david alexander

@davidalexander.bsky.social

if it ever seems like i am trying too hard it is only because i am desperate for attention | part bro on my dad’s side, full bitch from my mom | SF98’s resident niffin and self appointed intern | he/him | chicago | 🇵🇷 for legal purposes, i am a joke

Took a train from Chicago to vegas, drove from vegas to palm springs, flew from palm springs back to chicago so can confidently say flying was the worst of the three WHY HAVE WE BEEN TAXIING FOR A FUCKING HOUR

Words cannot contain my rage about this. And it is journalistic irresponsibility to just go along with the tr*mp admin’s underlying assumption that college degrees are supposed to be pre-job training. Education is valuable for its own sake and so many reasons beyond what can be quantified.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Whenever shotspotter is talked about i remember in 2017 while getting my masters we wrote a research report/case study on the (then more nascent) technology and a potential partnership with chicago that i convinced a team of mid career adults to name “best shot at reducing gun violence”

Two slides
Slide 1
Best Shot at Reducing Gun
Violence
City of Chicago Proposal
June 2017
NOTRE DAME
Mendoza College of Business

Slide 2
Recent Headlines
Bryan to add suburb headline
Chicago's Murder Rate Is Rising But It Isn't Unnrecedented
Gun violence, unsolved murders put
Homi Chicago on course to set grim record t year after deadliest day so far in 2017
murder... but why?
shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!
8:25 PM - 24 Jan 2017
WHY 2016 HAS BEEN CHICAGO'S BLOODIEST YEAR
IN ALMOST TWO DECADES

real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator