"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Transportation research is under threat. The Transportation Research Board is canceling contracts, restructuring committees, and signaling that it will censor work presented at its annual meeting. Read out new commentary in Transport Policy for more: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lluT,L-HR...

South side. bsky.app/profile/weeg...

not to mention that it's incoherent english. "we will try to want to pray" ?? sounds devout! bsky.app/profile/sahi...

from Corey Robin on FB:

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

misread as surprise David Duke appearance

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

two new pubs from our harm reduction work in Riverside: 1) we develop a new computational estimator for the local Knox statistic, looking at space-time hotspots of fatal overdoses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

same, though i dont think there's anything unique to this century bsky.app/profile/soci...

An implicit assumption of Abundance is that out-migration from places with too few jobs relative to people will help those left behind. But while this helps the out-migrants, this out-migration will not improve economic or social conditions in distressed places.

hey, um. esri is not a valid source for population forecasting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the developer pro-forma piece (a la mapcraft mapcraft.io and UrbanSim) is one of the linchpins of urban modeling that's almost always overlooked

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

Am Econ Assn speaks out about firing the #BLS Commish. "It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as [better] data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor--not failure or bias."

some workshop materials on spatial interaction models with spatial dependence, if you're into that knaaptime.com/workshop-ner... (commuting is a kind of small-scale migration)

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned. But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

PySAL release day github.com/pysal/pysal/...

my github education account appears to have lapsed (and custom domains are now a pro feature?), so now all my web content is down for 72 hours 😑

wow they took the thompson settlement agreement down from hud's website web.archive.org/web/20200311...

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

OR, i'll forfeit the 20mil if you promise to stop being a dick to everyone else fighting for justice. This dude is incredible bsky.app/profile/the-...

refrain: if we didnt fetishize local control and instead gave MPOs authority to do real land-use regulation, we'd have coordinated housing and transportation planning at the scale where it matches the market and makes a difference bsky.app/profile/mate...

man, i don’t know how you can find yourself in this position to wield immense power for good and just throw your hands up and vote for the bad anyway. murkowski can survive trump. her constituents can’t.

The City is a century old this year. And today is my first day as faculty at the nation's first and only School of Social Ecology. Wildly proud to continue the scholarly tradition of spatial structure

today is my last day at SDSU 😢. It has meant the world to me to spend some time in a legendary geography department that has been home to cindy brewer, art getis, serge rey, and janet franklin, among other hall of famers in spatial analysis. will always love this place

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Zohran doing the “from the tippity top to the tippity bottom” broad city walk is peak millennial mayor content

dear political scientists, who are your people that inherit from the Hotelling tradition and what do they have to say about today? why are democrats the only ones still playing the hot dog game??? seriously bsky.app/profile/jame...

a genuine problem with new york defining politics for everyone is that these deluded degenerates come to believe they matter in opinion making. yet another reason why the ny dem party needs to be burned to the ground along with the offices of the paper of record, etc.

This is what we call a Freudian slip.

for the love of god the *metropolitan region* is the appropriate unit of governance. yglasias is exactly zero training in urban systems he doesn't know what he's talking about bsky.app/profile/maxb...

continues to cackle from sn diego bsky.app/profile/opin...

rofl in san diego bsky.app/profile/maxd...

DID NO ONE SEE WATCHMEN???? bsky.app/profile/scot... it. um. won 11 emmys and explores the inherent racism underlying masked law enforcement

we're just citing blog posts in SC rulings now? ill never understand this in the same way ill never understand why people are willing to read yglasias. who the fuck cares what ja rule thinks at a time like this? bsky.app/profile/ripp...

even funnier, every single piece of this enumeration is genuinely elementary urban planning and most of it is probably required by statute in NYC. i don't think id assign credit to lander for IZ and APFOs bsky.app/profile/alda...

im not begging obama to enter the fray, but just rhetorically... like, what is the point of having power if you aren't willing to wield it? what, precisely, are you afraid to dilute? we need to maintain that potency for ...another moment?? bsky.app/profile/step...

It feels like a lifetime ago, but I still remember way back when the United States Congress put a universal free school meals policy in place from sea to shining sea. This was from 2020 to 2022

Also, “has 12 PhDs” is deep into dumb person’s idea of a smart person territory

yes. and if you have to ask... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was a thinly-veiled Russian asset, can you name one thing he’d be doing differently?