Chris Csikszentmihalyi

I did not know they could do puppies as well!

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...

X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall).
I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Art schools buying into AI are contributing to the demise of working artists.

“We won’t just ride the AI wave; we will prepare the next generation of creative shapeshifters who prove that the best future empowers humanity at every turn,” CCA President David C. Howse

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The Washington Post logo with tagline "Hello Darkness My Old Friend"

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.

Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

What a chart from BMO:

The NY Fed survey expectations of regaining employment after losing a job (in red, lowest since 2013) vs. the unemployment rate (inverted).

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

And a 2-year Mellon Postdoc in STS at Cornell, esp 1900-present, $64K, app due Jan 15. #histsci #philsci #histSTM

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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far
and wide. these people are sick

Never ever ever. emdash.fan

The president of the AFT, Randi Weingarten, said in an interview that she’s come to believe that AI will be as transformative as the printing press and that teachers should learn to use it. With limited government support for any large-scale training, she felt she had little choice but to turn to Silicon Valley. “Professional development done by teachers for teachers is actually the best thing to do,” she said, “but where are you going to find that money?” Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, senior director for national education policy at the NEA, characterized her union’s relationships with big tech companies around AI—it has worked with Google too—in part as a chance for teachers to influence product development. “It could be dangerous for them to be developing this technology without educator input,” she said.

Joseph Weizenbaum said “The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it. But in fact there are actors”

And while I am an academic, and will continue to be one as long as I am permitted to teach my subject without governmental or private donor infringement, I think scholars really need to be thinking about ways of preserving and transmitting knowledge outside of the formal academy right now.

It is entirely possible, for example, that we will never get back some of the ancient language knowledge that will be lost by UChicago ending its teaching of these languages, because a whole generation will have nobody who bothers to learn them and pass them on.

I think people assume that knowledge is just something that exists eternally, once achieved, as opposed to something that has to be cultivated and can be lost.

Feature prioritization is a fractal microcosm of the sociotechnical struggle between reproducing or reordering interlocking systems of oppression

It’s so good!

unsigned longs will usher in the abundance economy! Or: doubly linked lists can eliminate corruption! It was perfect and over-the-top and I can't find it anymore.

There was this amazing twitter thread in early crypto hype where a bunch of programmers were talking about how their favorite data structure would change the world. Hundreds of creative piss-takes like: