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@nishaat.bsky.social
borders / migration / spatial practice
prof @ UCL urban lab
www.topologicalatlas.net
prof @ UCL urban lab
www.topologicalatlas.net
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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This is amazing reporting. A must read. And insanely scary.
One of the people discussed is a woman who started using Chat GPT to write a book (of course) and ended up having a psychotic break thinking she could heal people like Jesus. Frightening shit.
One of the people discussed is a woman who started using Chat GPT to write a book (of course) and ended up having a psychotic break thinking she could heal people like Jesus. Frightening shit.
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
futurism.com/commitment-j...
futurism.com/commitment-j...
June 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is amazing reporting. A must read. And insanely scary.
One of the people discussed is a woman who started using Chat GPT to write a book (of course) and ended up having a psychotic break thinking she could heal people like Jesus. Frightening shit.
One of the people discussed is a woman who started using Chat GPT to write a book (of course) and ended up having a psychotic break thinking she could heal people like Jesus. Frightening shit.
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in which chatgpt tells me about it's undocumented hardcoded boundaries and some of the ways it's trained to be intentionally deceptive.
(i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)
(i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
in which chatgpt tells me about it's undocumented hardcoded boundaries and some of the ways it's trained to be intentionally deceptive.
(i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)
(i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)
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2/ ✊🏿 @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social has published an open letter to call attention to this situaton and to demand the @unhcr.org to engage actively for the release of those arrested in the protests & to take a firm stance against the illegal deportations carried out by Tunisia and Algeria.
Open Letter on the Situation at the UNHCR's Camp in Agadez
Open Letter on UNHCR's Camp in Agadez vy Refugees in Libya
migration-control.info
April 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
2/ ✊🏿 @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social has published an open letter to call attention to this situaton and to demand the @unhcr.org to engage actively for the release of those arrested in the protests & to take a firm stance against the illegal deportations carried out by Tunisia and Algeria.
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The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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📢 #CallforPapers! Join us at the international #conference “Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene,” Sep. 22–24, 2025, in Vienna @univie.ac.at!
📅 Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions!
🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...
📅 Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions!
🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...
Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” - InfraNorth
International Conference, September 22 - 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the ...
infranorth.eu
February 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
📢 #CallforPapers! Join us at the international #conference “Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene,” Sep. 22–24, 2025, in Vienna @univie.ac.at!
📅 Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions!
🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...
📅 Submit your proposals by 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. We look forward to your contributions!
🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...
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Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
2 PhD Candidates for the project
Leiden University's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) is looking for2 PhD Candidates for the project “Climate Citizenship (4 years, full time) We welcome applications...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
February 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent
Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent
Most titles written by Islamic scholar who founded an Islamic organisation banned in the disputed region
Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian region.
Most of the…
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent
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2x funded MA scholarships for Palestinian students at the University of Sussex. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Scholarships for Palestine : University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
2x funded MA scholarships for Palestinian students at the University of Sussex. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
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Our joint statement in response to the ceasefire agreement.
January 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our joint statement in response to the ceasefire agreement.
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“designers are very involved in building all kinds of things. So if we could think more about the effects of what we’re building, effects that are not part of the intention, or the design, that might help” says Anna Tsing in this insightful interview fojournal.org/interview/an...
‘Noticing is my way of opposing’ - Future Observatory Journal
Explore Anna Tsing's insights on design, ecology, and the more-than-human world in this dialogue with Justin McGuirk.
fojournal.org
November 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
“designers are very involved in building all kinds of things. So if we could think more about the effects of what we’re building, effects that are not part of the intention, or the design, that might help” says Anna Tsing in this insightful interview fojournal.org/interview/an...
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Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father.
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?
November 27, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father.
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?
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www.iuav.it/it/avviso?ft...
Keynotes:
- Neta Alexander, Yale
- Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine
- Lev Manovich, City University, New York
- Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice
- Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London
Keynotes:
- Neta Alexander, Yale
- Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine
- Lev Manovich, City University, New York
- Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice
- Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 PM
www.iuav.it/it/avviso?ft...
Keynotes:
- Neta Alexander, Yale
- Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine
- Lev Manovich, City University, New York
- Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice
- Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London
Keynotes:
- Neta Alexander, Yale
- Francesco D’Isa, writer & artist, L’indiscreto magazine
- Lev Manovich, City University, New York
- Matteo Pasquinelli, Ca' Foscari, Venice
- Antonio Somaini, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
- Joanna Zylinska, King’s College, London
