2024
Here is one of the official warning messages we received in #Hanoi, and parts of the aftermath. #Vietnam #Yagi
Now, there are floods trapping the town.
Soon, things have to go on. Well, a popular opinion is: for a storm not seen in decades… it could have been worse? Adaption
#Yagi. 🌪️ #Vietnam & #Hanoi face the worst typhoon in modern history.
Locals are alarmed, disaster missions prepared. But trees & buildings will be tested.
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
#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
Good night, #easst4s2024, #photography vibes
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
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
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
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…
