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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The pristine Bounty Waters was protected under the Biden administration, Republicans have overturned the ban for mining within this proximity.

We cannot give up the fight to protect the wilderness.
#Minnesota
#BountyWaters

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

“crap” became “stuff,” as the Times is a family paper.

“butt” will become “ass,” if we’re lucky!

I had to make some changes to my AI piece before the Times would print it (“we’re a family paper”). A German newspaper wants to rerun it, so I’d like to translate it back before they translate it into German:

An anthropomorphic piece of sliced bread and a bunch of red roses smiling, walking hand-in-hand. The slice of bread carries a red banner that says "We Want It All" Beneath the image it says Haymarket Books Est. 2001, Chicago IL

We want it all

New design collab with @harebrained.bsky.social

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

I will never ever forget (though I do try) the time the edtech guy suggested to our dean that we solve the shortage of funding for writing-intensive classes by asking corporations to sponsor classes and define which skills should be taught.

this is so familiar, but for cubs

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

read this to learn more about the quantum computing megadevelopment being built on the south side of chicago

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

A smiling White Sox fan in a jersey and a white sox branded pope hat and shades. White Sox Pope Hat Tuesday, August 11 @ 6:40 p.m. CT vs. Reds POPE HATS FOR EVERYONE CRATE FIELD

‘Due to popular demand the White Sox pope hat is no longer limited to just a portion of the fans in attendance’ is a sentence I get to say

Chicago White Sox post on X: "you wanted them, you're ALL getting one" "POPE HATS FOR EVERYONE @ RATE FIELD" Photo of a Chicago White Sox player in a pope hat.

👀 this is fantastic #Pope promotion from the Chicago #WhiteSox and a pretty poignant statement for the time we are in.

Nothing demonstrates the rotted mentality of even self-proclaimed conservative “intellectuals” like the fact that Sasse is on his deathbed and he and Douthat still seem to think the #1 issue facing America is “liberal arts professors who don’t vote the way I want them to vote.”

Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Even more amazing:

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

Congrats to my old friend Aadam Jacobs, deservingly receiving international recognition from numerous press sites for creating probably the most important live music archive of the past 30 years, simply by being Aadam.

Image of a book on fire. Below, the text "book censorship news" is in white.

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now.

Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live.

bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

I am on the hiring committee. AI is not being used in the hiring process.

hands holding a small, folded up comic, titled Marginalia with a medieval dragon-snail creature on its cover.

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!
1/5

Holy cow. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman just officially named a moon crater “Carroll” in honor of his wife who passed away in 2020.

We are hiring 3 full-time lecturers in the English Department at University of Illinois at Chicago! 3/3 teaching load. Eligible for union membership (UICUF). Join us!

Someone sent me this.

$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

“We were taken aback.”

Really? Were you?

Researchers expected "'benevolent sexism' — a belief that men should protect and provide for women. This seemed to them to fit with an ethos where he earns and she cooks and cares for the children."

And they didn't put any more thought into it than that?

What people say after playing a prank on April 1st...

1. April fools! (English)
2. April trickery! (Icelandic)
3. April fish! (French)
4. April, April, eat some herring, drink muddy water afterwards! (Finnish)
5. First of April, frog in your ass that never wants to leave! (Dutch)

I'll also state on TDOV that beginning tomorrow you can watch a series of films directed by trans people on the Criterion channel. We programmed this series with love and with hope.