Thanks to the miracle that is our elementary school special ed teacher, Fat Bear Week has been an important event in my family life, and the kids screamed when they saw the news they had been awaiting:

CHUNK WON! Or, as NYT reported it, "All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All"

(Though honestly I'm convinced I will die of a heart attack caused by the seismic alerts.) Still, on September 19, 2017, I learned I'm from the place where 'land gets pulled apart, yet people pull together.' Where everyone paused their lives to do right by the neighbors they didn't yet know.

In case the name itself weren't panoptic enough, the coverage, the photos!!!! by this sports tabloid are… is it in bad taste to say, chef's kiss*?

* for someone writing a dissertation/book on #surveillance in Mexico

www.record.com.mx/contra/cdmx-...

I bring you a postcard of joy from this afternoon's commute: an African American family, proudly dressed in 'Harvard mom,' 'Harvard dad' T-shirts, moving their beloved son into his dorm at Harvard Yard. May he bring them pride <3

Also, the dahlias are dahlia-ing!!

Anyway, a couple of gifts for you, from my halfway-optimized process: a cartoon on fears of unemployment from NAFTA times, and one on the social perils of the 90s.

The report, "Little Tech Goes Global," echoing the term popularized by the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, which highlights the tension between innovation and regulation: home.coworker.org/little-tech-...
@restofworld.org coverage: restofworld.org/2025/employe...

I regret to inform that, for the third year in a row, my professional baguette and homemade sourdough boule judging services have not been solicited for the Grand Prix Elmendorf. Maybe next year. eastcambridgeba.com/le-grand-pri...

Today’s read is @silviahedley.bsky.social’s Unfair ID! It’s been hard to know when to take notes because there is so much I will be citing, and so much that is beautifully written. A shoutout to @mariannedh.bsky.social @drsamaki.bsky.social in the acknowledgments and to @schock.cc in the theory 💕

Update: I survived! The biggest honor of my #opendata life. Also the most challenging panel I ever had to prepare. I'm writing what I prep'd on the reasons AI leads to unfair social benefit allocations + what that means for Bolsa Família in Brazil, and what the 15y of evidence, methods teach us!

And the SKY, always breath-taking. The trees, the dried flowers, every single view. My first trip to Brazil when I was 20 filled me with so much love for the country, for community work in Rio. Now at 34 and after Brasília, I still wish I were from Brazil!

Yeah yeah yeah we can talk more about open data and AI and work later, but can we spend a minute talking about the INSANITY that is architecture in Brasília?! It was hard not to tear up at every space.

Bom dia, Brasília! This week I will be at #OpenAmerica /América Aberta, so I will be posting about #opendata, #opengov, #AI —especially the state of the art in Brazilian #datajournalism and where our movement is a decade(!) in.

They booked me at a hotel designed by Niemeyer! 🤩 #midcenturymodern

Two stunning photographs of day of the dead flower fields -- aerial view of marigolds in Jalisco (by Ulises Ruiz/AFP) and cockscomb in the Popocatepetl valley (Erik Gomez Tochimani).

I think if you had told 8-year-old me that one can get paid to go to school to study computers (and people), I would have never wanted to be a marine biologist nor a diplomat nor a translator. I would have wanted to be a grad student, and I am truly grateful I was able to be one for so long.

It’s my (errr…) 27th first day of school, and probably my last one ever! To be honest, I wish there still were many more ahead.

Every year, I am grateful to be alive for one more season of blossoms on trees. This year, I am grateful I lived to see the jacarandas bloom again in my city. I miss them already.