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Kian Goh

@kiangoh.bsky.social
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Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@katharinehayhoe.com shows her equation for climate action. As she says, we're doing fine on head, so-so on heart, very bad on hands... @uclaupdates.bsky.social @luskininnovation.bsky.social
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have not purchased one of these since... before the turn of the century. Like cassette tapes, blue books are back in 2026.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved the Yoko Ono show at the Broad. Such a great reminder of the transformative nature of her art, from Lighting Piece (1955) "Light a match and watch till it goes out" to Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019). Quite kid friendly too! "Mommy, why is there a fly on her nipple?"
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved the Yoko Ono show at the Broad. Such a great reminder of the transformative nature of her art, from Lighting Piece (1955) "Light a match and watch till it goes out" to Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019). Quite kid friendly too! "Mommy, why is there a fly on her nipple?"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
New York City is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and has long been a refuge for those seeking community, dignity, and a place to call home.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking about folks in the Northeast facing the Nor'easter this weekend.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's kind of incredible to me that Nvidia was, not that long ago, primarily known as a kind of niche graphics chip specialist. I remember when 3D modeling and rendering were really exploding in architecture and you gazed longingly at the systems with Nvidia cards.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Universities like mine should be protecting and embracing students' rights to protest and challenge the injustice they see, not suppress them. The chill is palpable. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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New ACLU and Amnesty International USA Report Uncovers Widespread Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech Across College Campuses | American Civil Liberties Union
Findings Show Concerted Efforts to Censor and Retaliate Against Speech in support of Palestinian Rights in Colleges and Universities
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was going to get all worked up because this sounded like another promise of self-governing, charter city-esque techno utopian fantasy. But it's just another boring, exclusionary development project. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
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These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
New Yorkers, here’s what you need to know about this week’s nor’easter: 

The storm is expected to pass offshore, keeping the heaviest rain east of New York City. But we should still prepare for gusty winds, rain, and some high-tide flooding beginning today, peaking Friday, and potentially continuing through Sunday.

If you live near the coast, move your car to higher ground or away from streets that regularly flood.

Secure loose outdoor items, including furniture and garbage containers, that could be picked up by strong winds.
Storm tracks can change, so please stay informed and be prepared.

For emergency alerts, text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692.
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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
heartbreak, again.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting that this story about the swapped photo at Stanford focuses so much on AI. We've had digital photo editing for decades already and photo manipulation for much, much longer. The ethics of this would have been similar 20 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Stanford Used A.I. to Swap Black Student for Hispanic Student in a Photo
Universities have been accused of doctoring photos to showcase diversity in the past. In this case, a Black woman replaced a Hispanic young man, who said it was upsetting to be “erased.”
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If AI is so smart why doesn't it know not to pop up in all my apps.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the victims of AI-assisted American warmaking and their absence from the “AI safety” discourse. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The water will come…
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Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
The numbers behind the melting ice are both mind-bogglingly huge and deceptively small.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The stories from the collapsed building in Gaza, already damaged by Israeli bombs, are devastating. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more, considering the scope of destruction. Urbicide continues. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Gaza building collapse kills at least 21, including 12 children
Rescuers comb wreckage of a bombed-out apartment building that collapsed overnight in Gaza City.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm grateful for and in awe of our kids' teachers at UCLA childcare centers. UCLA needs to stand up for workers and families, not cast them aside - especially in tough financial times.
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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stephanie Valadez, president of @ucgpc.bsky.social, tells the UC regents that her kids (one beside her here) should be “learning, growing, playing” and not be “in grown-up spaces learning to be silent.” She is referring to UCLA’s decision to close its remaining childcare centers for staff in 2027.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Damn. And each of these musicians put out a statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people. I have never cared less about Ed Sheeran (like that was possible) and more for the courage of musicians like these who really understand art and moral responsibility. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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Finneas and other acts exit Ed Sheeran tour in protest of Macklemore being dropped over pro-Palestinian remarks
All of Sheeran’s listed openers have left the tour after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft worked to have Macklemore removed.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Shades of the Arab Spring and Occupy. And why not. War, political and economic turmoil, environmental catastrophe, while a tiny group of wealthy people plays with potentially planet-destabilizing tech toys. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Rising Fuel Prices Set Off Anger and Protests Around the World
From Indonesia to Guatemala to Syria, shortages and price increases are leading to protests and blackouts.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/09/2026
Breaking news: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the largest single sale of the controversial munitions in recent years, a U.S. official told The Post.
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Coincidentally, I am re-reading this: Howard Becker, "Whose Side Are We On?" (1967). www.jstor.org/stable/799147
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Two representations of the city at LACMA: Max Ernst's The Entire City (1935) and Chris Burden's Metropolis II (2011).
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I remember I was on the Williamsburg Bridge when the second plane hit. I was biking from Brooklyn to Manhattan and stopped to watch the smoke from the first tower. I continued on to my architecture job and we all watched the towers burning from the roof of our building on W 29th St...
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
3yo: I want the song where the singer says "butt"... Me: Oh, you want to listen to Dirty Old Town by the Pogues? 3yo: Yes, I want Dirty Old Town! [10 second later] 3yo: It's dirty and it's old. [A minute later, during the song] 3yo: Why is the town dirty and old??
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/08/2026
“Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas. ...This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.”
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Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”
We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalaya...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!
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Category: Non-fiction: Politics/Current Affairs
THE COST OF BORDERS By Heba Gowayed
Imprint: University of California Press
Deal Report
August 31, 2026
Carnegie Fellow and CUNY sociologist Heba Gowayed's THE COST OF BORDERS, revealing the nature of global frontiers through the stories of people who journey across them, challenging lay and legal conceptions of borders, showing them as for-profit enterprises of state and private industry, whose costs are borne by everyone, not just in smugglers' fees and tax dollars, but also in lives, freedoms, and the very safety they are alleged to protect, to Naomi Schneider at University of California Press, at auction, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company (world).
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats to Ed Markey, co-author of the Green New Deal and ardent supporter of trans rights. Good riddance to centrist dems who throw their most marginalized constituents under the bus.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My 3yo kid requests Jolene and Starman in the car and calls waymos zombie cars. So I guess we're doing something right.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
UCLA families are scrambling after the university announced the closure of university-run childcare centers at the end of the 2026-27 school year. Unless UCLA reverses this decision, parents will have few options. Most nearby daycares have years-long waitlists.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Los Angeles has a childcare crisis. The most rewarding experience of my life has been raising my twins in Los Angeles. But many LA families are having to face a choice between earning a paycheck and knowing their child is safe and cared for.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RIP Yayoi Kusama. A singular figure who took on mental illness and the dominantly white male art world to create some of the most viscerally moving spaces I've experienced. Here's her yellow pumpkin in Naoshima, Japan, earlier this year.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Quite taken aback by the reactions to this one. The author doesn't say don't wear helmets. He literally says people should wear them. But it's not that radical to consider other ways to plan and instill a safe and widespread biking culture, and suggest that a focus on helmets might not center those.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Omg, the footage of flash floods from Nepal and Tibet are terrifying. Thinking of all the victims and so many still missing.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The news and videos out of Nepal are horrific. Climate change makes the world a more chaotic and dangerous place. Even if your home isn’t affected, you might go on holidays or to a meeting and get caught up in it. I’m particularly thinking about this as our next IPCC lead author meeting is in Nepal.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What 🤯
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Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know all y’all loved Dolly, but I don’t think I can fully express how important she was to us here in East Tennessee. She will always be an icon for showing us how to embrace our better selves & be good to each other, representing our region with pride & grace, and modeling relentless generosity.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no. This is so sad. What an incredible person to the end. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyone tariff the hell out of fossil fuels.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Omg! Karen Bass casually disparaging street vendors in LA like this should be disqualifying for the mayorship. "I do not believe that you should have a food vendor in front of a restaurant, period... just like you shouldn’t have encampments..." www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: In Karen Bass' bad debate night, she even trashed taco vendors
Again and again, Bass went after Raman in the pettiest, most personal ways. She kept mocking her as a supposed egghead with no real-life governing experience.
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why even dream about 494 miles of high speed rail when we can't make 2.25 miles of languorous/lax people mover happen? $3.3 billion (!), 7++ years construction, an utter shitshow. We cannot have nice things because We Are Not Serious about having nice things. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Commentary: The LAX people mover wasn't ready for the 2026 World Cup. Will it even be ready for the 2028 Olympics?
Legal disputes and financial chaos have made the LAX people mover train a construction fiasco, raising doubts about when it will ever be finished.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I’ve created a handful of them, but this might still be my most unusual STARTER PACK! A team-up with world famous climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com, these are folks connecting the dots on climate action via better cities! Please follow these great folks and share the pack! go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Friends, I’m back with a new installment of my Voices of Gaza series. Please share! Growing up Huda’s dream was to become a Math teacher - she loved the subject in school. In college, though she had 2 children & was pregnant with her third, she graduated salutatorian of her class. bit.ly/450lwvp
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My Sister Was Gravely Wounded In Gaza. We Need Your Help Now.
UPDATE, 7/8/26:
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
hey so seattle council just lowered rents by up to 10%?
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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Amazon's planned data center in Pecos County TX will emit 33 million tons of CO2 per year - more than the cities of Austin and San Antonio combined. And for what? To make our lives, at best, more boring and rote. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/c...
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New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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