Birding phase begins after discovering the Cornell University Merlin birdwatching app.

#91: The Watts Towers (Watts) - Etan Does LA The Watts Towers offer a glittering, enduring testament to the imagination and tenacity of Italian immigrant Simon Rodia.

thinking about "outsider art" and the Watts Towers today etandoesla.com/91-the-watts...

Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · February 24 · 48m

LISTEN:

- Vancouver city-building

- Livable downtowns

- Designing for kids

- Rethinking regulation

- “Urban Costcos”

- Fixing city planning

- Less boring communication!

- Marketing/branding planning

- AND the BIG SCOOP on @urbantruth.bsky.social

My new @thewaroncars.bsky.social interview!

Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Great exchange between @evgenymorozov.bsky.social, @abenanav.bsky.social, and @leifw.bsky.social in the ideas letter:

www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Save 30% on Captain of Industry on Steam Land your crew of survivors on an abandoned island and survive! Mine raw materials, grow food, build factories, manufacture products, research new tech, and trade with others. Become an industrial sup...

Loving this game and the many dynamic challenges and opportunities for system design that it raises. I love its representation of compute as well. store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/...

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

watching the new criterion 4k of THIS IS SPINAL TAP. haven't seen this movie in a decade but I did watch it basically every week as a teenager and I still remember every single line

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

New project emerging from the aether…

I love internet

No, but I would love to play it when you do it again!

GigaWatt Dutch board game built with sustainability in mind. You are put to the challenge to lead the energy transition of your region and compete for our future.

We played Gigawatt in my group today and I was reminded that not only is it a fun board game it really does a good job of bringing out the dynamics of the challenges in the energy transition in the electricity sector.
I would love to integrate it into a class 1/
gigawattgame.com

How to Plan an Economy

A series of diagrams viewed through an overhead projector outlining models for democratically planned economies—all of which have been imagined, none of which have been realized.

Now on view in Portland through the end of Nov carnationcontemporary.com/Planning-Rap...

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

“Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?” - individual.utoronto.ca/salutin/inni...

Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna (Live) | Coal Drops Sessions YouTube video by Mercury Studios

Nice performance of Luna - Bombay Bicycle Club youtube.com/watch?v=1FRD...

Theo Sims, "The Candahar," MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, to Sept. 4 While Director Anthony Keindl's goal to open a café for gallery patrons has taken longer than expected, a trial run of sorts, Theo Sims’ well-known installation, "The Candahar," offers visitors a chan...

Was thinking about Theo Sims “The Candahar” art exhibit today which I encountered while studying at @albertauarts.bsky.social in winter 2012 www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/sto...

and those days were what made me realize: i wanted to be a computer guy

Article about our work localizing The Adaptation Game to #Calgary and playing to build climate resilience with community at @bowvalleycollege.bsky.social . Great project and people involved! secondnature.org/2025/08/18/p...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

I am excited to speak at the Victoria Forum on August 25, as part of the parallel session [Serious Games for] Climate Action Capacity Building. Looking forward to meaningful dialogue and fresh ideas as we explore solutions "Towards a Better Future".

#VictoriaForum2025 #VictoriaForum #VictoriaBC

To unite the efforts of all worker councils - poster

Worker council poster

Your economic plan poster

No more markets poster

Design fiction for post-capitalist futures. Each poster borrows from historical aesthetics and repurposes them for democratic planning. Part of a larger project I'm presenting at SASE on July 3 @sasemeeting.bsky.social

Facts Will not Save You AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

Facts Will Not Save You
hegemon.substack.com/p/facts-will...

Teaching in the Age of AI how I avoided a shitty semester

I've been experimenting with AI-proof assignments for a long time. Last semester, that meant Soviet video games and sci-fi short stories --and it worked pretty well. My latest Substack essay below. "Teaching in the Age of AI: How I avoided a shitty semester"
hegemon.substack.com/p/teaching-i...

Fwiw, I do not think this is what Tim Berners Lee had in mind

Pedalling hard these days but having lots of fun. The Sprawl's pop-up press will be at the InglewooDIY Festival tomorrow (if weather cooperates). Look for me on 9th Ave and print a piece of Inglewood history...

"To truly strengthen our economy, we should look for inspiration to what we did in the face of the horrendous threat we confronted in the Second World War."
Absolutely right @lindamcquaig.bsky.social!