For those who had Operation Condor on their bingo card of historical analogies, please cover your square. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

I would have been happy with permanent Pattern Recognition (2003).

"Make Dulles Great Again" (seriously), with various proposals from Zaha Hadid Architects, Adjaye Associates, and AECOM, among others. Roll them all up into a coalition of the canceled. www.archpaper.com/2026/01/zaha...

I think about this essay by George W. S. Trow a lot. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

At the "Board of Peace" launch in Davos, Jared Kushner shared slides depicting "New Gaza" and "New Rafah," both of which closely echo the Gaza "GREAT Trust" proposal Dan Safarik covered in Unfrozen #104, pleading with architecture firms not to participate. unfrozenarch.net/episodes/mak...

Bleaching your teeth, heiling fash, talking trash over at Davos

Park that fleet Drop that tarriff Close Fifth Eye Prevent World War III bsky.app/profile/glin...

@atherton.bsky.social Anthems For A Seventy-Seven Year-Old Alliance

If you've never been mocked as a dilettante NPC by your AI slop doppelgänger... maybe don't?! I kid, I kid. Big thanks to @harmonleon.bsky.social for the out-of-body experience and to Hallie Stern for making it happen! vimeo.com/1154544699?f...

Surreal to find myself cited approvingly in Monocle this morning.* (*Thanks to Tom Vanderbilt.) monocle.com/culture/soci...

Back in 2022, I wrote my first (and only) sci-fi story set in Buenos Aires, where a nativist, "Cyber-Peronist" state turns to a startup named Sauron to provide its surveillance infrastructure — because the joke wrote itself. Of course now there's one for real. 🙄🙄🙄 techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...

💯 I wrote a report for the Secret Service in 2023 detailing all the ways this could happen. www.secretservice.gov/sites/defaul...

Also happy to receive offers on my original galleys for CYBERSELFISH from 2000 — I swear 100% of the proceeds will go to Paulina herself.

Giving thanks today that Paulina Borsook is FINALLY receiving the recognition she long deserved, albeit far too late. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

The @nytimes.com finally profiled Paulina Borsook. “Silicon Valley, [she] wrote, hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart ... thought people could be, and should be, programmed like a computer. – cc @glindsay.bsky.social

Excellent title: The Screen Killed the City. I’m jealous I couldn’t be in Vancouver for this. I promise I’ll visit one day.

My favorite talk of the fall, and it isn't close. Thanks again to WRLDCTY for having me! youtu.be/Pz3w7IQnVmQ?...

Is our language so impoverished that we have to use acronyms of French phrases to make ourselves understood, Charlie Brown? Yes.

Only 40%?! Try harder, Chicago.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

How can this be? For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congratulations Rafi Segal and Marisa Morán Jahn! On the Holcim Foundation Grand Prize in Europe: for Art-Tek Tulltorja. A former brick factory turns art and science hub and cornerstone of urban revival in Kosovo’s Pristina. – via @glindsay.bsky.social

My book North: The Future of Post-Climate America is moving up the Amazon Books rankings (and its not even out yet). Want to hear more? Check-out my conversation with @glindsay.bsky.social and Daniel Safarik on Unfrozen (podcast) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKV...

Speaking as a former altar boy: instant excommunication.

LinkedIn phrenology. You've got to be fucking kidding me. futurism.com/future-socie...

Democrats weren't going to win. They were going to force Republicans to kill the filibuster. WIthout the filibuster they would be forced in power to pass a lot of things they don't want to pass.

Jays fans: youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU

As a real Chotinerhead, I read all his interviews, and what most fans of his takedowns don't realize is that 80-90% of his guest acquit themselves just fine under the same interview techniques. He's the Dunning-Kruger of Q&As. www.newyorker.com/contributors...

We are THIS close to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong. Only a matter of which microstate goes full franchulate first. sf.gazetteer.co/beta-testing...

INFINITE JEST-heads: What are the best pages/passages to read about the "Entertainment?" (Yes, my paperback copy has an unbroken spine; why do you ask?)

It is WILD how much roadwork in Montreal is still unfinished when then first freeze is barely a week away.

The only thing smart in my house is a TV because I was not given a choice in the matter. Modem televisions are near impossible to get without smart features.

You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.

I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs! But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…

[email protected] coined "luxury surveillance" to describe the devil's bargain of smart glasses and AI+AR (AIR). Read my interview with him in "The Augmented City" to learn what we can do about it: urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-augmente...

Nearly a decade ago, my @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social colleagues and I warned that smart homes were a gigantic attack surface for cyberattacks and malware. And we weren't remotely the first to do so. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Great. “AI” and Big Tech waste billions to rip societies apart (a good investment apparently, as nearly 40 percent of US GDP growth in 2025 comes from AI, which can’t possibly go on forever, or can it) so people buy gold as a “hedge against destruction”. — via @glindsay.bsky.social

*chuckles* I’m in danger

"You can see the workslop everywhere, except in productivity statistics" — Robert Solow, probably

Forget competency. Consider pursuing a career as an AI “Workslop” Course-Corrector. — via @glindsay.bsky.social

Popped in to see how the reactionary urbanists were doing at over newgeography, and the definite article in this headline really said it all for me.

Listening to Genesis’ Invisible Touch on my late father’s matte black component stereo is triggering some sort of Gen X primal memory

I met Paulina on the tour for “Cyberselfish,” cited her in my own book, and never forgot her gimlet-eyed take on the SF scene. It’s high past time to belatedly recognize her prescient warnings on what Silicon Valley was and what it would become. She was there, she saw it, and no one has any excuse.

They're doubling down on this. x.com/AJentleson/s...

Just what we need, a “center-left” think tank postulating we need to bring back Jim Crow in order to do another New Deal.

New Mexico is the most underrated state in the nation, and it isn't close. 19thnews.org/2025/09/new-...

Mobility Innovation Exchange to Feature Greg Lindsay as Keynote Speaker This September#United_States#Detroit#Mobility_Innovation#Greg_Lindsay

Reading up on James Buchanan’s post-presidency for no good reason