The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life. In her latest — and, yes, 34th! — article for Places, @shannonmattern.bsky.social writes about building the infrastructure we need to keep ourselves free.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

“Every city is built on the decomposed dreams of its previous inhabitants, the material breakdown of obsolete social relations, the nutritive remains of sometimes abandoned, sometimes destroyed, ways of life.” This is the great @elisehunchuck.bsky.social at the CCA website. Go and read this!!

file_under: tm25 GPS for the Brain: Cognitive Mapping Revisited The talk by Laura Kurgan puts the discourse of cognitive mapping into dialogue with advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Laura is later joined in conversation by Jussi Parikka. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Exciting news for @transmediale.bsky.social, the tm community, and its many communities to come! Congratulations to Neema and Juan Pablo! Can't wait to attend next year's festival!

file_under: tm25 Pixels in, People out: An Image-Based Ideology of Space This conversation between Felicity Hammond, Nina Davies, and Julian Oliver explores how algorithms shape public spaces by eradicating the human experiences that define place. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

file_under: tm25 The next addition to our online archive: The Grid: A Lecture on Cybotron and Techno-Vernacular Expressionism by DeForrest Brown, Jr. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.

Some days one misses home more than others. Image from September 3, 1973, is one of the first images published by NASA and Landsat. At the top of the colour composite image, just right of centre, you can see the familiar sprawl—even then!—of Toronto holding onto the edge of Lake Ontario.

It has been more than two days that the supply of electricity to Gaza has been shut off. It must resume — essentials including food, electricity, and medical supplies should never be used as political tools. (1/3)

Each month, we’ll be releasing three video recordings from the transmediale 2025 livestream 👾 Starting from Affective Proximities: A Genealogy of Queer Media Tactics, a conversation between Cait McKinney, David Isaac Hecht, and Alexandra Juhasz. ► transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!

So excited to finally be able to share that we* are headed to Venice—it's been years in the making, with www.oceanicrefractions.org surfacing again as part of The 19th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti.

In 2024, the Liberals released a "defence update" titled "Our North Strong and Free". Now PP shows up in Iqaluit with essentially no warning and wants to outdo them. (Will a full base in Iqaluit have any consequences? Who cares?) The persistent militarization of the North: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

An incredible part of co-curating @transmediale.bsky.social with Ben Evans James has been to develop the prologue—two days of workshops in Berlin! Take a look at the links—spend 1/2 or a full day working alongside eeefff, De Forrest Brown, Jr., @wileycount.bsky.social, Alexis Convento, and others!

Essay (the inimitable) @dubravka.bsky.social and i wrote for @transmediale.bsky.social 's journal (#7) now online tinyurl.com/28tpse3h 🙏 @elisehunchuck.bsky.social for the invitation+trust, and a wonderful Editor's Note! 🙏 Farida (+Aquiles Navarro) for the unique experience for music beyond music

Andrew Cuomo, who was found to have sexually harassed Charlotte Bennett in a report by the New York Attorney General, is now continuing his years-long retaliation and harassment campaign against his young former employee with a defamation suit. www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...

Orwell wrote: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information....

Hours after Musk said 'only the AfD can save Germany', one of their supporters carried out a terrorist attack www.ft.com/content/5e2f...

Today in 1993: Nirvana’s iconic “Unplugged” concert airs on MTV. “.. In the moment, you weren’t aware you were taping what was Nirvana's last album," producer Alex Coletti said later. "It was only in hindsight that it became what it became." #RIP

In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️

Looking to speak to someone to learn (more) about philanthropic art funding with a geographical focus on Oceania and/or the Pacific > happy for responses or DMs!

A sneak peek at [a miniature version of] something we’ve been working on for over a year 📖🍎 w/ co-editor Bert De Jonghe and designed by Studio Folder (Milan, IT) for Actar Publishers

Remembering, as one does, that the last time there was a citywide manhunt the suspect called in his location because he got bored, but then left because the NYPD took too long to get there and was called in by a bodega worker who saw him leaving. The NYPD was busting up a homeless camp a block away.

Can you copy the vibe of a story about a case of a creator copying the vibe of someone else?

UPDATE: The tsunami threat has now passed, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Forecasters on Thursday briefly issued tsunami warnings and urged evacuations across hundreds of miles of coastline in California and Oregon after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake happened off the coast of Northern California.

If you just felt the ground shaking, you might be wondering what happened or how to react the next time an earthquake strikes. Here are the answers to some common questions about earthquakes.

'The City of our Dreaming' is the most wonderful journey through dreams, hospitality, solidarity, resistance—from water to bread, in the hands of @biidaasamose.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, Gabriela Leandro Pereira; hosted by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social + Dionne Brand

I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Residents along the Northern California coast were rattled on Thursday by an earthquake centered off the coast south of Eureka, prompting a tsunami warning that's since been canceled. Over a dozen aftershocks were reported after the initial quake. nyti.ms/4f5GKdS

On abuse, on power, on complicity. There is so much of this that resonates with me, and I am almost certain, with many of you: "Abuse of power is not incidental to these men’s “greatness”; it is central to it." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (If anyone needs the pdf, I'm happy to share it!)

something, something eat the rich.

thank you to @mnailatikau.bsky.social for sending me this. i want to briefly comment on how dangerous this line of thinking is: that 1. we as Anglo-Europeans have the right to meddle in nonhuman species communication and 2. that AI is a viable medium of translation

This fall I spent a month tracing tsunamis up and down the Sanriku Coast of Japan. I spent a lot of time looking down and have ended up with a kind of lexicon of manhole covers ⭕️

Earthquakes in Germany? The 16 November 1911 Central Europe earthquake is among the largest earthquakes for which a magnitude has been estimated (6.1)

We are living in an era when refusing to abandon people can be a revolutionary act. —Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba Let This Radicalize You @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social

You cannot think meaningfully about transforming ecologies w/out keeping in mind rising material inequality and persistent path dependency.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

A little over a month ago Andrew Herscher and I wrote about university's defense of private property. Their acknowledgments become anti-political run conterminous with militarized shutdowns of encampments protesting genocide and asking for divestment. averyreview.com/issues/68/pa...

Fires of Fagradalsfjall.

researching a footnote (while editing a volume on the Arctic), I came across a story I did not know: of Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of an expedition to claim Wrangel Island for Canada. The expedition was led by Allan Crawford (R), seen with expedition cat, Vic. canadiangeographic.ca/articles/vilhj…

“criticize me and I will destroy your life” is a time honored tool of billionaires ever and one of the biggest reasons we should not have any

A series of powerful storms are wreaking havoc across the U.S., bringing significant weather of nearly every variety to large parts of the Pacific Northwest, the Plains, the Midwest, the South and the East Coast. Follow live updates.