I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.

Delighted to announce that, as of this evening, I have been photographed on Scott Burton’s Two-Part Chaise (1986–89) in two buildings by Tadao Ando (Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Wrightwood 659) in two U.S. states (Missouri and Illinois)

Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

Friends of mine who live in downtown Chicago, along with neighbors in their building, said they were warned about this.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

“When data is distorted, it becomes impossible to pursue honest results or accountability, diminishing efforts to achieve equity and justice.” blackoutreport.org

I hear it’s been a good week for being into sports

When you’ve papered the house and it’s still half empty bit.ly/3WAMhm0

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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TMW three of my friends recreated classic Diane Keaton looks for Halloween, and we ran into a fourth Diane Keaton

“The entire walk to gate B-8 she was cursing and complaining and often doing the same into her phone.” (NB the penultimate paragraph) bit.ly/3X2yaWO

🎁 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/i...

So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development

The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd

“When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas.” bit.ly/4oLbPsG

“And moving marginalized people to government camps, they say, is an idea with a long and shameful history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Hot sauce is hot sauce and another category entirely but when it comes to *salsa* I don’t think I’ve found anything at a grocery store hotter than Mami brand El Tóxico salsa verde asada. The only ingredients listed are tomatillo, jalapeño, habanero, onions, garlic, and salt. Weapons-grade intensity.

“They are coming for people just trying to get by.” bit.ly/3L8gA0P

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. by me @ wired:

direct evidence of profound jank in a system people literally trust their lives to enters public discourse framed around a neo-spiritualist viral content phenomenon instead of you know the first thing

Today’s issue of Christopher Hawthorne’s newsletter features a great interview with Geoff Manaugh about the Louvre heist, design, security, and theft in various forms bit.ly/476a97c

“The use of force that I’ve seen has been exemplary — the least amount of force necessary to accomplish the mission,” Bovino told @cbsnews.com Friday. “If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest and don’t trespass.”

"Since Hurricane Helene devastated the community in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only $4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

“I don’t know him. I don’t know if he is French. Maybe a tourist? Maybe he is English.” nyti.ms/43AlpX3

Been thinking about this in terms of time and of how the “time savings” one (1) person gets from using AI to produce something may cost others their time — perhaps in unpredictable and compounding ways — and drain capacity overall. The *net* effect is not where it should be for such a hard push now.

A Palo Alto company has launched more than 4,000 of its "smart" balloons. Looks like one of them smashed into a United 737. Everyone was OK, but the pilot did tell passengers, “The aircraft has collided with an object and a window in the cockpit has shattered" www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...

Heist in progress at 50 South Sixth in downtown Minneapolis (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2001)

“It’s obvious the whole convo is off record. There’s disappearing messages and it’s on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.” bit.ly/3J6Godh

This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap:

Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath

Contrast this report with Brett Kavanaugh's recent description of ICE's raids. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“Where was Grenell’s decorum when he told musician Yasmin Williams, for instance, that the Social Impact team was ‘DEI bullshit’?” bit.ly/43jAFaL

“When you make a system increasingly fragile, it is sure to break when the test does arrive.” bit.ly/4qezS50

Long before Horner Park became home to a rare oak savannah and a modern effigy mound, it was a municipal dump. And before it was a dump, it was a clay pit and brickyard. This cycle of extraction to disposal to restoration inspires me to imagine an urbanism that is ecologically and historically just.

“Barrett’s academic insistence that a shadow docket ruling needs no explanation because ‘in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue,’ requires a response.” bit.ly/3J5cqGj

We didn’t see Eric Adams but my husband and I just spent the past week in Tirana, Albania and it really feels halfway through a profound transformation

“The rules appear to be different for Thiel, at least in his own mind.” bit.ly/4q3Sc0f

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

Ireland’s “basic income scheme for artists will be opened up to 2,000 new entrants next year and put on a permanent footing in the budget.” bit.ly/4obcbIU

The Supreme Court’s majority has — in a total of five paragraphs over two orders — allowed Noem’s effort to end TPS for Venezuelans to proceed in opposition to seven rulings from seven judges, amounting to 227 pages of opinions. No, numbers and pages aren’t ultimately what matters. But ...