Notices by Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)

The wheels have really come off for the Chicago Cubs. #ChicagoCubs #Baseball #Chicago

@davesdogmaggie 🤣

That's either a very faded red or it's a pink carpet. Guess that's what you roll out when two criminals meet to discuss world matters. #politics

The annoyance that is this Air and Water Show happens annually. First time I’ve heard of sonic booms breaking windows.

Lakeview condo building's windows shattered during Chicago Air and Water Show practice
#Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/lakeview-windows-shattered-chicago-air-and-water-show-practice/

Sort of ironic since most people look to use it to avoid having conversations.

“Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined.”

Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity
#AI
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-is-on-track-to-out-talk-humanity/

Damn. All day long I've been thinking it was Thursday. And of course, it's not.

@Strandjunker I fear the window has already closed. Time to learn how to break the glass.

@tobie1 No.

I think the biggest fear the Dem party has about Mamdani is that he will do to their establishment what Trump did to the GOP’s.

Actually excite and give voice to voters who are sick of it all.

The GOP failed to stop Trump. I doubt the centrist Dems can do so with Mamdani.

#politics

Good morning. Summer summers on. #Photography #Today #Summer #Chicago

@daringfireball Damn. His reviews are missed.

The way things are going these days I'm sorta suspecting at some point in the near future this administration is going to attempt to outlaw any numbers other than what comes out of the child rapist and convicted felon’s mouth. #politics

VianLeah McElrath
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
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⚠️ Putin to bring his finance minister to the meeting in Alaska.

Why?

@mjtsai Thanks for the shout out, sir.

@davidtoddmccarty Contrarian an perhaps inaccurate view:

Keep feeding them until they choke.

Not sure if that would work, but given current issues in training, retraining, etc...it might.

"yelling obscenities" and throwing food.

Wonder if he'd get the same treatment if he tossed ketchup instead of a sandwich? Or do condiments not rise to the level of a felony.

“Police allege the man approached officers and began yelling obscenities and calling them ‘fascists.’”

Man who hurled sandwich at law enforcement in D.C. charged with felony
#politics
https://archive.ph/dq3mP

@TerryDay Their children might, but I think we've lost a generation. It would require so deep a redefinition via self-reflection about what has motivated them for so long that I don't think it's possible unless something genuinely catastrophic that gets out of control happens.

Your twice, and now continuing, weekly reminder that we're still in a Civil War

@craiggrannell Read this last night. Good piece, sir.

Friends in high places?

Apple Brings Back Blood Oxygen Feature to the Apple Watch Thanks to a US Customs Ruling
#Apple #AppleWatch #politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/08/14/apple-brings-back-blood-oxygen-feature-to-the-apple-watch/