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Articles by Marcy Menzes
Metra Train Strikes Pedestrian and Elon Musk Pledges to Donate One Share of SpaceX
Welcome back to ‘In the Loop’! It’s your newsletter team, Ainsha, Diego, Kathryn, Marcy, Ruby, Kateleen, Macy, Erin, Kait and Annie. We’ve got a good one for you today. To start, a feature on how being cool is ruining self-expression. Next, we have information on DeFall Fest and news on the City Colleges of Chicago and Cook County Teachers Union contract agreement. Then, we have news on a man hospitalized after an altercation with ICE in California and the curfew in Paris after the weekend protests.
Cook County Father Files Lawsuit Against Roblox For Enabling Alleged Online Groomer
A Cook County father is suing the gaming company Roblox after discovering his 9-year-old son had allegedly been groomed and sexually exploited through the website’s online chat system. Warning: this piece contains mentions of grooming and child sexual abuse material. No parent wants their child to meet an adult posing as a minor online. Yet this was the case for a Cook County father, whose 9-year-old son was interacting with someone he believed to be another child but was actually a man.
The influence of AI chatbots on society’s most vulnerable
AI chatbots have been present online for more than two decades, but have only recently acted as people’s friends, family members and even lovers for those who don’t have these valuable social connections. Warning: this piece contains mentions of self-harm and harm against others While Artificial Intelligence (AI) was invented in 1950, the impact it has on relationships both with ourselves and with the AI itself has not been measurable until recent years.
A Look at Donuts by J Dilla, 20 Years Later
On February 7, J Dilla’s last antemortem album, Donuts, turned 20 years old. It only feels appropriate to take a bite out of this record by covering a select few tracks. James Dewitt Yancey, professionally known as J Dilla, got involved with the underground hip-hop scene alongside classmates T3 and Baatin’s following their high school graduation, creating rap group Slum Village.
Transportation Budget Cuts Put to Rest as Transit Funding Bill Passes, Yet Inaccessibility Concerns Are Still Prominent
Illinois lawmakers recently passed a new $1.5 billion transit funding bill, but many Chicagoans worry about the L’s accessibility as pandemic relief money will leave a deficit and 2026’s budget plan remains uncertain. On October 31, state lawmakers passed a new transit funding bill titled the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Act amid budget cuts which threatened major reductions in service across the Chicagoland area, including Metra and Pace.
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