Ben Pollock

Architect | Research Fellow: Computation, Mapping, Climate & Ecology | @climate_cartox | Tutor MArch DS18 @UniWestminster

[Ben Pollock @benpollock_0]

Great to exhibit our @Climate_CartoX #AR Climate Interface at @UniWestminster @ambika_p3 this week. Hosting layers of cycling infrastructure, #airpollution and biodiversity (+more!) on a topographical model #london #DataVisualization #ClimateEmergency @openstudio_wm @Active_ATA

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Every single person should listen to this statement at the UN.

"I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you."

"Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."

[Adam's Manzana🍏🦩 @OMGHommie]

Y'all realize how chilling this statement is? 😶

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Don’t Look Up was a documentary

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

[Future Architects Front @ArchitectsFront]

It's International Women's Day 2025.

Like every year, we will be ignoring the PR posts from architectural offices — and instead highlighting the gender pay gap data from some of the UK's largest practices.
🧵

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk & his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany & Romania.

1/23

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

A single tab in Chrome on my laptop is consuming 102,400 times the amount of memory as the entire Apollo Guidance Computer

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The way Israel's defenders have segued from

'Israel does targeted air strikes and does it all can to protect civilians from them!'

to

'Israel has reduced Gaza to apocalyptic ruin, it is extremely dangerous for anyone to remain there!'

without even blinking

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

“We do not have a homeland other than Palestine…we are not looking for other homelands…there is no power on earth that can remove the Palestinian people from our ancestral land.”

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The way she articulates facts is stunning, I’m in awe !" ♥️

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Wtf is wrong with the @BBC?

They just called ethnic cleansing “real estate instincts”

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

'These are the type of politics you’d expect of the British empire in the 19th century,' says @weizman_eyal on Trump’s colonial plans for Gaza. 'To simply erase Gaza and turn it into a riviera is a way to continue the work of destruction by construction': https://t.co/pj6Bhl6yr5

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I am stunned the world is not reacting to this. I think the more people like me talk about it, the more people write it off.
Seems we are so broken that sliding into unimaginable calamity is the only way people will even look at the situation honestly. We are lost.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

President Xi please release a graphic design and video editing software suite, the west’s artists are being crushed by the despotic Adobe subscription regime

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Hey Microsoft please stop trying to invent God and just make Outlook search work.

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Absolute poetry watching all the psychos who have spent the last few years boasting about all of our jobs becoming obsolete are now freaking out that their jobs are becoming obsolete

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

We are continuing to update our Cartography of Genocide platform with our analysis of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Half of the layers are currently updated through mid-January, highlighting the escalation in bombardments and forced displacement across northern Gaza over the last few months: https://t.co/Xsbhepnt2d

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

This ... is an entirely plausible theory...