In an increasingly digital society, where technology brings distant people closer together, yet often creates distances between those who are physically close, sport proves a valuable and concrete means of bringing individuals together, providing a healthier sense of the body, of

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

AI is about to push back the frontiers of mental illness and reveal vistas of insanity that are as yet unimaginable.

The Ewing Avenue streetscape project in South Bend is nearing completion. Work included adding a shared-use sidepath, narrowing the wide street, and completing other traffic calming, including the addition of raised pedestrian crossings.

Everyone has become so petty, small, simple minded, selfish, arrogant, ungenerous, and stupid.

Construction of 152 apartments across street from Four Winds Field still progressing southbendtribune.com/story/news/loc…

The answer is that they don't actually want it. It's nice in pictures but it's not something they long for. How many suburban homes have paintings of Venice, of New York, of small town Americana, of quaint rural scenes? They like visiting; what they value is *space* above all.

Little better to this Rust Belt lover than seeing new housing on formerly vacant lots. Vacant lots which once had homes, now again an active part of the City. This neighborhood in South Bend lost 70% of its population, we're building 92 new homes across all affordability levels

No Robin Pierson, bad list. Robin has bar none done the best history podcast out there but because of the niche subject, it didn't blow up like some of these. But Robin certainly pushed the podcast genre forward far more than most.

Twitter, circa 2025

Every parent really does need to be telling every other parent that you gotta not give em a phone till high school and have a game plan for limiting short form online video. That really is the entire ball game right now. A lot of people don’t know

Very similar thing that helped South Bend stave off much larger declines that happened in places like Flint and Canton.

Great Lakes Supremacy

You see a lot of bad takes on here regularly, but not sure I have seen one that I vehemently disagree with as much as this one. Self awareness is the minimum to make essentially any moral improvements. It is the foundational moral quality.

1960s sheet metal siding coming off, exposing stonework which dates to the 1910s or older. Entire building being rehabilitated in Downtown South Bend.

You can spot exactly when ChatGPT launched in 2022 Really incredible how ai has generally been a net negative for the average person in every possible way

Last week, South Bend issued its 100th new house permit of 2025, marking the first time the city has hit that total in roughly 20 years (with four months still left in the year).

Some Rust Belt cities have doubled down on managing decline of their neighborhoods and population. South Bend shows you can build new, well designed, houses in established neighborhoods. You don't have to accept neighborhoods with over 25% of the lots vacant in perpetuity.