Very cool!

I'm sorry, but if you are using LLMs to do your work and you end up citing non-existent papers you are engaging in academic fraud and you should be punished This is no different than a scientist making up data or a historian inventing quotes. People who do this should be heavily sanctioned

Yglesias and I had an exchange where he laughed at the idea Americans would be targeted when it was time for him to renew his passport He deleted the exchange Yglesias is a racist. But more than that he’s an opportunist who needs other people to be as cynical as he is to justify his position

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

If the Chicago ruling class, aka Michael Sacks, is spending big money to try convince the working class that paying more in fees and taxes is “beneficial” and a “shared sacrifice” then that should tell you all that you need to know. The choice is simple in Chicago-tax the rich.

Fuck these AI slop machines.

Podcast host Jim Stewartson added, "It’s only weird until you realize that CBS News is run by the PayPal Mafia. Bari Weiss started an 'anti-woke university' with the co-founder of Palantir." "Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.

Today, on what should have been a day of celebration, the Jewish community is instead mourning once again after a horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia, where two men opened fire and killed at least 12 people in a targeted terror attack against Jews celebrating Hanukkah. Antisemitism is evil.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

You know what does hold ground? 10,000 nomadic horsemen.

The time to adopt AI is 2030. If the tech is really that great, it will survive until then, presumably in an even better and cheaper form than today. If it crashes and burns between now and then, you didn’t waste billions of dollars and untold expertise trying to chase it.

"WBEZ’s analysis sheds light on who would potentially be affected by Johnson’s proposal: less than 1% of all licensed businesses in Chicago; roughly 20% of jobs at companies across the city; and companies where an average salary is estimated to be roughly $111,000."

“The alders’ suggestions hold…core contradictions…increased cost burden on working class Chicagoans…some “efficiencies”…would result in higher healthcare costs for city workers.” Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...

I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots. A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)

I had a random "white hat hacker" from Europe call me this morning, to alert me of a doxxing attempt on me. First of all, I understand cybersecurity better than these toothless dogs, and am not worried. But also, my file being called "ILLINOISPROTRANSTEACHER" is a badge of honor, really.

🎅🏽Santa got arrested for protecting youth jobs. We have grinch Alders who would rather squeeze working-class families than tax the ultra-wealthy corporations. Tax the rich. Call your alder and tell them to pass the Protecting Chicago’s budget.

Holy fucking shit, you guys. “If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said… Maybe Minnesota is the one place where ACAB… has an asterisk?

I am happy to pay $30 a year for USPS Prime, which delivers mail daily to my home

the whole thing is just an old country yelling at the clouds. it's a meme, not a strategy. :D

Yes, I have been playing raddle.quest instead of wordle. Also yes, I'm more likely to abandon a puzzle than to accept a clue, even though the clues are absolutely part of the design of the puzzle. (Especially if it's in the first three rungs, I usually just close the window and start my day...)

My wife has been stuck in traffic now for almost five hours. This sucks.

Alcohol tax-Garbage fees-Rideshare fees This is what the Alders who are against Mayor Johnson’s Budget are for. They want to tax regular people because they are afraid to charge a corporate head tax to 1.5% of businesses. Call your Alder & demand they vote Yes to the Mayor’s Budget

Someone really needs to do a deep dive into the Chicago alders who are extremely pro-ShotSpotter and other surveillance tech, regardless whether they work. Because this seems to exist to appease them, and get the budget passed

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

in a press release, protesters accuse state's attorney o'neill burke of "returning to the corrupt and racist policies that made Chicago internationally known for its corruption."

I joined a discussion about concussion (& other injury) risk in sports yesterday, & because I was curious about relative risks across different sports, I looked up a study. It compared rugby to football, using hospital admissions. Obviously, the popularity of each sport meant they had to use %ages.

These Alders want to tax Chicagoans because they are afraid to tax the ultra wealthy: Matt O’Shea, Nicole Lee, Samantha Nugent, Scott Waguespack, Matt Martin, Pat Dowell, Gil Villegas—-higher trash collection fee, new package delivery fee chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

The sooner the "AI" companies die the better for all of us. We must do what we can to hasten their collapse and to protect ourselves when the crisis comes

For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org

The body cams don’t lie. Judge Ellis exposed unprovoked force by ICE agents and reports rewritten to cover it. There is no defending this.

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild, in the last seven days edition: Kestrel hawk Great blue heron Deer Snowy owl Peregrine falcon (Reverse chronological order, just to help me keep it straight) Chicago is a pretty awesome place!

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

I just learned today that there are dozens of federal court cases determining which nationalities are white, arising out of the period 1878 - 1952 when only white foreigners could become US citizens. I wonder if any involved Afghans.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen — Ministry Altan OK Go Capella Praetensis The Swell Season

I’m about to make an alt account that just searches for and posts “This is the exact moment when you should have deleted your account.” I think it says something about BlueSky that it’s gotten big enough to need that service. Congrats, everyone, we did it.

See, this part right here is where this guy should have deleted his account.

MAGA races to cement its white supremacist legacy before it implodes.

Shut 'em down and salt the earth.

This reminds me of the excellent @thisamericanlife.org episode like 20 years ago or something, about Amish rumspringge, in which the formerly Amish guy says, "You can get laid in New York every night if you follow 2 simple rules: Stay at the bar until 4 am, and dramatically lower your expectations."

Dilla is a *treasure*. I had the pleasure of taking his bus tour last year, along with other anti-racist educators from across the city, and it was an amazing day.

This guy gets it, and by “it” I mean “exactly how stupid marketing is in the 21st century.”

Me, watching the charter school concept outright fail, leaving my district holding the bag as multiple charter operators just give up and close: “How can I arrange a fistfight with that asshole who directed ‘Waiting for Superman’? Does anyone know his agent?” Related side-eye at voucher programs.

DHS now terrorizing Charlotte NC

one simple trick to become a good nazi

As a Chicagoan, I'm sorry to see that the CBP thugs are still on their bullshit, just with a change of venue. I'm proud of how our city stood up, and I'm confident that the good people of Charlotte have that same fight in them. If anyone there wants to talk about how we organized, my DMs are open.

Hey, Chicago! This is a really relevant study to our immediate future. Taxing the rich does not kill jobs, it raises revenue without putting the squeeze on regular people.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

“Between 2010–2013, Chicago's job growth rate was 66% above the national rate—despite having had a head tax. This employment data does not support the claim that the head tax was a ‘job killer,’” southsideweekly.com/johnsons-bud...

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

I was glad to hear this covered. I've printed and distributed over 1000 whistles so far (with embossed messages on them, as you covered), at a cost of about $0.08 each. Their note about how it builds solidarity and community was exactly on-point. Excellent work, glad to be a subscriber.