Dan Masterton

Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in the Chicago Public Media Newsroom WBEZ & Chicago Sun-Times

There's a newly issued AI policy for the Chicago Public Media Newsroom (@wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com) that you can read here www.wbez.org/ai-policy

My pleasure, Jay. I find your online contributions to be earnest, principled, and grounded. Thanks for sharing so consistently.

Rings resonant and true with, me, a moderate with various liberal and conservative tints, too. Good contemplation here.

Decent take

Isn’t it likely the deferred amounts will lower the CBT-relevant AAV under $35m?

in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!

Are you pro or con color rush all navy tonight? Feels edgy with the “no alternates as a tribute to Virginia” season…

Thanks for reporting on this sort of things, as always, Jack. Stay safe.

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

Thanks for your great work, Nathaniel. You do a great public service.

An unusually personal article from me today, on my origin story as an elections nerd and journalist. www.votebeat.org/2026/01/02/h...

Thanks for tracking these all year. Great stat.

As a big Kmet fan who hoped he’d remain impactful with Ben’s offense, your counts always reinforced how Cole had a sizable role and how much Johnson loved using all 3 or a mix of them.

Sometimes the Thing to Do Is Nothing A gentle call to patience, to give time and space, reinforced by Mary Mother of God

New Year’s is a time when many get introspective and make resolutions. Don’t overlook intentional inaction, giving space or time to someone or something, as another way: substack.com/@thisladdan/...

Leave people their guilty pleasures — keep with your perfectly cromulent watches

2025 Recap: Most Engaging Podcast Episodes In the fifth year of our podcast, Viatorian Voices: Conversations on the Way, we published 21 new episodes, including our 100th episode! On Viatorian Voices, we interview those who can give witness to...

Our Viatorian Voices podcast is your neat and tidy way to be formed and informed, bringing reflection and faith formation on your way. After 5 years and 121 episodes, where could you begin? How about these most listened-to episodes of 2025: #AdoredAndLovedBeJesus www.viatorians.com/2025-recap-m...

‪Pope Leo said he’s “very disappointed" by the approval of the assisted suicide law in Illinois. He has therefore invited “everyone this Christmas to reflect on the value of human life. God became man like us to show what it truly means to love human life.” ‬

You’re really gonna like him, Fr. Jim. We’ll miss him here in our diocese.

New York has a new Archbishop. His background looks a lot like Pope Leo's Like Pope Leo, Bishop Ronald Hicks is an Illinois native with deep experience in Latin America.

He's from the Chicago area, speaks fluent Spanish, spent significant time in Latin America and is known as a nice guy with moderate views. Sounds familiar

www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

A Thanksgiving tie?

A Different Sort of Faith-Based Third Space We need third spaces. Some won't turn to churches for them. What if, in church's quest to come to where people are, that new third space had beer (or coffee and baked goods)?

Playing on Substack with an idea that lives richly in my brain but would never be actualized by me, a beer-loving, theology-consuming, non-entrepreneurial/risk-averse fellow. danmasterton.substack.com/p/a-differen...

Anxiety. It’s What’s for Thanksgiving Dinner. In a year of high prices, economic uncertainty and other jitters, America is united in uncertainty — and poultry.

“People are still worried things are going to get worse before they get better.”

In a year of high prices, economic uncertainty and other jitters, Americans are united in uncertainty — and poultry — this Thanksgiving.

Moleman football in the groin

Watching the Bears try to protect a double digit 4th quarter lead:

Chart shows the religious distribution of US adults.

More US adults identify with no religion (29%) than with the Catholic Church (19%) or evangelical Protestant denominations (23%).
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Realizing We Are Curiosity Engines, Myself Included Hearing my favorite podcast host in the interviewee chair helped me understand why I like his ethos and approach so much, and what I lack and need as I continue growing

The breadth of content is overwhelming, but the pro is you can find what fits you just right; for me, it’s Freakonomics. The ethos of the host/show, which I loved already, sharpened my vocational understanding, especially what I need work on: #Catholic #Vocations
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Bevel it @sickoscommittee.org

I’m in

Earlier today:

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

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Sick plate too