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Going back and reading up on the #PRO act and bemoaning what could have been

Big news for the California bus corridor: pack of 3 wild 94 buses just spotted heading north past Fullerton

Pardon Leonard Peltier

Image of intersection with near lane centered. A faint old bike lane painted bike is circled in yellow

It’s faint, but… was there once a two way bike lane on upper wacker??

Went out for a walk yesterday morning and within a few minutes, heard a strange grinding sound, and looked up and saw about 50 Sandhills cranes flying over!

I agree completely. Military recruitment propaganda can be very compelling, but how many kids would still enlist if they also heard from members of Veterans for Peace or some similar group

Excerpt from Dahr Jamail’s “The Will to Resist” of a Naval Academy rhyme that reads: “Who can take a chainsaw/ Cut the bitch in two/ Fuck the bottom half/ And give the upper half to you?”

It’s been a while since I read it, but it didn’t take long flipping through to find this horrifying quote:

So far my coworkers have not been very impressed by the tintype photos we had taken on thanksgiving

Spotted again in Humboldt park??

Hawk perched on tree branch and facing away from camera

Closer image of hawk from the front

Spotted right above me on the 606 Tuesday evening! I’m thinking juvenile red-tailed hawk? #bird

Good question, beats me!

Sure, but there will always be bad actors, especially when there is economic incentive involved. So, I think it’s important to think about if it’s even possible to protect our data from those bad actors on this platform

I am not justifying data scraping for AI in any way. I am just saying that what bsky has explicitly done is make tech over which no one has absolute control. By using bsky, we are putting our data on a public network that anyone can access

Like theoretically, anybody wanting to scrape data for AI could just make their own app and do whatever they want with bsky data anyway

Again, grain of salt here, but I think even if you self-host, you still have to connect (federate) with the whole “Atmosphere” to engage with it. This is different from apps like mastodon, where data is shared in collective, federated servers that can completely sever from others if they so choose.

I could be wrong, but I think the issue is the AT protocol that Bluesky is built upon is such that the app actually can’t do anything about this. Everything we do is forever public, existing in a system of connected repositories that bsky or any app built on the protocol accesses on its own terms.

Had a lovely evening yesterday walking and taking the 56 up and down Milwaukee going to every book store trying to find any copy of Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites (B&N doesn’t even have a sci fi section??).

I was unsuccessful, but the frequency of bus service during rush period is a marvel

Replaced my screen protector last night and dreamt that it shattered into one thousand pieces

Not the way I listen to them, I fear

My favorite date night is fancy restaurant, order like I’m allergic to money, and stretttccchhh the next grocery shop at Aldi’s

Beans in Alaska

For all its faults, #CTA bus service does seem much improved from when I used it regularly in 2022!

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit.

It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

Was shocked to see a car engulfed in flames on my block today before I realized they were shooting #chicagofire!

cooking up some awesome skeets… just you wait

Absolutely massive decision. I hope it sticks for a while at least

One thing I’m loving about bsky as opposed to twitter is how I haven’t seen a single 10+ tweet thread. If I never see these emoji’s again, I’ll die happy 🧵👇🏻

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me on my death bed: fuuuuck i wish i posted online more