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Daniel Cardoso Llach
@dcardo.bsky.social
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Critical histories and practices of automation and computing in design/architecture. Other stuff too. Associate Prof. @CarnegieMellon. Books: Builders of the Vision, Designing the Computational Image. http://www.dcardo.com
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dcardo.bsky.social
I would consider calling Fetterman (I am a PA resident) if I didn't honestly think he, in a troll-like fashion, feeds off the energy people spend arguing with his positions.
lflorepolitics.bsky.social Vote Blue 🌵🗳️💙🦋🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @lflorepolitics.bsky.social · 19h
Some have said some of those numbers don’t work🤔 IF that is the case you can always call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
this
anarchygoose.bsky.social Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 2d
Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.

From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.

What he's selling is unaccountabilty.
aselrod.bsky.social Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
dcardo.bsky.social
It's the end of one of those fifteen hour days and I'm fix und fertig but there's a new single by King Hannah which is absolutely perfect.
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot.

📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025

More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C
sharepic: "Call for papers"
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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noisynarrowband.bsky.social
"Mit der maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Schrift & Rede." Große Freude über die schöne & wohlwollende Rezension der "Zukunft des Lesens" in der heutigen FAZ @faznet.bsky.social

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... (Paywall)
Christoph Engemann „Die Zukunft des Lesens“: Über Online-Oralität
KI-Tools zerlegen Texte in Häppchen, Videoclips dominieren das Internet: Der Medienwissenschaftler Christoph Engemann befürchtet, dass in Zukunft nur noch eine kleine Elite in der Lage sein wird, Büch...
www.faz.net
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
dcardo.bsky.social
He actually pulls off a pretty decent accent.
boringstein.bsky.social donald @boringstein.bsky.social · 12d
¡La secuela que Nueva York tanto ha estado pidiendo por fin está aquí! ¡Puedes votar temprano hasta el Domingo y el día de las elecciones es el Martes 4 de Noviembre!
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d
Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!

Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.
heathercherone.bsky.social Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 14d
"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
dcardo.bsky.social
A corollary is that Republicans have been quite successful at tarnishing climate and lgbt rights as irrevocably doomed political issues.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14d
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
walshfreedom.bsky.social Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14d
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
I see that AECOM is engineering the new White House ballroom.
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 19
Xltn conversation btw @hawthorne.bsky.social + Aaron Cayer abt Cayer's 📘 on AECOM, a huge, faceless, ethically ?-able conglomerate that designs electrical grids, military bases, highways, airports; they discuss why it's imptnt to study such work + methods for doing so amidst gov't + corp secrecy
The architectural-imperial complex
A conversation with Aaron Cayer about how AECOM rose from humble SoCal roots to become a powerful, secretive player in global politics
www.punchlistmag.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
dcardo.bsky.social
Kind of funny to see Madrid and London here.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23d
The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”
October 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
dcardo.bsky.social
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kawulf.bsky.social Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 27d
Building a federal government -- totally fascinating. And Peter Kastor's website/ investigative tool is very cool and may wreck your morning commitment to processing email just saying.

creatingafederalgovernment.wustl.edu
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
dcardo.bsky.social
I just learned that Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller shared a key collaborator, the architect Shoji Sadao. According to this fine text by Matthew Kirsch, Sadao "oversaw the nuts-and-bolts details that made Fuller and Noguchi’s grand visions possible." (!) www.noguchi.org/isamu-noguch...
Shoji Sadao - The Noguchi Museum
An indefatigable facilitator for both Isamu Noguchi and R. Buckminster Fuller, architect Shoji Sadao designed, engineered, and oversaw the nuts-and-bolts details that made their grand visions possible...
www.noguchi.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
dcardo.bsky.social
Driving back today into the US from Canada on the I-79, the Fall colors were unbelievable.
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ...

"This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."
Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. “That tradition has deep roots in our history and found early expression, for example, in . . . the constitutional provisions for civilian control of the military.” Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972); see also James Madison, Address to the Constitutional Convention (1787), reprinted in 1 Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 465 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) (“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”). This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.
October 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
September 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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hkpmw.bsky.social
One of this administration’s core beliefs seems to be that no one would follow a code of conduct for any reason other than fear. Professional ethics, constitutional constraints, basic morality—no one actually *believes* in these things: everyone is just too weak or scared to discard them. 1/3
September 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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woz.ch
#Gaza (1)

Der Leitartikel von Meret Michel zur politischen und juristischen Mitverantwortung von Ländern wie der Schweiz oder Deutschland.
Krieg in Gaza: Nicht nur eine moralische Frage
Israel begeht einen Genozid an den Palästinenser:innen in Gaza: Zu diesem Schluss kommt nun auch eine Untersuchungskommission des Uno-Menschenrechtsrats, die ihren Bericht letzte Woche veröffentlicht hat.
www.woz.ch
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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klangin.bsky.social
Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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daveparisi.bsky.social
In only 9 months, we've seen the top-to-bottom transformation of US into an isolationist nation willing to sacrifice economic & political power for nativism. It's happening so quickly & it's so at odds with the values a lot of us were socialized with that it doesn't feel real or possible.
mclem.org Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Sep 23
You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
dcardo.bsky.social
I was today years old when I learned I shared a birthday with the boss.
coolbikeart1.bsky.social Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · Sep 23
Bruce Springsteen and friend, back in the glory days

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bruce!
Born September 23, 1949
Photo of a man and woman riding a tandem bicycle past a shop. Signs in the shop window include, "Sand Worms", "Live Eels", and "Fishing Licenses Issued Here".
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM