What AI knows about you. Tech columnist Kim Komando’s crafted a copy-and-paste inquiry you can feed artificial intelligence engines to get an overview of their intel on you.
■ Matt Novak at Gizmodo: “ChatGPT gave out my address and phone number. … This raises questions about what’s considered private info in the AI age.”
■ Futurism: A large study concludes that replacing workers with AI is backfiring badly.
■ Also from Komando: Take 90 seconds to learn what your vehicle knows about you—because “cars sold since 2018 … store everything you tap.”
Bill shock. As AI data centers increase electricity demand, ComEd customers’ charges next month stand to jump at least 12%.
■ Chicago 312’s H Kapp-Klote: Illinois’ 244 data centers are quietly gobbling up the state’s water.
■ Concerned about AI engines’ climate impact? Orbit Media co-founder Andy Crestodina has tips for minimizing your queries’ cost.
‘They all have something in common.’ Columnist and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the CEOs who’ve traveled to China with Trump “couldn’t give a rat’s ass about strengthening America’s geopolitical power.”
■ Stephen Colbert: “These people can work magic. They’ve already made their taxes disappear!”
■ CNN alumnus Jim Acosta: “For years, Trump hid his tax information from the public. Now he could be paid billions by the Internal Revenue Service.”
Antiwar Republicans. As Democrats repeatedly try—so far, unsuccessfully—to halt Trump’s war with Iran, the number of Republicans siding with them is growing.
■ UMass researchers report a growing number of Trump supporters experiencing voter’s remorse.
Big loser. Politico’s analysis finds judges have ruled against the Trump administration’s immigration detention practices 90% of the time—an astonishing 10,000 times.
■ FBI insiders tell MS NOW that Kash Patel is “padding the stats” to boost the agency’s arrest record on his watch.
‘We are watching, in real time, the creation of a one-party state in the American South.’ Historian Heather Cox Richardson sums up Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymanders—shutting Democrats out of power.
■ Law professor Joyce Vance, a self-identified southerner, rounds up “a radical, racist transformation of voting maps” state-by-state.
■ Heads Up News columnist Dan Froomkin: “If you care about democracy, get fired up to fight white supremacy.”
■ NOTUS: The son of Sen. Rand Paul “drunkenly hurled antisemitic insults … at a Capitol Hill bar.”
■ Noting that Senate races can’t be gerrymandered, Contrarian Jen Rubin sees Democrats’ prospects “actually improving.”
Nice cash if you can get it. A Sun-Times analysis finds Illinois politicians spending millions in campaign funding on meals—acknowledging nevertheless that “it’s difficult to police whether a meal or a drink … is appropriate.”
■ Mayor Johnson’s off to see the pope at the end of the month.
‘No, you may not have public money to pay your private school tuition.’ Former Tribune columnist Eric Zorn rebuts a Trib editorial.
■ Lisa Needham at Public Notice: “The assault on higher ed goes deeper than you think. The regime is quietly working to create a permanent underclass.”
■ The University of Chicago says that, beginning in the fall of next year, students from families earning less than $250,000 a year will get in tuition-free.
Bad to verse. Broadcaster Salem Media—parent to Chicago’s reactionary WIND-AM—is selling itself to The Christian Community Foundation, doing business as WaterStone.
■ MS NOW—the former MSNBC—has settled on a revised lineup heading into the fall elections.
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