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Station Identification
“We now use about eighty percent of the net primary product of land-based photosynthesis,” he said. “One hundred percent is probably impossible to reach, and our long range carrying capacity has been estimated to be thirty percent, so we are massively overshot, as they say. We have been liquidating our natural capital as if it…
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Chrome Dreams II
Season 4 of “For All Mankind” just started on Apple TV. I imagine the venn set of folks who still read this and watch is largely overlapped, but for those who don’t it’s a alt-history of the 20thC/21stC space race on a divergent world-line where the USSR got to the moon first. As with most…
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ChatGPT vs Breezepunk: Update
Prior attempts to get LLMs to opine on futurist neologisms had not impressed but having installed the chatGPT app on my phone to try the voice interface, I thought I’d try again. This, while typically bloodless, is better than I’d expected… “As of my last update in January 2022, “breezepunk” isn’t a widely recognized term…
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Playing with climate, casually
I read this story on Canary Media with interest – “Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it. Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video game Loftia, set in a renewables-powered utopia that celebrates community and climate optimism.” I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to say that Solarpunk…
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Station Identification
“If something is ugly, say so. If it is tacky, inappropriate, out of proportion, unsustainable, morally degrading, ecologically impoverishing, or humanly demeaning, don’t let it pass. Don’t be stopped by the “if you can’t define it and measure it, I don’t have to pay attention to it” ploy. No one can precisely define or measure…
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Electrosheds workshop at AHO, May 2023
It was wonderful to be invited back to AHO after such a long time to give a talk (see separate post) and a workshop for the interaction design students. I decided to try a “walkshop” following in the footsteps (ahem) of James Bridle, Adam Greenfield, Deb Chachra (and many others I’m sure) to investigate how…
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School days for grad shows
I had a wonderful experience last week of taking my ten year old daughter to the Goldsmiths BA Design show last week (thanks for the invite, Matt Ward!) From the moment she walked through the door – her jaw dropped. There was a delight and surprise that this might be something *they* could do one…
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The Cloud vs The Grid and Electrosheds workshop at AHO, Oslo, May 2023
It was wonderful to be invited back to AHO and Oslo in early May by my old friends and sometime colleagues there – and the opportunity to speak about past projects but also what I’m doing now at Lunar Energy. My framing was around the two biggest human-built machines on this planet – the cloud…
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Mundane maker magic: backyard bespoke manufacturing with Shapr3D and the AnkerMake M5
This is incredibly mundane, but like most blog posts that doesn’t stop me from writing it down. We have a string of solar-powered LED lights in our backyard. The plastic stand that it was supplied with broke, and so for the past few months it has been precariously balanced on various branches, bits of fence…
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