historians debating whether dow jones, nasdaq, and S&P 500 were three separate gods of ancient America, or just three aspects of the same god