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ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview

Not about to blast my entire stress address, but there have been more ICE abduction reports in my neighborhood, including some around the corner from my home. This is the closest they've physically come to me and it's utterly terrifying. (I'm working on campus today at least.) iceout.org/en/

My alderman just posted this, and I got an ICIRR alert about it. Broadway/Belmont is close to my home. They also grabbed people from LaSalle/Stockton, which all of the Lakeview/LP/express buses go through.

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

Bost represents my hometown, and this is the least shocking thing he could’ve done

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

(I know that that's not the conclusion of the study, but seriously, what do you expect us to do???????)

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Hey so the president is saying that he's going to use major cities with Dem mayors (including the one I live in) as training grounds for the military, which is so beyond unsettling and terrifying that I don't really have the words! What the hell is going on!

I've been playing The Sims in some form or another since 2004, but I can't in good conscience give these people/entities my money. It's my comfort game, but I just can't do it. apnews.com/article/ea-e...

There are quite a few posts on the Chicago subreddit with photos and videos. They snatched an entire family. They’re armed and in one of the busiest areas of the city on a Sunday. I want to say that this is unbelievable, but I can’t quite get there anymore.

Idk if there's just too much traffic on the site or what, but Hulu will not let me change my plan right now. It just keeps refreshing the "manage your subscriptions" page.

One of the comments on this article suggests using this tool to weed out "fake" disability claims for depression. I have depression. I also have no poker face and raging RBF. I look upset by default. But if my facial muscles don't move in the way the AI wants, would my depression be discounted?

The complaint in this case is BANANAS. "Trump /is/ a success!!!" 😫 *stomps foot* (Also thank to to the author for including a link to the complaint. A lot of articles don't do that and it makes it harder to find things.)

Reddit is a cesspool *if you let it be.* I stick to my subreddits about cross stitch and The Sims and it's mostly a delightful experience. If you had any inkling of the "deep, dark Internet" at all, you would know this.

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.

I just watched a TikTok that sums up my Thoughts about today very well: "What Charlie Kirk deserved was to have to fix the world that he created."

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is horrific, it's likely to lead to a very dark spiral that will worsen political violence, and it is also a byproduct of a profoundly broken society awash in 400 million guns.

people on the right don’t tend to wait for any information about the motivations of the shooter before blaming the left. But Kirk had enemies on the right too; some of them surely live in Utah. And as with any shooting, the shooter’s motivations may not map onto any coherent politics at all.

I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk much, though I do feel empathy for those who cared for him. But I am grievously concerned for what is going to happen to this country next, because political violence never rests easy on the marginalized.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Chicago pharmacies are getting COVID boosters! The CVS portal asked me if I fell under the risk factor list (I do), but it didn't ask me what condition specifically. If you want the vaccine, just check that box. Limiting access to high risk individuals only is absurd.

I've had major depression my entire life. I cannot imagine the damage ChatGPT would've done to me while in my worst depressive episodes, especially as a teenager. A case like this will be incredibly difficult to win, but I applaud the Raines for trying.

Couldn’t get a photo, but there’s a dude standing on the lane divider rail on the Michigan Ave bridge holding a sign that says “honk if you’re NOT in the Epstein files” and that’s the kind of energy we need every day

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Good luck with that bud

Finished my last seasonal Stardew Valley pattern 😭

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

HE GOT BAM BAM BACK!!! Seriously, this upset me so much, and I'm so glad they were reunited.

A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

"There's no famine in Gaza because only kids with pre-existing conditions are the ones suffering" is a WILD take and is not making the point you think you're making

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

If someone tells you that your plan for systemic-level change is going to leave poor and/or disabled people disadvantaged, and your response is "Ah, but in order to accomplish this change, those groups will inevitably have to suffer!" you are just Lord Farquaad.

My favorite thing about having chronic kidney stones and scoliosis at the same time is that I can't ever tell if the pain in my back is a kidney stone that decided to do the hokey pokey or just my back muscles being angry that they aren't located where back muscles are supposed to be

The Schaumburg IKEA knows their market

We’ve had like three Watergate-level stories just in the past 24 hours. I can’t even tell you all the Watergates that happened on, like, Wednesday, because there have just been too many (and I’m EXTREMELY online - I just need a chart of all the Watergates)

Had more thoughts on this: they only did two extremely specific hypos, and only looked at case law. How can they justify extrapolating that out to include ALL searches? How do we know that there isn't a marked difference in case law vs. secondary source results?

Not a fan of the conclusions in this study. She's suggesting cutting down on teaching Boolean and focusing on natural language and genAI. You can't provide a statistical study of two systems and then suggest a third system as a replacement without also studying that system!

This is I how learned that Dexter Holland isn't dead?? I've thought for YEARS that he died. I fully thought The Offspring had to replace him. I must've gotten wires crossed and confused him for a different alt lead singer from the '90s?????

*whispers* I think this also applies to librarianship 👀

Grok turned into Hitler, but the real problem is that tech companies are trying to stop their genAI tools from *also* turning into Hitler

My favorite tweet EVER was from 2023, when some conservative group found out that Cracker Barrel was doing a Pride thing and tweeted "We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen." I think about it at least once a month and laugh every time.