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Andrew ✶ Huff

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✶✶✶✶ That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social http://me3dia.com Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html

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

06.03.2026 17:00 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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

06.03.2026 16:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Dragula YouTube video by "The Professor" Nick Harrison - Topic

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

06.03.2026 15:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

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

06.03.2026 15:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

06.03.2026 15:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

05.03.2026 15:27 👍 5927 🔁 2380 💬 90 📌 182
Uptown Theatre Concerts – ROBERT LOERZEL

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...

05.03.2026 15:26 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3

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

04.03.2026 17:26 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

04.03.2026 17:21 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

"Abolish ICE" is the compromise position

04.03.2026 17:11 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Champs au Cheval

03.03.2026 22:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Back for me.

03.03.2026 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems so

03.03.2026 22:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Exactly. Rezone and fire the landlords.

03.03.2026 19:44 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

02.03.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

28.02.2026 20:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

27.02.2026 22:22 👍 826 🔁 231 💬 76 📌 46

Exactly.

27.02.2026 20:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

27.02.2026 19:19 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

25.02.2026 19:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

24.02.2026 22:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

24.02.2026 16:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

23.02.2026 16:39 👍 1526 🔁 350 💬 61 📌 11
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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...

23.02.2026 22:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm so sorry.

23.02.2026 17:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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."

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

22.02.2026 08:31 👍 4175 🔁 1614 💬 47 📌 51

Thanks!

23.02.2026 00:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Its suggestions aren't even good. They often miss context, and sometimes the "concise" option is more ambiguous — and occasionally wordier.

20.02.2026 18:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0