Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽
@tamaravelasquez.bsky.social
Urbanist. PhD student at Rutgers University. Researching gentrification in CDMX. Fluent in Spanglish.//
Urbanista, Doctorante en Estudios Urbanos, Chilanga en Brooklyn. Estudio temas de gentrificación en CDMX.
Urbanista, Doctorante en Estudios Urbanos, Chilanga en Brooklyn. Estudio temas de gentrificación en CDMX.
Appreciating that there is now a @foodcoop.bsky.social branded beer!
January 30, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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
January 30, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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'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.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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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
against-a-i.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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
against-a-i.com
Bien merecido. Fue la mejor cinta del año y una de las mejores películas que he visto.
Golden Globes 2026: “El agente secreto” gana el premio a Mejor película no hablada en inglés elcomercio.pe/luces/c…
Golden Globes 2026: “El agente secreto” gana el premio a Mejor película no hablada en inglés
Cinta dirigida por Kleber Mendonça Filho, se llevó el mayor honor de su categoría en la ceremonia que premia lo mejor del cine y la televisión. El director agradeció el esfuerzo de Wagner Moura, protagonista, en su discurso.
elcomercio.pe
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Bien merecido. Fue la mejor cinta del año y una de las mejores películas que he visto.
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“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.”
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...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
“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.
BREAKING
President Trump says he will call on Congress to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
This is very popular overall, but it’s important to note that the MAGA base has been calling for this for some time, and calls for such a ban have ramped up in recent weeks.
President Trump says he will call on Congress to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
This is very popular overall, but it’s important to note that the MAGA base has been calling for this for some time, and calls for such a ban have ramped up in recent weeks.
January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Cautiously optimistic here. However, this should also extend to multi-family units.
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/3ids...
UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)
open.spotify.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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...
open.spotify.com/episode/3ids...
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Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
January 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
Financialization on steroids
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Financialization on steroids
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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?
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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.
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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.
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finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
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Towers, who is not a social scientist,
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
“Prez Towers, a former execu dean at Parsons, said he believed the plan would lead to more innovations in the social sciences. He said he wanted to bring in more cultural and intellectual leaders from NYC to serve as part-time instructors + to reimagine doctoral education to make it more relevant…”
December 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Towers, who is not a social scientist,
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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Me after finally getting to try the pastries/food/coffee at Vato after all of Park Slope has been endlessly lining up for them:
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me after finally getting to try the pastries/food/coffee at Vato after all of Park Slope has been endlessly lining up for them:
For a PhD grant application? I would hope so!
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For a PhD grant application? I would hope so!
Cuando trabajaba en Roma-Condesa era posible comprar un café en un lugar fresón por 30 pesos y las cafeterías independientes eran menos caras que las de cadena. Ahora esas cafeterías son igual de caras que en Brooklyn y el café cuesta casi 100.
#gentrificacion #cdmx
#gentrificacion #cdmx
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Cuando trabajaba en Roma-Condesa era posible comprar un café en un lugar fresón por 30 pesos y las cafeterías independientes eran menos caras que las de cadena. Ahora esas cafeterías son igual de caras que en Brooklyn y el café cuesta casi 100.
#gentrificacion #cdmx
#gentrificacion #cdmx
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Once again, I find myself meal prepping and the @foodcoop.bsky.social produce did a lot of the heavy lifting in making sure the food was flavorful and delicious!
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Once again, I find myself meal prepping and the @foodcoop.bsky.social produce did a lot of the heavy lifting in making sure the food was flavorful and delicious!