Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Shout out to all the corporations who’ve been bribing Trump and dismantling their DEI programs.

If you would have told me when I was younger that we would go YEARS without a Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th movie, I would have never believed you.

Wow Forbes ultimately concluded that a person’s worth cannot be boiled down to dollars and cents! Just kidding, they said around $200,000 in non-cash assets.

$1 trillion Open AI guarantee

Just unbeatable writing on this season of the hit comedy “France!”

Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Completely agree with this. And I don’t even think it has to be intentional. A tool is for what it does, after all.

Relatable

"Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAI, says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers. Friar spoke at WSJ’s Tech Live event in California." www.wsj.com/video/openai...

Next week’s cover of a popular local magazine pays homage to ungentrified NYC:

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

“When working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.”

WOW — MICROSOFT LAWYER: “Nobody really wants a data center in their backyard, they don’t bring a lot of jobs.”🤔 Speaking of which, hey MEMPHIS did y’all get a list of jobs Musk’s xAI delivered yet?? @mayorpaulyoung @memphischamber

CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.” Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.

I think there’s some sort of word for actions like this? Begins with a “t” iirc.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel. To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense. Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

When you’re working but you should be petting a bunny >:(

Miyares (a Republican) also slow-walked the implementation of Virginia's red flag law, thereby protecting domestic abusers who wanted to keep their guns so they could threaten and kill their partners. He made Virginia a "better" place for murderers, and a more dangerous place for everyone else.

They were not fooled, tricked, manipulated, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. They posted the videos because it matches their ideology and illustrates their preferred narrative. That’s it.

“Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, & sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the FBI.” There’s no accountability for the “real” ones, making this shit all but certain. www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

just a tiny oopsy

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

holy fuck, hovis

The rapid proliferation of services powered by artificial intelligence, ranging from the genuinely useful to the frivolous to the unnecessary, has a common element: the need for vast amounts of electricity and water for the data centers that make them possible.

“They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.”

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

You ever see a conversation at work that goes exactly as badly as you imagined it would, given the topic, and all you can do is just…

My doctor asked me if I smoke or drink coffee. I told him I drink it.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the larger social, political, and economic context. Must be this new made up term an analyst just coined.

air disasters reliably get people’s attention

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Is it ok to laugh?

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the larger social, political, and economic context. Must be this new made up term an analyst just coined.

Self-interest is self defined. Folks keep taking agency from other people. These white folks aren't cutting off their noses to spite their faces. They are living their values.

Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

A psychic told me that in 13 to 15 years I would experience unimaginable grief :( It upset me so much that I went and adopted a puppy to cheer myself up.

What word becomes shorter if you add two letters? Short.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

"Donating plasma, or what we call 'the firefighters oil change.'”

I bet he can pronounce it now

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

What’s the difference between an outlaw and an in-law? Outlaws are wanted.

Conyers, Georgia elected their first Black mayor: ocgnews.com/connie-alsob...