Fallon Samuels Aidoo
@fallonphd.bsky.social
Community Engaged Scholar & Planner of Heritage Adaptation to Climate Change & Development Hazards @ Tulane Architecture | consulting on heritage adaptation to climate change via studioRxP👉🏾 fallon-samuels-aidoo.com
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This is such exciting news! So many of us followed Mychal over yonder. Throughout his challenges and triumphs, he always inspired kindness and self-love.
Couldn’t be more thrilled about this! A natural heir. 💙🥰👏🏾
Source: BOOK RIOT
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
Couldn’t be more thrilled about this! A natural heir. 💙🥰👏🏾
Source: BOOK RIOT
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian
After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.
bookriot.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is such exciting news! So many of us followed Mychal over yonder. Throughout his challenges and triumphs, he always inspired kindness and self-love.
Couldn’t be more thrilled about this! A natural heir. 💙🥰👏🏾
Source: BOOK RIOT
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
Couldn’t be more thrilled about this! A natural heir. 💙🥰👏🏾
Source: BOOK RIOT
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
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Vincent Scully’s 1950 modernist house in Woodbridge, CT listed in the National Register last week 👍👍👍
He designed it himself. portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd...
He designed it himself. portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd...
September 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Vincent Scully’s 1950 modernist house in Woodbridge, CT listed in the National Register last week 👍👍👍
He designed it himself. portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd...
He designed it himself. portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd...
The slippery slope meets quicksand
The Trump administration is limiting enforcement of fair housing laws, dismissing them as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise, according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.
nyti.ms
September 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The slippery slope meets quicksand
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Amazing efforts!
How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold share.google/h9VZmVnSBMMU...
How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold share.google/h9VZmVnSBMMU...
How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold
The Descendants Project used a compelling message, social media, and a personal touch to convey its unique approach to the environment and history.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Amazing efforts!
How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold share.google/h9VZmVnSBMMU...
How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold share.google/h9VZmVnSBMMU...
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Reading so much here about skilled, deeply experienced translators being reduced to much-lower-paying machine translation post-editing (MTPE) — fixing a first-round AI translation.
Reminds me of the tremendous labor + frustration of *undoing* a bad copyedit (whether performed by human or machine)
Reminds me of the tremendous labor + frustration of *undoing* a bad copyedit (whether performed by human or machine)
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reading so much here about skilled, deeply experienced translators being reduced to much-lower-paying machine translation post-editing (MTPE) — fixing a first-round AI translation.
Reminds me of the tremendous labor + frustration of *undoing* a bad copyedit (whether performed by human or machine)
Reminds me of the tremendous labor + frustration of *undoing* a bad copyedit (whether performed by human or machine)
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If you have any rare photographs from Fort Negley or the surrounding areas of Nashville from the 1900s, we want to see them! Please get in touch.
August 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you have any rare photographs from Fort Negley or the surrounding areas of Nashville from the 1900s, we want to see them! Please get in touch.
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tomorrow the series i co-curated on hurricane katrina “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives” opens at MoMA (aug 27-sept 21).
as a survivor, my entire life has been shaped the storm. curation gives us the power to reclaim, reexamine, and reanimate. i hope to see you at the cinema.
as a survivor, my entire life has been shaped the storm. curation gives us the power to reclaim, reexamine, and reanimate. i hope to see you at the cinema.
When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives | MoMA
Film series. Aug 27–Sep 21, 2025. When the World Broke Open takes a cinematic look at New Orleans—a city of pleasure, politics, and pulsating prose that lives in the heart of anyone who’s seen its bea...
www.moma.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
tomorrow the series i co-curated on hurricane katrina “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives” opens at MoMA (aug 27-sept 21).
as a survivor, my entire life has been shaped the storm. curation gives us the power to reclaim, reexamine, and reanimate. i hope to see you at the cinema.
as a survivor, my entire life has been shaped the storm. curation gives us the power to reclaim, reexamine, and reanimate. i hope to see you at the cinema.
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"After Hurricane Katrina, Entergy New Orleans survived bankruptcy with the help of a bailout. As the years went on, though, Entergy demonstrated repeatedly why an investor-owned utility isn't a good model for climate resilience."
Important read from @boyceupholt.bsky.social, 20 years after Katrina:
Important read from @boyceupholt.bsky.social, 20 years after Katrina:
Power Shift
In New Orleans, residents frustrated by an unaccountable energy utility are building a network of community resilience hubs to take back their power.
placesjournal.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"After Hurricane Katrina, Entergy New Orleans survived bankruptcy with the help of a bailout. As the years went on, though, Entergy demonstrated repeatedly why an investor-owned utility isn't a good model for climate resilience."
Important read from @boyceupholt.bsky.social, 20 years after Katrina:
Important read from @boyceupholt.bsky.social, 20 years after Katrina:
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Disasters have cumulative impacts that are often greater than the sum of the individual events. In the Gulf States, EVERY county has had at least 3 federally declared disasters since Hurricane Katrina, and some have had upwards of 20.
August 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Disasters have cumulative impacts that are often greater than the sum of the individual events. In the Gulf States, EVERY county has had at least 3 federally declared disasters since Hurricane Katrina, and some have had upwards of 20.
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And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known.
I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.
I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.
August 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known.
I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.
I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.
trauma bonds between untenured faculty working thru multiple pandemics—COVID, and now capitulation to “anti-woke” politics—are serving as super glue in the crumbling academy right now. There’s only so much those bonds can bear though. When they break, i.e. we leave academia, good luck and God Bless
August 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
trauma bonds between untenured faculty working thru multiple pandemics—COVID, and now capitulation to “anti-woke” politics—are serving as super glue in the crumbling academy right now. There’s only so much those bonds can bear though. When they break, i.e. we leave academia, good luck and God Bless
🙋♀️ the ticks were insane this summer. I did not leave unscathed.
On Martha’s Vineyard, this was supposed to be the summer of the shark. Instead, it’s the time of the tick.
An onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced life-threatening allergy to meat and dairy, has affected many islanders.
An onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced life-threatening allergy to meat and dairy, has affected many islanders.
Why Is Martha’s Vineyard Going Vegan? It’s All About Tick Bites.
Islanders’ diets are being upended by an onslaught of alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-induced allergy to meat and dairy.
nyti.ms
August 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
🙋♀️ the ticks were insane this summer. I did not leave unscathed.
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Each season, we publish a roundup of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities + other subjects of interest to Places and our contributing critics.
Here's what's on our Bookshelf this summer 📚
Here's what's on our Bookshelf this summer 📚
Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal
A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.
placesjournal.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Each season, we publish a roundup of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities + other subjects of interest to Places and our contributing critics.
Here's what's on our Bookshelf this summer 📚
Here's what's on our Bookshelf this summer 📚
I’m looking to hire a writing coach/editor experienced in supporting academics of the humanities with chronic illness. We face somewhat unique and sometimes debilitating “writing blocks” unfamiliar to many coaches, editors, and mentors. Please share your referrals or reach out about your services.
August 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m looking to hire a writing coach/editor experienced in supporting academics of the humanities with chronic illness. We face somewhat unique and sometimes debilitating “writing blocks” unfamiliar to many coaches, editors, and mentors. Please share your referrals or reach out about your services.
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"more than half of the properties where the owners’ names were made public are owned by Black families, even though Black people comprise less than 20% of Altadena’s population."
Great long-form article, not only on the Eaton fire, but Katrina, and the long history of injustice in housing in the US
Great long-form article, not only on the Eaton fire, but Katrina, and the long history of injustice in housing in the US
Half of Altadena’s fire-damaged homes in pre-foreclosure belong to Black families, threatening generational wealth as corporate buyers move in. capitalbnews.org/black-famili...
After LA Fires, Black Altadena Faces Foreclosure and Displacement
Half of Altadena’s fire-damaged homes in pre-foreclosure belong to Black families, threatening generational wealth as corporate buyers move in.
capitalbnews.org
July 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"more than half of the properties where the owners’ names were made public are owned by Black families, even though Black people comprise less than 20% of Altadena’s population."
Great long-form article, not only on the Eaton fire, but Katrina, and the long history of injustice in housing in the US
Great long-form article, not only on the Eaton fire, but Katrina, and the long history of injustice in housing in the US
It’s already impossible to get specialist appointments within 3-4 months of needing one. It’s going to become impossible for anyone with conditions needing specialized care to live here. And they know these docs depend on Medicare and Medicaid payments, not just PPOs.
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
www.politico.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It’s already impossible to get specialist appointments within 3-4 months of needing one. It’s going to become impossible for anyone with conditions needing specialized care to live here. And they know these docs depend on Medicare and Medicaid payments, not just PPOs.
This.
I never get enough done anymore. It’s just become normal to go to bed with a thousand things left to do.
May 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This.
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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Yall! 😂
May 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Yall! 😂
So much trauma and harm for the right take on human rights to be reached. 😞
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.
"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
So much trauma and harm for the right take on human rights to be reached. 😞
So ashamed of my alma mater.
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So ashamed of my alma mater.
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Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
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I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
www.wwltv.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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America’s heritage is in a state of crisis. Along w/ DOGE-ing NPS, IMLS & the NEH, Trump is withholding already appropriated 2025 historic preservation funds & for 2026 wants to outright eliminate all fed funding for tribal, state, local & rural preservation & saving treasures of American history. 😡
May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
America’s heritage is in a state of crisis. Along w/ DOGE-ing NPS, IMLS & the NEH, Trump is withholding already appropriated 2025 historic preservation funds & for 2026 wants to outright eliminate all fed funding for tribal, state, local & rural preservation & saving treasures of American history. 😡
Kate does it again.
The historian in me appreciates that future discussions of these matters will get the facts at full throttle not in neutral gear
The historian in me appreciates that future discussions of these matters will get the facts at full throttle not in neutral gear
Kate’s new piece on Trump, architecture, real estate, and the ACSA is stellar @katewagner.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview
His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.
www.thenation.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Kate does it again.
The historian in me appreciates that future discussions of these matters will get the facts at full throttle not in neutral gear
The historian in me appreciates that future discussions of these matters will get the facts at full throttle not in neutral gear