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Google Street View from Sabin Place on California Street - red brick building on the left, the pagoda building on the right, and the art-deco Russ Building in the background (prominent in the postcard)

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve been using noai.duckduckgo.com and have also turned off all AI suggestions everywhere I’m able to. There are ways to avoid it!

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is not permitted to request jury nullification during a trial but it is permissible to discuss it abstractly. Jury nullification is the synthesis of two rules. First, the prosecution cannot appeal a jury verdict of not guilty. Second, a jury issuing a verdict of not guilty need not explain itself

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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2028? Is anyone still going to be alive?

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I quite enjoyed reading Søren Mau‘s Mute Compulsion (2023). It’s probably one of the few books that I couldn’t put down, plus it’s helped me rethink some of my research. Probably not exciting for everyone!

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i wish this had taken hold oh, so long ago! a praxis of enstrangement for us to reconceive the world

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

maybe the course is just transcribing from the digital - a course producing the course reader. viola! no issues with printing limits!

Full-page miniature of Donatus writing his grammar, from Sedulius Scotus’ Expositio super primam edicionem Donati grammatici, Germany, 2nd half of the 12th century, Arundel MS 43, f. 80v

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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Regarding the DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Austin, TX, this double essay from Brazil offers a powerful reflection upon new kinds of strikes, sabotage, and disruption available to app drivers. illwill.com/work-and-rev...

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

hottest summer on record FOR NOW

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a history of class unconsciousness

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

probably because it won't fit?

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

home insurance is something that few are discussing. when the mortgage is contingent on the insurance policy, but the insurer starts to declare certain properties uninsurable (fire risk, eroding coastlines, etc., etc.), then we'll really be in a pickle. mortgage chaos, property value in the toilet.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

historically, arguably, behavior was regulated in religion's future judgements: salvation/inferno (God always watching); lives lived (or payments made) for salvation. today, arguably, Foucault/Deleuze's internalization is deeply embodied (Byung Chul Han) & 'achievement society' replaces control.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the notion of control is interesting! if we think about theories of self-governed behavior (e.g. Foucault's disciplinary or Deleuze's control society) & the way that 'self-policing' in society becomes internalized, there is no equivalent limit for the LLM machine. no panopticon limits their action.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had issues this morning with login to my university mail - turns out it was some problem with my wifi router... I could log in via phone on data plan, but not through wifi. Eventually it fixed itself (hoping this doesn't jinx it).

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

but improved! (in their garage!)

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It always seems like it can't be true, but it is: American businesses often pay more to try to defeat a union drive or contract negotiation that they would if they recognized the union and agreed to better pay and benefits prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...

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How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect

Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think this coincided with a renewed appetite for accumulation (the me generation) and a dismissal of the previous decades of critique (of capitalism). The 80s excesses of commodity fetish were diagnosed as "schizophrenic" (D&G) and "postmodern" (Lyotard, Jameson). Not boredom, but a new desire.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there was something that happened in the 80s/90s where, at least in art / architecture, 'theory' became acritical (certainly apolitical) then "post-critical" - looking at form rather than content and disregarding the material, economic, and social conditions of production.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is Adorno calling the cops vs. Marcuse answering the "revolutionary rallying cry" (Tronti)

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

there are a few of us poking at the dead bodies of theory, looking around, hoping to make a different sense of past failures and re-arm with new perspectives of revolutionary thought and liberatory praxis. (incentive enough for me!)

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope y’all see that this will mean the imminent closure of a number of graduate programs.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 30/08/2026

very interesting and worrisome. "Each decision can be individually rational: Google changes a search parameter, OpenAI rebalances the sources its chatbot retrieves. Together, they are reshaping a public epistemic infrastructure that nobody outside the companies can meaningfully inspect or contest."

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

codes differ, but generally yes. sprinklers change the egress & rescue situation in some codes. design studio for architecture students doesn’t often delve into code specifics, but i do think it’s useful for students to understand when they’ve designed a fire/death trap.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm talking about architecture students taking an economics class!

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Patrick wants architecture students to imagine waking up from a deep sleep to a fire alarm, realizing that smoke is coming in from the bedroom door, & think back to economics class(!) as to why there isn't an emergency escape and rescue from the room, just before fire burns through the rated door.

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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Gilles Deleuze's overlooked writings on Palestine offer a general paradigm for political individuation. However, as Pasquale Liguori argues, recovering them demands that we break the peace of the guilty, which “modulates genocide and calls it law.” illwill.com/forbidden-de...

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"shipping varies" is worrisome

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Shannon Mattern's generosity, openness, honesty, and incredible perspicacity is precisely what should be happening with everyone on social media every day. If only we all saw participation as deeds for the public good rather than self aggrandisement.

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

for example: heavy duty arms to move kegs at the Delirium Tremens brewery - a humanoid robot would make no sense:

photo of the interior of a portion of the Delirium Tremens brewery with robots doing heavy lifting work to avoid injury to workers

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James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

By chance, I came across a bookshop that also made bookshelves when I lived in San Francisco. I had four made - great quality and really good price (about $400 ea). Maybe find out who makes the bookshelves for your favorite local bookshop?

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@livingmaps.bsky.social James Cheshire shares fascinating insights into the droughts of 1976 and 2026 in the Drought Atlas of 1976 from the Library of Lost Maps: A series of maps that reveal the story of the drought, prevailing weather conditions, vegetation fires, media coverage and recovery.

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Exploring the 1976 Drought: Lessons for 2026's Heatwave

Explore the profound impact of the 1976 drought in Britain, its lessons for today's climate, and the role of media in public perception.

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