iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call for Papers AAG 2027 // NYC Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor globalcorridor.eu/news/cfp-aag... Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate. Please do circulate and think about submitting a paper

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Join us Saturday, April 11 at 4:00 pm for the world premiere of our new documentary film, *Becoming Benjamin Lay*, at the Carnegie Library, 419 Library St., Braddock, PA. For tickets scan the QR code below or go here: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-b...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You know things are getting out of control when the Times runs two full-width breaking news banners at the same time. It looks like a glitch, which tracks. A chaos double rainbow. A depressing Mike Breen ‘double bang.’

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

They don’t need a tool to assess where to drop a bomb when they have one that confidently confirms any location they choose. They don’t need autonomous drones to drop those bombs, they just need to give an order. So the human is just a conduit for the machine, which is just a conduit for the human.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I truly hate social media—especially in a time like this—but popping up to ask if anyone knows where Maduro & wife will/are being held? Like civilian detention facility or military one? Asking as a person finalizing a book about military detention.

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#VELI2026 applications are open! Read the FAQ, register for an information session, then put together a team and apply! Here's to fostering intentional change rooted in shared values in #HigherEd. #AcademicSky #EduSkyChat #EduSky

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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...

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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

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Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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...

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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.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 30/05/2025

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...

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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

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

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/05/2025

👋 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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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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. 🧵

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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 …

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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!

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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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 · 16/11/2024

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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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 13/11/2024

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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The urban-tech feedback loop and the data walk

YouTube video by Dillon Mahmoudi

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

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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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

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...

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Turbulence and Pulse, by Asher Gamedze

13 track album

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Issue 147 of Radical History Review on “The Political Lives of Infrastructure” (co-edited by Wesley Attewell, @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social, & yours truly) is live! So wild that a 2018 AAG session grew/morphed—with the help of countless people—into this! read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

“Human rights should, can, and do apply to all humans” is not and should not be a radical statement. The amount of effort that some people go to try to obscure this basic concept is truly wild.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

As Colombian President Petro said yesterday, Palestine is a test case for what the Global North will do to surplus populations in the South as the climate crisis intensifies. No genocide in Palestine, no climate apartheid.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Congrats @jeffwhyte.bsky.social !! Super excited to read this!!!

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

“Properly considered, no one should ever under any circumstances talk to anybody else.” Errol Morris in this wild, circuitous interview: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Of all the other places that could possibly be, it’s pretty wild that ‘the other place’ is so absolutely specific.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives Thursday 30th November 13.00pm (BST) Online www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re... #PoliSky #GeoSky

Seminar: Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives

Speaker: @PollyWilkins
(University of Amsterdam)
📅Thursday 30th November
⏰13.00pm (BST)
📍Online

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Just one heckuva country that is definitely not collapsing.

Picture of the US House of Representatives floor with text reading become ungovernable

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Getting haircut and The Strokes’ Hard to Explain is on and one of the barbers (in his 30s?) said to patron (in his 30s?) “I guess it’s considered like a punk classic but nobody has ever heard it.” I guess I am dead now. No need for a haircut.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Just found out that Brett Christopher's new book has a release date and it looks good as hell. Brett's keen to get it to movement folks, so lmk if you/ your org wants to be added to a list for some kind of low-cost access, or to organize a meeting once its out www.versobooks.com/products/306...

versobooks.com

The Price is Wrong

What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profi...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Really amazing day of learning today. A morning webinar on abolition and radical relations to the state, a lecture by Ana María León on architecture and revolution, & a book launch for a book on the public health crisis of deaths in custody by Roger Mitchell & CMU colleague Jay Aronson. Brain full.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

The “imperial phase of Millennials’ cultural dominance” is such an amazing, and slightly ominous, phrase.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

The maintenance crew at our apartment building now has to bring the vacuum out front every day to hoover up lanternfly carcasses. 😳

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Stoked to get my CMU and my Pittsburgh urban infrastructure vitamins this morning.

Title page for book on Pittsburgh urban infrastructures by scholar-bosses Muller (Pitt) and Tarr (CMU)

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

New Paper ‘Cities on the new silk road: the global urban geographies of China’s Belt + Road Initiative’ In @urbgeog w/ @EliaApos, @HanCheng446 + @Alanwiig We look back over last 10 yrs of this world transforming project from an urban perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Cities on the new silk road: the global urban geographies of China’s belt and road initiative

Over the last decade, scholarship on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New Silk Road, has burgeoned. However, it is only recently that analysis has interrogated the BRI as a d...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Apparently Apple doesn’t want me to have more than 500 tabs open on my phone at once.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Unclear if the new Global Biodiversity Fund will hit its donor targets of $20 billion by 2025 (climate funding suggests not), but it def wont maximize impact toward the environmental targets much broader reforms to an extractive intl system www.devex.com/news/new-glo...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Article claims it could take 5-10 yrs “to develop a functioning A.I.-based system for air combat,” which may be technically true re: LLMs but automated killing machines (humans in & out of loop) are already for sale. See 2nd link www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/u... www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat

An Air Force program shows how the Pentagon is starting to embrace the potential of a rapidly emerging technology, with far-reaching implications for war-fighting tactics, military culture and the def...

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Day one at the new job is in the books🎉

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Waking up in Rome for another long travel day and the first words out of my mouth were “Trump was indicted” and the first word out of my 13-year-old’s was, flatly: “Again.” What weird times we live in.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

I wonder if the family owned gym in my new neighborhood has contacted legal?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Leveled up on my middle-aged quest by putting a speaker in the loo.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

What, to a dog is an elevator if not magic of the most astounding sort?

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Philly Streets out here straight murdering trees while repaving.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Another stupid, tedious fight about how/if empire should decarbonize. This time its about increasing extraction for military EVs vs just keep burning oil. What if we did the secret 3rd thing: stop throwing 100s of billions of dollars at the war machine?

washingtonpost.com

Analysis | House Republicans target the Pentagon's use of electric vehicles

Conservatives are filing anti-EV amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.

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Rich Nisa @rnisa.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Catching the train back to Philly this morning and was gobsmacked by this entry dome from Daniel Burnham’s Union Station in Pittsburgh. Now on the train dreaming of living in a place where/time when people invested in rail infrastructure.

Coffered dome with ornate oculus in Pittsburgh

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