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These AI ads are garbage & a disgrace. Chicago’s lakefront doesn’t look like this, and whoever approved this trash needs to 1) hire REAL artists to create & 2) simply do better at their job. This is so embarrassing to see, especially at a mall in the heart of Chicago’s Mag Mile.

Anything they don’t like can be “pornography” if they say it is.

We don't actually have to minimize the negative impacts that early COVID isolation had on people to justify efforts to limit the spread of the virus. Sometimes, necessary actions have unfortunate impacts in addition to positive ones.

"oh no, don't do socialist things! you'll play right into their hands" - the people playing right the fuck into their hands

also, why be so fucking afraid of local experiments!? if the nyc grocery is a policy failure let it be an instructive one and until then let mamdani sell cheap milk and eggs to struggling new yorkers.

The average liberal politician is terrified of a citizenry that expects basic constituent services from government, let alone improvements to their daily life.

As we come near the end of International Zine Month, you should know that many IC resources come in zine form. Check out our zines on abolitionist organizing, community safety and care, and ways YOU can challenge criminalization: bit.ly/ICzines

I didn't think definitions of "working class" could get worse. I was wrong.

It really kind of blows my mind how readily too many people accepted mass surveillance as an unavoidable, mundane, and immutable fact of life. It didn't always used to be that way and it still isn't.

AI surveillance at concerts doesn't seem as scary as, say, use by law enforcement. but here's the thing everyone needs to understand: government surveillance is built on top of corporate surveillance. If we allow facial recognition to creep into private spaces, it can and will be used for fascism

Cops love to lean private sector surveillance data to get around their fourth amendment obligations regarding search and probable cause

Here's another good example (of so very many) of why you shouldn't use Twitter

This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.

The right is never going to forgive scientists for providing the scientific justification for big progressive policy in 2020. Same reason it hates climate scientists. Shutting down was the right move. Big relief programs were the right move. Saved lives.

New: Chicagoans held a small vigil on Tuesday for Corey Ruiz, who police shot and killed in Madison, WI last Wednesday. The vigil followed an outpouring of community outrage in Madison over the past week, as hundreds took to the street to demand justice for this latest instance of police violence.

I really wish I cared about about reading serious policy thoughts about grocery prices, but I just think we should feed people however we can and I don’t really care who gets off on debating it

I interviewed more care workers and went to more vigils than I can remember for a very, very long time and the staggering amount of pain and loss still weighs on me. This kind of flippancy is sociopathic and ghoulish.

Among other things, this piece highlights why we should've been teaching media literacy, how advertising/propaganda work, etc for the last 30+ years. It's not a panacea for patriarchy, bigotry, or capitalism, but I feel like it might've helped stem the tide of some of this mess.