Tfw, they are currently blasting Timbiriche at a White People Hipster Cafe in Brooklyn. Osea, ¿Cómo?

The Universal Law Of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there.

Via #NotJustBikes. Watch his new video below.

The new @leder.games Root expansion came in the mail. Loving the clever mechanics these new factions introduce to the game!

My PhD program is looking for applicants. Great, fully funded opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary urban research and scholarship!

what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions.
So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?

Cómo alguien que organizó su despedida de soltera en el Caribbean Social Club, sí me emocionó ver a Toñita en el Súper Tazón.

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Appreciating that there is now a @foodcoop.bsky.social branded beer!

Of course I am using photos of the Nordelta capybaras for the Gated Communities slideshow in the LatAm Cities course I teach. I mean, why would I not? #MillennialProf

I do think you (and others) should have been more clear about it, to be honest. I do think urbanists have to be cautious when uplifting Cayala and projects like it, especially given the class dynamics in LatAm. Krier’s design is beautiful for sure. But the project should be seen critically.

A series of gated streets and an open mall with no public transit access is not a model for walkable, mixed used urbanism. Especially not in the Global South with its high levels of inequality. Building beautiful spaces is ot enough if people can't afford to live in them! (8/8).

Meanwhile, the commercial streets, "open to everyone", are to the average Guatemalan simply a shopping mall or a theme park. A place to bring the kids to on a day trip. Not a place where people live their lives. And scholarly literature backs this up! (7/?)
shs.hal.science/halshs-01735...

Krier seemed shocked that the first thing the wealthy residents did when it was all built was to install gates and private security in residential streets! Which is why I include this discussion in our unit for gated communities. (6/?).

...It is a fully private development. Essentially a gated community without gates (at least at first). And it is clear that Krier, when he was brought on, had little knowledge from his European planning background on the stark socio-spacial segregation that plays out in LatAm cities. (5/?).

-Are informal vendors allowed to operate in Cayalá?

There is, as far as I am aware, not a lot of scholarly literature researching Cayalá yet, but these are all pressing questions and food for thought. From what I have read, Cayalá was envisioned as an enclave for the rich...(4/?).

Without me prompting this, some of the things that students bring up up (which relate to other things we look at in class) are:

-Can people who work in Cayalá actually afford to live there?
-Is there public/affordable housing?
-Why is there no public transit in Cayalá?
(3/?)

So, I teach a class on urban policy in LatAm, and one of the case studies we look at is Cayalá. I have the students read a NYTimes article and watch the Aesthetic City video on it. I then have them give me questions and comments about it in the seminar. (2/?)

I've been seeing a lot of Cayalá discourse on YIMBY social media from folks like @thetransitguy.com and others. As a LatAm urbanist, I just want to caution against romanticizing a place like Cayalá with a thread.
(1/?)

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine

against-a-i.com

Bien merecido. Fue la mejor cinta del año y una de las mejores películas que he visto.

Texas A&M Bans Plato (updated) - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

“It was clear that Texas A&M’s new policies were going to lead to conflicts with the 1st Amendment. That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of who created what was arguably the west’s first institution of higher ed is too perfect an irony.”

Cautiously optimistic here. However, this should also extend to multi-family units.

UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)

Great interview with @mcmansionhell.bsky.social on the Know Your Enemy podcast on the role of architecture and aesthetics in the modern US:
open.spotify.com/episode/3ids...

Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.

Financialization on steroids

Oh god Google Scholar has an AI search function now. I don't fucking want it. Does anyone remember how printed citation indexes worked in case we need them again?

Trekked from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back in the middle of a snowstorm because I won discount rush tickets to #SpellingBee. To my surprise, it was packed despite the terrible weather. Overall, a delightful, hilarious show and worth the journey.