Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of…
I Want You to Understand Chicago
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.
Historicale
Test your knowledge of history by ordering events on a timeline. A daily historical chronology challenge.
Notable links: August 14, 2026
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
Why the Clock Broke: America in an Age of Crisis
My lecture at King's College London
Does Your Brain Think Accurately About Time?
Chicago Booth’s Kristin Donnelly talks about her research on time-duration asymmetry.
Another now: dispatches from an alternative present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like?…
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.
Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.
Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game ; [with a new afterword]
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and p…
The World Series Was Electric — So Was Bluesky - Bluesky
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” — Moneyball 2011
NYT Misses What’s True and Important About an Anti-Trans School Resolution
Like most New York Times articles about trans politics that FAIR has analyzed, the piece marginalized the voices of those most impacted.
March 2026 event extravaganza
Get ready for our busiest month so far! From our regular meetups to world class conferences, this March we have at least ten (10!) DWebYVR and adjacent events going on.
