Jesse Raber

This is a little unfair to Dewey, though his murky writing style creates openings for this reading! But his position is, as he says in his *Ethics*, that "Everything depends upon the sort of self which is maintained." The person who'd die to preserve a certain sense of themself can be moral.

Point Break -- not the best "Keanu movie," maybe, but the best movie that Keanu is in.

The cities that lost out from the Erie Canal were New Orleans and St. Louis, as the Chicago to NYC water route superseded the Mississippi River route for access to the continental interior.

The Erie Canal was crucial to the growth of Chica... you know what never mind

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Wendella Boats you have the mandate of Heaven

"A House for Mr. Biswas," by VS Naipaul.
The song is "Bad Sign, Good Sign."

And hearing it will blow your mind:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHb...

It's nasty. And it feels like the first radically new thing that climate change has brought to this area. We didn't used to have a smoke season!

"Adler explained the demonstrators are taking something 'easily verifiable' and 'revealing how easy it is to draw up drama over something that seems like life is at stake, but in fact, is just drama.'"

Wow. Adler has never been trapped inside the Bean, and it shows.

Are they renting them at 63rd? I think they're hilarious and they move so slowly that they're less of a menace than the regular jetskis.

Also spotted this evening: a beloved Promontory Point regular, the guy in a motorized wheelchair with the seat jacked way up in the air, tricked out in pulsing multicolored lights, playing house music at an audible but unobtrusive volume.

Ver-sigh

Someone has put inflatable cars (?) around a jetski (??) and started some kind of aquatic car race (???)

Dumping all my trash on my neighbor's lawn and then threatening to sue them for lowering property values

If they made an AI that could *reliably* read a school's official academic calendar and populate a syllabus with dates, so that you could just be like "it meets every week on Tu/Th, the midterm is due in the fifth week," etc., and it would account for holidays etc., then I'd welcome our AI overlords

the Cape just seems more like a James vibe

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

I think this is mentioned in Charvat's *Profession of Authorship*, Tebbel's *Between Covers*, and/or Mott's *Golden Multitudes* (would have to check my notes) in explaining the prominence of periodicals over books in C19 American lit.

I love this bit of good old Chicago boosterism mixed in with Fugitive Slave Law defiance. Hope it becomes a regular feature: "The man-stealers will only violate our liberties over my dead body, which would then be interred in scenic Graceland Cemetery."

This looks amazing and I hope it soon expands into a less spendy format!

Bomb threat forces Texas Democrats to evacuate Chicago hotel amid redistricting protest The lawmakers said the group remains focused on its work and expressed thanks for the swift response by authorities.

Jan 6 crowd mobilizing news4sanantonio.com/news/local/t...

The machines that the Baconian Authorship people used to "decode" Shakespeare (which led to real cryptographic advances) might apply?

Oh man, we need a Miami Vice sequel where the smugglers are running drugs to Chicago from Canada

Sayers? They're light but not flimsy.

The country that comes closest to actually doing this, btw, is Israel. Military-administered aptitude tests determine lots of later opportunities. In case this discourse wasn't sufficiently cursed already.

Went to a Fancy Dinner in SF and Everybody Went to Harvard (or Stanford) | Know Your Meme Went to a Fancy Dinner in SF and Everybody Went to Harvard (or Stanford) refers to a viral tweet shared by Twitter / X u

Looks like there's already a Know Your Meme page!

amp-knowyourmeme-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.know...

It's hard to believe that they think whites have "higher IQ" than Asian Americans, but I guess they're gearing up to enshrine some racist BS as the One Official National IQ Test.

I saw it in X screenshots from that "Asian Harvard and Stanford alumni dinner" discourse the other day

I think this is the subtext behind the new right-wing insinuation that Asians are gaming the SAT with rote test prep

Scott Alexander has been arguing for straight up IQ tests for all such evaluations (and for employers to use them in lieu of college degrees)