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I wish @mayorofchicago.bsky.social would do this

Idea for @fairvoteil.bsky.social this month: work with pollsters to conduct ranked choice polls of current Illinois primaries, to discover what gap exists been real voter preferences and strategic FPTP voting.

Yeah, it's brighter blue and tri-color with a older BDU-style pattern. Puerile and absurd.

When an open source developer rejects a poorly-made code change request from a vibe coder, the vibe coder just feeds the rejection into their AI and tries again. This turns the developer into an unwitting vibe coder, which is not a good state of affairs. Gabby explains:

if y'all bully rudy out of atmosphereconf i'm never going to be able to look at this community the same

I did. My point was that "your framing is counterproductive and simplistic". As for how silicon valley "became" right wing, lots have already been written:
monoskop.org/images/d/dc/...

YouTube video by Hank Green The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out

"promising that AI is all hype that is going away soon"
Not what people are saying at all. People see the excess hype, insane valuations, and circular capital flows & see the technology as over valued right now, & worry how this inflated cancerous growth is infecting the economy
youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk

The fact that you are trying to shoehorn positions like anti-vax into left-right paradigms shows the flaws in such one dimensional thinking. And if you think left-wing stances on LLMs/GenAI is "reflexive" then you don't understand said stances or the history of it.

I'm in the same exact boat. This sort of situation underscores how Ranked Choice Voting cannot come to Illinois soon enough.

Feel I should mention @fairvoteil.bsky.social here

There's 2 paragraphs, and a link to his questionnaire response. No links to questionnaire responses from other candidates, and no questions about evictions/homelessness, racial disparities or many other aspects of housing. Not a serious organization for solving the housing crisis.

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Raja Krishnamoorthi accepted over $90k from key MAGA players, including:
- $29,300 from Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer at Palantir and advisor to the Defense Department under Trump.
- $5,000 from Michael Pillsbury, Project 2025 contributor and senior advisor at the Heritage Foundation.

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.

Pay farmers to rewild NOW.

Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’ In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop.

Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government.

This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

Boggles my mind that Krishnamoorthi hasn't had to face much scrutiny for trumpeting TikTok as a national security threat during the Biden years, writing the bill to force TikTok's sale, setting in motion the steps for TikTok to be sold to right wing oligarchs,
www.nprillinois.org/2024-03-14/r...
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@abundanthousingil.bsky.social could have endorsed a slate of candidates as many have good housing policies, but they only went for the frontrunner for no explicit reason. Seems like they didn't put much thought into their endorsement process or had reasons unrelated to housing.

Settlement reached in class action lawsuit against Evanston and Chicago landlord - Evanston RoundTable A group of tenants have reached a settlement in their long-running class action suit against landlord Sargon Isaac, but only after a judge nearly

Biss as mayor
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/05/22/s...

Honestly don't trust "Abundant housing Illinois" to not make housing worse when they back candidates behind evictions of minority residents.

Print media was relatively healthy and independent at a time our political system was slowly rotting, and our political rot accelerated with the 2010 Citizens United supreme court decision.
bsky.app/profile/404m...

My point was that oligarchs got their way due to unchecked influence from campaign contributions, and media mergers began with Bork. That thread does not mention Congress's role in all this. Congress often takes positions that diverge from the people who elected them, which began w/ campaign checks

Earmarks might be back in some form, but they no longer dominate our political paradigm.

The gutting of regional news by whom? Oligarchs have been buying media outlets and gutting them when they no longer serve propagandistic purposes. We just saw this with the Washington Post.And it's all due to dark money.

Yes, I work with statistics and this kind of pervasive lack of understanding bothers me

Header: Sampling bias: Chart: Yes, i love responding to surveys 99.8% No, i toss them in the bin 0.2% "Hmm..." "We received 500 responses and found that people love responding to surveys" Signature: Sketchplanations

Not necessarily. Trump shocked pollsters in 2016 because they underestimated groups which were regarded as low-propensity voters.
And text-to-web means that they texted people expecting them to go to a website. And working-age people tend to ignore that shit.
Surprised how many ppl don't know this.

The era of earmarks and pork barrel spending is over, this is the era of dark money and special interests. You need to employ different tactics at the national level if you ever want to make politics local again.

No, this poll was primarily conducted over the phone, which carries a systemic bias which favors older people who actually pick up the phone (AKA Fine voters). I am not very convinced this supposed lead over Biss will show up on election day.

I'm not sure how seriously to take this poll, as it was only conducted of high-propensity voters over telephones, might not be representative of who actually shows up.

Don't quit the fight for RCV though.

I'm glad the source was cited, because that poll was conducted of high-propensity voters over a dialer, that exact kind of bias that over-represents candidates like Fine, also conducted by Fine. I'm sorry, but I'll take this with a grain of salt. Polling like this made Hillary overconfident in 2016

This is for US Congress, not an Illinois state office.