∞
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. e.vnexpress.net/news/news…
∞
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.” www.404media.co/right-to-…
∞
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?