Sarah Lees, contemporary UK fine art painter inspired by landscapes.(via Instagram) #Womensart

Not a fan of becoming part of tornado alley but I’ll take it.

Clean air starts with healthy trees! On International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, help us Restore the Canopy by planting a free native oak sapling from the #MWRD. Trees help improve air quality, provide wildlife habitat and keep neighborhoods cooler. Pick up a sapling: https://ow.ly/TFqA50ZJw2g

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

nytimes.com

Part of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.

This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 13h ago

Part of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

I love the concrete examples of how to avoid anthropomorphism in this article: artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation image recognition → image labeling speech recognition → automatic transcription shows bias → reflects bias hallucination → undesirable output goal → success condition

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 22h ago

A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>

Happy “my apartment is earily quiet because the persistent background noise of the lakefront highway is absent” morning to all who celebrate.

Spontaneous photo this morning because I liked the light. These quick snaps usually don't work for me, so I'm pretty chuffed.

Spotted over I-5 in Seattle

JD Vance wants to take child care money away from low-income parents and giving it to married women who stay home to raise their kids. Welcome to Gilead. brigittepellerin.substack.com/p/the-handma...

The Handmaid’s Tax Credit

Subsidizing married parents to stay home by taking childcare money away from low-income parents is not giving women more choice.

brigittepellerin.substack.com

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932

What makes higher ed administrators, faculty and staff with no background in computer science, cognitive science, or other specialized fields think they are qualified to "teach AI" to college students? #edusky #academicsky

When we think about energy demand, we should think about social utility. Yes, AC will increase energy demand but it is also necessary to save lives. AC has social utility. Hyperscaled data centers do not. We should prioritize one (AC) over the other (AI slop)

Air conditioners are our best bet in the fight against extreme heat – whether we like it or not

Global AC demand will inevitably accelerate as the world continues to warm amid the climate crisis

theguardian.com

Correction: most of the Drive was open for the event. It was just closed to cars.

CBS News Chicago@cbschicago.bsky.social · yesterday

The annual Bike the Drive was under way on Chicago's iconic DuSable Lake Shore Drive on Sunday, and most of the Drive was shut down for the event.

TICKETS ARE LIVE, NERDS! Come take a very Lady Topham Catt walk through Morgan Park on 9/20 at 11. I'll be talking historic train stations! Architecture! Black Folks Getting Stuff Done! Women Getting Stuff Done! Neighborhood myths! And yes... there will be terra cotta! Grab a ticket & come through!

Morgan Park Walking Tour

Join Chicago for Chicagoans for a walking tour of Morgan Park, covering neighborhood history, architecture, and current events.

eventbrite.com

Lady Topham Catt@ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 3w ago

HEADS-UP, NERDS! I'm leading a walking tour of Morgan Park for Chicago for Chicagoans on Sunday, 9/20 at 11. It will start at this lovely station, allowing travelers to experience the delights of the Rock Island line. Free, but this is for a nonprofit. Please give them money! Tickets available 9/6.

Very Good Dogs alert: Very Good parade pups wait for human to get a handle on the leash situation Pilsen neighborhood

Also this is the vision of a car free lakefront. It should be more than one day a year. One could say it should be a daily activity.

Brianinja@brianinja.bsky.social · yesterday

Fun Bike the Drive, y'all. Really wish Metra ran more trains on the weekend.

Pilsen Parade West 18th Street coverage: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/05/p...

Best lakefront day of the year: Bike The Drive.

Chicago — 1947 📷 by Bill Strum

Yep, a lot of us have been unable to replicate these effects.

A series of replication attempts of experimental awe-induction effects

The self-transcendent emotion of awe has recently received research attention beyond many other emotions due to several intriguing outcomes reported in the experimental literature. Specifically, after...

journals.plos.org

#BlueskyArtShow #Minimal Cow Parsley

This artwork is an oil painting titled "Level Crossing, San Francisco" (2025) by artist Rob Pointon. From his "Fake Tales of San Francisco" collection.

Summers in the US are getting hotter due to human-caused climate change. 2026 will be the hottest and most humid in the contiguous US since records began in 1895. We need investments in clean energy, updates to permitting systems, and help for communities to adapt to climate hazards.

Opinion | Summer Has Gotten Much Hotter. See How Bad It Is Where You Live. (Gift Article)

The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.

nytimes.com

The Sitting And Thinking Bear Sits and Thinks at Rawson Lake Jason Carter ~ Cree 2026

Rebecca Vincent, contempory UK artist is inspired by the landscape of her Northumbrian home and has 30 years experience of fine art printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Frozen methane bubbles trapped beneath a lake create an otherworldly landscape. Original post