Mike Hicks

A recent programming graduate who is currently working in the game industry described the grief she feels for the career she thought she was going to have. She loves to code, and she doesn’t want to surrender that in whole or in part to a tool, even if she understands its utility. “I am grieving.”

Featuring the epic return of Resident Maine Resident John Hodgman youtu.be/pzyITrwlaL0

Ok, so she doesn’t want to run for president I guess.

Meta strongly appears to be an enemy of democracy in the US. Proceed accordingly. If you're a politician, activist, or organization on the left, you HAVE to build your presence off of Meta and X - which basically means here and Mastodon. Bring your audience over as much as possible. It's critical.

For the second time this month, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos has run a lede editorial fretting about the price of cardboard boxes.

Minneapolis Public Schools just emailed to say that enrollment is down this year—likely due to Metro Surge—with 900 fewer English Language Learners compared to this time last year. An estimated $12.9 million less revenue for our schools. The impacts of ICE on our community continue to mount.

Crunch (who doesn't wear pants), Abolish ICE, Be Prepared to Stop ICE and VOTE! posters seen in Minneapolis on the Midtown Greenway in October 2026.

Great to see the PCRetroTech channel posting again on YouTube. I have a soft spot for IBM PC stuff since my family had one growing up. Here's a nice advancement in how to draw ellipses, which is tricky on old planar CGA graphics youtu.be/OJ-JYR-4k4s

It gave me no joy to write this piece, but I was glad to work together with the editorial team at @minnpost.com to share my experience with HOURCAR and the impact on my family of its closure. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Obviously if "Nevermind" came out 35 years ago, then this baby is old enough to be U.S. president.

Weird split on today's City Council vote to move forward a proposal eliminating the Office of Community Safety, currently led by Todd Barnette. Yes: Wonsley, Payne, Chavez, Stevenson, Chughtai, Vetaw, Osman, Warren, Chowdhury No: Palmisano, Rainville, Whiting Abstain: Shaffer

Now that Taylor Waddell has earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, he is rapidly working toward his doctorate in the field of BART-themed Halloween costume studies. We are ready to bestow a diploma on this postdoc, posthaste.

The only Cheesecake Factory discourse we care about. Plus, RIP to @nerd4cities.bsky.social's mentions.

The fun thing about this is when they say “a third of the size of Las Vegas,” they mean the capacity (6k vs ~18k seats). But the actual sphere itself not that much smaller! 302 feet high instead of 366…

Bank of America just sent out an AI Dumbass Disclaimer to its clients

There are 173 hours and 14 minutes remaining until November 3 at 8:00 PM. Have you voted? Voted today.

Excellent work here.

Five beautiful new books, coming in hot! #PubDay -Lizzie Ehrenhalt's Romantic Sensation -Eric Dregni's Raising Bilingual Bambini -Sarah Hayden's Voiceworks -Thomas Matusiak's The Visual Guillotine -Larry Haeg's Harriman vs. Hill, now in PB

The day is always better when there's new Chvrches music youtu.be/1MOlCPAF5qk

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

As the midterms approach, I would just remind everyone that US politics has become increasingly parliamentary and that what matters most is the *number* of Ds or Rs, not the idiosyncrasies or ideological quirks of individual candidates. If you want D outcomes, vote D up & down the ticket.

Despite hundreds of employees calling on the company to halt the sale, executives stood by the deal, saying the robots would not be weaponized: arstechnica.visitlink.me/KlTbOs

#OnThisDay Oct 27 1958: Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad's "Banco Special", the annual company train carrying Northwestern National Bank executives out to visit branch offices, departs Minneapolis for Aberdeen SD. Of interest is the armored car behind F3 engine no. 405.

The US general elections are one week from today—and many people are already voting! There are many key elections I'll be following, based on the @boltsmag.org cheatsheet boltsmag.org/whats-on-the..., with some specifically interesting referendums coming up on housing & transportation issues... 🧵

Proud to see early voting at Little Earth today. Minneapolis residents can vote at 2501 Cedar Ave S from 11am to 6pm. Jason Chavez

Day 4

The dream of 2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Spending money on closing encampments is more expensive than creating housing.

After tech companies were warned that data center expansion could cost Republicans competitive midterm elections, Fox News’ pro-data center coverage increased by 420%.

Does anyone know the relative staffing levels of Metro Transit PD vs. the TRIP agents? Mostly curious due to the level of visibility of the two

Nice piece on air vs. train travel from Morning Brew from a few days ago youtu.be/_u8rLrd1718

Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece

Hennepin County: tell your loved ones about Cedrick Frazier

Minnesota loses a dentist and a family loses a father, just so some weasel can make their quota of forced deportations. His only crime, apparently, was being a Canadian who wanted to become a US citizen like the rest of his family. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Tell the University of Minnesota person in your life that they can early vote at the Weisman Art Museum 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today (Monday).

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