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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
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Semiconductor research in Taiwan and Vietnam

Happy to share that my article is live: enjoy some #semiconductor industry dynamics in #Vietnam and #Taiwan. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork at industry fairs in Taipei and Hanoi to make sense of a global frenzy. Follow me on a trip. This is just one contribution of my work in a data center research project, and it also hints at further research on the planetary entanglements of the semiconductor industry, some of which is being done in the German-Taiwanese collaboration on “Silicon Urbanism”.

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