My dude, Claudia is culturally Jewish. AMLO is most likely a Protestant, or at least very sympathetic to Protestantism. MORENA is literally the heir to the old Revolutionary Nationalist movement which was against organized religion in public life. This is lazy analysis.

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Private equity wants a $3 billion casino on Coney Island, but it's a gamble residents don’t want to take. The company is allegedly handing out cash and ice cream to those willing to support their project. From James Baratta: trib.al/WbZm1BZ

¿Alguien sabe si Vix se puede acceder desde EEUU? NECESITO ver el documental de Maerker sobre el PRI

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What Do 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico’s Organized Crime? Today, on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore it with professor Omar García Ponce. www.mexicodecoded.com/p/organized-...

It's difficult for my writing not to sound repetitive in English given that useful Spanish words such as "resaltar," "recalcar," and "destacar" all have one translation: "highlight."

Good, nuanced take on yesterday’s events in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: “the prospect of a descent into tit-for-tat political violence is an ominous development that threatens to narrow the space for meaningful political action.”

Does anyone in #academicsky have experience using Claude for Dataviz in your research? Are the results reliable?

Every once in a while the not-fascist sector of the british public gets REALLY REALLY MAD when non-brits make fun of their food, and make all the obvious jokes about how brexit was a reaction against having to eat food with flavor...but like...guys...is any of that really false

If you’re not following @laloalcaraz.bsky.social you’re doing social media wrong

Mucha mamada esa de que "los mexicanos nacen donde se les da la gana", porque en realidad no es verdad. Es un cuento de hadas. En este país seguimos atorados en el nacionalismo tóxico del siglo XIX. De que "un mexicano debe ser mestizo, guadalupano y hablar español". Esa es la "norma". 👇🏻

"As Republicans (and Democrats like... Andrew Cuomo) scare-monger the dangers of the city and its transit, there was definitely power in telling a different story through getting participants outside, encouraging them to interact with each other and use the city’s streets, busses, and trains."

I don't agree with all of Mamdani's policy ideas, but he has consistently (and forcefully) said all the right things about street safety, bike lanes, and walkability.

This recent article is HUGELY relevant now. “What the far right feels about cities isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort. Canadian city planner @brenttoderian.bsky.social decodes this feeling as: “I’m not the majority anymore, it isn’t my city anymore.” @simonkuper.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com

The Mexican urge to say “provecho” to everyone as I step out of a Brooklyn coffee shop.

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

The other place was reminiscing about the best Onion headlines. A favourite:

I don’t know how you’d define wealthy, but what Cuomo is describing—preventing a large share of the population from taking new rents in stabilized apartments, which make up 44% of the rental stock—could make the problem of lack of rental turnover even worse, harnessing people to their homes.

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

My friend @possumrabbi.bsky.social published this very helpful resource on incorporating accessibility in mapping and dataviz. Worth a look for anyone in #AcademicSky using geospatial data in their published research:

Planeación Urbana, UNAM.

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

“In the 1960s, the children’s television show Sesame Street was being conceived at the same time that the urban design book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs was exploding in popularity.“ The [pretty damn good] Urban Design of Sesame Street, in the @nytimes.com

So glad my fave grocery spot @foodcoop.bsky.social‬ is on Bsky!

When you prioritise people over cars 👍

I grew up on these streets

Aguilera, et Al’s new book on short-term rental regulation just came in this morning. Looking forward to reading:

¿Fuiste a las marchas contra la #gentrificacion en #CDMX? Envíame un DM. Ando recopilando testimonios y fotos para mi tesis doctoral.

the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor

Is Mexico a narco-state? The Oscars think so. Netflix too. But behind movie scripts, the story is far more complicated My latest at 🟧 @mexicodecoded.bsky.social: www.mexicodecoded.com/p/is-mexico-...

I’m on record as an apologist for Lena Dunham and Phoebe Waller-Bridge alike but I don’t think that we as a society can really justify having them both.

it would not take much, if any, work for them to learn literally anything about the actual experience of a classroom for the vast majority of students in american higher ed

A guide to academic event names

This. My old phone with a different number broke down randomly and I was entirely shut out of my Rutgers account due to 2FA for a day. This meant no access to both grad school AND work.

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

Was interviewed by @nytimes.com for a piece on the gentrification protests in CDMX:

Last thing I’m saying about this: way more annoying that U.S. commentariat still don’t know the differences between race, ethnicity, and nationality or how to talk about them w/ nuance, than that any mixed culture immigrant kids fumbles to check one of this country’s imprecise made up boxes.

No sé cómo explicarlo, pero Talinn me recuerda a Querétaro.

During my COVID days in the East Village, I ate at Punjabi Deli at least once a week. Glad to see @hellgatenyc.com give it some love!

Loving the sprawling metro and tram system here in Helsinki!

New York is p. bad. The good places are either expensive or kinda hard to get to.

Turning 35 by doing the most 35 year-old thing: buying an original pressing of the Architecture in Helsinki album.

Spending the weekend in Philly. Easily my third favorite US city, with stunning architecture, super walkable streets, and excellent public spaces!

Este hotel en Filadelfia tiene un restaurante/bar con temática de la Condesa. ¿Qué nivel de gentrificación es éste?

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces. AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse. This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

Well, well, well. I am officially eating my words. He actually pulled it off!!!

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.