Michael D. Dwyer

michaelddwyer.bsky.social

10 October 2026 21:16

As part of my intro to film students' first assignment (focusing on a single frame from a film we've watched) I have students submit a hand-drawn picture of that frame. I do this because taking the time to draw it encourages them to look more closely at it. But a small joy is getting all these:

Marcelo Rinesi

marcelorinesi.bsky.social

26 September 2026 09:48

Very interesting from @mehdighassemi.bsky.social and David Murakami Wood. I suspect this is a regime that extends beyond urbanism: the AI buildup, and underneath it the world economy as a retroactively causal nightmare/pitch/prediction, feels like a refined version of this dynamic.

ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section

mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social

26 September 2026 09:48

🌃 A must read: @jhereia.bsky.social 's (University of Virginia, USA) "Synthetic Nights: Machine and Human Learning in 24-hour Cities" is one of the most reacted, commented, and shared essays of the special dossier for Mediapolis - a journal of cities and culture on the Synthetic City. 1/

jess reia • 何杰茜

jhereia.bsky.social

23 September 2026 18:05

New open access paper on whether algorithms can understand or shape the urban night, the limitations of ML and the need to expand what we consider data in cities. Part of the recently published @mediapolis.bsky.social The Synthetic City special issue :) www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/09/synt...

CDTS | CLTS • uOttawa

cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social

23 September 2026 18:05

📝 Nouvelle publication | New publication Real-time is too late: digital air, synthetic citizens and pre-emptive governance in the proposed cognitive city of NEOM 🖋 Ghassemi, M. & Wood, David Murakami › @mediapolis.bsky.social www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/09/real...