Architecture doesn’t need queering, it needs to be recognized as already inherently queer.

Still a pragmatist, but with an expanded understanding of what that actually means

The digestive system in reverse: I can’t erase from my brain the episode of South Park about the fad “diet” where everyone eats by shoving food into their recta and then eliminates by coughing up turds. Don’t know what made me think of that. I am not particularly hungry.

Standard deviation

ontologies of exhaustion

We should go back to the 18th and 19th c convention of calling all manner of instruments--rulers, computers, etc--engines. Coffee machine? An espresso engine. Typewriter? A word engine. Twitter? Bulls*it engine. And so on.

CS folks: any suggestions for readings for an architect on uses of formulas (models?) of thermodynamics for CS applications other than actually modeling heat transfer in materials? Much appreciated!

Controlling for traffic headaches, has anyone else completely lost the ability to estimate how long it will take to get ready and commute?

Extremely excited and very much looking forward to beginning PhD studies this fall at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design! Daniels Faculty #AcademicTwitter

A certain well-known architecture and computation conference/organizer of lecture series with a chapter called “Creative Arabs 2.0”????? Are they serious? 🤦‍♂️🙅‍♂️🤦‍♂️🙅‍♂️

I loved Howard Jones in the late 80’s and I still love Howard Jones in 2022. I said what I said.

Celestine Chaney, 65; Roberta A. Drury, 32; Andre Mackneil, 53; Katherine Massey, 72; Margus D. Morrison, 52; Heyward Patterson, 67; Aaron Salter, Jr., 55; Geraldine Talley, 62; Ruth Whitfield, 86; and Pearl Young, 77 via The New York Times

Fascinating! We should all have more “intellectual humility” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hid…

“every story we now tell ourselves about our country fits into some portion of the early-boomer life arc. And our politics is implicitly directed toward recapturing some part of the magic of the mid-20th-century America of boomer youth” via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opi…

“it’s worth looking for potential sources of stability and considering not only what we have too much of in America and should want to demolish and be rid of but also what we do not have enough of and should want to build up” via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opi…

Business cards, huh.

Even a broken watch is right twice a day via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/06/20/opi…

“Whether you choose to wear a mask or not, we ask that you respect your fellow travelers’ and crew members’ decisions” So you want control over what you do with your body? And you want me to respect that, right? How can people not see their own fucking hypocrisy!!!

“The work showed that ‘you don’t need space to do geometry,’ Huh said. ‘That made me really fundamentally rethink what geometry is.’”🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-… via Quanta Magazine

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