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Brian Boyer
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Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/
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Cell phone service is shit at the cell phone lot, but at least I’ve got Vocalo.
First Church of Deliverance, Bronzeville, Chicago. Incredible. ohc.architecture.org/sites/recGxn...
The weird yellow balconies in Evanston are looking good today
Finally found some time to work on my talk for the @newsproduct.org Summit next week! Hope to see some of y’all in Chicago!
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This is not just the right thing to do, it is by far the easiest policy to apply with consistency.
It feels Luddite to say this, but probably the boldest thing a news org can do is have a really draconian policy about AI as a signal to the public. Not anti-tech, but rather to apply journalistic skepticism about the tool itself. Social contract: We won't use this unless it makes the news better.
Every day I think that I should quit posting old watches for my 15 followers and then I find a real winner.
Love this gold #seiko DX's two-tone coffin-link bracelet! www.ebay.com/itm/29768764...
Lookin’ good, Chicago.
Finally something I can work with
Ooh neat I love a bean with integrity
Ooh I haven’t tried those yet
Maybe instead of product training we need a product creed
Anyway I’m glad it’s back to normal but having some buyers remorse
It was a weird week to start giving Wired money again, to discover the website had become an Amazon takeover ad
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Five years after it was published, I still think about this @highcountrynews.org project that connects land-grant universities back to the land they were granted, what tribe owned it immediately prior, how much it was worth then, and how much it’s worth now. A complete reframe of land grants.
Land-grab universities - High Country News
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
www.hcn.org
And there it is. Reduced by nearly half, and passed through the food mill. So it’s a little loose, but damned fruity.
I also made chicken noodle soup, from scratch. Folks were like “Good soup.” Reader, it was fucking great soup and my family is spoiled.
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This is what I do with a lot of my time right now. It's so wild that the "simple" things—like keeping the chronology, pointing to specific events—are so hard right now. But they need doing.
The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
Flipped through my freshly-delivered copy last night. It’s good!
Much more next week about this rather splendid new volume, but for now a few pics from last evening's book launch at the CAC, with co-authors Carla Bruni and illustrator Phil Thompson, for Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City's Everyday Architecture.
www.agatepublishing.com/978157284357...
I may have overestimated the capacity of the big pot.
Ten bucks for a half bushel of #2 tomatoes. Time to make sauce!
Also, only a few of us are born hustlers. Lots of talented journos are more effective with the structure of a newsroom, a union, and a regular salary.