I missed this one too and yeah it’s great!

Explaining the dangers of AI search results is the new install ad blockers family holiday job and I fucking hate this sickness

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Did a little work here back in the day. Such a neat building to convert.

Today's architecture column remembers Stanley Tigerman's late, great and short-lived 1970s Arby's restaurant at 115 E. Chicago Ave. “It was actually a fun thing — very lively there," Tigerman’s wife, architect Margaret McCurry said. "While it lasted.”

USA 🇺🇸 L'un des anciens ensembles Aerotrain de la Rock Island en service de banlieue à Beverly Hills/95th Street à Chicago décembre 1964. Photo de Rick Burn.

Still thinking about this and it’s a nightmare

The HOA is a little high but it's only a four-minute walk to the Popeyes www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/6...

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

Thinking about chatbots as personal(?) media… like, unsupervisable, point-to-point information sources (unlike mass media like websites or TV, but different from word-of-mouth, in that they’re still centrally controlled) and I’m even more concerned about the future. www.404media.co/scientists-a...

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Supermoon surf's up 🌝🏄 Montrose Beach

Lookin’ good, Chicago.

Posting because although I’m allergic to the term “dashboard”, Alberto is rarely wrong.

Really wanted the Leaning Tower of Niles in this but the light was wrong

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

RIP Steve Cropper. Watch the Stax doc. The music is incredible, and it’s been helpful for me at this moment in history. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stax...

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

IMO: A pretty direct result between this and not actually fixing the short and medium distance intercity network rail out of Chicago

Build the big ass Municipal Device dammit!

I do not need this but someone out there does www.etsy.com/listing/1582...

Many talk on here about the need to reform American journalism. The members of the @tinynewscollective.bsky.social are doing the work. Chances are we've got a member in your state. Consider supporting them today. At all of these organizations, every donation has a huge impact.

Just want to call out this incredible move by the Guardian to embed a year on their social sharing graphic so it's very clear that something is not new reporting. Should be standard operating procedure.

*Good question *It's gonna be plenty weird, that's for sure

Remembering those lost on the founding staff of Windy City Times, some who did not even make it to this early photo. World AIDS Day is to remember those we lost, the fights we had, and the fight we still have. Tonight at 7 p.m. at Women & Children First, I’m on panel w/ Rebecca Makkai and Viki Noe

Year-end books were a hustle for our little team because elections and prestige projects ate our lives every fall. (The first one launched two days after Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt!) Always happy to see it come back!

Fun fact: My mom and Bev were classmates.

This is 1920s Klan shit.

I made a bot that will post "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," clip by clip, between now and Christmas Eve. That's 12–13 clips daily, 24/7, just so you know what you'd be getting into. (Clips will auto-delete a few days after being posted.) It starts now.

My family likes their Thanksgiving dinner boring so I make one dish just for my enjoyment

Grinding black pepper on my salad like I’m at a fancy restaurant in the 90s

new way for home-based planespotters to spend more time at home just dropped *real-time 3D visualization of planes at all altitudes*

When family starts arguing politics at Thanksgiving, remember to pause and take a deep breath. The extra oxygen will give you a little boost as you flip the table.

Always nice to see when a classmate done good

Nice thing about cooking all week for my family is there’s a chair in the garage.

Big news day for… soup? I’m gonna publish more homemade soup recipes soon, but here’s a favorite: beantips.com/quick-and-ea...

book machine day book machine day

Y'all! Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork, "Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is "Dawn". Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST Online, Free

“Increase daily active users by 5 percent” ooooh this one is gonna get its own slide in my analytics talk

Road trip status: music.apple.com/us/album/the...

Fuckin rocking out

"Perhaps the old left v right binaries really are dead. This was a case of game recognising game – of Queens recognising Queens." Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicagoans: This is going to be a very good and fun book. (And if you’ve not yet taken one of Will Quam’s brick tours, hie thee to his website and book one. You won’t regret it.)

Canadiens in my replies seem excited

Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.

My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...

Tonight! Get yer butts down to the Chicago Theater for Patti Smith’s second date in town. Last night’s show was unreal.

Horner Park, Chicago

Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...