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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 20h

I just learned that Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller shared a key collaborator, the architect Shoji Sadao. According to this fine text by Matthew Kirsch, Sadao "oversaw the nuts-and-bolts details that made Fuller and Noguchi’s grand visions possible." (!) www.noguchi.org/isamu-noguch...

Shoji Sadao - The Noguchi Museum

An indefatigable facilitator for both Isamu Noguchi and R. Buckminster Fuller, architect Shoji Sadao designed, engineered, and oversaw the nuts-and-bolts details that made their grand visions possible...

www.noguchi.org

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 1d

Driving back today into the US from Canada on the I-79, the Fall colors were unbelievable.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d

"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ...

"This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. “That tradition has deep roots in our history and found early expression, for example, in . . . the constitutional provisions for civilian control of the military.” Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972); see also James Madison, Address to the Constitutional Convention (1787), reprinted in 1 Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 465 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) (“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”). This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14d

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 15d

One of this administration’s core beliefs seems to be that no one would follow a code of conduct for any reason other than fear. Professional ethics, constitutional constraints, basic morality—no one actually *believes* in these things: everyone is just too weak or scared to discard them. 1/3

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome to PGH!

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WOZ @woz.ch · 19d

#Gaza (1)

Der Leitartikel von Meret Michel zur politischen und juristischen Mitverantwortung von Ländern wie der Schweiz oder Deutschland.

Krieg in Gaza: Nicht nur eine moralische Frage

Israel begeht einen Genozid an den Palästinenser:innen in Gaza: Zu diesem Schluss kommt nun auch eine Untersuchungskommission des Uno-Menschenrechtsrats, die ihren Bericht letzte Woche veröffentlicht hat.

www.woz.ch

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 18d

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 21d

What a nice thing to say! A tall order given their caliber, I am afraid. :)

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you! :)

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 21d

In only 9 months, we've seen the top-to-bottom transformation of US into an isolationist nation willing to sacrifice economic & political power for nativism. It's happening so quickly & it's so at odds with the values a lot of us were socialized with that it doesn't feel real or possible.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 22d

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 21d

I was today years old when I learned I shared a birthday with the boss.

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 21d

Bruce Springsteen and friend, back in the glory days

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bruce!
Born September 23, 1949

Photo of a man and woman riding a tandem bicycle past a shop. Signs in the shop window include, "Sand Worms", "Live Eels", and "Fishing Licenses Issued Here".

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 22d

Surely in your radar already but Joanna Drucker's "Graphesis" touches on this.

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Nicolas Henin 🇪🇺💙💛 @nicolashenin.net · 24d

TRENTE DEUX journalistes tués.
En UNE frappe.
En d'autres temps, cela aurait fait les gros titres de tous les journaux.
Mais qui se préoccupe du Yémen ?

Mona Chollet @monachollet.bsky.social · 26d

Des dizaines de personnes tuées, dont 32 journalistes, par un bombardement israélien sur un bâtiment officiel yéménite le 10 septembre www.dropsitenews.com/p/yemen-isra...

Staggering Death Toll Rises to 32 in Single-Deadliest Israeli Strike on Journalists

Unable to strike Ansarallah's military capabilities in Yemen, Israel has attacked its civilian cabinet members and a major press building in recent weeks.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 25d

Leaving the very real destruction they are causing aside for just a second there is something profoundly sad about those doing all this silencing, threatening, and muzzling. Sad, fragile, little.

Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 26d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social · 28d

CFP: Submit a paper to our theme track for DRS in Edinburgh 2026, ‘1.1 Discourses in Design Research: Historical, Critical, and Speculative Perspectives‘. Find more info here >> drs2026.thedrs.org/1-1-discours...

1.1 Discourses in Design Research

1.1 Discourses in Design Research: Historical, Critical, and Speculative Perspectives

drs2026.thedrs.org

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Sep 12

don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Sep 12

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · Sep 11

Grumpy note taken while reading HCI papers: repeatedly calling a concept "provocative" doesn't make it so.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Sep 11

Charlie Kirk war nicht "konservativ" oder "rechts-konservativ". Charlie Kirk war ein rechtsextremer Rassist, Sexist und Faschist. Jemand mit Einstellungen, die Teile der AfD moderat erscheinen lassen. Man muss sein politisches Projekt nicht beschönigen, um seine Ermordung zu verurteilen.

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · Sep 9

"...faculty and staff in Doha remain safe and unharmed, and our campus facilities remain unaffected."

Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Excerpt from a real email from the Carnegie Mellon University administration today:

"You have likely seen news reports of an Israeli strike today that occurred approximately six miles from our campus in Doha, Qatar. At this time, we have received word that our students..."

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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today's Washington Post editorial describing Haiti as "our Caribbean backyard."

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