Desiree Fields
Critical economic geographer: digital experiments with property, place, financial subjectivity. Opinions are my own.
@ucbgeography.bsky.social
Editor, Environment and Planning A + @housingtheory.bsky.social
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsAt 12 ET today me and Jason are doing AMA on the main technology subreddit about the tech ICE is using, the nationwide network of AI Flock cameras around the U.S., and the state of surveillance in general. Get your questions in before then: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
- This tired rent-to-own model was rolled out as disruptive innovation during the pandemic real estate boom, only for it to fail once interest rates began to rise.
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsWe're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
- Reposted by Desiree Fieldsin general, i actually suspect this means their business case is deteriorating at a rapid clip
- Really incisive analysis of the scale of community defense in Minneapolis. I love how it conveys how unified the city is, the density of defenders as you move through the city, and the basic nature of skills this work takes.
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsDavos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
- Reposted by Desiree Fieldsone unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers
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- Reposted by Desiree Fields"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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- Great funding opportunity from the Urban Studies Foundation!
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsStunning admission from Trump in his Politico interview. He confesses he knows almost nothing about the drug trafficking of the guy he pardoned even though he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into US. Trump also reveals his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate: newrepublic.com/article/2041...
- Working my way through Ken Burns's "The American Revolution" and wasn't aware that VACCINATION WAS KEY TO WINNING THE REVOLUTION!?! This point feels...relevant to the present day.
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- Reposted by Desiree FieldsYou have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsThe UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
- Huh. Something about this story feels familiar…
- Reposted by Desiree Fields📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is running 2 open-rank faculty searches in technology & public policy. One position is specifically for scholars using data science to address public problems. Please help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15561
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsWE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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- Reposted by Desiree FieldsWE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:
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- Reposted by Desiree FieldsEvery technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsTech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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- Reposted by Desiree FieldsI don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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- A kid at at my niece's (Spanish-English immersion) school costume parade was dressed in a National Guard costume, and that is a CHOICE their parents made to be intentionally provocative in a place that was just girding itself for an ICE surge last week.
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- Yet another case of billionaire brain. Increasingly common these days, smh.
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- Reposted by Desiree FieldsIMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsZohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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- Pretty sure I haven’t seen any news stories about Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, or Jensen Huang calling the president to get him to unlock SNAP benefits, or offering to fund CalFresh themselves. 🧐
- Is anyone else uncomfortable that the only reason the Bay Area immigration enforcement surge was called off is because our tech overlords, who are happy to profit from state terror, balked at rolling out the red carpet for the regime's boots on the ground? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Desiree FieldsI've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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- Is anyone else uncomfortable that the only reason the Bay Area immigration enforcement surge was called off is because our tech overlords, who are happy to profit from state terror, balked at rolling out the red carpet for the regime's boots on the ground? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsSNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
- Reposted by Desiree FieldsSNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
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