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For me, this time between Xmas and YNE has been one of redesigning and optimising websites. Personal and community sites. Hugo and WordPress. It is a semi-appreciated task, but I’ve been nerding out a little and I like the hands-on challenges of the web. 👾 #academicchatter #sts #webdesign
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Winter is tough in Asia, our Air Quality Index regularly cracks the 300 mark. Top 3 world-wide for #Hanoi. How do you even grasp the consequences? We have a remarkably privileged apartment and put a lot of effort into sealing and air purification. It creeps in quickly nonetheless. And a decade of coal expansion lies in front of residents here, and to the north, and to the West. #airpollution #climate
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Charging the house. Pending. #photography #Vietnam #Hanoi
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Our toddler loves the word for #waste (or “Boe”, as he calls it??), and the appropriate things quickly have to go into the bin. It’s something. Marvelous. But Little does he know about the fallacies of modern consumer “disposability” ideologies and improper accountability of producing companies, let alone the academic misconceptions of the notion of matter out of place and how it creeps up into our understanding of global recycling relations and the appropriation of land.
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Caring for European Science & Technology Studies: EASST review 42(2) is out! #STS reports, postdoc life, decolonisation, extractivism, pollution, and a tribute to Evelyn Fox Keller. From now on I am part of the editorial board.😊 easst.net/easst-rev…
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Mapping controversies around #semiconductor production in #Vietnam. Live project; a fantastic collaboration with the team of Hanoi Ad Hoc. More about this during a workshop in March. Check out Hanoi Ad Hoc, because it’s marvellously inspiring. Trung rocks. www.hanoiadhoc.com #tech #sts
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My dear friends from RUSTlab commented on my lecture. A delight! Stefan suggested the notion of stand-in to understand not only workers and nature, but also natural and technical reserves that sustain capitalism … Stand-ins are components in planning and creating futures; they make up an awaiting potential – a virtuality – that is needed for capitalist futures. rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comment-o… #sts #capital
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Comparing Fediverse software for hosting: Ease of use, efficiency, waste

Here’s a blog post on #hosting a microblogging instance on the #Fediverse with ecological concerns in mind. It’s a longer one. And unfinished, since it’s messy tinkering in progress, not least due to my #Vietnam routing. 👇 Following our Mastodon article, I am exploring options to host a Fediverse instance with a Raspberry Pi and solar power, testing limits. The goal is to host one or multiple bots and report on data.

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