My Father’s Daughter
@aninsggirb.bsky.social
ARCH/IA/LA assistant professor. landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = belonging to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction re-wilding. magazine editor.
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FIELD NOTES: REPAIR #4
The latest in the series, feat. words by Simon Sadler, @tamigraph.bsky.social, Nina Briggs, @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social, Aaron Cayer, Ifeoma Ebo, Elke Krasny, @johanpries.bsky.social, Kyle Spence, Phineas Harper & Gabu Heindl.
Observations on repair in a broken world:
The latest in the series, feat. words by Simon Sadler, @tamigraph.bsky.social, Nina Briggs, @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social, Aaron Cayer, Ifeoma Ebo, Elke Krasny, @johanpries.bsky.social, Kyle Spence, Phineas Harper & Gabu Heindl.
Observations on repair in a broken world:
I wrote: ‘Health equity and community care are essential to spatial justice. Care encompasses more than the absence of harm, but comprises multiple measurements of comfort — balance and alignment in body, mind, and spirit, resulting in feelings of contentment, belonging, and, purpose.’
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Forget Trump’s myths: The real land theft is in Detroit, not South Africa
The story the nation should focus on is one far closer to home: Black homeowners in Detroit whose homes have been stolen through inflated property tax bills and foreclosures.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/o...
The story the nation should focus on is one far closer to home: Black homeowners in Detroit whose homes have been stolen through inflated property tax bills and foreclosures.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/o...
Forget Trump’s myths: The real land theft is in Detroit, not South Africa - The Boston Globe
The story the nation should focus on is one far closer to home: Black homeowners in Detroit whose homes have been stolen through inflated property tax bills and foreclosures.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Forget Trump’s myths: The real land theft is in Detroit, not South Africa
The story the nation should focus on is one far closer to home: Black homeowners in Detroit whose homes have been stolen through inflated property tax bills and foreclosures.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/o...
The story the nation should focus on is one far closer to home: Black homeowners in Detroit whose homes have been stolen through inflated property tax bills and foreclosures.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/o...
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They use any reason or method to steal indigenous people's children. Even creating laws and tests.
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
They use any reason or method to steal indigenous people's children. Even creating laws and tests.
Curved Corridors, Wing Walls, Shatter-Resistant Glass & Access Control Systems in lieu of universal background checks; semiautomatic sales ban; raise gun ownership age from 18 to 21; support students’ social/emotional needs; "anti-bullying training & threat assessment models; congressional action?
Curved corridors to limit a shooter’s sight lines. Bullet-proof glass. Concrete “bump outs” in hallways to provide hiding places. This is the sad new architecture of American high schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeM...
Fruitport designs $48M high school with places to hide from mass shooters
YouTube video by 13 ON YOUR SIDE
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Curved Corridors, Wing Walls, Shatter-Resistant Glass & Access Control Systems in lieu of universal background checks; semiautomatic sales ban; raise gun ownership age from 18 to 21; support students’ social/emotional needs; "anti-bullying training & threat assessment models; congressional action?
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We are not a serious country, at all.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We are not a serious country, at all.
The only thing more shocking than the truth….are the things people do to cover it up.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The only thing more shocking than the truth….are the things people do to cover it up.
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Everyone owes Jason Stanley an apology. This is kind of definitionally fascist.
WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Everyone owes Jason Stanley an apology. This is kind of definitionally fascist.
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This is how the cycle of corruption works:
A Big Pharma lobbying group poured $4 million into a Republican dark money group. Then the GOP handed a $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by weakening drug-pricing rules that keep medicine affordable.
Donors win, sick Americans lose.
A Big Pharma lobbying group poured $4 million into a Republican dark money group. Then the GOP handed a $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by weakening drug-pricing rules that keep medicine affordable.
Donors win, sick Americans lose.
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is how the cycle of corruption works:
A Big Pharma lobbying group poured $4 million into a Republican dark money group. Then the GOP handed a $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by weakening drug-pricing rules that keep medicine affordable.
Donors win, sick Americans lose.
A Big Pharma lobbying group poured $4 million into a Republican dark money group. Then the GOP handed a $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by weakening drug-pricing rules that keep medicine affordable.
Donors win, sick Americans lose.
“Once we come into heat season in 2026, we’re hoping to release an updated version of the tool that has a higher spatial resolution and a more comprehensive picture of what this relationship between heat and health looks like,”
CalHeatScore is a first-of-its-kind system that ranks heat risk at the zip code level by combining fine-scale climate + weather information, along with emergency department data to tell more granular stories of heat & health for every community across the state. ow.ly/Hxgn50XuWqI
#gischat 🧪 #geogsky
#gischat 🧪 #geogsky
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Once we come into heat season in 2026, we’re hoping to release an updated version of the tool that has a higher spatial resolution and a more comprehensive picture of what this relationship between heat and health looks like,”
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www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrJxj8fR/
All the economic “good news,” is really massive profits for a handful of companies, and the rest of us just eating dirt.
All the economic “good news,” is really massive profits for a handful of companies, and the rest of us just eating dirt.
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain...
TikTok video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
www.tiktok.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrJxj8fR/
All the economic “good news,” is really massive profits for a handful of companies, and the rest of us just eating dirt.
All the economic “good news,” is really massive profits for a handful of companies, and the rest of us just eating dirt.
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Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
Finally, an understandable explanation of how/why this corrupt anti-prudentialist, semi-originalist, 1st-amendment-fanatic, federalist-revisionist wyt/judicial-supremacist will continue to retrench wyt political dominance, greenlight T’s self-enrichment & protect him & billionaires at our expense
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Finally, an understandable explanation of how/why this corrupt anti-prudentialist, semi-originalist, 1st-amendment-fanatic, federalist-revisionist wyt/judicial-supremacist will continue to retrench wyt political dominance, greenlight T’s self-enrichment & protect him & billionaires at our expense
learning to be calm when you’re disrespected is a superpower
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
learning to be calm when you’re disrespected is a superpower
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The GOP is trying to sneak legislation into a bigger bill that would preempt state laws around the regulation of AI, and create a national environment with very little regulation of the technology.
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
House eyeing AI preemption in NDAA, Scalise says
House Republican leaders are searching for a legislative vehicle they could attach language to that would effectively ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.
punchbowl.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The GOP is trying to sneak legislation into a bigger bill that would preempt state laws around the regulation of AI, and create a national environment with very little regulation of the technology.
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. The difficulty…w/this philosophy is history loses its value as an incentive & example; it paints perfect men & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”-W.E.B. Du Bois
People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. The difficulty…w/this philosophy is history loses its value as an incentive & example; it paints perfect men & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”-W.E.B. Du Bois
“The cruelty of this bill cannot be overstated”:
It equates abortion w/homicide; repeals exceptions of rape, incest or fatal fetal diagnoses; makes it a crime to help a teenager travel for abortion care; redefines “contraceptive” to exclude anything that prevents ovulation…hormonal birth control…
It equates abortion w/homicide; repeals exceptions of rape, incest or fatal fetal diagnoses; makes it a crime to help a teenager travel for abortion care; redefines “contraceptive” to exclude anything that prevents ovulation…hormonal birth control…
South Carolina's abortion bill is so extreme even anti-abortion groups have doubts
South Carolina's abortion bill is so extreme even anti-abortion groups have doubts
“It’s like a Frankenstein construction of all the worst possible restrictions from around the country.”
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“The cruelty of this bill cannot be overstated”:
It equates abortion w/homicide; repeals exceptions of rape, incest or fatal fetal diagnoses; makes it a crime to help a teenager travel for abortion care; redefines “contraceptive” to exclude anything that prevents ovulation…hormonal birth control…
It equates abortion w/homicide; repeals exceptions of rape, incest or fatal fetal diagnoses; makes it a crime to help a teenager travel for abortion care; redefines “contraceptive” to exclude anything that prevents ovulation…hormonal birth control…
#CrochetJam, “a community-art event steeped in the African-American tradition of weaving in a calm & non-judgemental environment without rules or limitations…uses the folk-art tradition of crocheting…to foster social interaction, creativity, and liberation.” sf.gazetteer.co/crochet-away...
Crochet away and dance to vinyl at Chat Room: Analog
We hope these embodiments of analog San Francisco inspire attendees to make and do their own amazing things
sf.gazetteer.co
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#CrochetJam, “a community-art event steeped in the African-American tradition of weaving in a calm & non-judgemental environment without rules or limitations…uses the folk-art tradition of crocheting…to foster social interaction, creativity, and liberation.” sf.gazetteer.co/crochet-away...
this is a v dangerous time for most & we have a v short window in which to resist unbelief & save ourselves & each other - the destruction is real & it will not cease until a unified front is formed & held - just regular ppl because no one else of position will sacrifice their comfort
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
this is a v dangerous time for most & we have a v short window in which to resist unbelief & save ourselves & each other - the destruction is real & it will not cease until a unified front is formed & held - just regular ppl because no one else of position will sacrifice their comfort
my role model
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
my role model
“Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge” 5 Principles:
Honestly,
Scrupulousness, Transparency,
Independence and Responsibility -
all “relying on the premise of reciprocity”…
Honestly,
Scrupulousness, Transparency,
Independence and Responsibility -
all “relying on the premise of reciprocity”…
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge” 5 Principles:
Honestly,
Scrupulousness, Transparency,
Independence and Responsibility -
all “relying on the premise of reciprocity”…
Honestly,
Scrupulousness, Transparency,
Independence and Responsibility -
all “relying on the premise of reciprocity”…
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I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
always remember - never forget
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
always remember - never forget
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Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
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New reporting reveals heating costs are up 7.6% this year.
14 million Americans have utility debt so severe that it's being sent to collections.
14 million Americans have utility debt so severe that it's being sent to collections.
November 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New reporting reveals heating costs are up 7.6% this year.
14 million Americans have utility debt so severe that it's being sent to collections.
14 million Americans have utility debt so severe that it's being sent to collections.
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The US is the only industrialized country that treats healthcare like a commodity & not a necessity, and it's costing Americans their health & lives.
All Americans should have access to the healthcare they need without going into medical debt because they needed medical care.
#Pinks
All Americans should have access to the healthcare they need without going into medical debt because they needed medical care.
#Pinks
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The US is the only industrialized country that treats healthcare like a commodity & not a necessity, and it's costing Americans their health & lives.
All Americans should have access to the healthcare they need without going into medical debt because they needed medical care.
#Pinks
All Americans should have access to the healthcare they need without going into medical debt because they needed medical care.
#Pinks