Everybody wants to be there to be there to get their picture taken at the ribbon cutting ... and then they disappear. For the Reader, Olivia Hunter Willke documents the shameful neglect and deterioration of James Turrell's Hard Scrabble Sky at UIC.
chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...
"Tash from Alkaholiks had a big bottle of Hennessy, and he was just pouring shots into the mouths of anybody that was in the crowd."
My epic oral history of the Dinkytowner Café, now up @racketmn.com. Subscribe today!
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Leor Galil
We got a bunch of internal Amazon memes in which employees mock Amazon's own AI, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively.
More here: www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
Mornin
i feel like the obama presidential library is missing a little something. it’s nothing too big, mind you, just a place with an unfussy design and a sorta french name…
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.
I didn’t include this in the column (because I haven’t had the chance to listen to it closely yet), but I love that Serengeti dropped another Kenny Dennis album over the weekend, dude’s still working on a great American novel about a regular Chicago guy
kennydennis.bandcamp.com/album/kennyv
Brand new Gossip Wolf:
-Redux Radio celebrates its first year with a 20-track comp!
-globally minded dance series Trench drops its first comp too!
-Laceles plays a @katmabu.bsky.social fundraiser at Bookclub!
-see improvisational environmental music in a cemetery!
-Bric-a-Brac celebrates year 13!
Joseph Cox
I can’t wait to watch The Social Reckoning on Tubi
