Here's your reminder that we need to be interrogating tech firms and the places they inhabit. They represent 7 of the largest 10 firms by market capitalization. 6 of them are located on the US west coast. Image from companiesmarketcap.com
Moving forward with this execution is the most failed-state shit imaginable. An abomination.Moving forward with this execution is the most failed-state shit imaginable. An abomination.
Felicia âLiciaâ Gayle was found stabbed to death in her suburban St. Louis home in 1998. Marcellus Williams says he didnât kill her.
"From the very beginning it was these democratic and working class institutions that were attacked by fascism. This including beatings, targeted harassment and even murders of political and labor activists." Continued 𧾠dailycampus.com/2022/09/23/f...
What is fascism? It is a word thrown around constantly and used to describe figures from past and present. Yet, gaps are present in the mainstream depiction of fascism. Often it is sold simply as an a...
Urban Analysis and Spatial Science (under contract with CRC Press) is in draft at knaaptime.com/urban_analysis and I appreciate critical feedback if you have any :)
It is acutely embarrassing to see one's discipline chase relevance in a way that simply isn't required. What is the point of attempting to make "generative GeoAI" happen? This undignified scrabbling for novelty should be discouraged if not outright reproached by other geographers.
so when i suggest to a cop that if he doesnât arrest me he might wind up with a couple hundred bucks in his pocket, thatâs a crime, but if exxon mobil does that to the attorney general, itâs all good
Caging refugee families, caging unhoused people who couldnât make skyrocketing rent, caging millions of human beings for illegitimate reasonsâcarcerality and mass death are the ruling classâ plan for the coming decades of climate catastrophe and economic ruin. We donât have long.
iâm still waiting for the moment we have a reckoning with the role EFF played in helping lay the legal and conceptual framework for the digital dystopia weâre now living in
Archives + libraries are also increasingly vulnerable to flooding + other climate-related disasters. The METRO Library Council commissioned Eira Tansey to catalog those vulnerabilities in our service area + propose strategies for mitigation. Other geog areas are obvs @ much higher risk
Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism in Baltimore: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with Jason Jurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In Baltimore, Maryland, more than 55,000 homesâroughly 30 percent of all residential plotsâare subject to ground rent, a legacy of British feudal property law. Under this landlordâtenant system, th...