Forget red. Now it's all purple for us.

So much for orange. It's a red to purple day.

Seriously, Chicago's air quality sensor network is impressive... and by tomorrow I expect this all to be orange at best.

The kids' track camp got postponed for the week due to the heatwave, but it looks like the air quality would have ended it anyway. On the plus side, Chicago does have the densest air quality sensor network in the world (~1.2 sensors per square mile), so we at least know exactly how bad it is.

About two thirds of the meds I'd been prescribed are now getting thrown away, because I don't need them anymore. The majority of this was just for the last week of post-op, and before that I was regularly declining notifications from the pharmacy that I was due for refills. It all seems so wasteful.

People are so gullible, thinking this is an AI image. That's what they want you to believe! The truth is that when you zoom in close on the newspaper text you'll see it's the subliminal incantation that opens the torment nexus. That has to be real, otherwise the incantation won't work!

Looks like a crude drawing of a kidney. I knew they were marking the side, but I guess it's a good idea to note the organ as well.

The 13yo asked to stop for a pastry while we were walking the dogs. Turns out pretty much all the coffeeshops are on Square, and their payment system is currently down. Many are cashless, but even cash ones can't open the register to make change. That's really gotta suck for those businesses.

I'm just remembering how much these guys dominated the economic world in the 1990s. I expect history will be kindest to Greenspan; for Rubin it's mixed; and Summers can go to hell.

This is a hill I will die on.

Michal at 3x sounds like the voice of this guy.

I just got spammed by a NIMBY group opposing the Grand Ave safety improvements for pedestrians/cyclists. Here's the RSVP information for their meeting this Saturday. Seems like they'd benefit from being presented with a broader set of perspectives than just maximizing street parking.

At Trump's one year mark foreign markets are massively outperforming the US. After adjusting for inflation and the weak dollar, a US whole market index returned a measly 5% over the last year, while a non-US whole market index returned an adjusted 22%. Not a sign of confidence in the US.

Remember the Snappy capture device from the 90s? We were stuck watching the Stranger Things finale on a hotel TV with motion smoothing, and it's all I could think of. Frame interpolation was a fun gimmick for still images in 1995, but it just murders the cinematic viewing experience.

Forcing the kids to watch the 1982 Tron movie and only just now appreciating that it's genuinely a contemplation of religion and the notion of individual agency. Also, the Cybertruck is clearly a cheap knockoff of the Recognizer cockpit.

Same energy.

When I told people in California that I was moving back to Chicago they'd typically say something like: But what about the weather? The thing is, I love Chicago in the winter.

Looking out the window of my mom's condo and I'm pretty sure there used to be a lake there. 🤔

I do AMS style multi-color only for a layer change or graphic on the top/bottom layer. But on my old MK3S/MMU2S I used to do multi-color regularly for large batches. The pic below was from tchotchkies for one of my old teams, and the purge blocks were around 1% of total print weight.

That does leave me with quite a few whistles that are suddenly in far less demand, but I'd call that a very happy trade off.

Picked this up at Neighborly, a cozy little home goods store down the street. It's a good example of how strongly the city has unified against the ICE/CBP occupation. I can't walk down the street without seeing "HANDS OFF" signs (or more colorful language) in the windows of houses and businesses.

Took the kids to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Humboldt Park and had to share a pic of this bad ass piece.

Still seems concerning that we're nine months into Trump's term and the US market has been basically negative in real terms (ie. adjusted for inflation and the US dollar).

Between that, a careful choice of fonts, and slowing down the text perimeters, I got legible text all the way down to 3mm tall (ie. the ICIRR hotline and phone number). That and the flag on the bottom came in at only six color changes. Anyway, I'll clean up and post the files today or tomorrow.

I'm mostly printing this whistle, but sometimes I swap the Chicago flag section for something more appropriate to a specific group. Nice to know it helped in an unexpected way.

Still making whistles.

It was a very simple costume, but it sure went over well.

And the current code went with checking for a range from -1 to -12, landed by @quidity.bsky.social back in April. There's also a nice comment about how they got to -12. source.chromium.org/chromium/chr...

Honestly, you erase almost all the gains in the US market just by accounting for how much the dollar has weakened since inauguration day. (The dollar adjusted value is the black line in the graph.)

I don't get the narrative that the US market is performing well. It recovered from the April low, but is overall middling―practically zero after accounting for a weak dollar and elevated inflation. And that's all before feeling the effects of tariffs, layoffs, benefit cuts, the shutdown, etc.