Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

Having read a lot about the Apollo program, I want everyone to understand that getting to the moon and back with alive humans is not trivial. Everyone knows about Apollo 13 but every other Apollo mission had some kind of very close scrape with death (including actual deaths with Apollo 1).

ANNOUNCING: Jody Chong has been appointed as City Bureau’s permanent Executive Director—and we're celebrating! She’s spent four years helping build what we are today: a civic media lab with deep Chicago roots & a #DocumentersNetwork active nationwide. www.citybureau.org/notebook/cit...

It's pretty wild that we just had no idea what the back side of the moon looked like until the space age. And also wild that only 24 people have seen it with their own eyes, and none in my lifetime.

This is NOT what I signed up for

Can’t believe NASA went over 50 years without faking a moon landing.

Chag Sameach

Still there

Liftoff!

In 5 days, the crew will be further away from Elon Musk than anyone else has ever been. Goosebumps!

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

Let’s gooooooooooo

Hey I wonder what the "N" and "A" stand for in NATO?

This is insane.

"To his credit, he came up with something nobody else has."

Yay, signs are at the printer for the Hyde Park Garden Fair. May 16 and 17, Saturday and Sunday, at the Kimbark Plaza, 53rd and Woodlawn/Kimbark. My department, Native Plants, will be by Harold's Chicken this year. Get some plants, get your lunch. lol

A Chicago-centered network including all the suburbs and exurbs (Aurora, South Bend etc.) and Madison, Milwaukee, Rockford, Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Peoria would be about the right size

chicagomaroon.com/51472/viewpo... [check the date if you see this after Wednesday]

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

personally i think jay-z has most likely been looking at a two digit readout this whole time and he's got absolutely no idea how much problems

The case is sumbitted. The easy prediction here is 7-2, birthright citizenship stands, Trump loses. But... I don't think we have Kav as much as others. So that could be 6-3. BUT... my most radical take would be 8-1. With only Alito dissenting. That's... *a possibility*

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

OH HELL YES. NEIL GORSUCH, THE LAST JUSTICE OF THE MOCHICANS, ASKS "Do you think Native Americans are citizens of the united states." IF YOU TRIP GORSUCH'S NATIVE AMERICAN WIRES, YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY, SIR!

My friend just said "Shorter Sotomayor: 'Daniel Webster called you a fucking idiot. Thoughts?'" That's the best description available for what's happening here. :)

Ok this one’s pretty good

My Wednesday morning hot take is that April 1 is way too late to start street sweeping. It’s a six week cycle so some streets won’t get swept until May 15!

Join us Monday April 6 at 6:30 PM at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social for a very special screening of REDS on 35mm!

Thunderstorms are delaying the grand opening of South Shore Line’s new Monon Line. ⛈️ 🚊 ⏳ @atalliance.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @hsrail.bsky.social @yonahfreemark.com @stevevance.net @sidestreets.bsky.social

Also: This was the only case left from court's October sitting other than CALLAIS, the VRA case. The only justice who hasn't written a decision from that sitting is Alito. The court tries to distribute cases fairly evenly, so strong odds that Alito is writing for the majority in Callais.

It looks like this stretch of Clark south of Grand is due for Arterial Resurfacing next year. We need to pressure CDOT and Reilly to extend the PBL and connect the network.

Chicago's Gold Lady statue in Jackson Park will undergo a $1 million repair and regild project starting in May, its first restoration since 1992.

PROPOSAL FOR A CITY ORDINANCE If your zip code ends in 1 or 6, you can run leaf blowers on Mondays. 2/7 on Tue, 3/8 Wed, 4/9 Thu, 5/0 on Fridays. No loud lawn work on weekends. Should pass 50-0.

Guys I hate to break it to you, from what I can tell from my tech industry friends, the vast majority of software development happening is using Claude code in some way shape or form.

Lmao the reason this leaked was because he wanted to buy IDEF, a totally illiquid BlackRock fund that trades ~$100k a day, instead of ITA which trades hundred of millions, so he had his brokers call up BlackRock and ask for a direct creation under his name. There’s so many layers of stupidity here.

you notice this everywhere when you really start paying attention, and it’s totally infuriating

this is a place of honor. something extremely cool is buried here.

Employers should pay employees for work performed rather than leaving it up to the goodwill of customers.

Constitutionalizing the administrative state is one of the necessary post-Trump reforms.

This is how your email finds me.

Lake forever problems for now

Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs

These shots of London (Canada's) new bike infra from NJB's latest video really show what I think is best practice for existing North American arterials - get the bike lane OFF the road, widen the sidewalk to accommodate - smooth asphalt - protected-ish intersections

Sears Tower of Theseus

Still of NYC No Kings march today from Vural Elibol of Anadolu Agency’s drone video - give it a watch here: www.instagram.com/reel/DWcU0UF...

Sentient car strikes again youtu.be/oa7-UNPyRXc?...

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

Revolution is next. Doors open on the right at Revolution.

Overhead of the #NoKings march in Chicago. Tens of thousands here

My protest post has gotten me 5 blocks and 1 like from Mark Hamill so two from that what you will

The thing about apartment houses, condo complexes, and triplexes, is that they’re all full of homes inside. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...