“We are all sailors now” probablefutures.org/perspective/...

The longest day of the year here in Tasmania started and finished with these friends lois-bury.squarespace.com/shop/12-ende...

I can finally enjoy cricket again pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...

Fred Turner updates the California Ideology thesis for our current era, showing it is consistent with the age old mission of white men exploiting an unregulated frontier: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t....

Heading in to hour 13 of Melbourne airport chaos

A bit of Tassie history

Futurama was Bell Geddes’ remarkable design for GM at the 1939 World’s Fair. The work of building giddy expectations for a fossil fuel century. Again from Roland Marchand’s “Creating the Corporate Soul”.

This in every museum and gallery! changethestorychangethefuture.com

Intrigued by Al Gore's indefatigable commitment to just keep on communicating about climate: climatetrace.org/about

Note to self as I head outdoors for the rest of the day www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/09....

Brian R. Jacobson delivers an exquisite lecture on environmental impacts of media - and alternative imaginaries beyond oil youtu.be/24FcbPZWohs?...

In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

The “white-collar chill” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Concepts worth learning at this moment in time: hydroclimate whiplash and the atmospheric sponge. youtu.be/hLexkPPqo1E

Irony of watching a talk on energy use in silicon wafer production with so many AI generated illustrations of sustainable chip production

Heading to Glasgow today for the first REACT conference focused on Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies www.react.ac.uk/conference

This article really reminds me of doing fieldwork in China, where I became so much more aware of cultural norms about attention, and the corporate interests involved in being the “first” rather than “second” screen. on.ft.com/3WGv5f1

Turn the volume up!! (Unless we’re talking fireworks on Guy Fawkes night 😩) youtu.be/zOlUtEz5-_Q?...

I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice. Long 🧵😊

Very happy to be discovering the world of anti-speciesist AI www.openpaws.ai

1920s DuPont advertisement equating chemical engineer with Prometheus

Part way through Roland Marchand’s sublime account of PR, Creating the Corporate Soul

"Don’t be funny. Boring is better" bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/aut...

The full program for today's event run by Chips Communities United, right in the middle of SemiCon West. Fascinating convergence of interests in AZ: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-semico...

Giving a talk today on the economic and ecological colonisation that continues to define Silicon Forest, inspired very much by the work of local Hillsboro archivists and historians who are trying to stave off environmental amnesia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_F...

A reminder that this is happening online on Wednesday. More info and registration below

If I were a female cochineal right now, I would be quite worried www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...

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...