Delivery robots are a techbrained "solution" (just like every other tech startup) that's attempting to "fix" the lack of infrastructure investment for the last 4 decades. Put in a damn bike lane.

Like, shut off the power to the Broadview facility. Dump truckloads of gravel on Beach Street. Let them try to fight it in the courts if they want. Now is not the time to worry about the propriety of such actions

thinking about Meigs Field this morning

Do it Pritzker, call up the Illinois Reserve Militia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinoi...

I've long said that cars and the space devoted exclusively to cars are the methods by which fascism is incubated and spread. I did not want to be proven right so quickly and decisively. The only way we get out of this long term is a complete obliteration of personal vehicles as a concept.

if you see this, QRT with a gif of your first anime

Spotted a little guy on one of the windowsills at City Hall

It's cheap, it's easy, and it's free

If you think about it, Grant Park is the American trifecta: highway, parking, and lawn

If you think about it, Grant Park is the American trifecta: highway, parking, and lawn

The confirmed closed or closing Starbucks locations in Chicago

the US if tylenol caused autism

I think this narrative is the core of my urbanism. We've made participation in society so expensive through our urban infra choices, and those choices are self reinforcing and serve only to alienate people from the society they no longer have to interact with and now drive through.

Look, we have a map of the area to charge drivers, say, $5 to enter between 6am-9pm on weekdays and 9am-9pm weekends.

It's simple: white people are a sacrosanct class of being who are intrinsically interested in debates of the mind, intellectual conversations, challenges of rhetoric, and everyone else is a lesser, baser type of creature with an intrinsic interest in (and, critically, are habituated to) violence.

Slept for 10-11 hours last night, still woke up tired. I'm starting to think that this level of background stress might be unhealthy or something.

New Divvy bikeshare station at Washington & Wabash

This just in folks: Not Speeding: it's cheap, it's easy, and it's free. Rather like going down to the river and filling your socks with river water, which is what Julian Crews and Ben Bradley should do instead of writing and promoting this garbage.

“We regret to inform you—Castellanos with a long drive, deep center field—Donald John Trump has passed away. 45th and 47th president of the United States. Home run for Castellanos, Phillies are up 4 to 3.” “It’s weird, though, right Tom?” “Sure is.”

RT if you hate query strings and UTM codes

good vibes at an undisclosed location tonight

She gleeped my fucking cat

basically the only way to have any hope for putting the breaks on accelerating fascist cataclysm is to take seriously the prospect of abolishing the suburbs and breaking the regime of car dealerships 🤷🏽‍♀️

Also we will not lie about its flaws - many of the most heartfelt tributes are also its harsh critiiques, because we love the people & the struggles this city represent & will defend those though the city itself will never love us back.

well, safe to say the next few weeks will probably not be good

A modern car already delivers gigabytes of data per mile to your insurance company, all of which is accessible by police across the country. You only disagree with speed & red light cameras because it limits the effect of a negative externality that you enjoy doing www.ai-online.com/2021/08/lexi...

"Data specialist David Shor ... is the head of data science for Blue Rose Labs. He left Civis Analytics after arguing that violent protests after the death of George Floyd could hurt Democrats politically."

This is a new development, at where I am

Hate filling out self evaluation forms that are clearly meant for lawyers. How have I gone above and beyond with my duties of *checks notes* tax compliance? Uhhhhh, complied all local, state, and federal filing requirements prior to the due date? Same as last year?

Election day should be on April 15th, and the Federal extension should be your ballot.

Every correspondence I have with a lawyer is either "Hi. Here are my specific requests, along with a due date. Do not do or say anything outside of the scope I've outlined. I have written this email so that nobody can possibly fuck this up." Or "n3ed $500 send to asstnt Sent from my iPhone"

i'm sick of these fucking devils dying as free men

Curved escalators! Outside! The CTA can't even keep the straight ones running consistently, and they want to install escalators that will require more maintenance and have only one vendor to source parts from.

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

The sidewalk on the north side of Adams at Wells is finally being replaced. I once saw a Streets and Sanitation truck rip its tire apart on the metal wall of the curb, so it's good this is being done. The bus stop is closed for the repairs.

Violent crime is down in Chicago, and the Feds are harassing people in the streets nationwide. Time to bring back shitty surveillance tech that doesn’t work!

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

What my skyline's like today

What my skyline's like today

The air and water show is one of the very few things i dislike about living in chicago 😐

It’s the year of Linux on the desktop

Learned something insane about Teams today. The live transcription in Teams censors words, swearing and such. Today someone in a meeting, said "rent". The transcription recorded that as "rape" and did not censor it. I'm anti-censorship, but the censorship should at least be applied uniformly, wtf.

This might be radical, I might be strange, but suburbs should be destroyed. Whether through forced urbanization or through cutting off their parasitization of urban areas, I don't care at this point. Yes, every suburb, no exceptions. Doubly so if the suburb had population growth in the 50's.

How we build our physical communities effects our social communities effects our physical communities effects our physical communities I’m just mumbling to myself allllllll the time

You end up spreading these words to encompass so many ideas that they don't fucking mean anything. I do not want abundant trucks and single family homes, I do not care if that is a popular viewpoint or not.

CITY!!

nothing good can ever happen to a city bc it might change an area and affect property values and the people who want to stay won't be able to afford it and the people who want to leave won't be able to afford to leave

My HVAC guy is trying to tell me that a 36,000 BTU heat pump isn't enough to heat my condo with a heating load of 28,000 BTUs and I need a further 70,000 BTUs via a gas furnace. I didn't watch hours of quality refrigeration content from Technology Connections to be gaslit like this.

simple policy proposal: no cars within a mile of lolla

Now that the Divvy bikeshare system is getting docks that actually charge the e-bikes, Divvy should discount e-bike rides that start undocked and end docked by the amount of the fee to end an e-bike ride undocked ($1.20).