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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 2d

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 2d

The Gladstone Hotel; then and now. Look at how dense Woodlawn used to be!

Postcard showing an 8 story hotel on a corner lot

old postcard showing an aerial view of Woodlawn in maybe the 1940's?

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JRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 2d

Embrace cà phê urbanism.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:

A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment.

But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way:

Are we more unified than we were before?
Are we bigger than we were before?
Are our tactics proliferating?
Is the regime’s popularity falling?

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Early zoning codes commonly treated multifamily housing as a commercial use. You still sometimes see this in codes. Because the money is handed to a landlord instead of a bank, it's not a residential use. It's the same Anglo-American anti-commmercial hysteria that killed off corner groceries.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 4d

Chung Chi Hall, CUHK, Hong kong r/brutalism

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4d

Noem agonized over the not-so-warm welcome ICE agents are receiving in Chicago… "Those men and women were telling us that they have to figure out even where they can go sit down for five minutes to have lunch or to use the restroom throughout their shift or their break.”

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4d

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 5d

Little uniformity that I could discern, in what they were carrying. Didn't appear to be operating as a team so much as - pop chemicals and bangs into the neighborhood and let the chaos sort it all out.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 5d

Also

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The Conservative Men Who Are Scared of Cities have escalated to gassing civilians for being rude to them.

onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 5d

Highly endorse the wild mile

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 5d

Reading Impossible Toronto, on how Toronto’s side streets can be redeveloped with a denser, more European form. Applicable really to almost anywhere in North America though. Free here: impossibletoronto.ca

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 5d

Colombian tamales are maybe my favorite breakfast

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

New poll of Jewish Americans:

• 61% say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.
• 39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Gift link:
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Sanjukta Kwame Paul LT @sanjukta.bsky.social · 5d

Really worthwhile thread again - especially on a little discussed dynamic about how state flagships gradually became increasingly for rich students, and the gradual divergence in resources from other state schools

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 7d

OK let me do a little thread.

Contrary to popular belief, state funding for public colleges did NOT go down overall during the neoliberal era. That widely repeated result seems mostly be be an artifact of unusually low post-2008 levels.

But...

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

graph of per-FTE student funding, 1980-2024. cycles around $10,500 until a big dip in 2008 and then a gradual recovery back to previous levels starting in 2012

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 5d

@lastpositivist.bsky.social i just read this (enjoyed a lot, thanks!) and was wondering if you’ve ever written publicly about “ liberalism of fear” type arguments, which I find more compelling than the strands you talked about here sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2022/04/why-...

Why I Am Not A Liberal

Those of us in the contemporary academy who are not liberals ought given an account of why not. This asymmetric burden falls on us because...

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 5d

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 5d

The lesson we should be taking from LLMs is the immense social value there is in having all kinds of material - all kinds of products of human intellectual labor - freely available online. They should be reminding us of the early utopian promise of the web.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 5d

What makes LLMs work as a business is precisely that all this text is decommodified, free. As they themselves say, they'd have to shut down if they had to pay for their trainging data. Yet all that data is the product of human labor. This cutting edge of capitalism rests on a substrate of communism.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

it is interesting to me how the MAGA right has a balkanized view of the United States that does not, at all, correspond with the reality of the United States

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

Russell Vought's sick little power trip will also hurt GOPers. One project he's cutting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, which spans Oregon, Washington, and...Montana. The state's GOP governor has hailed it for creating "good-paying Montana jobs." Oops.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

Terror today in Logan Square.

“There was a gentleman over there that was vomiting. There were people in the store nearby that were trying to get water in people’s eyes as soon as they can,” he said.”

Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'

Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.

chicago.suntimes.com

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