police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
marijuana Citing experience selling marijuana, unemployed Chicagoans seek permits to sell legally Jason Weisberger
Funny Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow
Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
corruption Chicago's first gay, Black, woman mayor won all 50 wards, defeating the machine candidate with an anti-corruption campaign Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chicago! I'm at C2E2 this weekend with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim! Cory Doctorow
events I'm going out on tour with my new science fiction book RADICALIZED and I hope to see you! Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chicagoans can actually play "Machine Learning President," the election RPG Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Last chance to back the Kickstarter for our interdisciplinary seminar series on censorship today and in the Renaissance Cory Doctorow