It's out! My monthly dose of #hopepunk writing on #FairTradeEnergy. This is a teaser trailer for the workshop paper that @dawnnafus#hopepunk#fairtradeenergynd myself have written on 'Federated Fair Trade Energy' for LIMITS 2026, the annual online workshop on Computing with Limits, 23-25 June. Read it here […]

Are there any fellow #scriptnotes listeners out in Copenhagen? Any other writers in Denmark who are here for Craig and John's public service broadcasting for screenwriters (and Craig's gaming habit)?

Just sent out my May sample of hopepunk writing to my mailing list. It's an extract from the #fanzine I made last week "Zine futures: Going solarpunk with paper" Read the extract here: https://sand14.com/samples/#may Or just subscribe if you feel like you need more #hopepunk writing in your […]

Anyone know if there is going to be a LIMITS Hub in Copenhagen?? https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/ Pinging @sebastian

Introducing Deep Maps: Blue Humanities. Coming soon from University of Westminster Press https://archive.org/details/deep-maps-trailer-1 #experimentalpublishing #deepmaps #monograph #copim #openbookfutures

wait, what, Zotero? Zotero version 8 was released a few months ago and today I see they've released Zotero 9. The latest FOSS Academic post is a short note about Zotero -- including changes to my workflow since version 8 came out. https://fossacademic.tech/2026/04/20/zotero-9-what.html […]

Looking forward to two days of Making Sense of Water one day working with data & ideas around open ocean data & sensor-based monitoring of marine ecosystems April 21: 12 - 16 April 22: 10 - 16 .... you are welcome for just part of it, no matter where you […] [Original post on social.itu.dk]

What's the cost to research – to an entire discipline – of "AI" living rent-free in our heads? @dawnnafus brilliantly lays out the loss to #sts from so many being focused on AI-hype: 24% of papers at #4s were on AI. https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606

@forteller I disagree. While it's true we need "a future we want" as much as a "map to get there", there's considerable value in the former on its own, at least at first. Societies are built on stories, and the first step to building a better future is painting it for others. You may not have […]

This month I am writing with hope about ruined and recycled data centers. 'Legitimate Salvage' is a microfiction written for @Aepasek zine for the conference, Before Ruins, Ruhr University Bochum. She wanted a speculative future of the ruins left behind after the 'AI bubble' pops and what that […]

[It] and Ecology A found poem on A.I. This ‘found poem’ is my response to the event, AI and Ecology, at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo. Each line of this 42 line poem is a quote from a presentation or discussions held during the workshop […]

This month I am writing with hope about a world with dark skies, dark enough to see the Andromeda galaxy. Writing sample from impromptu writing for the public event 'Towards 2100: Imagining a future without fossil fuels' organised by Amber Nordholm and Tomas […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

"Grid grabbing" (as Julia Velkova and I call it in our paper) exhibit A: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/datacenter_uk_grid_demand/ "The strategy for many datacenter operators is to secure multiple land parcel rights, request a grid load connection for each (often requiring a costly load […]

I run Writing Futures workshops, have done for a decade. People write the most extraordinary pieces in just a few minutes–when they have the space to find their creative voice. Just uploaded a 'Menu' of different writing workshops that I offer - writing futures, digital energetic futures […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116119657296128448 Yes, but if this is the case (that the cool kids are off the platform and un-monetiseable) then what about all the 'cool kids' who never had a choice? I'm thinking about my long-running interest in places at the network edge, who would quite […]

Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply […]

In the Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, the Initihuasi Seed Bank is freezing thousands of native plant species to safeguard them against climate change, extinction and disaster. Stored at –20°C in earthquake-proof vaults, the collection now underpins species recovery, supports […]

Professor Irina Shklovski and I have a great 2-year full time postdoc job opportunity on our interdisciplinary project at University of Copenhagen, ‘Data quality for Responsible AI in Energy Systems’ (DARES). We’re looking for someone who has the potential and enthusiasm to work with us across […]

I'm sending out a bit of hope(punk) every month: samples of writing i am doing, sometimes published, sometimes raw. Subscription details - https://sand14.com/samples/ Come and lurk.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115905431641160227 This is lemon-light shining out in words. Thank you for sharing. There are times I feel like I don't belong anywhere and then I read something like this and feel: there we are, scattered but persistent, working quietly at hope...

Come and get it! 'From Flatlands to Livable Futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries' out now in #bigdataandsociety. #juliavelkova and I pack insights about the carbon intensity of electricity in the data industry: how it shapes the electricity grid and data […]

It's here! #ClimateImagination a collection of hopeful futures, both science fiction and academic reflection... Names you know, some you will want to know... I try to do things, write stories, collaborate with people, that are persistently trying to make the […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

The voting papers in Denmark are the size of a film poster. It's fantastic having actual choice! Unlike the British 'first past the post' system with its meagre three or four little boxes. Shout out to the lovely people at the polling station - mit valgsted - who were so welcoming. Eagerly […]

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@sy/115545462527722308 "universities wanted free public access to the research their taxes had funded."

This is brilliant... My brain bifurcates as i listen into... Eros rock-talking music from #theexpanse to Anna Tsing's matsutake... This maybe a very limited audience post. From: @kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115509803219340919

I made a few updates to my solar powered website. Most of all, I fixed the uptime counter. I also made some tweaks to the wording, the gallery and the overall site design. https://solar.stfn.pl/ #solarpunk #pv #selfhosting #raspberry

#lucysuchman #sts From: @davidgerard https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115276171387536969

Have to say: solid W for the UN here. https://skwawkbox.org/2025/09/07/un-general-assembly-votes-overwhelmingly-to-move-from-nyc-to-geneva-after-us-bans-palestine-reps/

Launch of NorthDark, narrative role-playing game set in a Nordic data center, when the lights have gone out. Free to download! Data centers are the backbone of online life, from streaming to AI. But data centers require electricity, which is not unlimited. What trade offs will you make between […]

Trondheim's Good infrastructures lab is looking for a #phd student who wants to write about the fediverse as infrastructural hope. Norway treats its PhD students well and we will help you to make your application competitive. For the call, see here […]

Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant). Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Google's claim that each AI prompt uses the energy of 9 seconds of television is like throwing dispersant over an oil slick. The only way to get a number that low is with massive scale, which you should definitely worry about […]

Reminder that you can read my SF short story 'Stormpunk Islands' online in the fabulous Climate Action Almanac... open access book. So many great contributors from across SF and academia collaborating on hopeful climate futures - […]