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Spontaneously being unemployed en masse by billionaires, landing in the resistance, and yelling about the fascists
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
Lots of guys with backwards ball caps and truck nutz never gonna listen to Philip Glass again
This is 100% photo op horseshit. Expect to see this leveraged for political donations/fundraising.
And credit it to @staceywescott.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com
This week Josh and I talk about whether Jimmy Kimmel has any remedy for the First Amendment violation, whether the FCC is still legitimately a thing, about comparative murder prosecutions in Utah and New York, and about Trump’s big libel suit.
www.serioustrouble.show/p/federal-ce...
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
Go ahead and cancel Disney+. Spend your money somewhere else, Disney doesn't deserve it. Rolling over for authoritarian thuggery is unacceptable horseshit.
This is clearly performative legislation. Who would vote for this?
Good account to block/report. They’re spreading disinformation about Chicago.
We were at this scene when it happened months ago.
Chicago keeping art alive:
I’m afraid to say this is very attractive. Got to love a passionate nerd. He knows his shit.
This is a remarkable book, highly recommended. www.robertloerzel.com?mailpoet_rou...
As the shuttered Uptown Theatre turns 100, a new book relives its storied past and pleads for its restoration. Here’s what we learned.
Will Uptown Theatre ever reopen? The historic movie palace turns 100 amid its latest revival effort. blockclubchi.co/4mAIv6Y
#GoodMorning, Skylarks
📷 lcarly #photography #cat
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekGForGlass
On the plane to defcon and there’s a guy on the plane in front of me that I can tell is some sort of tech bro. He is doing some training and on every question, he is changing tabs and asking Supergrok — the $300/mo subscription — for help and STILL GETS THE QUESTIONS WRONG
Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
Speaking of pre-ordering...
I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago
I received my copy yesterday, it's a beautiful volume with genuinely jaw dropping photos (haven't read the text yet!).
Closed since 1981, the Uptown Theatre turns 100 years old in August. To mark the occasion, CityFiles Press is publishing "The Uptown: Chicago’s Endangered Movie Palace," which I co-authored with James A. Pierce. Preorder for $40 here: www.cityfilespress.com/books/the-up...
Only idiots or liars could claim that native-born Americans want to deport immigrants so they can get a shot at those fantastic fruit-picking jobs.
Did you know?💡
When Star Wars aired on TV in 2003, Chile stitched beer commercials/ads into the films to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.
Lucasfilm filed a claim with Chile's advertising ethics council in 2004 citing copyright violations & won banning the ads.
So. which Stephen king book are we doing today, folks?
Public Service Notice, if you say that you can't do your job without GenAI/ML tools, you've either exceeded your skillset or you're working under impossible deadlines, neither of which matter to Security.
The Trump cabinet is the Olympics of underqualified government hires.
