<![CDATA[Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer.]]>Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.

When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.

Then things got weird.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printer-cairo-illinois-housing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/f0b0a63a-cc42-4f1c-8577-55f14aae4b34/two-local-men-promised-to-build-housing-with-a-3d-printer.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:56:26 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 13:30:07 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:01:37 GMT]]>@ProPublica @Moss Ahh now it makes sense.. it felt like it was missing the story part

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116449902452962106https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116449902452962106Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:01:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:27:38 GMT]]>@ProPublica @iagox86@infosec.exchange Maybe you should try paying your editors.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116449296935427183https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116449296935427183Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:27:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:24:04 GMT]]>@ProPublica was this article entirely llm generated? It's not finished, right?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kind.social/users/dark_stang/statuses/116449282939492958https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kind.social/users/dark_stang/statuses/116449282939492958Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:24:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:56:25 GMT]]>@iagox86 @Moss This was originally published in our Dispatches newsletter as an introduction to the full investigation here: https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/ProPublica/statuses/116449174177221043https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/ProPublica/statuses/116449174177221043Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:56:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:43:36 GMT]]>@ProPublica

Jesus, that AI voice read is Hard To Listen To As It Keeps Flubbing Emphasis And Irony Delivery.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Orb2069/statuses/116448887854905585https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/Orb2069/statuses/116448887854905585Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:43:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:40:57 GMT]]>@ProPublica I got another question especially because my high school friend’s dad is a professor the university of Windsor where they teach & go homes & I have some serious questions for one a concrete 3DPrinter is a & also what’s wrong with the supply chain

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Timpostma/statuses/116448877433017734https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Timpostma/statuses/116448877433017734Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:40:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:39:54 GMT]]>@ProPublica also, the promise of "things got weird", made repeatedly, was never fulfilled. Nothing was weird, it seems like perfectly normal politics

I'm like mad that I spent time reading such a pointless story!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448873286442731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448873286442731Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:39:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:38:19 GMT]]>@Moss @ProPublica it's such a weird story! The way it was written kept making promises, I was waiting and waiting for the "pay us for the full story" or "watch our documentary here" part that never came

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448867090506776https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448867090506776Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:38:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:37:12 GMT]]>@ProPublica am I crazy, or does this read like a pitch to a book and not a story? The author kept talking about the big things they did and the deep research and blah blah, right to the end, but never actually told the story. I kept waiting for the "subscribe for more" or "watch the documentary" part, but it never came

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448862699188817https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/iagox86/statuses/116448862699188817Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:37:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:29:14 GMT]]>@ProPublica Terrible writing. Is this one of the articles you had an AI produce? It’s laden with exaggerated descriptions like “biblical” and “weird” but then all that happened was a contractor over-promised and under-delivered, which is what most contractors do—and nobody was financially interested in fixing the results. There’s no story.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116448831341103169https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Moss/statuses/116448831341103169Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:29:14 GMT