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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 1d

My neighborhood must have more independent bookstores per capita than almost anywhere else on Earth. So this might be the very last thing we need in Hyde Park:
www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Barnes & Noble to open new Hyde Park store in February

A Barnes & Noble bookstore is set to open in the Hyde Park Shopping Center in late February, adding a national chain to a neighborhood well known around the city

www.hpherald.com

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about stuff like this is that Trump wins even if he loses. Yes, this is about weaponizing the DOJ against his political enemies. But it's also about delegitimizing the criminal justice system, which makes his own felony conviction look like partisan witchhuntery.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

REAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

She has been charged with one count of bank fraud by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump foe, is indicted by Trump’s DOJ

She has been charged with one count of bank fraud by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.

www.politico.com

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 8d

He's not dead. He has retired to his Med Bed.

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 8d

Here me out: Is is possible that members of the current administration are really clandestine revolutionaries accelerating us toward the Marxist utopia we were promised? Lukacs would like a word about subjects and objects of history RN.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8d

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 11d

He also told them the administration was cool with them committing war crimes.

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

I guess I was lucky to see bands like Fugazi play some pretty big venues for $5. And I remember people getting mad when they raised the door price to $6. But that's just me dating myself. Fin. 8/8

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

In my teen and college concert going years, folks were able to buy tickets directly from venue box offices. I don't think that's possible anymore. 7/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

Some artists have tried to get around Ticketmaster but end up playing in really inconvenient and suboptimal places like county fairgrounds. Others have tried to negotiate lower handling fees but you have to be pretty big and important to do that. 6/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

At the same time, their monopoly position prevents artist from circumventing the intermediaries (especially TicketMaster which owns venues (through Live Nation) and has exclusive deals with many others). 5/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

The rent seeking drives up prices to what the "market" will bear while pricing out some core members of an artists' fan base. 4/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

The problem is rent seeking behavior by intermediaries like Ticketmaster, especially when they have a monopoly on the market for tickets (putting aside the real and contractual vertical integration problems they've created). 3/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

Concert tickets by this logic are always underpriced because there is always someone willing (and able) to pay more $$ than some members of the artists' core fan base. 2/n

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

On the level of pure market economics, he's not wrong. But pricing concerts is a really interesting case of social pricing (not just what the market will bear). Artists have an interest in reaching a their fan base that can't be captured by pricing models. 1/n

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 17d

Ticketmaster boss Michael Rapino says concert tickets are 'underpriced'

"In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside seat. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyoncé"

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 17d

I don't hate to saying I told you so in this instance. #streisandeffect

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Harry Enten: "If Donald Trump's idea was to give Jimmy Kimmel more press and more viewership, he absolutely did so"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 19d

As a long time Strava user, I'm not looking forward to the looming enshittification that will come after the IPO.
road.cc/content/news...

Strava makes serious steps towards becoming a public company

road.cc

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 22d

Dear Democrats, forcing a government shutdown also means these guys don't get paid. #dontnegotiatewithfascists

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22d

ICE continues to assault us.

We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 23d

The HP Used Book Sale is a local treasure. Given who lives in the neighborhood and donates, it just might be the best used book sale going. Our family always makes the annual pilgrimage (and goes home with more than we can reasonably carry).

Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 23d

Why I feel the Hyde Park Used Book Sale is important. #Chicago open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

The Hyde Park Used Book Sale

Communities are defined by events in public spaces

open.substack.com

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 23d

I'm praying for a massive Streisand effect here. I hope all the digital media covering this story run the clip that got Kimmel fired (suspended indefinitely).

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23d

To underscore how soaked in bad faith this whole enterprise was, as Rolling Stone reported on Wednesday night, multiple ABC and Disney execs knew that Kimmel hadn’t said anything over the line, and had not actually said what those on the MAGA right had accused him of saying…

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23d

dumbest fascism possible www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 23d

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 23d

I have to say as NYer who has been living in Chicago for almost 20 years now, I really like this place. It's got moxie. #stfuaboutchicago

Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 24d

I got a few more stickers to help non residents remember to STFU About Chicago. #chicago

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 25d

Was just thinking of how FIRE has been so conspicuously silent these days. It's almost like it was never about free speech.

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robyn @robynemz.bsky.social · 29d

JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE WINS IN QUÉBEC !!!!!! #VIBES

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Jackie Daytona (Real Human Bartender) @pbmcinerney.bsky.social · 29d

I'm taking periodic breaks from the flood of news to watch the GP Quebec bike race and lament the loss of the Trek CX Cup from the World Cup Cyclocross calendar. If Grand Tour teams can make the trip to N. America, surely some cyclocross teams can.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 10

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.

You're taking a class, not buying a product.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 10

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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