…smart cities, in which the word “smart” disguises an oppressive disaster-capitalism. It is smartness imposed from above, created and dropped onto cities from a scorched-space abstracted void. Cities without history, where we don’t live and never will: cities consecrated to the administrative needs of corporate elites.

But another city is possible…

-Jasmina Tesanovic

I feel these are prescient words of warning. 


Overall, this piece on boingboing has a few great nuggets for me as I reorient my career and place amidst the web.

Source: Boing Boing

climate-shawty: Eastward wind velocity is plotted at a variety of pressure levels. The animation goes with decreasing pressure, so increasing altitude. Things to notice: The jet stream behaving like an ocean wave breaking Disparities between the hemispheres There is a point directly above Chicago where the air stops trying to push people over
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climate-shawty:

Eastward wind velocity is plotted at a variety of pressure levels. The animation goes with decreasing pressure, so increasing altitude. Things to notice:

  • The jet stream behaving like an ocean wave breaking
  • Disparities between the hemispheres
  • There is a point directly above Chicago where the air stops trying to push people over

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