#Yagi. 🌪️ #Vietnam & #Hanoi face the worst typhoon in modern history.
Locals are alarmed, disaster missions prepared. But trees & buildings will be tested.
![Snapshot from VNExpress, the first storms a day ahead of the actual typhoon's arrival already start flipping trees and burying scooters, cars, people 😞](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/866a3066f0.jpg)
This read hit me right in the guts, what a group: the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Love love love the 404 piece and #hacking #healthcare.
A slide at his talk reads “Isn’t this illegal? Yeah. Grow up.”
What possibly goes wrong.
Well, it’s a vibrant field, what not to love about the new old web? But less Electron excess would be neat indeed
#Mastodon #Fediverse #RSS #nativeapps
![Screenshot from an Android home screen with a custom launcher that shows 7 apps to access news and feeds and social media.&10;&10;It might also be a sign of how vibrant the field is](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/72c1f339b2.png)
#Consumer protection is beefing up, as we learned today in an interview with a representative of the German consumer protection agency. Carsten Ochs and I had a blast. A chapter on this will appear in our forthcoming volume on digital valuation practices (and their dynamics). #sociology
The examples from the battlefield were revealing, from tracking fake online stores (sometimes 10,000 of them just pop up) to public AI tools, legal struggles and the difficulty of reaching what is known as Gen Z.
Time to organise, you me we, I suppose.
#China + 1 actually means Chinese industries moving south. 🌄 This and other gems are discussed in Mike’s excellent recent #Vietnam weekly #podcast:
China’s Place Across the ‘Global South’
vietnamweekly.substack.com/p/chinas-…
#geopolitics #globalsouth
So, what is Karan #Barad up to these days? Considering that their theories are gaining traction again, I wonder if there is any recent work?
Barad doesn’t appear to be retired, but I can hardly find any publication traces from the past five to ten years. I would love to read more reflections. Quantum stuff. Updates. #sts #newmaterialism
Maybe this is also a question addressing the awkward timespace of (North-American? senior?) academia.
I am hyped, because I just learned about a low-cost #airpurifier.
CR-boxes.
They use MERV-13 filters instead of HEPA. The trick is simple. These things are slightly less effective in catching particles, but you can push much more air through them. Less resistance 👾. Hence a unit is quiet like a wine fly. And #airpollution is gone with the wind
There’s even a click-baity clip.👇
Cage homes, a Vietnamese story. This new-ish trend in the capital is tough to swallow. And now, prices are rising. The profit margins must be insane. It used to be a Hong Kong thing (I think), but now it has spread.
In Thanh Xuan District, college freshman Ngoc Tam has been told by her landlord that the rent for her five-square-meter [!] home had been hiked by 20% to VND1.9 M.
#vietnam #hanoi #capitalism
Despite decades of struggle, fenceline disputes over petrochemical pollution have rarely posed fundamental threats to industry. Yet the pressure for industrial transformation is intensifying, coming not only from activists and regulators but also from investors and shifting geopolitical interests.
Thrilled to read Alice Mah’s new banger book. Petrochemical planet. Go: www.dukeupress.edu/petrochem…
#sts #energy #ecology #pollution #waste
Ein Interview zu unserer Monographie, nun open access:
Artenübergreifende Fürsorge? Die Corona-Pandemie und das Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis, transcript
#Fleisch #Tierindustrie #Agrarwirtschaft #care #covid
Campus entanglements, Ruhr University Bochum.
#academicchatter
![A guide to find your way on campus in the form of a large red block of concrete, pointing towards building MA, while a tree finds it's way through the concrete](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/7157b6f409.jpg)
Good night, #easst4s2024, #photography vibes
![Snapshot from a party "in the forest", as it was advertised, with white tents and trees to the right. Colourful lights wherever groups of people are hiding](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/f15a3b6cbb.jpg)
Join our panel on Planetary Data Infrastructure right now at #easst4s2024. A two session ride. 👇HG-KC07
We have academic paper presentations and experimental formats such as material hands-on server experiences, and virtual reality applications. It will be a fun gathering. #sts
![A person in a lecture hall, holding up an artificial reality app that puts a data centre into the cathedral. You see this on the phone. Chalk board area to the left, audience with red seats to the right. And there are hidden Easter eggs in the app](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/086ce60f54.jpg)
Awesome audience. This morning at #easst4s2024, I discussed our upcoming book (series) on “Predictions” (Mattering Press, w/ Mél Hogan and Edward Ongweso Jr).
We’re inviting #sts authors to experiment with the format of predictions. A troubling format. But it offers room to imagine and intervene. To show up differently. To learn from sf.
It requires careful editing though, so the comments about where and how to be critical were essential. Attentive folks
Scale and anti-scale.
Today, I enjoyed listening to a three session panel on the #cloud, and a lovely stacked discussion about science, technology and policy work. Inspiring people have come to Amsterdam, and the infrastructure is a bliss.
And now, dinner may commence
#easst4s2024
![Photography from the inside of the new main building of free university, Amsterdam. You see wooden stairs, colourful light balloons, and a large hall below](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/7bfe5d75e1.jpg)
Check the new EASST Review published just in time for the big #sts conference. Our editorial is quite a political one.
Indeed, it’s time for #easst4s2024! On my way to the registration in Amsterdam, filled with memories of an Utrecht book/zine store.
#easst4s
![Book shelf in a book store. Colourful (maga)zines that build a nice mess. It's a lot of local and some international work, queer, artsy, lots of street photography. There's a cozy armchair in the front](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/5bfd79496b.jpg)
Pre-conference travels. Stopping in #Utrecht before heading to Amsterdam and the #easst4s train. #sts
Wonderful city, we even found a quirky space incl. #permacomputing.
This Samsung protest (a remarkable one) reminds me of my recent travels to #SouthKorea. I came across a protest against an upcoming LG expansion. Lively publics
Samsung Union Workers Launch Indefinite Strike www.nytimes.com/2024/07/0…
![Protesters holding signs against LG. Red and blue Korean script on yellow signs, local buildings and hills in the background](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/129890/2024/ba97caaee0.jpg)
Listening to another great podcast episode w/ Daniela and her critical-theory-ish #energy approach.
Future Histories: Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer #Ökologie