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AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in
Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
While I greatly appreciate a new @divvybikes.bsky.social station closer to the Music Box, this location (midblock on the sidewalk far from any curb cuts) was easily missed and is a terrible placement!
December 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
While I greatly appreciate a new @divvybikes.bsky.social station closer to the Music Box, this location (midblock on the sidewalk far from any curb cuts) was easily missed and is a terrible placement!
Now seated 😈 @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Now seated 😈 @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
Despite advertisements trying to scare us about CTU's power over the city, CPD truly has the city in a chokehold
JUST IN: A federal jury has rejected claims brought by Ariel Roman in his 2020 shooting at the Grand Avenue CTA Red Line station by CPD Officer Melvina Bogard. Jurors found for Bogard and her partner, Bernard Butler, awarding no damages to Roman.
Background: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/1...
Background: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/1...
Judge acquits Chicago cop in shooting of unarmed man at CTA Red Line station, saying victim not credible on stand
Officer Melvina Bogard argued she was trying to protect herself when she shot Ariel Roman on Feb. 28, 2020, but Roman’s attorney contended the officer’s claim “completely contradicts the clear video e...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Despite advertisements trying to scare us about CTU's power over the city, CPD truly has the city in a chokehold
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And fuck you, Dick Durbin. I hope you step on a Lego piece hard getting out of bed every morning in your retirement.
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
And fuck you, Dick Durbin. I hope you step on a Lego piece hard getting out of bed every morning in your retirement.
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When I started collecting stories for AI Killed My Job in the summer, I heard from Jacques, who headed up support operations at a small tech company. The company was training AI on he and his colleagues' work, and he was concerned.
When I checked in with him last month, he had been laid off.
When I checked in with him last month, he had been laid off.
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
When I started collecting stories for AI Killed My Job in the summer, I heard from Jacques, who headed up support operations at a small tech company. The company was training AI on he and his colleagues' work, and he was concerned.
When I checked in with him last month, he had been laid off.
When I checked in with him last month, he had been laid off.
If you want to kill someone and get away with it, use a automobile
Awful: Turning driver of pickup w/ high front end, snow-covered windshield, ran over woman, 67, crossing street at Belmont/Pulaski with "Walk" signal. No word on victim's condition. Driver cited for failure to yield.
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
@latrace.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
@latrace.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you want to kill someone and get away with it, use a automobile
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An unending stream of luxury housing being built, and the city allows our SROs and low-income housing to deteriorate. And CHA currently letting the southern half of Lathrop sit mostly empty and unrefurbished. It just shouldn't be that hard to have a place to stay.
One of Uptown's last single-room occupancy buildings was ordered closed due to dangerous conditions, causing residents to scramble to find affordable housing.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/14/a...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/14/a...
December 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
An unending stream of luxury housing being built, and the city allows our SROs and low-income housing to deteriorate. And CHA currently letting the southern half of Lathrop sit mostly empty and unrefurbished. It just shouldn't be that hard to have a place to stay.
Stupid funny theatre still exists in Chicago and I saw so many friends tonight
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stupid funny theatre still exists in Chicago and I saw so many friends tonight
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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New flyer promoting the Monday 12/15 rally in support of the Archer Avenue traffic safety project, 3868 S. Archer Ave. in Brighton Park. The car activists are showing up around 4:30 PM, but it looks like Safe Streets booster are assembling at 4 PM.
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New flyer promoting the Monday 12/15 rally in support of the Archer Avenue traffic safety project, 3868 S. Archer Ave. in Brighton Park. The car activists are showing up around 4:30 PM, but it looks like Safe Streets booster are assembling at 4 PM.
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
@chicritmass.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
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This is the outcome transphobes want, if course -- it is up to cis people of good faith to decide if this is the society you want.
[CN: transphobia, transmisogyny, sexual harassment]
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
Unworkable rules and impossible situations are the point. They want to make our lives unliveable.
transactual.org.uk/impacts-of-t...
!["I, a trans woman, believed I had to follow the EHRC interim update and was followed into the men's room by a male security officer and told to get out. It is worth noting that before this I was already shaking with fear about the possible confrontation that could ensue. The security man and the two other men in the room circled me. I said I believed, according to what the EHRC and our political leaders have said, that I have to be in there now.
Now that he infers I am trans, he starts sniggering at me. The other men in the room join him in laughing at me. I tell him that it isn't funny and please stop laughing at me. He doesn't stop and I say "it might be funny to you but to me this is my life and I am scared, scared about being attacked, please stop laughing, it's not funny'. He tells me he doesn't care what I have to say, that I need to get out. So I do.
I leave and talk to the store manager, where again, I have to relay all sorts of intimate and private details, of my background, my trans and intersex statuses, history of being assaulted, my genital configuration. This is humiliating.
I felt deeply unsafe, humiliated, hopeless like nobody cares, violated. I don't think the EHRC lets me use the [service of my gender] so I was just denied service."
WHITE TRANS WOMAN WHO FACED ISSUES IN A SHOP OR SHOPPING CENTRE IN ENGLAND.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cau5eglmhacxw6jpnxtbvpgz/bafkreie26vh6ozbbc45rxhq2fichu77of6e6iwcbh6asetbyq6ftwnnjsm@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is the outcome transphobes want, if course -- it is up to cis people of good faith to decide if this is the society you want.
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not just the safe streets project getting cut in this proposal, which is bad enough. It's the neighborhood infrastructure line item that safe streets got lumped into--this means stuff like sidewalk repairs and lighting. Even if your alder labels themselves as progressive--they need to get an earful
URGENT ACTION NEEDED:
Mayor Johnson's 2026 bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure by a whopping 70% – putting our communities in jeopardy by threatening the progress we've made in preventative infrastructure.
Email him and your alderperson today and tell them to reverse course!
Mayor Johnson's 2026 bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure by a whopping 70% – putting our communities in jeopardy by threatening the progress we've made in preventative infrastructure.
Email him and your alderperson today and tell them to reverse course!
Tell the city NO to 70% cuts to safe streets funding!
Mayor Johnson's bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure to the tune of 70% – directly putting our communities' safety in jeopardy. Take a moment to email him and your Alderperson to tell the...
betterstreetschicago.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
not just the safe streets project getting cut in this proposal, which is bad enough. It's the neighborhood infrastructure line item that safe streets got lumped into--this means stuff like sidewalk repairs and lighting. Even if your alder labels themselves as progressive--they need to get an earful
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She just increased their budget lol
Tammy sucks!
Tammy sucks!
Watch Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth & others grill Pentagon officials over the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities. @duckworth.senate.gov
View livestream here: www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-...
View livestream here: www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-...
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
She just increased their budget lol
Tammy sucks!
Tammy sucks!
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Personally I'm ready for the dissolution of the union and the formation of the Great Lakes Republic.
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Personally I'm ready for the dissolution of the union and the formation of the Great Lakes Republic.
This is no way to run a city ffs
To this point, now that the map is official, unfortunately for the 32nd Ward less tape always seems to be cut when it comes to eliminating hurdles to build housing in our ward. That pink 'Zone 8' with all the Waguespack imposed restrictions definitely sticks out.
(Map by Steven Vance)
(Map by Steven Vance)
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is no way to run a city ffs
I forgot the first 6 months of this year happened and was very surprised that I used transit this much (still biked 4x the distance though)
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I forgot the first 6 months of this year happened and was very surprised that I used transit this much (still biked 4x the distance though)
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For anyone still interested, Milwaukee (sb) was clear but there are frequent flat ice streaks where snow melted, drained across the bike lane, then re-froze. Logan Square sucks, just take the lane. Nothing seemed to have been salted but I didn't slip at all (once I got out of my alley). #bikechi
Anyone been outside yet? How are the roads? Salted?
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For anyone still interested, Milwaukee (sb) was clear but there are frequent flat ice streaks where snow melted, drained across the bike lane, then re-froze. Logan Square sucks, just take the lane. Nothing seemed to have been salted but I didn't slip at all (once I got out of my alley). #bikechi
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Keep it strong! Keep it public!
NEW: In rural states, USPS is a major source of good jobs with benefits — and pays workers without college degrees better than jobs like fast food and retail.
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
The Public Postal Service and Rural America - Institute for Policy Studies
The Public Postal Service and Rural America
ips-dc.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Keep it strong! Keep it public!
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“New clauses would prohibit the sale of the beverages at gas stations and other establishments like convenience stores under 2,000 square feet.”
Chicago hates small stores, wants you to shop at big box chains.
Chicago hates small stores, wants you to shop at big box chains.
A proposed hemp ban now has an exemption for THC drinks. blockclubchi.co/4pE7ngm
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“New clauses would prohibit the sale of the beverages at gas stations and other establishments like convenience stores under 2,000 square feet.”
Chicago hates small stores, wants you to shop at big box chains.
Chicago hates small stores, wants you to shop at big box chains.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
lake forever problems for... now?
December 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
lake forever problems for... now?
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"Our trains run through one of the most iconic skylines on the planet. Should we put that on our merch?"
"Nah, give 'em the maintenance shed."
"Nah, give 'em the maintenance shed."
December 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Our trains run through one of the most iconic skylines on the planet. Should we put that on our merch?"
"Nah, give 'em the maintenance shed."
"Nah, give 'em the maintenance shed."