Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

Sancocho had a cameo in Mamdani's speech. Right on!

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this looks fantastic

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

We are about 0.3 news cycles from Mamdani-is-the-same-as Trump becoming centrist Democrats' main line of attack against the left.

«Extruding a text or an image using an AI service can appear as a smooth, frictionless transaction only because the space, energy, and water these require are removed from users’ experience.» www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Nothing to see here.

I would consider calling Fetterman (I am a PA resident) if I didn't honestly think he, in a troll-like fashion, feeds off the energy people spend arguing with his positions.

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It's the end of one of those fifteen hour days and I'm fix und fertig but there's a new single by King Hannah which is absolutely perfect.

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

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"Mit der maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Schrift & Rede." Große Freude über die schöne & wohlwollende Rezension der "Zukunft des Lesens" in der heutigen FAZ @faznet.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... (Paywall)

He actually pulls off a pretty decent accent.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

A corollary is that Republicans have been quite successful at tarnishing climate and lgbt rights as irrevocably doomed political issues.

I see that AECOM is engineering the new White House ballroom.

Kind of funny to see Madrid and London here.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

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Enough. Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver. Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

I just learned that Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller shared a key collaborator, the architect Shoji Sadao. According to this fine text by Matthew Kirsch, Sadao "oversaw the nuts-and-bolts details that made Fuller and Noguchi’s grand visions possible." (!) www.noguchi.org/isamu-noguch...

Driving back today into the US from Canada on the I-79, the Fall colors were unbelievable.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ... "This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

One of this administration’s core beliefs seems to be that no one would follow a code of conduct for any reason other than fear. Professional ethics, constitutional constraints, basic morality—no one actually *believes* in these things: everyone is just too weak or scared to discard them. 1/3

#Gaza (1) Der Leitartikel von Meret Michel zur politischen und juristischen Mitverantwortung von Ländern wie der Schweiz oder Deutschland.

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

In only 9 months, we've seen the top-to-bottom transformation of US into an isolationist nation willing to sacrifice economic & political power for nativism. It's happening so quickly & it's so at odds with the values a lot of us were socialized with that it doesn't feel real or possible.

I was today years old when I learned I shared a birthday with the boss.

TRENTE DEUX journalistes tués. En UNE frappe. En d'autres temps, cela aurait fait les gros titres de tous les journaux. Mais qui se préoccupe du Yémen ?

Leaving the very real destruction they are causing aside for just a second there is something profoundly sad about those doing all this silencing, threatening, and muzzling. Sad, fragile, little.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten

Grumpy note taken while reading HCI papers: repeatedly calling a concept "provocative" doesn't make it so.

Charlie Kirk war nicht "konservativ" oder "rechts-konservativ". Charlie Kirk war ein rechtsextremer Rassist, Sexist und Faschist. Jemand mit Einstellungen, die Teile der AfD moderat erscheinen lassen. Man muss sein politisches Projekt nicht beschönigen, um seine Ermordung zu verurteilen.

Excerpt from a real email from the Carnegie Mellon University administration today: "You have likely seen news reports of an Israeli strike today that occurred approximately six miles from our campus in Doha, Qatar. At this time, we have received word that our students..."

Today's Washington Post editorial describing Haiti as "our Caribbean backyard."

Palestinian professor Omar Harb dies of starvation from the famine Israel has imposed on Gaza as another weapon if mass destruction. www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...

Ich will nie wieder hören, wie bescheuert Corbus „Plan Voisin“ gewesen sei; bei allem was man Corbu vorwerfen kann, einen Park wollte er nie so zukleistern.

Tried this again, this time to rave reviews. Less parsley. More spinach (two bunches). And a full lemon. youtu.be/8gWbKAcuzN8?...

Conoce tus derechos, Illinois. Mantente seguro e informado.

"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."

Maybe — just maybe — fully funding our parks and libraries and community centers could be a more effective, more life-affirming, and less expensive means of ensuring community *safety* (and vitality!) than bulking up the police budget!

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...