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Couple quick thoughts on #allherfault that I couldn’t find a spot for in my review:

1) No one owns pets; their homes are too nice for animals.

2) Everyone has ringtones. They all seem more sociopathic as a result.

And yes that was me. I am a Ludlow or whatever they're called. Luddite There it is

Dying

Friend of mine is in that area tonight and this sounds very on brand for them to have knocked over a delivery robot like this…

Couple quick thoughts on #allherfault that I couldn’t find a spot for in my review:

1) No one owns pets; their homes are too nice for animals.

2) Everyone has ringtones. They all seem more sociopathic as a result.

PUB DAY

The show is insane!

As the plot unfolds and the mystery deepens, we meet even more characters who could possibly be responsible for Milo's abduction. One close associate of the family has a gambling addiction and may need the quick money that a ransom payment could provide. Another family member struggles with prescription pill abuse and could be chasing the money needed for another fix. Some of the parents are as awful and entitled as the most privileged people you could imagine, so maybe they resent Milo's parents for the pettiest of reasons. (One of these reasons is that as a mom of an only child, certain moms such as Marissa and Jenny must have more time to give through volunteering for school fundraisers and events.) Maybe the parents are just faking it for attention, or even a book deal. After all, they are wildly successful people who know movers and shakers in the publishing industry who could get them a lucrative contract. Thankfully, not all of these people are women or femme-presenting, so the her in the show's title does not seem as prescriptive and limiting as it might at first. Men and society blame women enou as it is.

lol fair enough!

I forgot to add the full alt text, so here it is again:

Thanks for the unsolicited negative feedback!

*Filming #allherfault happened mostly in Australia, but the overhead shots of the Baháʼí Temple and Gillson Park are gorgeous!

There are also brief shots of cars on Isabella Ave, turning south into Evanston.

Chicago Police wouldn’t investigate this case, though. Kinda like Home Alone in that way.

Screenshot of text from The Tall Rob Report’s review of #allherfault A missing white child from an affluent area is a surefire way to get attention from the media. Leading up to the hiccup at a press conference where reporters accuse the Irvines of faking their son's kidnapping, they take pains to present themselves as sympathetic. They know that their existing social media photos of drunken nights out or of lavish lifestyles will not endear them to the public. Their campaign to find Milo also involves a canvassing effort in the city. The level of organization needed for this undertaking seems huge, but all we see is a quick conversation between Marissa and her friend and colleague Colin Dobbs. He tells her he'll take care of it and then hundreds of people show up. The labor that makes that whole effort happen is completely invisible to the viewer in the same way it is to the characters. In a later episode the missing rungs of the social ladder are apparent through two wildly different outcomes of drug distribution charges. A character who has little and is desperate for money to support a family gets arrested and imprisoned, while a well-to-do son of a private school dean can make a deal with someone who needs something from the school in order to get this fortunate son's record expunged expediently. It's not just that the rich avoid a consequence; their second chance comes at the expense of the career and integrity of a person in a lower social class. There's a lot going on with this show!

There are many ways that social class plays a role in #allherfault as well. From the invisible labor of canvassing remaining invisible (to the wealthy suburbanites) to the disparate outcomes of a drug charge for the affluent and the impoverished.

Screenshot of text from a review of #allherfault from The Tall Rob Report The mystery of Milo's disappearance and its eventual resolution involves parsing who knew or did what and when. There are many cases of lies of omission. Characters sometimes conceal what they know, even when questioned by a sympathetically cast lead detective who does not have the moral code he initially seems to possess. They aren't deliberately telling an untruth, which is lying by commission. They are simply leaving out key details in their responses while not saying anything factually inaccurate. Part of it is a little sneaky, but as with most understandings in human interaction, the import of a small detail might not seem as significant the first time we consider it. It's rewarding to see Detective Alcaras pursue these leads and details to learn information the audience might already know, or might be learning along with him. He provides helpful think-alouds with his detective buddy to keep us in the loop. As with any good mystery or gossip story, we enjoy trying to guess where these leads and clues will take us and deciding whom to trust.

Plenty to consider with regard to gossip and mystery in #allherfault

Some discussion of lies of Omission as compare to lies of Commission in my review.

Screenshot of The Tall Rob Report review of All Her Fault #allherfault

Despite the title, it’s not just women who might be at fault in #allherfault

Some scattershot thoughts on #allherfault, which I hadn’t even heard about this time last week.

As a Wilmette resident* for many years, I recognized many of the well-to-do, controlling, hyper-competitive status chasing characters.

Read my spoiler-free review here:

Friend of mine once imagined a non-binary Jason Statham starring in a movie where the character pursues villains through a gritty criminal underworld trying to get people to correctly use pronouns.

The movie’s title: Jason They/Them

The Quizics guy? His passive-aggressive stuff is so awful!

Yeah that was excellent. We watched like 5 episodes in a row yesterday. Usually don’t do that but it just kept pulling us in.

It’s such a fun show! We’ve got like 20 minutes left in the final episode right now. There are so many looks she gives him throughout the season (and he deserves ALL of them). She’s great!

Case in point: the guy who slowed down and rolled down his window to tell us to “get a job.” He was holding a TRUMP bumper sticker as he did. Bro, if you are so into that guy, then why isn’t that sticker on your car? Also, your soul is gross.

Here's a link to the PDF:

Back and front covers of TESLA TAKEDOWN NORTHBROOK #6. Back cover reads "All flourishing is mutual” Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Front cover reads: TESLA TAKEDOWN NORTHBROOK #6

Pages 2-3 of TESLA TAKEDOWN NORTHBROOK #6 No Trillionaires The specific reason for today's protest is because Tesla's shareholders approved a one trillion dollar pay package for Musk if he is able to meet an absurd number of benchmarks. It's beside the point that he will not meet these benchmarks. The issue here is that a group of shareholders think that giving Musk $1,000,000,000,000 is reasonable. No one should have that much money. Let's remember that it is impossible to work 40-hour weeks to become a billionaire. At the rate of $15 per hour, it would take 26,709 years to do so. Multiply that value by 1,000 to see how long it would take to work yourself into trillionaire status. When because of government policies, the set of values that allows one thoroughly mediocre man to potentially become a trillionaire must be jettisoned. We are here today to envision a different future, one without extreme wealth as a marker of success. No Al in Schools A couple weeks ago, I spoke at my local school district's board meeting because the district's technology department had recently released guidelines for teachers' and students' use of artificial intelligence. There is no place for Al in the classroom (or most anywhere else. Here are my comments. There are a number of reasons in general to avoid using generative AL. A quick review of news reports and empirical research on the topic reveals a few troubling issues that cannot be sidestepped through usage guidelines, no matter how well-intentioned. Here are a few of those issues: Environmental Concerns: Data centers that power Al use immense amounts of water and electricity. The International Energy Agency reports that a request made with ChatGPT will use ten times as much water as a typical Google search due to the demands of the data centers that help to power the searches.

Pages 4-5 of TESLA TAKEDOWN NORTHBROOK #6 Intellectual Property: The data these products are trained on are stolen. Specifically, Meta used a dataset known as LibGen to obtain 81.7 Terabytes of data for its training. In previous cases, usage of 0.008 percent of that much data resulted in criminal investigations. Labor Impacts: Content moderators that work as contractors for major tech companies are subjected to 10-hour days of reviewing text and videos of child abuse, human mutilation, racist attacks, animal abuse, and sexual exploitation and making sure such content does not make it into the product. Electricity costs: Data centers caused increases in electric bills across the east coast and midwest this summer, usually to the tune of S10-25 dollars per customer per month. Mental health: Gov. Pritzker signed a bill into law in August regarding the use of Al as a therapist. Mental health providers cannot use these products to interact with clients, create treatment plans, or make therapeutic decisions. This is the case because there have been at least two known cases where teenagers have ended their lives after consulting with generative Al chatbots for extended amounts of time. Specifically to the district's guidance, the section on using Al ethically and responsibly is confusing. It explains that "Al-generated content may not always be neutral or objective" that "Al can sometimes generate incorrect or misleading information," and that it can "make mistakes or misinterpret information." There are libraries full of information that has been vetted for accuracy, bias, and correctness. There is no reason that students should use a product that is biased, misinformed, or incorrect. Musk openly tinkers with Grok, the Al agent on X/Twitter, to make it align with his limited worldview. It's a clear case of algorithmic manipulation that reveals the human hands behind the supposed neutral magic of AL. If Musk likes Al because he sees how it is useful for social…

Pages 6-7 of TESLA TAKEDOWN NORTHBROOK #6 No More Cars The November 6th episode of the podcast lech Wont Save Us featured the hosts of the podcast The War on Cars, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon. They're the authors of the recently released book Life After Cars. Throughout the episode, the host and guests discussed many ways that the car-centric culture of the U.S. has negatively affected how we see other humans. Cars make us adversarial toward each other because we're all going in the same direction and tighting for the same space, the Superman of the early comic book era fought the murderous scourge of reckless driving before facing off against supervillains, and living on a busy street has had an effect on social isolation even before smartphones and social medią existed. Til admit to thinking that electric cars used to seem like the best solution to carbon emissions. As this podcast episode among many other sources) indicates, replacing gas cars with electric cars doesn't take away the adversarial nature of driving, the number of traffic fatalities, or the isolation of driving alone. Buses and trains would make so much more sense. We need new infrastructure to support this future. It does not include Tesla. Nor does it include Rivian or.: Lucid or Polestar or any existing company with an electric option. TALL ROB keep your hands out of my pockets, you thief! -ARI KATZ

Here’s how @teslatakedown.com Northbrook #6 turned out.

Copies I distributed today have a typo and some crashing text, both of which are fixed in these pics and the scan available in my bio. Looks like I might need more printer ink, too.

The JOY DIVISION and POISON IDEA covers on that soundtrack are an excellent gateway!

No matter how conventionally attractive you may be, flipping off @teslatakedown.com protestors makes you hideously ugly; conversely, a thumbs up or raised fist makes you drop-dead gorgeous. Plus, you’ll live longer if you’re not filled with hate and foolishness.

Screen shot of current weather showing 66 degrees F with a Feels Like of 59 degrees F in Northbrook IL on November 15th at 12:30 or so

And yes, the mid-November weather in northern Cook County is quite warm.

A Ford Transit van with TESLA SERVICE written on its door. It’s pulling in to Tesla’s Northbrook dealership.

Once again, we can see that the Tesla Service vehicle is a Ford Sprinter van.

Cybertrucks must not have good hauling capacity or storage options.

Heading out now with TTN#6 in hand.

If you're in or around the northern Chicago suburbs, join us at today's #teslatakedown Northbrook.

We're focused on the #notrillionaires message stated below.

I'll have issue #6 of the zine "Tesla Takedown Northbrook" to distribute.

TODAY
12PM-2PM
1200 Skokie Blvd
Northbrook, IL 60062

TeslaTakedown Northbrook (11/15) THERE IS NO NEED TO ACTUALLY REGISTER ON THIS SITE. YOU CAN JUST SHOW UP. Elon Musk is destroying democracy around the world, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. Tesla ...

"Keep your fuckin' eyes off of me, you fuckin' creep /
keep your fuckin' hands out of my pockets, you fuckin' thief"

LIFETIME "(The Gym Is) Neutral Territory"

Tell that thief Musk to keep his hands out of our pockets this Sat. at @teslatakedown.com Northbrook

12PM-2PM
1200 Skokie Blvd
Northbrook

“Why find a nice way /
to tell you you suck?
I hate your guts /
you act so boring /
Hey, if you don’t stop those looks /
I’m gonna poke you in the eye /
Who are you anyway?
You think you’re second to none”

YouTube video by countdownbyfives Lifetime-(The Gym) Is Neutral Territory

It’s one of those days where waking up to read the news is infuriating and baffling in ways that take my words away, so I become a jaded, know-it-all teenager. I thought this feeling would pass now that I’m in my 40s.

Here’s a link for this weekend’s #notrillionaires #teslatakedown Northbrook protest.

Join us!

12PM-2PM
1200 Skokie Blvd
Northbrook IL 60062

@teslatakedown.com
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