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[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

I'm absolutely over-the-moon delighted to say the book I co-edited w/ D Mackinnon and @VVFast is finally being sold with @utpress! It's been a v. long process starting at 2019 @4sWeb in NOLA, & will extend into an authors-meet-critics at @theAAG next mo.! https://t.co/AbE80c6g0y

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@geomeg @IGU_Online_ @IguTourism @igc2024dub @IGUMethods @igu_cdes @IGUurban thank you so much! 😃

[S&TPolicyFellowships @AAAS_STPF]

"Policymakers need to recognize that #urbanplanning policies should not be limited by...digital technologies." ~@burnsr77
STPF fellow Ryan Burns looks at short-comings of "smart cities," which often view #tech as the sole solution to urban issues.

[CSTV @UW_CSTV]

Canada's Smart Cities Challenges tends to put technology and the wants of vendors before the issues faced by city residents, resulting in a kind of technology solutionism, argues @burnsr77

https://t.co/Ol4NXD0EQr #cities

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

been hearing that #ChatGPT and other #AI can help make your #city better? here's my latest critique of that idea: https://t.co/lvk70Mi4gm #SmartCities #Canada

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@murakamiwood Ugh, that one's paywall Ed. This one is open: https://t.co/RrL98TK0Ar

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@murakamiwood This is related: https://t.co/HsaIGjinqX

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@mmitchell_ai I 100% agree, just wondering what you say to those who claim that such terminological precision is pedantic gatekeeping, like the one high profile paper from 2017 about algorithms?

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@SophiaMaalsen @DallasRogers101 a few weeks ago my uni's accountants combined my "amount owed" in Canadian dollars and Argentine pesos (1=~300) and used a $ sign, so my department head exasperatingly asked how tf i racked up a $500,000 bill over the summer.

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@Julian_H0ffmann Holy cow! Those are jaw-droppingly gorgeous!

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@evgenymorozov @lemonde As someone in DC working on AI policy, I'd say that in other times, technology is just straight up geopolitics - not by any other means!

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@VVFast @UCalgary @UCalgaryGeog @Paulterinho glad you got the screen to work! :D

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@leilaharris @DrKarenBakker @PoWG_UBC @ubcires oh my god, i'm speechless... i'm so sorry for your loss - she was such an incredible thinker!

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

Great podcast here! Glad to be a part of it

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@SophiaMaalsen so cool to see this today! thanks for the shout out, @SophiaMaalsen ! @TretterEliot

[Mona Domosh @monadomosh]

We are recruiting for a new colleague in Human Geography at the Associate or Full rank:https://t.co/wVRslCzWxx @BlackGeogs @LatinxGeog

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@Prof_FSultana It's 2 weeks, not 1, but I'm going to be in DC taking up a tech policy fellowship on Sept 1. Reach out if there's anything I can do to help!

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@samkinsley i think another reason so many are still using it is pure inertia: it took a long time to build up the follows i wanted here, and most of the people/orgs i want to follow are already here, too. i was always a rare poster, frequent observer, but i'm totally done trying now.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Earth’s hottest recorded day was 16.92°C (62.46°F) on 24 July 2022

We’ve broken this record on each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 July 2023, so far

It’s the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Now back to drilling for oil everyone

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@kyjts me: i'm sure this sucks in many ways and i'm sorry for that. i hope their interest in you will fizzle out soon.
also me: assuming you're safe, this is pretty cool and i'd print it out for my office wall. good on you!

[ryan burns @burnsr77.🟦☁️.social @burnsr77]

@BBFarhadi @LHAEUTOISE Huge congratulations! I can't think of anyone more deserving of this! 🥳🥂