Andrew ✶ Huff

How do they enforce that exactly?

What in the jingoistic hell

The strategy here is to be subtly but clearly unimpressed with Vallas, so they don't dismiss your entry as astroturfing.

Yeah, he's fun. I have no idea what kind of stage show he might have.

YouTube video by "The Professor" Nick Harrison - Topic Dragula

This, for instance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMY...

"Professor" Nick Harrison is pretty well known on TikTok/Instagram for his music-related videos.

[Pat Summerall Golden Tee voice]: The skies are ominous.

The Fireside still has a sign near the entrance to Rosehill Cemetery advertising their memorial service catering.

Not an Orwell quote. (Nor Churchill.) winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/rough-men-st...

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

New blog post: I put together a list of concerts that happened at the Uptown Theatre from 1975 to 1981 — along with a sample of what music critics wrote about the shows. www.robertloerzel.com/2026/03/02/u...

That's former Gapers Block reporter Danny Fenster, for those in the know.

The 2026 DoD budget is $892.6 billion and somehow we're running out of missiles.

"Abolish ICE" is the compromise position

Champs au Cheval

Back for me.

Seems so

Exactly. Rezone and fire the landlords.

Maybe you and @phineas.bsky.social could collaborate.

Ah, this explains it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish have instead been hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

reader you are not prepared for the embedded audio here

Exactly.

Tune-Up Bar, From Owners Of Estelle’s And The Owl, Opens In Former Avondale Auto Shop The Avondale bar, which opens Saturday, has taken over the old Tepco Tune-Up on Belmont Avenue.

Pretty sure this is the first new 4am bar in Chicago in over a decade, if not longer.
blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/27/t...

We've been fighting this fight for nearly 20 years now.

What Can 50-Year-Old Chatbots Teach Us About Clinical Applications of AI? JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, conducted an interview with ChatGPT about the history of chatbots and their clinical applications, for JAMA+ AI Conversations.

Interesting conversation with an AI chatbots about two early chatbots from 50 years ago.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

For I don't know how long, browsers have offered up autocomplete suggestions of an URL as soon as you type a letter. Usually starting with the first letter of the domain, because that makes sense.

Chrome just offered me a random domain keyed off the h in http.

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension No criminal charges were filed, but the student who punched another student for holding a pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School last week received a two-day suspension and is back in class.

The kid who punched the pro-ICE student counterprotestor got a two-day suspension: www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/s...

I'm so sorry.

SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett