Caleb Gardner

It's wild to me that Gmail doesn't have an option to filter any unknown senders from your inbox in the Year of Our Lord 2025. Would be super helpful for nuking spammers.

Anyone found a work around?

so at this point it seems like *nothing* the feds said was true? it's a legitimate miracle that this woman is still alive.

entirely plausible that the greatest success in business in this country over the next five or ten years is going to come down to whether or not your c-suite has been poisoned by groupchats or not

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

It's next-level gaslighting to be fully in control of the government but blame the opposition party for a shutdown

Fun having to mark a major corporation's emails as spam because their unsubscribe link has been mysteriously "broken" for weeks

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

A$AP Rocky having a baby named Rocki definitely clears the way for my next one to be named Kaleb

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

How Legacy Media Fumbled the Charlie Kirk Shooting The aftermath of the shooting exposed how little traditional journalists understand the platforms shaping online radicalization and real-world violence: “Too many outlets don’t employ reporters who tr...

“Just like a news orgs would not send a general reporter into a war zone, outlets should also not send untrained journalists into the chaotic online world and expect them to be able to have a complete understanding of what is transpiring” said @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

The value prop of TSA Pre-check 📉

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Beautiful fall morning in the worst, most dangerous city in the world

"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.

Anyone claiming Microsoft is good actually - try letting your kid play a simple car chase game with a child account connected to a PlayStation account connected to an Xbox account connected to a Microsoft account

Post from Donald Trump on Truth Social: A really deadly weekend in Chicago. 6 dead, 27 hurt in crime sprees all over the city. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control, when in fact it is just the opposite. He is an incompetent governor who should call me for help. Mayor Johnson is no better. Make Chicago great again!

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.

8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.

And yet Trump is sending troops here.

At this point, tell me it won't be a not-so-underground competition

Who will make the headlines for throwing a Chicago dog at a fed?

Having a company with the names "coffees" in it that has nothing to do with coffee sure makes it fun to be on the receiving end of AI-enabled sales pitches

i don't have a thesis on using twitter and i don't personally care if people use it. i just see things like the guy who owns it posting stuff like "we're going to program this site so you want to make babies" and i don't think i have to have a normative argument to not use it

Someone tell me why new models can't just be trained to ... not do this? Seems like chasing a moving target

More interesting I think is the data around confusion about who even qualifies as a "journalist" anymore

New, from the Pew Research Center: About half of U.S. adults say journalists are losing influence in society.
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Sisyphus’s Inbox “And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autore...

Happy Monday and all

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This is not the future this is happening now, and it’s why we need to do everything we can to fight for free expression and civil liberties online and off

On the bright side, what a reminder of how absurd life is

Why I finally left Spotify | TechCrunch Spotify's dependence on algorithmic recommendations has gotten too suffocating.

The water is fine over at Apple Music tbh

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The Air & Water Show is the worst weekend in Chicago

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.