I truly hate social media—especially in a time like this—but popping up to ask if anyone knows where Maduro & wife will/are being held? Like civilian detention facility or military one? Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.

#VELI2026 applications are open! Read the FAQ, register for an information session, then put together a team and apply! Here's to fostering intentional change rooted in shared values in #HigherEd. #AcademicSky #EduSkyChat #EduSky

My Global Corridor newsletter #4 featuring stories, data, opinion + academic work from digital cables to Artic sea routes to private equity funds to AI supply chains....Out now globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Hi! We just released three new pages. First up, we break down the devastating defunding of medical research in the US, including grant terminations and delays representing nearly $5B in funding losses, cuts to future funding, and attacks on training programs: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

I’m writing a book conclusion that’s also a tiptoe into a new research project, and this review is the first time in a long time that I’ve read something about automated war and realized my head was just nodding up and down the whole time. Thanks @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social for the rec!

Please share! Call for topic editors, POEM Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don't think is getting enough attention, or that you think is crucial for high schoolers and college students to learn about?

I’ll be teaching an ethics course to 4th year UG architecture students in the spring. The students will have had at least one design ethics courses already. I’m wondering what y’all think are the topics/readings/cases that the field needs a more sustained engagement & deep reckoning with.

To commemorate this article, I humbly provide this "graphical abstract" of the paper featuring El Risitas. Sound on. youtu.be/NoJ6eNxHgNs

Really happy to announce this year’s winners of the @geographers.bsky.social Urban Geography Specialty Group Awards! The board read so many excellent submissions and it was a joy to learn from all the exciting work being done by such a wide range of early career scholars. Congratulations all!

Really happy to have this out: on occupations as reparative urban infrastructures, written with brilliant friend and collaborator Suraya Scheba: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This record has been spinning in my apartment all week. It’s really helped carry me through such an intense range of emotions—a gift in such awful awful times. intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/turbul...

Issue 147 of Radical History Review on “The Political Lives of Infrastructure” (co-edited by Wesley Attewell, @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social, & yours truly) is live! So wild that a 2018 AAG session grew/morphed—with the help of countless people—into this! read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

“Human rights should, can, and do apply to all humans” is not and should not be a radical statement. The amount of effort that some people go to try to obscure this basic concept is truly wild.

As Colombian President Petro said yesterday, Palestine is a test case for what the Global North will do to surplus populations in the South as the climate crisis intensifies. No genocide in Palestine, no climate apartheid.

Congrats @jeffwhyte.bsky.social !! Super excited to read this!!!

“Properly considered, no one should ever under any circumstances talk to anybody else.” Errol Morris in this wild, circuitous interview: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Of all the other places that could possibly be, it’s pretty wild that ‘the other place’ is so absolutely specific.

Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives Thursday 30th November 13.00pm (BST) Online www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re... #PoliSky #GeoSky

Really excited to attend this today and tomorrow: carnegieart.org/event/conven...

Just one heckuva country that is definitely not collapsing.

Getting haircut and The Strokes’ Hard to Explain is on and one of the barbers (in his 30s?) said to patron (in his 30s?) “I guess it’s considered like a punk classic but nobody has ever heard it.” I guess I am dead now. No need for a haircut.

Just found out that Brett Christopher's new book has a release date and it looks good as hell. Brett's keen to get it to movement folks, so lmk if you/ your org wants to be added to a list for some kind of low-cost access, or to organize a meeting once its out www.versobooks.com/products/306...

It’s time for the US to stop exporting its failed policing, incarceration, plea bargaining, & parole systems. A coalition is forming to urge the US to export justice, not jails! Pls join our 1st webinar, 10/2, 2pm et. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_POCVTKpCSWa7r8ri01LviA#/registration

Really amazing day of learning today. A morning webinar on abolition and radical relations to the state, a lecture by Ana María León on architecture and revolution, & a book launch for a book on the public health crisis of deaths in custody by Roger Mitchell & CMU colleague Jay Aronson. Brain full.

The “imperial phase of Millennials’ cultural dominance” is such an amazing, and slightly ominous, phrase.

The maintenance crew at our apartment building now has to bring the vacuum out front every day to hoover up lanternfly carcasses. 😳

Stoked to get my CMU and my Pittsburgh urban infrastructure vitamins this morning.

New Paper ‘Cities on the new silk road: the global urban geographies of China’s Belt + Road Initiative’ In @urbgeog w/ @EliaApos, @HanCheng446 + @Alanwiig We look back over last 10 yrs of this world transforming project from an urban perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Apparently Apple doesn’t want me to have more than 500 tabs open on my phone at once.

Unclear if the new Global Biodiversity Fund will hit its donor targets of $20 billion by 2025 (climate funding suggests not), but it def wont maximize impact toward the environmental targets much broader reforms to an extractive intl system www.devex.com/news/new-glo...

Article claims it could take 5-10 yrs “to develop a functioning A.I.-based system for air combat,” which may be technically true re: LLMs but automated killing machines (humans in & out of loop) are already for sale. See 2nd link www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/u... www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Day one at the new job is in the books🎉

Waking up in Rome for another long travel day and the first words out of my mouth were “Trump was indicted” and the first word out of my 13-year-old’s was, flatly: “Again.” What weird times we live in.

I wonder if the family owned gym in my new neighborhood has contacted legal?

Leveled up on my middle-aged quest by putting a speaker in the loo.

What, to a dog is an elevator if not magic of the most astounding sort?

Philly Streets out here straight murdering trees while repaving.

Another stupid, tedious fight about how/if empire should decarbonize. This time its about increasing extraction for military EVs vs just keep burning oil. What if we did the secret 3rd thing: stop throwing 100s of billions of dollars at the war machine?

Catching the train back to Philly this morning and was gobsmacked by this entry dome from Daniel Burnham’s Union Station in Pittsburgh. Now on the train dreaming of living in a place where/time when people invested in rail infrastructure.

I love writing about sports https://open.substack.com/pub/derailleur/p/it-is-never-under-any-circumstances?r=2icpu&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

On the subject of moving house: it is clear to me now that I, a book and record collector, am among the world’s most annoying people. The sheer weight of this move is enough to foreclose the possibility of any future mobility.

Just got the page proofs for a journal issue I co-edited. Started working on it five years ago, so seeing everything laid out and typeset was suprosingly emotional. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rob Horning on slouching towards technological desperation: “They make it starkly clear that the main purpose of technology developed under capitalism is to secure profit and sustain an unjust economic system and social hierarchies, not to advance human flourishing.“