Spencer Glendon’s calm corrective to Bill Gates: “The lens of the company is a terrible way to understand society or nature.” probablefutures.org/perspective/...

"The whole idea behind Sound of Falling was to create a film that feels close to how memories are." #filmsky

Enabling reuser experience. You don't even need to buy the stick. Use one you already have. www.wired.com/story/back-m...

Click-baity title but this gives a good overview of how AI tools are benefiting ecology & our understanding of the natural world. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... 🌏🧪

On Tuesday morning, a total lunar eclipse will be visible over all 50 US states. For 58 minutes, the moon will turn a rusty red as it slips into the Earth’s shadow. The East Coast will also see a rare selenelion, when both the sun & eclipsed moon are simultaneously visible: wapo.st/4u3iJgo (gift). 🌎

Love the visuals in this piece. What is advertising after carbon? www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Early sketch of Tektronix Sunset plant location, c1951, with a timeless description of Beaverton: “If you land here you are lost”

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Speaking at Goldsmiths today on my current collaboration with Prof Josh Lepawsky, What Grows in a Silicon Forest? We chart the waves of environmental impact high tech industries bring, many of which appear unsolvable (PFAS) and irreversible (farmland erasure). www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

"If you have a strictly online or SaaS software presence, with no atoms in your product whatsoever, just electrons, then you are, candidly, pretty screwed if you don’t pivot." steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropi...

The infrastructure “required to maintain the illusion of a reliable winter . . . contributes to the very climate deterioration that is making traditional mountain environments a scarce resource” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Excellent headline www.opb.org/article/2025...

Lauren Berlant wrote the book on this and it has nothing to do with AI. It’s the eternal human dilemma - the inconvenience of other people. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“In a caustic twist of history, while the first Colossus was built to decode and disrupt Nazi messages, the second seems inclined to recast and amplify them.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Consumers should not have to subsidise a specific industry's energy needs, especially when its products have been purposefully designed to grow demand for energy. What happens in this case is going to set precedents for every other DC build out. 👀 oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...

Part of The Carnival of Alive and Extinct Animals at Cygnet Folk Festival this weekend. As Bob Brown said, the wilful acceleration of species extinction has to stop! youtu.be/_aqD4nGsfHw?...

“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."