A loose montage of Chicago summer scenes from 1984 from a Super 8 reel labeled "Summer City Festivals" in the Bill Stamets Collection.

the number of times i've seen this shared earnestly...open the schools

"electronica" doesn't really cut it; this track is utterly transcendent:

Wonderful essay on the conditions that give rise to tech madness, which are structurally and normatively anti-democratic

An excellent piece on how the language of empire does not easily apply to the current moment of big tech/digital capitalism.

anthropic ad where they send you a flyer with your face in crosshairs captioned "could AI do this? we're asking hard questions" in tasteful serif

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

phone thinks i have a voicemail from someone at the utility company named Calm Ed

“I don’t know who this man was, but he didn’t deserve to be executed in the street,” Em said. “I’m pretty (expletive) tired of people dying in the streets.” www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

Electric Peak, Yellowstone National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #YellowstoneNationalPark

The best Chicago music festival returns tomorrow

An American story, with remarkable reporting by Adrian Carrasquillo of The Bulwark. Should be a gift link.

risking it all in the bakery section at jewel-osco

municipal engagement experience summed up in a single sentence

there are almost 1,500 national guard members in memphis, in addition to hundreds of federal, state, and local cops. beyond terrifying. tennesseelookout.com/2026/07/06/n...

hey everybody guess who was fucking wrong again? that's right, you disgusting pigs it's me

hey. HEY

Belgium’s new James Ensor jerseys will feature densely grouped portraits of weird skulls and clowns.

enjoying some yogurt covered pretzels with red and white sprinkles left over from an office 4th of july party but shaking my head so everyone knows i don't condone the pretzels' latent jingoism

zion national park, springdale, utah, 1987

beautiful freak

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

my real answer is that super baroque period of email writing from like 2008 - 2015 or so

me: chicken dingus drive thru speaker: (garbled)? me: one chicken dingus. make it hot speaker: (garbled) me: (angry) thank you (I pull forward and a gun pokes out of the drive thru window and blows me clean away)

they gave gcal ozempic face

“A deep truth about Melanie: She had a time bomb in her face. Several. Not the way all human faces are time bombs—the sinking, the sagging, the drying up, the dropping, the dying, and finally dead.”

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

1400. Albert Goldbarth.

girl talk at a yahoo! hackathon

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

the most millennial song is the song that was most thrown on by the nerdy guy at the party who got too high and commandeered the laptop plugged into someone's dying ihome speaker

Saw the cloud that looks like a skeleton jacking off again

found God. they were in the back of the fridge, festering and forgotten behind an expired jar of horseradish cremé. they were laughing soundlessly, chest heaving with the effort of hysteric mirth. tears streamed from unblinking eyes, bulging with a mania unimaginable; infinite. closed the fridge.

SHAFT

TIL i have passed away

xeroxing the vacuum cleaner owner's manual and leaving copies of it around like a zine

A Chicago coyote kicks back (while another one saunters past)

kfc in my small town has started halving their chicken breasts and selling it as a 2-piece. Multiple people have brought this up to me in the past week. It is quite literally the talk of the town. Someone called into the radio station about it and said it should be burned down with the owner inside

my away message when i go for a 9 mile run in the middle of the day at my remote job

i did not know they could hatch !

NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas

left my computer autoplaying music and came back to it blastin' Everybody Wants To Rule The World in the original Latin www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtt7...

If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org

typo'ed cognitive overload as cognitive overlord. makes u think

“Dead Internet” doesn’t begin to describe the necrotic efflorescences we see today

happy international women's day

well… yeah. the U.S. is a net exporter of petroleum, to the tune of about 3 million barrels a day. Today’s price rise alone represents an extra $100 million of almost straight profit to America’s oil producers. Every day. A hundred million today, a hundred million tomorrow. A billion by Monday next.

you’re laughing? iran is lobbing missiles at linkedin mutants, techbros and ufc fighters and you’re laughing?

Yes they really sincerely believe they're raising gifted, precocious children. This colors everything from how they think about "personas" (which may or may not exist) to who they hire to what contracts they seek