🇺🇦Pete Walsh 🇺🇦

Pete Buttigieg, please.

That’s what I call a cold opening. #Debates2024

STAR Voting could easily solve the current deadlock in choosing a Speaker of the US House of Representatives: 1) Create a ballot with every member of the House as a candidate 2) Every member of the House gives each other member 0-5 stars 3) STAR winner is the Speaker

Nobody blows themselves up in a Jewish old people's home on Passover in Netanya ... not in a settlement ... to bring about a compromise.

Here we go! We're launching a competition and giving a $50,000 prize to the video that best demonstrates the federal court mistake that gave us Super PACs. @iJasonAlexander can tell you all about it. Visit CancelSuperPACs.com to enter. #CancelSuperPACs

Report: students still sneeze directly onto their classmates. 🤧

Happy Bloodborne Pathogens Day To all who celebrate. 🍎

@JonahDispatch @bungarsargon If you’re worried about radicalism in the primaries, there are so many better solutions than siding with big money over small donations. The @Fwd_Party and @EqualCitizensUS have better ideas than “hopefully SuperPACs are centrist.”

@bungarsargon I’ve literally made this argument — wildly supported by political science — for years. It’s true of both left and right and wasn’t remotely controversial on the right until recently. Your ignorance isn’t my failing.

Love when CNN says the quiet part out loud: Apparently the real threat to democracy is regular Americans supporting candidates they like with a couple bucks, while the real saviors of democracy are the billionaires subverting those choices with millions in campaign donations!

@academicswrite Trying to find papers? Last I checked, GPT would rather make up plausible-sounding names of non-existent papers, articles, essays, books, etc. I’ve never gotten it to provide me a single real source.

Chat GTP was a good idea generator. One student used it to get ideas for what topic to do. Another student used it to try and find papers. Some used it for formatting corrections. Another used it to get ideas for describing why their content was important to nurses.

I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.

NEW: Chicago rapper King Von stood over Gakirah Barnes, pumping shot after shot into her in 2014, according to a new court filing that says her death fueled a gang war and led to the brazen daytime assassination of FBG Duck. trib.al/QRhheWQ

“The girl’s mother was slain in a shooting in 2019.” Jesus Christ. This city…

someone find it

@Maldym7 @TheAlexSylvian

@PeterTWalsh @TheAlexSylvian How original!

There's a part in Asteroid City where I feel like Wes Anderson is mocking himself, when the general is saying his speech but he can't limit himself to saying the speech like a normal person, he has to divide it into chapters like a weirdo

Saw Asteroid City tonight. I didn't immediately love it. I'll wait to review it until later. But here are my Top 5 Wes Anderson films: 1. The Royal Tenenbaums 2. The Life Aquatic 3. Bottle Rocket 4. The Darjeeling Limited 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

App idea: public list of WiFi passwords for bars, coffee shops, etc., so I don’t have to approach employees about it.

Update: barber was meticulous but this haircut is maximum 50% or 0.5x better than the $8 haircut. Maybe an economics professor would tell me that’s exactly what to expect from paying 4-5x as much, but I’d personally rather spend that extra money on beer.

Just booked a haircut before realizing it’s $38. I miss my old neighborhood where a haircut was $8. I doubt this will be 5x better. Just asking for a simple men’s cut. Next time I’m going to Humboldt Park. Hell, my Covid cuts weren’t bad, for that matter.

Another night of armed robberies. And, once again, Chicago police supervisors ordered cops who spotted the offenders in traffic NOT to pursue them. cwbchicago.com/2023/08/chicag…

Natasha Graham spent Monday morning at the morgue to identify her daughter, the second child of hers to be shot to death in Chicago in the last four years. trib.al/7CQXW6Q