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stefanlaser

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de

Social scientist ✒ on 🚯🚆🐮💾. #sts #sociology #ecology #waste #energy

Navigating material politics: vital digital infrastructures, political experiments, and precarious social relations.

I use qualitative ethnographic methods but also turn to digital methods and coding to enrich the analysis. Currently following the value chain of data centres. Based in #Bochum, GER, trips to #Hanoi, #Vietnam, #SEA.

I'm also into sports, #running #cycling, #photography, and Vietnamese. #tfr

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stefanlaser, to tech
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HEPA filter, old/new.

When I’m thinking about good (somewhere between low- and high) , I’m also thinking HEPA. Randomly fabricated fibers that randomise and trick the movements of particles.

Air purifiers are part of the future. Not only to be equipped for .

*Edit: great typo: instead of !

stefanlaser, to random
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is simply devastating, both the war on the ground and the war on information around . But if I'm honest with myself, I get caught up in the information war and I am busy shuffling interpretations around. The people get lost in the stream. Life

stefanlaser, to random
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will turn off soon. I grew up with it’s weird aoooo and still know my quite long ID by heart. It was sensational, in contrast to the other, hacky (also cool) .

It was the first DM app I and everyone around me used and loved. never came close.

https://hackerweb.app/#/item/40467625

stefanlaser, to random
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A wild read with many interesting graphs. The lack of social theory is part of the argument, but it really shows.

"efficiency is a catalyst for technological sprawl [everywhere]"

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/18/a-tour-of-the-jevons-paradox-how-energy-efficiency-backfires/

stefanlaser, to ai
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art is eerie because it sends you and comes from a peculiar kind of nothingness. No intention to be found, but it acts as if has a lot.

Great read shared by @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435397240569685

stefanlaser, to random
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Hey, look at this.

Rubin features our data centre project and my research in ❤️

https://wisskomm.social/@sfb1567/112404801149510318

https://news.rub.de/english/2024-05-08-social-sciences-chip-factory-nail-salon

stefanlaser, to streetphotography
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“Exotic animal,” mobile application.

#streetphotography #photography #scooter #vietnam #hanoi #animals #animalrights

stefanlaser, to Sociology
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Ever used Zoom? Googled? Discussed numbers and their implications?

We have a new article out and ask how online data is endowed with worth in virtual collaboration workshops.

https://valuationstudies.liu.se/article/view/3598

A RUSTlab and Uni Dresden collab. 🫶

stefanlaser, to random
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in Arizona: a concrete monster hungry for water, in the middle of the desert, driving a culture shock. A debacle? That’s quite a story by Rest of the World.

I wonder how this will play out in Dresden, when the new chip facility comes.

https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

stefanlaser, to books
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"The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and discard?"

https://www.unboundedition.com/product/the-discarded-colin-hamilton-short-fiction/

stefanlaser, to random
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Open Access PDF: Unser Buch über artenübergreifende Fürsorge ist freigeschaltet. Es handelt von der Fleischindustrie und den Lehren anhand einer Analyse öffentlicher Medien.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6341-9/artenuebergreifende-fuersorge/?number=978-3-8394-6341-3

stefanlaser, to random
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Sharing special issue love: We invite contributions to discuss the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures.

https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/689

stefanlaser, to Germany
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Liberals from block groundbreaking law. The adoption of the CSDD was just a formality. And it’s time to recognise basic human rights. So this came as a surprise. And not at all? Yet this lobbying has no clear force since many companies called for this change too. It sounds like a strange bid to gain non-existing voters.

Listen to the recent episode of :
https://wohlstandfueralle.podigee.io/236-lieferkettengesetz

stefanlaser, to Malaysia
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vibe.

Lunar new year down south. Probing a (physical) filter at noon w/ harsh light conditions.

A place that smells like sambal and dhal, and where the SkyTrain cuts the horizon in half. Sure,

Just an apartment complex with some nice texture
New year decoration balloons zig-zagging left and right between two large residential houses, and yet another one behind. Lovely brick walls to the right
Close up of street food on KL's food street. Many aluminium baskets filled up, some eggplant in the front, a woman in the middle doing some cooking. Good job

stefanlaser, to tech
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A linkdump that explores the lovely new web, the Vietnamese chip news cycle, and ambivalent ecological developments: https://stefanlaser.net/2024/01/30/a-linkdump-that.html

stefanlaser, to tech
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“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231224157

@sts #sts #tech #mediastudies #datastudies #datacenter

stefanlaser, to Energy
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I’m a satisfied reader of Dominic Boyer’s new book “No More Fossils.” What a splendid excercise in energy thinking. Today, Dominic and Cymene published an episode of my favourite academic podcast discussing this very book w/ Cara Daggett. Cultures of Energy ftw.

The book is open access.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/no-more-fossils

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzc1NjY2L3Jzcw

@ecologies

stefanlaser, to streetphotography
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On the fence.

An animal and its past, or yet another future?

stefanlaser, to random
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Caring for European Science & Technology Studies: EASST review 42(2) is out! reports, postdoc life, decolonisation, extractivism, pollution, and a tribute to Evelyn Fox Keller.

From now on I am part of the editorial board.😊

https://easst.net/easst-review/easst-review-volume-422-december-2023/

stefanlaser, to mastodon
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Comparing Fediverse software for hosting: Ease of use, efficiency, waste: https://stefanlaser.net/2023/12/18/comparing-fediverse-software.html

@sts

stefanlaser, to Sociology
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Follow @StefanAykut and his updates from @COP28 for an insightful sociological analysis and exclusive reports.

Like the recent one on the matter of (mentioning) . Dropping like it's hot. 📜 https://mstdn.social/@StefanAykut/111551816147720348

@ecologies @sts @sociology

stefanlaser, to Dubai
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Arrived in UAE.

Is anyone in concrete town for ? Keen on talking , semiconductors, data centres, e-waste.

stefanlaser, to IT
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Subsurface surfing. With the help of the maintenance staff, we went underground, following the maintenance track that connects all buildings on our Ruhr campus.

In total, it’s more than 8 km, we walked 2.5 km, from the uni datacentre to our faculty building.

A ladder teaching upwards. Again, dark, grey, concrete, dead
A man walks along a narrow concrete path. He wears blue maintenance staff clothing. He walks quickly. You see the concrete wall on the right with red paint fainting. Eerie

stefanlaser, to photography
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Shady knowledge.

Ruhr-University.

Picture of campus buildings and forest in the background. It's a bit eerie, because you see workers with protection wear. This is a large building that is to be destroyed, and it's full of asbestos

stefanlaser, to Energy
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Tomorrow, I will play around with the notion of stand-ins, a project that might become my habilitation and a book. But I still feel it's a risky bet. Well, let's see. 👇

> I will draw on multi-sited ethnographic research to explore what it means to stay in limbo or move forward to becoming more or less relevant in global economies, amid energy transitions.

https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-by-stefan-laser-on-stand-in-a-political-economy-of-energy-reserves/

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