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High-quality municipal internet, please

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

My Jewel does not sell cacao nibs

I haye Apple Glass or whatever this new design interface is on my iPhone, please help, how to undo!!

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

RIP, White Eagle. This is where the fam always went after funerals and wakes. Excellent mushroom barley soup. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/w...

“Landlords may say ‘smart home’ devices are a tenant convenience. But the reality is, these AI-enabled systems can track patterns of tenant behavior, identify when people are home, and provide landlords with personal information that could be used to push out tenants perceived as too costly.”

Wherever you live, this story has significant implications because the trend of defunding libraries, when we should be fortifying these outposts of learning, sharing, and survival, is a national phenomenon. Libraries are models of the kind of infrastructure we must EXPAND to get the world we want.

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other. There's no such thing as useless education.

Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs

JonnyPops in Very Berry Lemonade should be made freely and readily accessible to nauseated people everywhere.

Literally not a Midwesterner unless your fam has stored Swedish meatballs in a Cool Whip container.

Rich folks getting fancy-schmancy houses built from scratch should be required to pay everyone living and working in the vicinity for the many months of disturbance.

Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.

NO TO SIDEWALK BOTS: Chicago residents, sign this petition: NoSidewalkBots.org 29 people have reported incidents—robots blocking wheelchair users, forcing people into the street, hitting small dogs. At least one hit someone on Clark.

Members of Congress receive up to $79 per day for meals and incidentals when they are on official business in the D.C. area. SNAP recipients receive $6.31 per day

I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year. Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck

As every perma-pedestrian in Chicago knows, the day(s) after a snowfall render our streets an obstacle course, and some property owners don’t make things any easier.

Everyone able to should be donating blood on the regular. Sooner or later you’ll likely need a transfusion. www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/...

Not far from me; please sign: www.change.org/p/demand-the...

Why is your State Police helping them then Governor. You appointed their leader and have control over them. Do something.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Chicago is a truly great city. The perfect mix of homey and cosmopolitan. We’ve got good home cooking from around the globe, people who don’t just want to be in a city but want to be in their neighborhood in their city, and a vibe that’s both no-nonsense and neighborly. I’d die to defend it.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

If you see local law enforcement assisting ICE by arresting protesters, establishing perimeters, or otherwise responding to ICE activity, FILE A COMPLAINT and send us video/photos City: www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i... County: apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/ State: oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...

So the business model is dependent on theft.

There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found. That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

Cannot emphasize enough how in my role as a copyeditor, the style choice to use or not use the serial comma is typically among the least of my concerns.

Not to derail us from every other more urgent matter, but like ...everyone else's cell service is getting way worse and less reliable too, right?

Quinoa might be healthy for you, but it’s a nightmare in the kitchen to clean. I keep finding it everywhere?! I think it’s between the floorboards

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meanwhile in Chicago… How many ICE does it take to illegally abduct one little bicycle delivery guy? We’ll never know.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

Deploying our superb armed forces on American soil, in peacetime, against Americans, is an illegal and unspeakable perversion of our men and women in uniform. Military rule will bring profound and lasting harm to all of us. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject it. We the people reject it.

They've lost the 9yos

Does ACES Editors have a chat forum of any kind anymore? I don’t even know how to get in touch with my work-role counterparts nationwide.

Editors, rise up.

You must understand, it's a moat

Guided a higher-up against writing in a presentation things like, “According to Gemini…” just as we would not go around saying, “According to the library….” (Thought the latter would be much more reliable.)

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I’m kind of starting to think that any democratic uprising by the people is going to include a full-on rejection of tech and its makers. Just throwing these machines into a river and holding the designers responsible.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. —Lucille Clifton