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Flipping things over sounds reasonable. RT social.tchncs.de/@stefanla… #photography
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Particles. The energy sending them afar is here. And it’s not. People see the burning. But they cannot fathom the coal plants, close, far. How many particles can power plants send travelling? How can you know? You. #photography #airpollution #vietnam
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A linkdump that explores the lovely new web, the Vietnamese chip news cycle, and ambivalent ecological developments

“Where have all the websites gone?” is the question posed by blogger Jason. And he sends us a link with a marvellous list. Let’s go down this path. It’s a technical marvel, that internet. Something so mindblowingly impressive that if you showed it to someone even thirty years ago, their face would melt the fuck off. So why does it feel like something’s missing? Why are we all so collectively unhappy with the state of the web?

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“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…
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Twisted. Tết, lunar new year, is almost there. And everyone’s busy heading out of town. Or is it just the daily rush? #vietnam #streetphotography #traffic
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Proud smoker. Indeed, the men love to smoke. Shot through two wine bottles and a window. Layered #streetphotography. But this is also an admiration of architecture and alleys in #Hanoi. So many cozy sightings. #vietnam #photography
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I’m a satisfied reader of Dominic Boyer’s new book “No More Fossils.” What a splendid excercise in energy thinking. And just today, Dominic and Cymene published an episode of my favourite academic podcast discussing this very book w/ Cara Daggett. Cultures of Energy ftw. The book is open access, and so is the podcast. www.upress.umn.edu/book-divi… podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0… #energy #humanities #sts #sociology
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Talking blogs. I got many fluffy podcasts by asking on social media, so here’s the blog question. What do you follow? I enjoy my RSS reader setup (miniflux btw) and seek diversity. 🙏 #tech #ecology #sociology #criticalthinking #asia #feminism #sts #photography, that kind of thing. From pluralistics and kottke to grist and rest of the world. Attached, a recent shot from a coffee place I like 🌄