#ICQ will turn off soon. I grew up with it’s weird aoooo and still know my quite long ID by heart. It was sensational, in contrast to the other, hacky (also cool) #IRC.
It was the first DM app I and everyone around me used and loved. #WhatsApp never came close.
What’s a hot and useful technique in network #dataviz?
I am fiddling around with a graph that represents extractive practices around a #datacenter. Work in progress in #Obsidian. #sts
Going minimal? Staying with the trouble of dots and lines, but with style? Or: layers, an infographic, …?
A wild read with many interesting graphs. The lack of social theory is part of the argument, but it really shows. #degrowth
efficiency is a catalyst for technological sprawl [everywhere]
#Saigon vibes. #streetphotography
I’ve been to a lovely #sts conference in #HCMC (more on this elsewhere).
The south of #vietnam is a somewhat different place. The first random chat in town was about business (am I with Intel, em??), hitting one stereotype right on the head. But there’s more.
We’re finishing a lovely “situated”, and a bit speculative, dictionary on virtuality this week. It’s been a wild ride co-editing this—such a cool team we have.
But I’m also tired. It’s one of those weeks where academic tasks just agreed to cuddle and pile up. #academicchatter
Bei Soziopolis bespreche ich das für den Sachbuchpreis nominierte Buch „#Müll. Eine schmutzige Geschichte der Menschheit“ von Roman Köster. Mit kritischer Notiz zum Begriff des mismanaged waste, der sich in das Buch eingeschlichen hat.
#soziologie
You want to watch the trailer for an upcoming movie on YouTube but you first have to sit through an ad. Then you sit through a preview for the trailer itself. Etc. pp.
A tale of #enshittification #tech.
And #streetphotography #vietnam.
Hey, look at this.
Rubin features our data centre project and my research in #Vietnam ❤️
#datacenters #sts #ethnography #semiconductors #wisskom
“Exotic animal,” mobile application.
#streetphotography #photography #scooter #vietnam #hanoi #animals #animalrights
Ever used Zoom? Googled? Discussed numbers and their implications?
We have a new article out and ask how online data is endowed with worth in virtual collaboration workshops.
valuationstudies.liu.se/article/v…
A RUSTlab and Uni Dresden collab. 🫶
#valuationstudies #sociology #sts
Future here, again. 👋
On a hot #planet, you need more ventilation. But since you’re living in a polluted world, better keep the windows shut. And turn the machines on.
Containment, purification, energy, degrowth, efficiency; it’s a mess. Expect harm. Neglect.
#climate #airpollution #heat #vietnam
#HeatWave in #SEA.
People turn on ACs or hide in a mall. But there is not enough energy, infrastructures fail, so imports and Diesel generators help out.
A likely future. More heat, more energy needed, more fossil-fuel to the rescue. More heat. repeat.
Solid melts into air. All, that is.
#tsmc in Arizona: a concrete monster hungry for water, in the middle of the desert, driving a culture shock. A debacle? That’s quite a story by Rest of the World.
I wonder how this will play out in Dresden, when the new chip facility comes.
#Deutschlandfunk Kultur hatte mich zugeschaltet. Wir sprachen über #Elektroschrott: Geräte, Mengen und vor allem #Verantwortung.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zu-viel-e…
#Nachhaltigkeit #Abfall
Sincerely, your favourite chatbot by #OpenAI. #AI
OpenAI’s training crawler was stuck pinging “the world’s lamest content farm” millions of times
For all you rhizomes out there, here are more than 1k drawings of plant roots:
❤️
#philosophy #relations #deleuze #sociology
Zwar beschleunigt sich die Nachhaltigkeitskrise.., aber das friedensbewegte, zivilgesellschaftliche, ökologische, basisdemokratische Alternativprojekt erscheint auffällig erschöpft. Ingolfur Blühdorn
#Transformation #sustainability
The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary #books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and discard?
The #technofix is under scrutiny in #sts. But for a somewhat surprising reason: because of its conceptual weakness. So here is the #infrastructure fix. And thoughts from #LeakageSTS in Dresden
The chip rush of #Vietnam is in trouble.
As explained by Mike, energy shortages will hit the country this spring. Again. Investors might move on. Some already did
#tech