“Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information.” Gore Vidal, Kalki.

Northwestern’s decision is a great victory for UIC and DePaul.

"Did BlueSky add group chat yet?" is my "Did the president call?"

Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social make the "Larry Summers to join the Institute of Politics" joke yet?

Personally I think advertising ChatGPT to stressed college students is much worse than advertising cereals to children.

Early Valentine’s Day lines for our modern age: The microplastics of your love / leech into my heart

What’s their end game? I know the nameless grunts have no idea why they do what they do, but someone needs real accountability. #SouthAsianHate Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just realized some of the clothes I teach in are older than some of my students.

The party of small, minimally intrusive government. Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce passport restrictions targeting transgender people www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Reading about Dick Cheney in @thenation.com brings back memories of my youth.

We literally fought a war to ensure that British people don't matter in our politics. The Times of London story about De Blasio and DeBlasio is evidence that that was a good thing.

Still won’t add group chat functionality but spent time on a slightly different app icon. @bsky.app still losing to X.

Are they going to deport the Italian immigrant mobsters who designed and carried out those illegal gambling crimes?

I am not a business genius, so please explain to me how you mess up making money with Warner Bros.

As a person who grew up in the Seattle metro, it is really difficult to give Portland credit for anything.

A'ja and Angel both working the #Unapologetic angle?

Well gosh. I was just about to do a Harassment but thanks to this mandatory PowerPoint I’ve seen the error of my ways.

"Did BlueSky add group chat yet?" is my "Did the president call?"

BREAKING: Corporate media may not see themselves as guardians of free speech.

So how long until they tell Comcast and AT&T to turn off the internet?

Absolutely abhorrent for Penn State, a land-grant university, to abandon public media. I am ashamed. WPSU is central PA's only NPR-member radio station and has been on the air for 73 years. It serves 13 counties. This is a disservice to rural Pennsylvanians.

The Free Press potentially being folded into CBS news is giving me memories of the 2006/2007 Blogosophere (never let the term die) where all major the independent voices sold out to Salon and Slate.

1. Angel Reese is 23. 2. Angel Reese is getting on-the-job media training. 3. Angel Reese is right.

Imagine being the president of the United States and casually and seriously threatening citizens of the United States on the weekend through pictures and jokes on social media. Petty and undignified embarrassment.

If you look up “politically harmless cultural icon” it’s just a giant photo of Tom #Hanks. These people are ridiculous. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If I wanted to receive a Nobel peace prize I wouldn’t rebrand anything to include War in it.

But I thought he was the peace president.

I thought these guys were all about letting the market decide? www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/f...

Can't get over the president of the United States continually going on the record wanting to disenfranchise American voters by demonizing mail-in ballots.

hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."

I think it's funny that people still think that Bluesky is a revolutionary company or product, when they still haven't enabled group messaging.

Oh Robert Reich on Fresh Air. Your generation failed, no doubt. No matter how you want to pretend that you had some victories, most progress happened in spite of you and your contemporaries.

Going to tell my intercultural comm students that a bribe is a bribe in any culture.

Once again, it’s not a “deep dive” just because you read four things, talked to six people or worked on it for longer than a day.

Marco Buscagalia is playing his lazy use of AI content in the summer 2025 @chicago.suntimes.com books sponsored content as a “content oversight.”

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Writing profs: Are we entering a time when we are encouraged by occasional typos and orthographic errors in student work? At least it could signal they’re doing the work themselves without newish “tools”?

What little U.S. citizens know about the rest of the world is largely due to the efforts of VOA and (admittedly covert) State department efforts. Same with what the rest of the world knows about the U.S. Can’t believe our leadership has just decided to kick the ladders out.

Columbia’s general counsel is a graduate of Temple’s law school. I’m no lawyer but the deal she approved doesn’t seem very good for her client and seems like she could have had better training.

Bad call from the refs hand #ChicagoSky another loss.

“Could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani” and the next graf is “He was not accepted at Columbia.”

Great potential solution: From Chicago Sun-Times - Gov. Pritzker signs bills tackling college access and affordability chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Bob McChesney, Bill Moyers and Lalo Schifrin.

A major difference between AI tools and humans is that AI tools would never sit around spending time and money trying to figure out how put other AI tools out of work.

Accuracy and precision are measured differently. #PRAD256

Really tired of Boeing always being applicable to my public relations classes.

Courtney Vandersloot underwent an MRI yesterday that revealed a right torn anterior crucial ligament (ACL), an injury she sustained in the June 7th game against Indiana. She will miss the remainder of the 2025 WNBA season & undergo surgery to repair the injury. All of Skytown is behind you Sloot! 🩵💛

Why doesn’t @chicago.suntimes.com copy edit their stories before publishing? There’s at least one typo in ever story tied to a push alert. Green Mill building up for sale in Uptown chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/06...