"If I get money before the flood, I will be able to store food and arrange strengthening my house for my family and cow,” he said. “But if I only get a forecast, I will discuss it with my family and neighbors and do what I can.” restofworld.org/2025/google-...
Her body of work includes pieces based on digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchip designs, all rendered in Navajo weaving styles issues.org/marilou-schu...
How are LLMs biased when asked to provide advice on international relations and diplomacy? Benchmarking LLMs against each other on the recommendations they generate against 400 geopolitical scenarios www.csis.org/programs/fut...
NYC Public Space is an app that stitches together fragmented government datasets, AI-generated descriptions, and community-sourced updates to make the city’s public realm more visible and usable rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/vibe-co...
"MzansiXchange is a national data exchange initiative to create an integrated data ecosystem that supports effective planning, policymaking, reporting, and service delivery" mzansixchange.treasury.gov.za
‘A Data Love Letter to the Subway’ www.pentagram.com/work/a-data-... "The installation visualizes each train line as a character whose unique qualities are extracted from MTA data"
"If you’re not designing systems, you’re just decorating problems" architectureau.com/articles/Fat... Re-reading this gem in preparation for today's course on system innovation
We need new models of professionalism that do not center novelty, but consequence. New ways of valuing labor that include the cost of wasted time, operational debt, and institutional indifference. New feedback cultures that reward slack, not just efficiency.
"What we need is practical knowledge. Understanding how things actually function through the accumulated wisdom of people who show up every day and make broken things work"
[Don't agree with everything, but certainly with this line :-)] "The gap between knowing and acting is often the most frustrating bottleneck in government feedback loop" fermonge.substack.com/p/government...
[Sigh] “Corals are a case where the benefits of reefs are just so enormous that keeping some alive, even if they’re genetically altered, makes the risks worth it.” www.noemamag.com/editing-natu...
🤗 to see @timothyaschuler.bsky.social on the work of Reimagine the Canals (+ my friend Angelyn!), who, in revitalizing the Erie Canal, "hope [to] serve as a model for how public agencies might approach aging infrastructure at vast scales, marrying... basic maintenance with... public access"
Last year, João Antônio Trindade Bastos was watching a football game in Aracaju, Brazil, when military police dragged him from the stadium in front of 10,000 fans. A surveillance camera had misidentified him as a wanted fugitive
Law enforcement doesn’t yet “have the capacity to look at these judicial matters beyond just asking whether a piece of evidence is real or not" restofworld.org/2025/latin-a...
[Somehow i had missed this] The New Formal - "Much of the rhetoric around impact, innovation and inclusion does not account for informality" nextbillion.net/new-formal-l...
