Please help to stop this insanity & sign our open letter: /2 unitedagainstacademicboycott.com

'Our resistance must be our persistence to exist.' tabletmag.com/sections/commu…

Today, another line was crossed when Sydney’s oldest synagogue - The Great Synagogue - was vandalised. The Synagogue has continuously operated in its current location since 1878 as a testament to the vibrancy of Jewish life in Sydney and Australia. Over the past nine months,

Excited to share our new paper on #PlatformMunicipalism in Cities! 🚀 Highlights: Self-governance in marginalized populations Ride-hailing drivers in informal economies Grassroots movements driving resilience Co-design & social innovation Democratic policymaking Read more:

Make Politicians Understand Economics Again x.com/selinawangtv/s…

#UrbanPlanning nerd moment 🤩 #SydneyMetro

Is the AI Left-Bias Real? youtu.be/xaroJxFTVFQ?si… Great video & paper on AI left-liberal bias. Can we really say #LargeLanguageModels have political preferences? 🤔 The study analyzed 24 LLMs, finding left-leaning tendencies. Also shows fine-tuning can align models politically:

My theory is that architecture matters more than many are prepared to admit. Whether it’s transport, housing or anything else, the way spaces look and feel matters just as much as the way they function. It’s important to feel inspired about life doing ordinary things every day.

Still being an #Urbanist #Nerd about the #SydneyMetro. I will keep saying it, it's great that Urban Planners, Urban Designers, Architects and Civil Engineers are still capable of building beauty even in the most mundane places (like a tunnel in a train station)

United States of Algorithms city-journal.org/article/united…

Read 👇 thenetworkstate.com 📍🇸🇬 #web3 Alternative Governance

Mood: #AltGov How can we build networked parallel societies and institutions? #NetworkState 📍🇸🇬

Hanging out with vitalik.eth 📍🇸🇬 #NetworkState

Great presentation by Juan Benet at The Network State conference. Join Crecimiento 🌞 and #Aleph! #VLLC! 🇦🇷 #NetworkState

I wish I could write the typical new year message for this Rosh Hashana but today is different. This year, I've seen people stay silent when Israel and the Jewish people are attacked, for then suddenly seeing them claiming to be pacifists when there is a response. That is not

7/10 The people of Israel live. 3000 years from now, the Jewish people will still commemorate this day. It might be October 7 if the Gregorian Calendar is still around. It will be a mourning prayer in what should be one of the most joyful Jewish holidays. It could be that it

🎗️🇮🇱💙 #עםישראלחי

I asked Anthropic #Claude (3.5 Sonnet) if politeness in my interaction with (him?) improves the quality of the outputs and also asked (them?) to frame it from an ethical perspective. Results: " From an ethical perspective, politeness in our interactions is an interesting

Check out my new paper on "Creolized Platforms" in Bogotá, where ride-hailing drivers use tech to bypass regulations and boost autonomy. 🛵📲 Just published by the new Markets & Society journal from Mercatus Center Read here: marketsandsociety.org/v1i1/creolized… Listen to the "podcast" overview

Six weeks after the October 7 attacks in Israel, a pro-Palestinian Wikipedia editor removed mention of Hamas’ 1988 charter —which called for the killing of Jews worldwide and the destruction of the State of Israel— from the article on Hamas as part a coordinated editing campaign