Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Missing in the headline. The next highest bidder then offered more than the city's bid. So the city bid wasn't really off base?

"forget all the data crap"

Also worth noting that the private equity firm (Stonepeak) owns Astound Broadband, one of the Chicago area's largest internet service & cable providers. Buying the meters would give them significant control over the city's physical & virtual infrastructure. stonepeak.com/investments

I love sankey diagrams

Can't wait for future block club reporting that focuses entirely on small business reactionaries who don't care for a better, safer, more vibrant Chicago.

A story about how Gov. JB Pritzker presided over the expansion of a predatory and extractive industry. This, by @ctoner.bsky.social and @maggiedough.bsky.social #chicago capitolnewsillinois.com/news/addicte...

Has Brandon Johnson ever backed a candidate?

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

Hi I never post but I’m trying to get in touch with a cyclist I saw get hit yesterday on Clark/lawrence. I have their bike and some witness phone numbers! (They gave me their number but their phone got fucked up) If you know someone named Chance who bikes could you put me in touch?

Car tire wear is a leading cause of microplastics entering our bodies of water. Wonder if there’s anything we can do about that…

What an amazing pic. Credit: Arthur Maiorella for Block Club Chicago

This should be deeply embarrassing for the NYC City council. Paying interns would be one of the easiest and cheapest "lead by example" things that Council could do on equal access and living wages. Who can afford to do an unpaid internship for the summer? (not poor folk!)

Concrete traffic diverters on arterial IDOT controlled roads are possible. See Western and Leland and soon Ashland and Sunnyside.

This kind of enforcement seems like something a city and police department would avoid if they truly wanted to protect vulnerable immigrants

MBJ could stop criminalizing street vendors immediately.

Cops protecting cops, a thread

Good thing Chicago is building brand new sunny bus terminals (western Brown line) and sunny L stations (state/lake)!

from the ashes of one stadium boondoggle rises another stadium boondoggle

Remember when Chicago had all door boarding for CTA Buses? That was so goated. It was so easy to hop on/hop off the bus.

it's crazy that they snuck this in there

Video shared to social media by rapid response shows ICE agents abducting a man this A.M. from inside the Bridgeview Courthouse. Outside, Cook County Sheriff’s deputy Gigliotti #19013 daps it up with one of the agents. Asked about IL law preventing arrests at courthouses, deputy Glover shrugs.

What if I told you we could have it all?

Well past time to phase these out

@ Ald. Nicole Lee

It’s absolutely insane that we let car manufacturers include features that impair reaction time more than four times as much as driving at the legal BAC limit. What are we doing here, folks???

"AI is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response." - from @anthonymoser.com's I Am An AI Hater

The best time to build BRT routes was 10 years ago. The next best time is today.

"Reason 1: our shareholders are leveraged up to their tits on this AI shit and if it doesn't pan out they'll hollow out our paper to recoup their losses"

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Let's stop criminalizing being a teen. From Ald. La Spata's newsletter.

"The Frequent Network created double digit ridership growth overall, with the biggest gain on Sundays." The people yearn for reliable faster buses!

someone call in and ask about getting ciclovia in chicago, pls 866-915-9239

There was a time when small scale firebombings were frighteningly common occurrence in Chicago - often against public figures like politicians and judges, but also frequently against regular people who dared to try to desegregate residential neighborhoods. I would not like to return to that.

I didn't go on the group ride, but I stopped by PTW to play paparazzo for Nick and Tamika while the group visited. Pullman Tech Workshop is a little nonprofit that runs a preservation trades program focused on cohort participants who need a true fresh start. You can read more about their work here:

Drivers are so cooked. "Gas prices are astronomical but what could I possibly do besides drive to Indiana to get gas???"

Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy. Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.

“Pennsylvania is not a blank check for Big Tech. These companies do not get to drain our water, consume our electricity, raise costs on families, threaten local control, and tell communities to accept it,” said @senatormuth.com.

Illinois moratorium on data centers when?

God I love cargo bikes. A driver is NEVER doing this for someone.

Some heroes don't wear capes

Another cyclist was just doored in front of Riley O'Neil's memorial on Halsted Street. This happened about one hour ago. The cyclist declined medical treatment from the ambulance and rode away. Unfucking real. You can see the broken car window on the driver's door. #bikeChi

How to win in November

Happy for Philly.

Time and time again, when we make these bridges bike and pedestrian only they are a bajillion times nicer. Ban cars.

Looks like an estimated 100K+ Divvy and Lime trips crossed the bridge in the last year

Delaney Hall is a 1,000-bed private detention center in Newark where immigrants are jailed without due process. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports that 300 detained workers are refusing food and labor to demand medical care, release for vulnerable people and freedom for all.

Red bars are U.S. states and blue bars are OECD countries.

Reminder that alderman Nicole Lee is reminding drivers to slow down, but voted against the 25mph ordinance. Aldermen need to take traffic fatalities seriously.