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” 😐

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BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.

Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.

Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume

Some courses being offered ⬇️

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

I loved Curry Hackett’s “So That You All Won’t Forget: Speculations on a Black Home in Rural Virginia” at the Cooper Hewitt Biennial. He just shared with me this great article — by @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @elegantcollisions.bsky.social, et al — featuring his quilt work arxiv.org/html/2405.05...

Unionized Starbucks workers are on strike in:
-California
-Colorado
-Illinois
-Massachusetts
-New Jersey
-New York
-Ohio
-Oregon
-Pennsylvania
-Missouri
-Texas
-Washington

The strike could reach “hundreds of stores” by Tuesday, according to @sbworkersunited.org.

I read a quote from a Brazilian enslaver who, on the eve of emancipation in the late 1880s, said (roughly): "They say abolition is about ending slavery. But that's not right. What it's really about is abolishing the senhores (masters)."

From the introduction of generative AI and its impact on elections, labor activism, and security, to the historic executive order, the Biden presidency marked the first AI presidency. I spoke with @npr.org about this important Biden-Harris administration legacy. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

First a paper in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on "Queering Economic Geographies" - here I explore the work on political economy, Marxism, and queer and trans theory and the implications of the concepts and arguments made in this work for economic geography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Did y'all see this? The university of WI system is proposing a policy change so that the system would now assert and control copyright over professors' lecture notes, syllabi, articles, & more. VERY concerning: www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Materials of Solidarity: posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets of the 🇵🇸 solidarity movement — curated by Nadine Fattaleh at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute.

So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!

"The residency »Tools for Citation« examines how knowledge is produced and how those processes can be reimagined through expanded citational practices." — organized by Charles Broskoski (of Are.na) and Mindy Seu!

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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