People keep saying they are "maxxing" this and that and I'm like this culture has no power to make me take that seriously, you're not "maxxing" anything, you're just doing things, like you always did, we don't need to use these words

went to the Galena and U.S. Grant Museum recently, and while the museum itself exceeded expectations, what will really lodge in my memory is this reviewer's sentiment that "the gift shop was also biased." The T-shirts were, indeed, pretty clearly pro-Union...

it's nesting season. they're pretty aggressive right now

for a while i had a little ritual when i was hungover where i would go to a neighborhood cafe and wait for "wild horses" to come on, which it always would within an hour, and then i would have a little laugh and feel better

The dominant right-wing culture of the building trades in this country is a huge problem. It makes people in the trades hostile to learning anything about new technology and materials, and while that's not the only reason our construction industry is behind, it definitely contributes.

"dang cheez-it in the white house" flavor

as someone squarely in your target audience, nothing could possibly kill my interest in Liberal Currents faster than gratuitously bashing powerless individual communist bluesky accounts. Completely immature, unserious, and amateurish.

although it could be an interesting new paradigm if social engineering attacks are no longer the path of least resistance (even though they've also been made massively easier and more convincing)

I don't think it's the vuln-finding models per se that will hose them, it's the force multiplier of having agents jiggling every knob at these places all the time. You don't need a zero-day to ransomware a hospital, you just need to have the time to launch an attack

just saw MIKEY AND NICKY and was surprised how much it felt like the ur-text of doing this correctly

the north side neighborhood of Edgewater has a string of streets named after PA train stops because the original developer was from there. Devon, Rosemont, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Berwyn, Wayne. There's a separate NW suburb (with Blue Line station) also called Rosemont. So it's all over the place

Berwyn has the distinction of being used twice in two completely different parts of Chicago, once for a street and station on the far north side and again for a west suburb. This document is referring to the west suburb, where the name is all by itself

my god, what could have been. I'm going to think of these lovely illustrations every time I get stuck at a BNSF crossing.

it's named after the one in Pennsylvania. The original developers of Berwyn, IL in the 19th century literally looked at a PA train timetable and picked a name they liked

wow, ukrainian national identity is almost as old as french national identity? impressive

and being ostentatiously, gratuitously evil is what keeps these people wildly popular long after they otherwise would have passed out of the cultural spotlight. absolutely a culture that fixates on and delights in being evil

with every other foreign crisis he's caused, the other country is happy to play along with his infantile need to be publicly hailed as the winner, granting him a rhetorical victory so he'd accept substantive defeat. Iran is different because they absolutely will not do that.

anybody who has an EV has had to set aside time at some point to download a bunch of apps for various fast charging networks and add payment details to each one. It's considered an experimental new paradigm to have stations where you just pay with a credit card like you do at a gas station.

even for elites, I don't see much evidence that many of them are embracing religion as anything other than a novel discursive frame for the right-wing politics that remains the unmoving core of their identity

this is why i only use flashlights that are secondarily usb-c power banks. now nobody can take my flashlight away

watched it for the first time when it showed up on criterion last night and it was clearly the right call because today this website has been wall to wall michael clayton content

princess peach sitting in a library with a couple of ghosts hovering around her

"We deal in absolutes."

how fast have you been going in that student's reference frame since then, though

oh haha well there you go

I'm no First Amendment scholar but it has seemed to me for a long time like there's been a sort of creeping laziness where all kinds of things that didn't used to be "speech" in the First Amendment sense have become speech and therefore protected, obviating the need for any further analysis

Chicago is America's city of the future because it's uniquely incredulous toward metanarratives

it's funny to compare this type of naturalism to Altman movies where you have overlapping completely independent conversations happening simultaneously, the way they do in a crowded room in real life, yet each voice sounds perfectly clear instead of turning to unintelligible crowd murmur

there is a latent belief out there that speaking to an audience without the mic is democratizing and conveys authenticity. In reality it only conveys an ignorant confidence that one's own charisma is a substitute for professionalism. I instantly think less of anyone who does it.

few things make me more crotchety than getting apologetic emails from the place I buy tea from about how matcha prices went up again because of the matcha craze, and then seeing people take very nice ceremonial grade matcha and absolutely burying it under milk and other flavors

I wonder what email provider he was using for his personal address. Any of the major providers should be secure enough that it's easy to prevent this kind of thing if you take basic precautions with your authentication factors, which I'm sure he did not.