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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · Oct 1

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...

Global Corridor #4

Google's digital corridors for Africa, Carlyle Group's new global infrastructure fund, China-Europe Arctic shipping route, Trump's real estate interests in Saudi, Chinese road film, AI supply chains

globalcorridor.substack.com

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · May 1

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...

The AI Dragnet - Dissent Magazine

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · May 30

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...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · May 19

👋 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.

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beki m. @beki.bsky.social · May 13

My new piece on the death drive in Florida and the need for roots is out in the incredible inaugural issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social. Grateful to the editors for the opportunity to gather my thoughts on the meanings of risk and to write about home—and in the company of such brilliant people. ✨

Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season

In Florida, risk is a feature of life. In a deepening climate crisis, financial capitalism gives risk new meaning.

www.break-down.org

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · Feb 20

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. 🧵

Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute

The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …

climateandcommunity.org

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Dec 19

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!

Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · Dec 16

I wrote about the military-AI hype bubble and false promises of security for the @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The New Old Warfare - Boston Review

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

www.bostonreview.net

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 18

The fall of the house Usher…

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 17

Yup. Kinda excited this year.

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Nicky Ahhhh!gate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · Nov 13

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?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 16

Good shouts! Thanks Kevin! Will you be in Detroit in the spring?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 16

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.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 16

A squeaker.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Nov 16

But the Knicks are winning. For now.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · Nov 13

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

youtu.be/NoJ6eNxHgNs

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hoping to meet some of you in person at the Annual Meeting. Be sure to mark your calendars and come to the Urban Geography Plenary with Dallas Rogers and Marina Karides on Friday the 19th at 1:20!!

Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Apr 5

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!

Student Access Award Winners:
Joseph Karanja, Arizona State University
Qingren Chen, Durham University
Kejin Wang, Louisiana State University
Corgan Archuleta, Macalester College
Sheng Xuan, Durham University
Ang Liu, Rutgers University
Xuan He, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Weiying Lin, Texas A&M
Aneika Perez, San Diego State University, University of California Santa Barbara
Katie Brown, Michigan State University
Austin Martin, Temple University
Mehmet Eroğlu, Michigan State University

Alternative Modes of Scholarship Awards:
James Barnes (Principal researcher & design/builder), The University of Virginia
with Robin Xu (Architecture, The University of Virginia) and Addie Merlo (Industrial Design, James Madison University)
"Tactical Growth: Socio-Ecological Investigations of Biodiversity-based Tactical Urbanism in a K-5 Schoolyard"

Bryson Berry, Macalester College
"Black Prosperity Through Afrofuturism: An Analysis of the Black/White Wealth Gap"

Graduate Student Paper Award:
Amani Ponnaganti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Submerged empire: Racial grammars of environmental governance in Houston, 1900-1939,"

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Dissertation Completion:
Yudi Liu, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo, "National Railway Reform as a Critical Juncture: Institutional Establishment of Entrepreneurial Transit Metropolis Tokyo"

Grad Fellowship:
Michael McCanless, University of Kentucky
“Corporate Investors, Property Technologies, and Changing Dynamics in Property Tax,"

Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta, University of Nevada, Reno
"Women on the Move: Gendered Mobility and the Right to the City in Hyderabad, India."

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Nate Millington @natemillington.bsky.social · Oct 25

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....

Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Understood as a direct claiming and remaking of vacant space by marginalized urban residents, occupations claim the right to housing and disrupt property relations, surfacing conflicting rationalit...

www.tandfonline.com

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

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...

Turbulence and Pulse, by Asher Gamedze

13 track album

intlanthem.bandcamp.com

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

And check out this related symposium in @antipodeonline edited by Charmaine Chua & @kaibosworth.bsky.social on blockades, circulation & struggle antipodeonline.org/2023/09/21/v...

Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

Can you tell I’m just really really really thrilled that this is finally out in the world?

Oh! If you’re going to be at the American Studies Assn meeting, come to our panel and meet some of these amazing contributors!

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

Lastly, an academic journal is the manifestation ofso much supporting labor. Thanks to the people doing copyediting/layout @dukepress.bsky.social; Tom Harbison, Conor McGrady & the editorial collective @ Radical History Review; & especially thanks to Monica Kim for the firm/fair editorial brilliance

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

Considering the ongoing criminalization of mutual aid by reactionaries in the US, this conversation (& much of issue 147) conveys the radical nature of building abolitionist infrastructures of survival & “making do” in the face of ongoing expressions of police power.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

This roundtable also touches on mutual aid & bridge building & considers what it means—and what it might look like in practice—to build infrastructures premised on the belief that everyone deserves care and no one is disposable.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · Oct 20

The issue ends w/ another roundtable—a conversation w/ Dean Spade and Rachel Herzing convened and enriched by Bench Ansfield—about abolition infrastructures, transformative justice, and how activists build infrastructures in relation to the state. read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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