His bank may have hung up on Pope Leo last month, but no phone was needed today at the Vatican. Treasurer Frerichs presented Pope Leo with an I-Cash claim for $8.65, proceeds from an abandoned PayPal account the Pope left in Illinois.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
YALL.
There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!
Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.
LINK HERE: https://t.co/QhhkTBQGAq
Carl Sagan on books:
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."
The United States said that its war with Iran has “only just begun.”
The war expanded once again as Iran fired a drone into NATO territory and the U.S. used a torpedo fired by a submarine to sink a warship for the first time since World War II.
@nickschifrin reports.
Chicago hiked some business license fees by as much as 400% this year, according to the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. For example, fees for two-year regulated business licenses jumped from $250 to $1,000 on Jan. 1. https://t.co/sn4HOthYhf
🚨Attention Suburban Cook County Voters
Limited Early Voting begins today at six locations across suburban Cook County.
Additional Early Voting locations open March 2, expanding to 55 sites throughout suburban Cook County.
Thank you all for 28 followers within 10 hrs. Although not a big no. It still means alot to me personally. Thank you to all the amazing communities like the dino and zoo community for welcoming me wholeheartedly ya'll are awesome. As an appreciation I present a tuff pic of mine
Firing a Coast Guard pilot for leaving Kristi Noem’s blanket behind. Berating staff when she’s not on TV enough. Inside the chaos at DHS. https://t.co/oLuBNUBOIH via @WSJ
After 3 weeks of subfreezing temperatures, Chicago is officially above freezing!!
33 degrees at 7:51am at O’Hare.
The 20 day straight streak, longest since 22 days in 2007, is over.
Btw the record is 43 days, from Dec 1976 - Feb 1977. @BlockClubCHI