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It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here :unacceptable: (due to it feeling unreal af... until... today :)

It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.

https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin

With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl@post.lurk.org @alcstrt@post.lurk.org @anglk@post.lurk.org @amelia@gts.spoonstack.org @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone @cmos4040@post.lurk.org @p_p@post.lurk.org @mara@systerserver.town @reni@systerserver.town @diacritter@graz.social @constant@post.lurk.org @snisioi@post.lurk.org @rra@post.lurk.org @320x200@post.lurk.org @wendy@post.lurk.org @kattrali@mastodon.gamedev.place @praxeology@post.lurk.org @michal @viznut @sister0@post.lurk.org @pixouls@post.lurk.org @msavoritias@tilde.zone @jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org @smmrcr@post.lurk.org @hellocatfood@post.lurk.org @neauoire@merveilles.town @rek@merveilles.town @dougschuler@hci.social @solderpunk@mastodon.sdf.org @titipi@post.lurk.org @xocffoeg@post.lurk.org @aaaannet@post.lurk.org and more!

#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability

Great article 🗞️ by @nextcarola@mastodon.social and Merijn Rengers in the Dutch national newspaper @nrc_nl@mastodon.nl 😍 They bring the total secrecy of tech giants about the energy use of their hyperscale data centers to light, and how this lack of transparency means properly informed decisions about the distribution of electricity and who can get a connection to the (overloaded) Dutch grid cannot be made.

In 2024 I pointed Houtekamer to the fact that Microsoft and Google had not reported their energy and water use, even though they are required to do so by the European Energy Efficiency Directive. She interviewed me and Critical Infrastructure Lab's Fieke Jansen.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/01/google-en-microsoft-verzwijgen-energiegebruik-van-hyperscale-datacenters-voor-overheid (Dutch article)
#permacomputing #datacenter #bigtech #sustainability

Tomorrow at 17:00 in Munchen, at the 'anti-fascism now' symposium and exhibition opening, I'll present the #permacomputing Brewing Collectives project, supported by @Error417@tldr.nettime.org

https://brewing.permacomputing.net/

Mariana Delgado will present El Proyecto Sonidero and Sara Martinez & Nicolás Henao-Bonnet will show their media hacking project Bitrot. All this followed by a discussion on 'Scores Against Tech Fascism' with @mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org 😍

At: Lothringer 13! https://www.lothringer13.com/events/symposium-antifaschimus-jetzt

Passed my viva!!!! No corrections!!! My PhD is dooooneeeeee!!!!! ??? !!!! ???? Cannot quite comprehend. Confusion. Relief. Happiness. Confusion. Error. Glitch. Wut? Wow. 🤯 I have a lot of people on the fediverse to thank for this ❤️ to youuuuuu!!!!!!!!

It is car free Sunday in Brussels 🎉🥰 and I am heading to @imal@tldr.nettime.org for the Open Kitchen event at 14:00. Workshop participants and hosts will share what they have created these past days. You can get there using the free public transport ❤️

With @dasha@post.lurk.org @marieverdeil@post.lurk.org @320x200@post.lurk.org @yhancik@thereisno.computer Sunjoo Lee, Anna Pastor and more!

https://www.imal.org/en/events/c25openkitchen

Join us in the cool 🧊 gallery space of iMAL, on July 1st 🥵 for the opening of their new exhibition: I am vertical (but I would rather be horizontal)!

Doors open @ 18:30 CEST

With: Cécile Babiole, @coinop29@mastodon.social Peter Beyls, Quentin Destieu + Sylvain Huguet = Collectif Dardex, Sunjoo Lee, Leonard Leyens, Val Macé, @raquelmeyers@mastodon.social @navidnavab@mastodon.social Garnet Willis, Suzanne Treister, @claire_wii@mastodon.social @doriane@post.lurk.org and @vinciane@post.lurk.org ❤️

More information: https://www.imal.org/en/events/i-am-vertical-but-i-would-rather-be-horizontal

Co-curated by @imal@tldr.nettime.org @320x200@post.lurk.org and me.

#vernissage #bruxelles #art #brussels #exhibition

250.000 people angry and heartbroken, calling on the Dutch government to stop supporting a genocidal regime.

Obsolescense is resistance! By @raquelmeyers@mastodon.social 😍

Netherlands-based fedizens, today 13:00 at Malieveld Den Haag, protest to call on the Dutch government to finally hold the Israeli state accountable and to stop being complicit in the genocide in Gaza and draw a red line. Dress code: red 🍅🌶️🍉

https://www.amnesty.nl/agenda/demonstratie-rode-lijn

Next Satuday, the 2nd edition of :www_server: The Hmm's Data Centre Tour :www_server: takes place. I will give a reconstruction of how Google and Microsoft came to the rural municipality of Hollands Kroon. A field trip to industrial scale greenhouses, mega wind turbines and hyperscale data centres in the north of Noord-Holland.

You can join the tour here (tickets are 35,- (standard), 25,- (student)):
https://thehmm.nl/event/the-hmms-data-centre-tour-2/

With: Ola Bonati, @leoscarin@pan.rent , Lars Ruiter, and Anna Andrejew 😍

#permacomputing #gafam #art