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Here's another good example (of so very many) of why you shouldn't use Twitter
Denny CarterThis 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 Irish musician lived in the North Center neighborhood in the early 2000s. … During his time living here, Hansard and his band, The Frames, worked with famed audio engineer Steve Albini, who died in 2024, at his Electrical Audio studio on West Belmont in the Avondale neighborhood.”
Chicago Sun-TimesGlen Hansard, the beloved Irish musician who had a special connection to Chicago, died early Wednesday morning in Dublin following a motorcycle accident.
It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.
Aaron RuparRep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
Brutal news about Glen Hansard. Every once in a while I'll rewatch this opening scene to Once, which is obviously of a time, but is still awfully beautiful. Watched this at a little movie theatre and had no idea what it was about and was just blown away by the electricity of it. RIP.
Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)YouTube video by bogdan dincăwww.youtube.com
I do not wish to imagine chicago without transit.
High Speed Rail AllianceThe U.S. DOT has proposed eliminating all guaranteed funding for public transit and passenger rail, putting 85% of these federal investments on the chopping block. @apta-info.bsky.social provides more about what's at stake and what you can do to help.
if you're looking for interesting data about Chicago to analyze, the CMAP community area data products are a great starting place. they take a bunch of Census data products and map them to the community areas
Protect Bridgeport BicyclistsLogan Square has a higher vacancy rate, of 8.9%. Lake View vacancy rate is 6.0%. —— Source for all of the above: 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates, via CMAP data snapshots. cmap.illinois.gov/data/communi...
