Even now that we can apparently have superhuman co-workers, they still have to be advertised with attractive women www.agaton.ai

Another landmark in alienation as data eats the world: "Aalo’s approach reimagines the whole nuclear facility—reactors, turbine, containment, and balance-of-plant—as a single modular product built off-site." newsletter.mcj.vc/p/aalo-inves...

The robots are still far too creepy youtu.be/cru2bkqwSYk?...

I forgot about this

In Hillsboro OR data centres are demolishing the past and the future youtu.be/m3NeM0SELVA?...

Next time I'd like a time lapse video over the TSMC and Intel plants that are located in this region. Because that's where we're putting the infrastructure that runs the global economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCYu...

Some notes from Patrick McGee's Apple in China: 1/ "The meeting of the minds between Steve Jobs and Jony Ive had made Apple products unique, but it was Terry Gou and Tim Cook who would ensure they were ubiquitous."

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Silicon Forest continuing a long tradition of removing forest. youtu.be/fEmPYtx6bJw

"The American response to… aggressive foreign development programs should not be to emulate the policies and practices of our trading partners…

I've driven past this site thousands of times, and never realized it was once the Oregon Graduate Center, a private, postgraduate-only research university which ran from 1963 until it merged with OHSU in 2001. Founded by Portland business leaders from a Tektronix endowment.

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

On this and several other topics… www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Useful ongoing reminder of capitalism’s many sacrifice zones

I wrote about Brandon Jack’s debut novel Pissants for Guardian Australia. It evoked in me a similar response to Trainspotting back in the day, and I guess whether or not that’s a positive evaluation depends on your reading of that novel. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

“The government wouldn’t need to keep cooking the books if it simply had the courage to confront fossil fuels… Since most gas and coal is shipped overseas, these aren’t emissions that keep the lights on—they’re emissions keeping one industry afloat” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Just saw this exhibition in person and had a good cry. Overwhelming. wildislandtas.com.au/collections/...

I have been researching books about birds for a side project and this one made me LOL www.booktopia.com.au/covers/big/9...

Sharing breakfast with the neighborhood turbo chooks earlier today

Also support! What's often missing in this debate is that a BA does not limit graduates from working in and with science and engineering. Humanities is the training that helped me gain work in STEM - to become a "Senior Principal Engineer" - and translate knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.

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Day three of @iamcr.org and Kerrie Foxwell Norton is dropping some truth bombs on the field of environmental communication having failed the Great Barrier Reef

I wrote about our ongoing complicity with e-waste for Interactions magazine this month, reposted here so you can see what a "Buffalo" shredder looks like 🤓 melgregg.com/2025/07/04/f...

What tech companies used to do youtu.be/pmVzs3-GNBc?...

Sometimes NPS is entirely the right metric measuringu.com/meeting-soft...

Despite all the excellent data visualisation in this article, what I will remember is the comment about wedding clothes. Clean air is still somehow a privilege on.ft.com/4k8xeJJ

“If I can’t put it in the spreadsheet, it doesn’t exist” —on the deficiencies of financial models for climate change probablefutures.org/perspective/...

Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction. It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️

The many value vectors in hardware reuse: Individual features and components create alternative experiences and livelihoods, stripped of the mythology that digital devices are a vehicle for personal identity on.ft.com/4jHzabG

The first of the “Climate Futures in Digital Cultures” positions at Leuphana now open. A great opportunity to work with fantastic scholars www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

I don’t understand this England

The dorms behind Nvidia's share price restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-...

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I almost feel sorry for San Francisco youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?...

Join us. on.ft.com/43nTlH3

📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨ There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨

You bet they do: "cumbersome permitting processes, a lack of reliable energy infrastructure, and a push by environmental groups to ignore traditional energy resources threaten America’s leadership" naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfile...

Note the cushion covers, Intel blue www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Planetary Experiments “positions design as both a contributor to the planet’s crises and a pivotal force for driving its transformation” planetary-experiments.dgtf.de

🔔 Reminder! Hype Studies Conference (10-12th Sept in Barcelona/online) is accepting abstracts until 10th May! You can submit your contribution here: hypestudies.org/conference/a... The event is free and open to academics and practitioners alike. We hope to hear from many of you soon 🫵 💜

We may have to start day drinking over here in UK

The leadership of Pope Francis: “Today, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/fran...

“Sweeping state policies around the imperative for chip manufacture should prompt questions like: Who will bear the weight of harm? Who profits? Who gets to leave the site of contamination and who must stay?” Fantastic work @xrw.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/toxic...

An amazing legacy Prof. Rose!

Research question: when was the first reference to the claim that e-waste is "the fastest growing waste stream in the world?" I have a reference from an ILO Report in 2014, but I suspect it is much earlier.

March 31 at @intellpublics.bsky.social Brian Massumi discusses his brilliant new book www.dukeupress.edu/the-personal... with Katie Stewart. Massumi asks why we still think of fascism through theories from the 30's that don't adequately account for the rise of Trump. Register bit.ly/personalityo...

Legendary management theorist Prof Martin Parker has a new book out and it is my pleasure to be launching it - now as his colleague :-) Come join us for a toast if you are in Bristol! www.tickettailor.com/events/uobbu...

In this latest column for ACM-Interactions, I bring UX and sustainability issues together to ask: how long will it be physically possible for the tech industry to promote energy-intensive interaction modes as destiny? interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

Busy week ahead at CDI! 📴 @afrontiercity.bsky.social – Digital Disconnection | Wed, 17:00 GMT 🌐 @noortjem.bsky.social – Reality Engineering | Thu, 17:00 GMT 🤖 Artificial Societies Symposium – Friday Website: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/ YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCgXqb4zJkXqQHoSrtdjW59Q