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Die #Bahn stoppt, weil der Zugfunk ausfällt. Zuletzt hat ein Vortrag beim CCC genau davor gewarnt. GSM ist nicht ganz die random person aus Nebraska (xkcd), aber es ist eine infrastrukturelle Abhängigkeit, die dank Unterfinanzierung der #DB links liegen bleibt. Heise: www.heise.de/news/37C3…
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Playing with the Format of Predictions

The Elon Musks of the world abuse #sf, #AI companies push eerie next-word predictors into our lives, and prediction markets accelerate corruption. So…, how about reclaiming the format of predictions? As critical thinkers? Can it work? Welcome to our Predictions project: www.matteringpress.org/books/pre… We assembled a wonderful collective of writers, from STS scholars to poets. Read the pieces and check out our introduction to get a sense of our thought process; it has been quite a ride.

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Policy thriller im #Hanoi: to ban or not to ban fossil-fuel powered vehicles? The party of the people aggressively pushed a low-emission goal. Consumers were blamed for pollution. Suddenly, everything’s postponed. 🪄 vietnamnews.vn/society/1…
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Our #waste in motion research workshop in Bochum is finished, and I’m ready for the weekend after organizing this humble gathering. 1 digital humanities workshop, 2 post-mining excursions, 3 international guests, and relentless fun and appreciation. Waste lives on. Stay tuned. But for now, 😴
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Listen to in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires. – Join us today, 6pm, at the German Mining Museum. Or virtually. This, again, will be a blast 👐 Link to the event: rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-b…
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Join us now at 5:30 pm at the RUSTlab (online) lecture, Pat Brodie will discuss the book “From Bog to Cloud”, aka why the heck are there so many #datacenters in #Ireland?? The event: rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-b…
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It’s waste week. As part of the campus mining walk I did during our DFG waste network meeting, we had a super lucky surprise meetup with a Fraunhofer project: next to the uni #datacenter, they are drilling into an abandoned mine to store heat from the nearby technical center (and data center), and the exploration was happening while we were they. We got a tour!!! Our Ruhr University campus is so strange, mining, post-mining, PCB, many things happening at once
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Die drittmeisten #Millionäre der Welt, 12% mehr als im Vorjahr, sie steigern ihr Vermögen, trotz Stagnation. Wie machen das die Millionäre nur?, fragt die FAZ. Und antwortet mit… Anlageempfehlungen. Nichts mit rechtlichen Tricks, Asset-Inflation, #Ungleichheit gar. Erfrischend ehrlicher Finanzteil