Every once in a while someone suggests that perhaps AI will "solve" climate change but I'm pretty sure you don't have to spend $3.4 billion on creating new fossil fuel plants just to get the answer "burn less fossil fuel."

Anthropic secures $3.4 billion generator deal for AI data centers, FT reports

Anthropic has struck a deal ​worth about $3.4 billion to secure gas-fired ‌power generators for data centers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

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What a beautiful example of how fucking stupid “it doesn’t advance the plot” is as a concept. The point of story is not to absorb all plot efficiently. The point of all of it -plot, character, visuals, backstory, dialogue - IS TO MAKE YOU FEEL THINGS.

I finally decided to watch Season 2 of Nobody Wants This and am very confused. The whole season was the main characters fighting about something I thought had already been resolved in the S1 finale. By the end I didn’t even want them to get back together. It’s too bad. I liked Season 1.

Salon.com's team had an amazing election night. It is truly so fun, such an honor, to work with such smart, passionate, deeply funny people. This morning, we were informed the publication was closed, effective immediately. Here's the official company message. www.salon.com/2026/11/05/g...

Goodbye from Salon - Salon.com

It has been an extraordinary privilege.

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Really proud of American voters tonight. I’m hopeful that we can turn these results into action.

Cool!

As the guy who helped develop the good Capn', I totally approve of this message.

Midnight Ross💙💛@rphutch1975.bsky.social · last wk.

Exactly

BREAKING: The New York Times has terminated their contract with romance columnist Olivia Waite after she reposted @markjacob.bsky.social 's repost of @marisakabas.bsky.social criticism of the Times’ coverage of new rape allegations about Trump. That is a sentence I didn’t think I’d type today.

The New York Times Terminates Contract with Romance Columnist Olivia Waite After Bluesky Repost - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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A great collection of Rock the Vote videos!

Smart Bitches@smartbitches.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remember Rock the Vote?

Thank you for all the support you've shared with us! We have no further updates beyond our earlier October 30 post, but keep an eye on official #OTW channels! While #AO3 is down, we wanted to share some important internet safety reminders with all of you. Read more at: ao3-news.org/2z5ya9px

Amazing in Autumn. Friday morning's start in Chicago's Lincoln Park.

Such a fun story!

Jörg Hillebrand@gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 2w ago

I never saw Patrick Stewart at a convention and didn't come with him into direct contact in any way when working on #StarTrekPicard but there's one Patrick Stewart/Jean-Luc Picard related achievement that only I have ever made - find proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the #StarTrek universe. 1/10

I feel a lot less ridiculous now about the fact that I spent an hour downloading fanfic from AO3 yesterday.

[update] Identified: We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has ...

of all the people and entities I used to love who are now fully AI-pilled, this is one of the ones that breaks my heart the most. their ENTIRE REASON FOR EXISTENCE was to democratize human art making and insist that writing a novel was something any of us could do

Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · 3w ago

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

Happy 105th birthday to the Chicago Theatre

Dropped off my mail-in ballot at one of the official dropbox locations today! I’m glad to have voting checked off my to-do list.

Commentary: The line stretched for almost a mile on Broadway on Sunday in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Thousands of people waited in the line for hours as the line inched forward.

Robert Loerzel: The Uptown Theatre drew thousands during Open House Chicago. How do we get it restored?

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The CTA wants your input on bus service in a new survey. buff.ly/krZ1JCM

Ugh, just got another propaganda email from the formerly non-partisan Social Security Administration. Can’t wait to find out what type of scam hinges on pushing every parent in America to download a “Trump Accounts” app.

I’ve been humming this song all day.

It's always October 19th in your heart.

This Chicago School Board Voter Guide is incredibly useful. It provides each candidate’s background, top issues, and endorsements, as well as a clear comparison on key issues. chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...

2026 Chicago School Board Voter Guide: Candidates & Map

Find your Chicago School Board voting district by address, explore the map and compare candidates in the fall 2026 Board of Education election.

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The Uptown Theatre. Uptown Chicago. Designed by Architects Rapp & Rapp for the Balaban & Katz movie chain in 1925. The largest freestanding theatre in North America. Closed since 1981. Diamond in the rough

Time-lapse of people walking through the Uptown Theatre today during Open House Chicago.

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last mo.

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

I’m sad the Sox lost tonight, but it was still a great season.

I’m apprehensive about a new Stargate show after the previous attempt fell apart, but I did like WandaVision, so I’m going to try to be cautiously optimistic.

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · last mo.

[Ongoing thread] New Stargate show (second attempt) "Jac Schaeffer (WandaVision, Agatha All Along) is developing a new Stargate TV series for Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. According to sources, a writers’ room is expected to open in the near future."

The White Sox are bringing a 2-0 ALDS lead home to Chicago!

Another White Sox win!!! 🥳