Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.

This is a joke, but also not a joke. Everything in this post used to be in or on a Chicago building, but now sits in the City Museum. And I'm not even getting into their Louis Sullivan collection, which is beyond belief.

Lady Topham Catt@ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · last yr.

The entire Chicago Architecture Posting Guild should descend on St Louis en masse to repatriate our sacred artifacts. Many are being flaunted within a stronghold they call the City Museum.

Illinois should legitimately issue birth certificates for trans people born in states that will not do so "sorry about your old state congratulations you were born in Illinois now"

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that

JB Hutch@jbhutch.bsky.social · last wk.

Testing an idea that I've had for a while, but I think is even better suited for atproto Internet, meet plts.at

I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

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<a post in the genre of recognizing the undiagnosed neurodiversity of your aging parents>

I ask bc it seems to me that we're not going to stabilize democracy without pulling our info ecosystem out of its death spiral, which won't happen if the big platforms retain their monopoly control of social connections. But this appears to be the furthest thing from US leftist and liberal concerns.

This. And I’m really hoping they don’t fuck it up

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Far from an iPhone killer, the more of an agentic slopshow everything else becomes, the more valuable the Apple ecosystem gets, especially with an aging population.

Somebody raise your hand so I don’t have to

Should be working, found some good rocks.

I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.

We’ve Been Lookin’ for Art in All the Wrong Places

It’s not easy to visit Mike Monteiro’s anti-capitalist paintings, but not all art-viewing should be easy.

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Good news, and I love a FOIA story, but if we lived in New York it’d be on the cool mayor’s Tik Tok

Michael Hawthorne@scribeguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chicago has issued nearly $2.6M in fines to impeders of bike lanes, bus lanes and bus stops, not counting late fees, according to city data obtained via #FOIA by @chicagotribune.com Among the scofflaws, trucks owned by Amazon, FedEx, UPS. More from @adquig.bsky.social @taliasoglin.bsky.social

For the hundredth year anniversary of the Aragon I’d recommend listening to this Studs Terkel interview with the son of the man who built it. Wherein they opine on its place in Chicago history when the ballroom was not yet even 40 years old in 1963 studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/and...

CPD Internal Affairs referred Carlos Baker to a program for troubled cops in May 2025. IA never answered an email about the referral; Baker wasn't enrolled. Could have led to duty change or firing. Baker fatally shot his partner (accidental, acc to authorities) couple weeks later. #chicago

Chicago Police Failed to Place Troubled Cop Under Strict Supervision Before He Fatally Shot Partner

Carlos Baker was referred to a program that subjects officers to intense oversight. But Baker wasn’t enrolled before he shot Officer Krystal Rivera because a supervisor didn’t respond to an email.

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One of my favorite pieces at NPR was a short video with a simple, clear thesis: “Climate change is real and caused by humans.” But just before publishing, in a meeting of the top editorial brass, that statement was deemed unacceptable, and the project was spiked. 2016, IIRC. Anyhoo.

Brian Boyer@brianboyer.net · 3w ago

The air tastes even worse than the map suggests.

The air tastes even worse than the map suggests.

I’ve never been a same-breakfast-everyday person, but labaneh might change me.

Hell yeah 70+ year-old glowing analog street corner data viz restoration

Lee Bey@leebey1.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today's column: Downtown's old Bell Federal Savings sign that once told the time and temp, but also featured a lighted, acrylic bell that changed color to alert passersby of coming weather conditions, is being renovated and put back into use.

Btw y'all cheeseburger.world might be the coolest new Atproto app 😎

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 3w ago

Burgerville Vancouver, WA ⭐ $ The Northwest Cheeseburger from Burgerville, with Tillamook cheddar cheese, as well as mayo, ketchup, pickles, tomato, and lettuce. The only fast food burgers I'll eat. Decent value. The sides are often better than the burgers but it tastes like nostalgia. #CBDB

Is there really no way to detect if someone is using a screen reader on your website? I feel silly that this is just now occurring to me, but wow. Would love to have some numbers when talking about the importance of accessibility.

I had fun writing this piece for the summer issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social about Moby-Dick, Star Trek, and #scicomm! ‘Viewers are forced to reckon with the possibility, vocalized by Spock, that “only human arrogance would assume [an alien] signal must be meant for mankind.”‘ 🐳🐋🧪

Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine

Learning from Star Trek’s space whales

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I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

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Fine day for a road trip to #srccon w/ @joe.germuska.com

Writing project led me back to the incredible story of the skilled bra-and-girdle seamstresses who put their expertise to work designing and sewing the Apollo spacesuits (and the culture clash with systems engineers). From Nicholas de Monchaux's SPACESUIT. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-...

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

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Fireworks soundtrack alert! WWOZ is playing all P-Funk. Feet don’t fail me now! www.wwoz.org

WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM : New Orleans' Jazz & Heritage Station : Dedicated to Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe

WWOZ is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station for New Orleans and the surrounding community. Jazz, Blues, Latin, Cajun, Funk and more.

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while i’m glad at least one illinois elected official is actually warning about increased ice activity in chicagoland, giannoulias’s scheme feels more like a political stunt en route to the mayor’s office than an actual plan to stop masked feds from kidnapping our neighbors.

Amid Increased ICE Activity, Giannoulias Urges Public to Report Illegal License Plate Tampering

YouTube video by Illinois Secretary of State

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Turns out that a ~10 year supply of coffee pot descaler and cleaner costs the same as ~6 months of the little paper packets.

Working on my little newsletter going through the origin of some conventional frameworks and diagrams in business and design and oh shit Gantt charts. www.bostonreview.net/articles/cai...

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.

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