it’s getting tougher out there 🫠

specially for companies that have raised venture for their cpg business before not to mention with what I’ve learned that’s happening with various lending companies

About one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 who are not yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds. to.pbs.org/3W9JjpH

ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU techcrunch.com/2024/04/28/cha…

NEW: I traveled to Flint in anticipation of the 10 year anniversary of the start of the water crisis. I door knocked and spoke w/ folks at the library & local coney island spots. They all had the same response: The Flint Water Crisis is far from over.
capitalbnews.org/flint-water-cr…

The front page of today's Chicago Tribune. Read the e-edition here: chicagotribune.com/enewspaper

4 days of tornado warnings in 10 seconds.

Anyone have an update on when Calumet Fisheries is planning to reopen?

this is a bit but also part of the truth. the point of this generation of right wing agitprop is to trap young men in a sort of bigoted stasis. Keep them from meeting people and learning lessons that might make it possible for them to have a life. Men who grow aren't profitable

Been waiting on this one a while #Chicago

Support among swing-state voters for US aid to Israel has plunged in the months since the country launched its campaign to root out Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll trib.al/k8Vmcvc

SAUDI, JORDAN & ISRAEL: Secretary Antony Blinken will now travel to all 3 countries from April 29-May 1 to discuss ongoing efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that secures the release of hostages.

What lesser known spots should an urbanist tourist visit in Chicago?
(Looking for good answers not memes)

What if 👓 made us more informed about what we consumed?

Hm. Wow

Maybe we should figure out the doors first

Great Op-ed on the key weakness of Illinois finances: Time for Illinois to pass a sensible Tier 2 pensions fix chicagotribune.com/2024/04/28/opi…

The scrapyard on 92nd & Ewing is on fire. Propane tanks have exploded and shot skyward. There are houses surrounding the yard. Rad.

Needs enough mystery to motivate a click

Still haven’t seen the Outfox/Foxtrot/Dom’s bankruptcy filing yet but this article I stumbled on seemed pretty informed.

The nugget about the Wrigley Field Foxtrot performance’s “surprise” is hilarious btw. modernretail.co/operations/wha…