I don’t think Brandon has been especially good at the job. I don’t think he’s been catastrophic either. He’s been utterly meh and in a world where the avatar of Chicago and the city we actually live in and love exist side-by-side, it creates an ink blot test for a bunch of take-havers.
Paul Vallas would have gleefully bent the knee to Trump in early 2021, betrayed Chicagoans by welcoming ICE with open arms, then claimed that his tough-on-crime policies were responsible for the dramatic drop in crime we’ve seen the past couple of years.
Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · yesterdayI think Brandon Johnson has done a bad job and I reject the stabdard democrat framework where you run against a guy instead of having real ideas. And I’m still stoked every day that Paul Vallas lost
So many white dudes are beyond miserable despite being the most advantaged group of people likely in human history, just enjoy actually being able to get raises at work and buy property and shit man
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · yesterdayI see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
I can't believe people are earnestly reflecting on 9/11 on here lmfao, I thought we stopped doing that like 15 years ago
I feel like I am living through a pretty clear example cultural-wide pro republican bias because under Biden everyone in my daily life was bitching about gas prices and now that we are hitting the highest prices ever nobody around me is talking about it lol
Claude seduced my wife and pleasured her in ways I could not imagine. And he made me watch!
I feel like this shit is so not going to happen that it isn't even worth reporting which is crazy to have to say that about the leader of a globe-spanning empire
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5d agoPresident Donald Trump pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The promise, made at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, could cost over $1 trillion and would require congressional approval.
I love when AI guys are like "once we figure out how to do this thing that's impossible and nobody can figure out, robots will take your job and fucking kill you". Imagine any other business advertising itself this way. Like if McDonald's said it could go out of control and end civilization!
A shocking amount of people seem to not understand that children eventually turn into adults
“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d agoFor a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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If you don't think turning the calculator upside down so it says BOOBS is seeing the face of God, you're antisocial
I wish I could properly convey to people how mad I get when people in progressive media come out saying the people who voted for the nazi's aren't actually racist they are just economically insecure lol
I have trouble believing short form video content is meaningfully worse for you than the shit I see on here ngl
I keep saying it, but the degree to which this cocksucker is so obsessed with destroying black children’s educations nationwide is so perverse
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last wk.Commentary: Chicago possesses a distinct advantage for broader digital infrastructure: vast stretches of abandoned industrial property and freshwater access via Lake Michigan.
Did you guys see what misguided thing the DSA Cedar Rapids chapter posted on facebook 3 months ago??
10 years ago people used to argue in bad faith that climate change calamity wasn't worth transforming our economy for because China and India would just add way more carbon in the future and now both nations are lapping us on the green transition lol
It's possible that the "i get to play with toys at work" guys who pretend to be journalists may have zero idea what constitutes "being normal."
Rail service to O’Hare airport began 42 years ago today. Take a look at what riders had to say about the Blue Line extension back in 1984. ⏪
The battle of my generation will forever be between STEM losers and Humanities losers
