Reposted by making artve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 18hThis is presented as a libertarian freedom (the freedom to access and use information), but it doesn't have any corollary to freedom _from_ having one's data or information used for instrumental ends. If you can be observed by a machine you were basically asking for it, and who could be blamed? 2224
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 14hand this is why muckrock does not work for me, it has really enabled a surveillance that just furthers biased base harm 010
Reposted by making artve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 18hIf you think about the data that is constructed about a person by observing their public behavior as a kind of "affordance" or "handle" for doing things on or to that person (including compiling further information about them), the technicized use of public data is inherently nonconsensual. 27016
Reposted by making artve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 18hThe software profession, an immature field marked by repeated ethical violations, has no such guidelines about the proper use of public data about subjects. It instead has foundational myths (specifically "information freedom") that say that you cannot do any wrong by using data if you can see it. 1339
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 14hthis is one reason i have gotten quieter here and on muckrock 020
Reposted by making artAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/10/2026some questions you can ask to evaluate a new "public bathroom" 1. can a child use it without an adult? 2. can you use it at night? 3. can a disabled person use it? 4. is it owned by a vendor? 5. does it require technology? 6. are people being paid to clean it? 16517
Reposted by making artSteven desJardins @stdesjardins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026While we're at it, let's build public showers so the homeless can get clean, and a convenient laundry service so their clothes aren't filthy. But at a minimum, public bathrooms. 031
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"these people" include some who are considered leftists or at least in-group with progressives, there's work to do everywhere 050
Reposted by making artAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/10/2026i behold public bathrooms all the time at parks and libraries and train stations, they just aren't open. chicago needs to open the actual public bathrooms instead of doing whatever the hell this is 46511
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026one delightful thing about risographs are the hilarious misprints, very whimsy 050
Reposted by making artmaking art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026this thread caused a stir with some candidates and the rumors are true, it seems Hilario Dominguez is circulating petitions to gather enough signatures to run for CPS Board Prez one of the many problems is that his personnel file is already public and it has a complaint in it that doozymuckrock.comPersonnel FilesMiriam Bhimani made this request to Chicago Public Schools of Chicago. 161
Reposted by making artmaking art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026some days i start my day and some days my day is started for me notes are coming in from around the city about who is or will be running for CPS Board President it feels like I'm watching a Michigan State versus Ohio State football game, I want everyone to lose 1102
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the rest of this email to all members, most of who are women, goes on to complain about how OIG should not be confirming the existence of investigations the thing is, they confirm the existence of investigations all the time through FOIA responses the CTU response is very inappropriate 020
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026CTU has released its own statement in support of Hilario Dominguez, its endorsed candidate for chicago school board "the Chicago Tribune published an incomplete article" the reason it's incomplete is because it doesn't include all the other women's stories who have also been harassed by Hilario 121
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i will, however, go do something nice for myself like get a fancy caramel apple and work on some art but it takes active reminding to do that as we watch men in public discussion say absurd things like, omg this is a pattern 020
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the women i have been in conversation with and have been working with all stopped to take a moment to check in with each other on how we're doing and the thing is, we're ok because dealing with sexual harassment and the culture of defending it is so necessary to everyday functioning it just is 131
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it's incredibly harmful that part of what we had to do is demonstrate that this is a pattern, publicly we knew Hilario's response to press would be awful because we've lived it in real life already 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the investigative processes are incredibly unfriendly (charitable description) to women who have something to say many of us have been saying for years that Hilario should not be near power, and at the very least should not be Board President 120
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026no, it wasn't a one-off and there are more women who are willing to come forward now also 121
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i do not think we have to admit that the timing is suspicious at all, we can simply choose to believe the woman who is making the brave choice to speak has decided the time is safer now than it was before or the impending danger is worth the risk 040
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i do not have to wonder why this story is coming to press now it's really hard to get women to discuss with anyone when a man has sent cease and desist letters and it's even harder to build trust with a victim in order to run a story 141
Reposted by making artUndead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So many qualified women you have to walk past to pick this guy 161
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026when we talk about the culture of sexual harassment, it includes people with power overrunning victims, not listening and not behaving any way to increase safety for victims there is no scenario where Hilario should have been elevated inside CTU to political director and running for Board President 140
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026something that is not obvious in this reporting but happened at the time women made complaints about Hilario's behavior not just to bosses at The Resurrection Project but also to Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez's office and students + community had meetings with CTU the response was to catch and kill 161
Reposted by making artmaking art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Hilario Dominguez, current CTU political director and prospective CTU Board President candidate, also has complaints from when he worked at The Resurrection Project and it's not good, actually it's bad 194
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026and all the people who have endorsed him already knew about this behavior and endorsed anyway 330
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026be the goose, risograph these are on their way to becoming notepads 🪿 092
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i do think you've made it clear that you think schools should close, that under-enrollment is a fixed concept so we are left with obvious choices we disagree and i am going to leave it there 000
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i am not sure why you are intent on making this a gotcha kind of conversation but i don't find it particularly productive if this is the place where you make a stand, that white parents (which I am not), need to make individual choices then it seems like you are ok with accumulation of whiteness 100
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we are not and never were going to individual choice out of systemic issues 020
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we didn't really bus many white students either, we bussed far more Black students and we've never really stopped forcing Black students from traveling the farthest to get to school 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026thank you @aoife.bsky.social for taking a lovely picture of him trying to scratch my face from which i could sketch him out for this print 020
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we centered white students in our 1970s era bussing programs, if we centered Black students, i could agree to try something 110
Reposted by making artAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 02/10/2026I also think we need to center disabled students in the discussion of student assignment instead of treating them as an afterthought and that opening up the question of how we decide which students go to which schools will lead to domino conversations, e.g. transportation 1102
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026for what it's worth, NYC also runs controlled enrollment at the elementary level — you are not guaranteed a seat at the closest school to you I'm not clear on what argument you're referring to so it might be helpful for you to restate what you think is being proposed 000
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026right and while he will point out you can choice into schools, that's not entirely the case, i think i heard there are only so many classrooms at Hawthorne and Burley so why do we make this tiered system, i can agree that the District has done a bad job managing, they cover for wealth accumulation 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026we had 600 words in an OpEd, for a more full imagining of how systems can work, you'd have to ask questions! we do think the District would need to start by revising its student assignment procedures — rather than protect white families, let's look at how students with disabilities are assigned 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026that's a pretty strong statement, i think we do a pretty decent job at asking a lot of questions and talking to a lot of people and we can always do more NYC required that some of the fundraising be centrally pooled; aligning parents on funding pressure is not a bad thing 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026actually, i think the way you're reading it makes it clear that you'd still protect the property right to a certain kind of education 000
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026i think using "under-enrolled" is a dog whistle it's tied to a formula based on student assignment practices which are infused with bias 110
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026one interesting factor in CPS is that we do track if kids are in their attendance boundary and attend and if kids from outside the boundary attend most kids in CPS do not attend their neighborhood school but that does mask white schools that tend to enroll and accumulate whiteness 010
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's helpful for some in chicago to live in the moment that school closures in 2013 were an anomaly, but it wasn't it has been a part of regular conversation to close majority Black schools since the 1960s and chicago has been doing it since then too 073
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026another article references a different 22 schools targeted for closure 1980, Chicago Tribune 141
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026chicago talks about 2013 as though it was a watershed moment at CPS but the truth is, the Board of Education has been closing majority Black schools for decades from 1976, Chicago Defender h/t @aoife.bsky.social 1138
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026students transfer to various buses and transit in order to get to school, so it's not a bad stretch from that viewpoint 020
making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026bus only lanes on lake shore drive, BRT on Western, a look at where schools stack along corridors and where students are coming from to determine other routes will be part of our direct discussions with officials as we continue to work on transportation in the region 010