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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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inquiline, (edited ) to mastodon
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Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

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@inquiline Many lessons to draw form this, thanks. I somehow missed the hot ass controversy (what a mess!), which sounds fairly fitting re:

> “Lossy distribution” aka ... the phenomenon of how posts get seeded in a manner that suggests they are viewable to a wide, undifferentiated audience; but in practice results in, well, loss. And not only loss, but unknowable, invisible loss.

It might be true for all things social web. Yet more so for the Fediverse?

#mastodonmigration #asstodon

stefanlaser, to fediverse
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Is anyone using @bookwyrm for academic ?

Bookwyrm might be a good place to collect all kinds of academic reviews in an open space aka the . One could even automate things, or invite for review texts through Mastodon or email (with a Python script translating the different categories). Maybe the academic instance would need a slightly different design, without ratings, and cover images being less prominent. Yet there's potential.

stefanlaser, to Trains
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"Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing:" Our reflection on European conferencing via is published in the EASST review. This is an intervention to think about less energy-intensive forms for conferences.

have potential. Yet we inquire what's possible for whom. @sociology

This text is a collective endeavor. I'm happy to be part of a diverse crowd of authors with different routes and experiences.

🔗https://www.easst.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/review_2022_10.pdf

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 random
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The quest for purity in the Fediverse creates drama and fragmentation.

In short, / admins made odd decisions.

  • Pitching a name that creates confusion re: trademark (Firefox and more).
  • Moving their repo to a Gitlab hosted by alt-right people (resolved).
  • The main dev boosted a neutral post by an (alleged) harasser. Contradictory screenshots and clarifications circulate.

The project emphasizes it values diversity. But ways depart. And we have a new fork, .

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 fediverse
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I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon . Somehow I cannot find a recent post on that. ? ? Or go non-Ruby, like (nah), (hui)?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a & .

Potential features:

  • tweaking network traffic
  • media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
  • monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
  • auto-off when battery low, sad emoji
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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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

dawnnafus, to random
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Just got wind of this new horror of "biodiversity trading markets" -- where companies can buy biodiversity credits every time they destroy land somewhere.

We've got to raise more of a stink about this. Utterly horrifying that people are trying to legitimize destroying one species in one place and support another somewhere else.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6823

stefanlaser,
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@dawnnafus So they're really going for the plot of the Venomous Lumpsucker, great.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709614/venomous-lumpsucker-by-ned-beauman/

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 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 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 Dubai
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Arrived in UAE.

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

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 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 Germany
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Liberals from #Germany block groundbreaking #EU 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 #WohlstandFürAlle:
https://wohlstandfueralle.podigee.io/236-lieferkettengesetz

#valuechains #fairtrade

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 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 streetphotography
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“Exotic animal,” mobile application.

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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On the fence.

An animal and its past, or yet another future?

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/

inquiline, to random
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“Is it cake” for the STS set: Is it infrastructure?

(had a slightly more academic convo about this w the grad class yesterday) (and i do mean slightly)

stefanlaser,
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@davidthewid @inquiline @richpuchalsky It's just a methodology, once a provocative one, so this has to be the case.

But then...is there a limit to what social scientists will call "just a lens"? 😄

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