Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚

An informational graphic featuring a photo of a woman and a young child playing with bubbles on a modern, glass-enclosed balcony. The balcony is part of a contemporary multi-story building with light green and yellow walls. Below the image, there is a white banner with dark blue text that reads "AFFORDABLE HOUSING" followed by the subtext, "Commission seeks views on how to promote affordable housing." The European Union flag logo is located in the bottom right corner.

We are seeking feedback on measures to alleviate pressure on the housing market, which will help shape the Affordable Housing Act.

Interested parties can respond to a questionnaire by 29 March 2026 and answer a call for evidence by 3 April 2026↓

link.europa.eu/JKbmrT

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

2/ The NNJ is published by @springernature.com and Birkhauser.

#Architecture #Geometry #Buildingreconstruction #Heritagestudies #Algorithmicdesign #ArchitecturalHistoryandTheory #ComputationalGeometry #MathematicsinArtandArchitecture #SociologyofArchitecture

Foregrounding Geometric Thinking - Nexus Network Journal This editorial introduces Volume 28, Issue 1 of the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics. The contributions in this issue emphasise geometry as an active method rather than just a descr...

1/ Already available online and introducing the new issue of the NNJ, we can read the letter from the editor-in-chief Michael J. Ostwald (UNSW) 'Foregrounding Geometric Thinking,' highlighting geometry as an active method instead of exclusively a descriptive tool: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds | Quanta Magazine The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds.

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor makes it hard to tell how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds.
@walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/climate-phys...

马年大吉!

Since people are talking about the backflip & the amazing Surya Bonaly, I'm adding something else. I loved her and mentioned her in my book #AfricanEuropeans in 2020.
#WinterOlympics2026 #SuryaBonaly

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

so called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input

futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...

“In a caustic twist of history, while the first Colossus was built to decode and disrupt Nazi messages, the second seems inclined to recast and amplify them.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Call for ECC 2028 host (deadline extended to 16 February 2026)! ECREA opened a call for proposals for the hosting and organisation of the 12th edition of the European Communication Conferences.

The #ACMBookClub is back!

We’re kicking things off on Sunday, Feb 22, w/ a deep dive into Melanie Mitchell’s acclaimed Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, and a finale conversation w/ the author on March 24.

Register today: buff.ly/a8L7qzA

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Don't forget! Today is the last day to submit your abstract to ECC2026!

⏰ A friendly reminder to our ECREA Media, Cities and Space section members and non-members that there is only one day left to submit your abstracts for the upcoming ECC2026 conference in Brno, Czech Republic!

🇨🇿 Don't miss it!!

ECREA MCS Section Newsletter – December 2025 Dear ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) Section members and followers, As we wrap up 2025, we would like to update you on our past and future events and to ask for your feedback so that we can imp…

🎁 Dear ECREA MCS Section members and followers,

📝 As we wrap up 2025, we would like to update you on our past and future events and to ask for your feedback so that we can improve collaboration, networking and engagement.

🎄Have a lovely festive season!

mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/e...

The Year in Mathematics | Quanta Magazine Explore a shape that can’t pass through itself, a teenage prodigy, and two new kinds of infinity.

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. This is on full display in Quanta’s Year in Review math round-up:
www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-...

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

It is done! We published our VGC '23 book, consisting of 10 papers from our conference in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2023🎉 Many thanks to our editors and everyone who contributed! More Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...

We’ve extended the deadline by a week! More time to send in your abstract for potential inclusion in a special @mediapolis.bsky.social dossier on ‘The Synthetic City’!

EXTENDED DUE DATE for Abstracts: 7 December 2025
Call for Papers: The Synthetic City. We have extended the due date by an extra week, so you still have time to submit your proposals!

⏳ Only a few days left to submit your proposal for a #ECC2026 pre-conference! Design your own event in Brno (5–7 Sept 2026) and bring scholars together around your theme. Submit your 500–800-word proposal by 30 Nov → ecrea2026brno.eu/call-for-pre...

shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City

We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.

📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...

Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

New research by Diogo P. Henriques and Daniel Rita (2025), titled "Environmental storytelling and planetary thinking in Prague’s video game scene", accepted to be presented at the Videogame Cultures (VGC) 2025: Gaming Landscapes conference, hosted by Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 10-12 September 2025.

🥽🎮🕹👾 Excited to share that my recent study co-developed with Daniel Riha, "Environmental storytelling and planetary thinking in Prague’s video game scene" has been accepted for presentation @videogamecultures.bsky.social (VGC) 2025: Gaming Landscapes conference!!

#VGC25 #storytelling #VR #AI
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Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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🇪🇺 Europe for Culture. Culture for Europe.

Culture connects us, strengthens communities, and sparks creativity and innovation.

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#ArchitectureandMathematics #AndreaPalladio #LeCorbusier #PeterEisenman #ComputationalAnalysisofBuildings #VisibilityGraphs #Fractals

Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture This monograph explores the deep connections between architecture and mathematics through the works of Andrea Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Peter Eisenman.

1/ 📚 From the series 'Mathematics and the Built Environment', read the latest book by J. H. Lee, M. J. Dawes and M. Ostwald (UNSW) 'Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture - Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Eisenman' (2025), published by @springernature.com: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card

www.wired.com/ai-issue/