I started listening to the Torchwood audio dramas a few months ago and have really enjoyed the ones I’ve heard so far. I’m sad to hear they’re ending the series, but I’m glad I still have many more to listen to!

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As far as I can tell, the only change to Minimed’s customer support since the April “sorry support is so bad” email is an AI bot that asks me to explain my issue in a conversational manner and then can’t understand “sensor replacement.” I called 5.5 hours ago and am still waiting to talk to someone.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

The number of hours I’ve spent on hold over the past couple of months for medical device failures is yet another glaring indictment of the American medical system. This hold music is going to haunt my dreams.

Intense Double Rainbow over Sears Tower on Monday evening in Chicago.

Catching up on For All Mankind, and episode three was a great send-off for Ed Baldwin. As much as his actions frustrated me in the later seasons, it was a reminder of why he worked so well as a central character in the series.

Listen, I can't find any reviews of Star City (AppleTV, May 29) even though the embargo was lifted several days ago, so here's my quick take on the For All Mankind spin-off, an unexpected Galactic Exclusive as Geoff would say. I've seen 5 episodes (out of 8). ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'll be brief. 1/1966

My glucose sensor keeps losing signal and telling me that because of possible signal interference, I need to stay away from electronic devices for 15 minutes until it reconnects. My entire job is using a computer! Having to keep doing this isn’t feasible.

Of course you know, this means war

This is so cool!

Minimed clearly hasn’t made progress on the customer support issues they emailed to apologize for earlier this month. I just had two failed sensors and 1. I can’t order replacements online like with my previous sensors 2. I called five hours ago and still haven’t been able to speak with anyone.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

A) we don't own anything now B) the stuff we don't own doesn't work and can be taken away at a moments notice

Ad for the 1913 suffrage film WHAT 80 MILLION WOMEN WANT. It's the vote, in this case, but I also think 80 million women want pockets that actually hold their phone

With every thing else going on, it was really uplifting to watch the return of the Artemis II astronauts tonight. Especially with the message that this isn’t something we do alone: it’s a success achieved in partnership with other countries.

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

“We polled people in Illinois, asking whether they think AI companies should be exempt from liability, and 90 percent of people oppose it. There’s no reason existing AI companies should be facing reduced liability.” Seems to me that this is the only fact in the article that matters.

If you're interested in more on the business model that took over TV as streaming ascended, I talked to Parks & Rec/Good Place creator Mike Schur about this model, a "bait & switch" & how all this affected the medium/writing for TV (from 2020 but still relevant): www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

Makes sense for the character, but she’s been so great!

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Illinois just made the Final Four!!!

Absolutely massive crowd at one of many No Kings protests across Chicago. 🔥

Chicagoooo 🚫👑

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the No Kings rally in Grant Park. https://to.wttw.com/3NtJquo

A little gift from the official Project Hail Mary website. Link in the next post 👇

The best Project Hail Mary movie decision (besides casting Ryan Gosling) was the beach at the end. I don’t think the ending would have worked if the visual was the same as in the book (darkness).

this is the best review of project hail mary lol

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

It’s the future, it’s inevitable, just accept it, it’s the way we will all be working very soon and there is no point in trying to oh wait it sucks, no one asked for it or wants it, and it’s shutting down forever.

Tile clothes at The Mart.

Props to Nilay for doing this work. Also posting this again, because Grammarly & so many companies & LLM-pilled techies built whole business models around ignoring consent & stealing shit & I don't like it. Grammarly stopped Expert Review but the gross mindsets remain www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Make your voice heard, Illinois. Polls are open until 7 PM — make time today to cast your ballot if you haven’t yet. Find your polling place at elections.il.gov.

This is so messed up.

Just thinking again about how there are currently three successful “living in a large underground bunker post-apocalypse” shows (Silo, Fallout, Paradise) and what that says about American culture.

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season. This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

Much different than Dire Straits but beautiful. Needed this for our Sunday morning... youtu.be/w-OfUq5HXX8?...

Companies need to stop being creepy like this. It doesn’t make me want to buy the thing I was looking at. It makes me want to never shop at that store again.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

Somehow this didn’t post this morning. Happy 189th birthday to Chicago.

Imagine deciding to use the well-known Borg catchphrase “resistance is futile” and thinking it’s a good thing.

One easy way to tell that our technology isn’t “intelligent”: my iPhone just made a video for me called “Trips to Chicago” even though I’ve lived here for a years and I’m sure this phone has collected enough (way too much) personal location data for that to be obvious.

“You just bought a 36-pack of batteries. Have you considered buying more batteries from us?” I just bought them! In large quantities so I don’t have to buy them again for a very long time! Why does any company think this type of email is a good idea?

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This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

As far as I’m concerned, this just continues to prove that DHS doesn’t care about safety and security. It only cares about punishing people to demonstrate the administration’s power.

What a captioning error 😂 #olympics