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editing OSM can be fun - it also has a reward in that you help make 1,000s of research projects and economic and socio-spatial studies possible

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

hey @mayorofchicago.bsky.social ! itd be really awesome if you could update your account to use an official domain like @mayor.nyc.gov and many others e.g. mayor.chicago.gov only takes a minute to update the DNS record and makes it a lot easier for people to trust that your account is legit! ty!

Come celebrate the FreeMix launch with us tonight at The California Clipper in Chicago. free pizza | free swag | free people 10pm–2am/21+/Free! freemix.fm/launch-party

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

The easiest way to get a big scoop in journalism is to straight-up steal it from @marisakabas.bsky.social, as we've seen over and over from "respectable" outlets.

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social

One week from tonight! FreeMix launch party and @chicago.at after party. Free! ra.co/events/2557441

I cannot recommend this @johnkroman.bsky.social post enough: the pandemic-era trends in violence, both the rise and fall, track local government employment... and NOT of the police (which stay relatively stable). Fewer coaches, counselors, etc.? More violence. More of them? Less violence.

Chicago!! Let’s stop shotspotter once and for all (again) vote NO this election on the shotspotter question find the toolkit: tiny.cc/sssballot

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

Mark Zuckerberg struggling to pretend to enjoy a pint of Guinness

"Meta has shut down Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s Instagram account, which contained an extensive archive documenting ' #Israel #’s' war on #Gaza, according to a statement posted... appealing for help restoring the page." www.instagram.com/p/DeSPK8NFId... #Journalism #Palestine #Press

how can Chicago not have a tld?!??

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

"Ill-conceived" is the mildest way to put this. A closure would be punitive and disastrous.

I wish Chicago did this. I'm currently trying to get signatures from half my neighbors for a block party permit on Halloween. It's a very frustrating process.

My first zine is done! It is about how AI doomerism is marketing for AI companies and you can download it here! aylataylor.itch.io/whos-afraid-...

Corkboard is now 1 month old! You can now sign-in to your ATProto account (at the bottom) and create/delete events, load any account's corkboard (top right) and repost events to your own, interoperate with @laugh.town favorite lists, and import/export .ics More soon, DM us if you want custom boards

come say hi !! :) all welcome, no qualifications necessary! if you’ve ever wished the internet were better, you’re in good company

Disabled folks have also been used to justify self-driving vehicles. Big tech uses members of minoritized populations as human shields, then discards them when they're inconvenient

chicagoland!! it's us, at://chicago come to Life on Marz next Wednesday for a casual social!

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

If you’re an AT Proto enthusiast, do yourself a favour and read @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social ‘s “Technofeudalism”. I swear you’ll have an eureka moment of understanding the real potential of AT Proto within society.

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

I will be using this. Better ATProto testing infrastructure with ephemeral accounts

Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes

Meanwhile, the more credible existential threat from AI arises from humans wiring up known-to-be hallucinatinatory bullshit machines directly to military command and other existence-critical systems

It's pick your poison between TESCREAL billionaires folks. We have Sanders' advisors: funded by likes of Jaan Tallinn who led Anthropic's series A & other friends on the "left" wing Marc Andreessen, Palantir folks etc on the "centrist" wing writing our bills. www.levernews.com/big-ais-favo...

Holy $#!+ this is perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNi...

too big to fail speedrun

lol two months ago OpenAI was signing a letter about how important open weights models were and now their house propagandist is saying “we will ban open weights and you will thank us for it”. You can’t hate this company enough

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums