Raising Uptown
@raisinguptown.bsky.social
Raising Uptown isn't just about urbanism, family life & our commitment to raising independent, strong & free children
In this space we share our adventures, document life as it is & advocate for a world that can be better through our attention & effort
In this space we share our adventures, document life as it is & advocate for a world that can be better through our attention & effort
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I've been waiting for something to convince the slavishly consumerist public that certain technologies are a scam and a joke, and then this story falls right in my lap.
Deepak Chopra's new AI companion puts decades of wisdom 'in your pocket,' he says
Deepak Chopra's new AI bot was modeled on decades of writings, research and lectures. "I fed it all into my AI," he says.
www.cnbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've been waiting for something to convince the slavishly consumerist public that certain technologies are a scam and a joke, and then this story falls right in my lap.
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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We have a duty as American citizens who believe that “All men are created equal” to push back against the far right radicals who are trying to divide us.
One day, these will be the incredibly dark moments we read about in the history books.
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We have a duty as American citizens who believe that “All men are created equal” to push back against the far right radicals who are trying to divide us.
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Thanksgiving: I'm thankful for the marvelous Tom Waits song "Chicago" — and the fantastic new cover version by Mavis Staples — and for the chance to write about it. www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
Maybe Things Will Be Better in Chicago
A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.
www.chicagomag.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanksgiving: I'm thankful for the marvelous Tom Waits song "Chicago" — and the fantastic new cover version by Mavis Staples — and for the chance to write about it. www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture...
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Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
We live in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. My 2nd grader goes to school with children whose parents lived all over the globe before becoming our neighbors & friends. The second graders performed in a concert dedicated to unity & peace
Miller can take his grim/violent vision & shove it
Miller can take his grim/violent vision & shove it
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We live in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. My 2nd grader goes to school with children whose parents lived all over the globe before becoming our neighbors & friends. The second graders performed in a concert dedicated to unity & peace
Miller can take his grim/violent vision & shove it
Miller can take his grim/violent vision & shove it
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
When the State deploys men as agents of violence, it breaks a large portion of them. We see this in every iteration of man
Instead of reckoning with the universal fact that violence begets violence, the radical right will double down on a particularist vision of humanity & “purifying” violence
Instead of reckoning with the universal fact that violence begets violence, the radical right will double down on a particularist vision of humanity & “purifying” violence
So he was "homegrown" + trained by the CIA, working for the Zero Unit in Afghanistan, which had a reputation for the following:
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When the State deploys men as agents of violence, it breaks a large portion of them. We see this in every iteration of man
Instead of reckoning with the universal fact that violence begets violence, the radical right will double down on a particularist vision of humanity & “purifying” violence
Instead of reckoning with the universal fact that violence begets violence, the radical right will double down on a particularist vision of humanity & “purifying” violence
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
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"The logical end point of AI progress is feudalism for 99.9 percent of humanity, so vote for me and we'll eliminate the billionaire class responsible for it" is a political platform I will vote for, if offered.
AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy.
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
The most likely AI apocalypse
How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable trap.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"The logical end point of AI progress is feudalism for 99.9 percent of humanity, so vote for me and we'll eliminate the billionaire class responsible for it" is a political platform I will vote for, if offered.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
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“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Zohran, they said don’t mess with him, don’t mess with the Zohran but we were ready to, but we had a wonderful time quite frankly. And he said Mr. President, we need to seize means of production and we do, we need to seize them so badly.”
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DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico
U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
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muppet starship troopers could fix us
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
muppet starship troopers could fix us
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The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.