I have a new open access article in Geoforum, looking at how abrasive online “finfluencers” promise riches through buying cheap properties to rent to Housing Choice Voucher (“Section 8”) holders, using outdated spatial arbitrage strategies and AI automation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
people.com/trump-says-i...
I think this is probably true of AI for most professions: effective for those who already have the expertise to discern quality and accuracy, otherwise it just multiplies the amount of garbage production.
The war on Iran & the war on immigrants aren’t different stories— wars justify investments in technologies of violence, create a foreign threat that manufactures consent for the abrogation of domestic rights.
See: “War on Terror” that killed millions & in whose shadow DHS was formed.
Screenshot of a New York Times update about importers getting refunds on tariffs highlighting that "companies are not likely to issue refunds, or lower prices" for consumers.
Oh.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
"Approaching Yarvin as a 'political philosopher' is approximately as helpful as approaching Jerry Springer as a moral theorist. One comes away with the sense that the joke is only ever on oneself for trying to get to the bottom of him in such terms."
hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
Great thread on what Lincoln had to say about Jefferson:
Must read on the ideological project of the Epstein-billionaire class
“Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing. Epstein funnelled as much as $20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology”
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
For those interested in joining us in Uppsala and present some of your work! The conference welcomes various contribution formats, from mapping methodologies to papers and film-making. Go have a look at the book of sessions to see which fits your work best!
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
How do you know you are absolutely going to hell? Despite skyrocketing revenue, you're the guy on the for-profit prison shareholder call complaining they STILL haven't caged enough brown people for maximum $$$$$
Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. It’s about collective responsibility for what ICE will do wherever it builds a gulag, and it is *powerful.* It’s less than three minutes of your life. Pass it on.
One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport.
One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions.
Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people.
www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...
At 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
And guess what happened to the homes bought by those disruptive platforms? Right into the portfolio of an institutional owner.
This tired rent-to-own model was rolled out as disruptive innovation during the pandemic real estate boom, only for it to fail once interest rates began to rise.
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.
Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
in general, i actually suspect this means their business case is deteriorating at a rapid clip
Really incisive analysis of the scale of community defense in Minneapolis. I love how it conveys how unified the city is, the density of defenders as you move through the city, and the basic nature of skills this work takes.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
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Flyer with USF logo for the USF blog "Reparative urban futures: reconfiguring infrastructures and institutions towards liberation" and the quote "“Communities are already doing the critical work of repairing urban infrastructure while envisioning pathways towards reparative futures. As scholars, we must go beyond simply learning and documenting what communities are doing; they are not just knowledge holders. They are knowledge producers and grounded city planners. “ on a Illustration from ‘Threads and Seeds,’ zine prepared for the Reparative Urban Futures community forum, by Anna Carlson, shared with permission. Copyright
Flyer with USF logo for the USF blog "Reparative urban futures: reconfiguring infrastructures and institutions towards liberation" and the quote "“Communities are already doing the critical work of repairing urban infrastructure while envisioning pathways towards reparative futures. As scholars, we must go beyond simply learning and documenting what communities are doing; they are not just knowledge holders. They are knowledge producers and grounded city planners. “ on a Illustration from ‘Threads and Seeds,’ zine prepared for the Reparative Urban Futures community forum, by Anna Carlson, shared with permission. Copyright
👉 New on the #USFBlog 🥂
In this guest blog, Naama Blatman, Sage Ponder & Suraya Scheba reflect on "Reparative Urban Futures," a #USF-supported workshop bringing scholars and community organisers together to rethink infrastructure, abolition, and repair from the ground up.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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