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My number 1 recommendation for improved mental health and ecologically & ethically sound behaviour, is "surround yourself with lifeforms that exist at radically different timescales". Plants & Animals perceive time very differently and act differently. It is worth listening deeply.
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Offline is the new luxury - VPRO Full Documentary (2016)
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline?
We are connected to the internet even in our bedrooms. It’s the ambition of companies like Google and Facebook to connect the entire world, so that we can be online all the time and everywhere. Google has send balloons up into the skies over Sri Lanka to provide the island state with free Wi-Fi for a month. On the ground, more and more devices communicate through the so-called Internet-of-Things. We are going to be ‘glass citizens’ in a transparent house, connected for life to a wireless intravenous drip and traced anywhere via our smartphones. What does it mean?
A small but growing group of people is saying goodbye to lifetime connectability. They are researching ways to keep control. What can we learn from them about life in the digital era? With: Paul Frissen (political scientist), Sherry Turkle (psychologist MIT), Evgeny Morozov (internet critic) and Birgitta Jonsdottir (hacker & founder Pirate Party)"We use technology as long as *we use it* and it does not get to the point where *it uses us and control us*, that's the bottom line" - A anonymous member of the Amish community.
"You have to understand what drives those companies (google & co). They are only interested in convincing their investors & financials markets that they will keep on growing indefinitely - that they have the capacity to capture the markets in India, China etc." - @evgenymorozov
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Slow Travel: The Benefits Of Longer-term Programs And Immersive Experiences Abroad:
https://www.wheretherebedragons.com/news/slow-travel-benefits-longer-term-programs-immersive-abroad-experiences/ #FFHCI #ClimateChange -
Assorted links on Ecology, Interfaces & the Politics of Artifacts
Zur Ökologie der Moral bei Bruno Latour:
http://www.fsw.uzh.ch/foucaultblog/essays/210/zur-oekologie-der-moral-bei-bruno-latourPolitics and Pragmatism in Scientific Ontology Construction:
https://www.slideshare.net/mtraven/politics-and-pragmatism-in-scientic-ontology-constructionReview of ‘Politics of Nature’ by Bruno Latour:
https://avoidingthevoid.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/review-of-politics-of-nature-by-bruno-latour/A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies:
http://www.conceptlab.com/notes/akrich-latour-1992-convenient-vocabulary.htmlLaboratory Life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_LifeLangdon Winner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon_WinnerSocial construction of technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction_of_technologyTechnology dynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_dynamicsSymbolic interactionism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_interactionismEdward T. Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_T._HallScience and technology studies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_studiesTechnology is Culture:
https://www.slideshare.net/mtravenSpace, Time and the Politics of Smart Objects:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/phase-media-9781501335617/Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Feynman!Doing Interface Ecology: The Practice of Metadisciplinarity:
http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol6_No1_interface_kerne.htmInterface ecology lab:
http://ecologylab.net/define.htmlEcology at the Interface Conference:
http://iris-ses.eu/iris-ses-at-the-ecology-at-the-interface-conference/The Ecology of Commerce. A Teasing Irony Gap between environment and business, ecology and economics Industry suppresses our immune system Free market:
http://slideplayer.com/slide/9759948/Ecology and ecosystems notes:
https://www.slideshare.net/jschmied/ecology-and-ecosystems-notesEcological interface design:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_interface_designMapping Experiences with Actor Network Theory:
https://www.slideshare.net/LizaPotts/mapping-experiences-with-actor-network-theoryActor-network Theory and Culture:
https://machinicassemblages.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/actor-network-theory-and-culture/Interface Ecology: An Open Systems Approach to Analyzing and Making Culture:
http://ecologylab.net/research/publications/kernePerformanceStudies97.PDFDoing interface ecology: the practice of metadisciplinary:
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The Growing Beyond Earth Challenge (GBE): https://www.fairchildgarden.org/Science-Conservation-/Growing-Beyond-EarthNasa-and-Fairchild
Designed to expand food options and increase plant diversity for spaceflight by evaluating multiple edible plants that meet NASA’s criteria for size and edibility. Using equipment that mimics the environmental conditions aboard the International Space Station, students are testing factors that may influence plant growth, flavor, and nutrition.
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https://www.hydroponics.eu/ - "online shop for indoor growing of plants". The amount of growth in this industry is delicious. #FFHCI
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Plants outweigh all other life on Earth: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/plants-outweigh-all-other-life-earth #FFHCI #ClimateChange
"All life on Earth weighs about 550 gigatons. Of that, plants make up 450 gigatons of carbon (GT C), followed by bacteria at 70 GT C and fungi at 12 GT C. Animals are a mere 2 GT C, of which half are insects."
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The Berlin BioRobotics lab is doing interesting work: http://berlinbiorobotics.blog/projects/
incl. using ML to track all bees in the hive and using robotic fish for the analysis of collective motion. #ML #FFHCI -
NASA Clean Air Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study
"The results suggest that certain common indoor plants provide a natural way of removing toxic agents from the air, helping neutralize the effects of sick building syndrome"
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"We have an ethical responsibility to refuse to work on software that will negatively impact the well-being of other humans, flora and fauna."
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"Im Königreich der Pilze" - an incredible new documentary about mushrooms: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/068404-000-A/im-koenigreich-der-pilze/ (DE/FR only) #FFHCI
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While computation (AI) will clearly play a role in solving the climate change crisis - I strongly hope it will be *in service of* the intelligence inherit in culture, society & nature. Let's not forget, that its technocratic logic that lead to climate change in the first place. #FFHCI
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Amongst the many different types of climate change & species extinction deniers, this I find the worst: "The postmodern technocratic intellectual". He accepts that it's happening but says "that's the course of evolution, its fine" or "AI will take over" or "We are going to mars". #FFHCI
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Google’s nature explorer has 3 machine learning models based on MobileNet, trained on photos contributed by the iNaturalist community.
These models are built to recognize 4,080 different species (~960 birds, ~1020 insects, ~2100 plants): https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/model/nature-explorer #ML #FFHCI
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"Autonomous Agents for Regenerative Ecologies" - a workshop by @thesjef @KlaasJK @theunk: https://www.bordersessions.org/lab/autonomous-agents-for-regenerative-ecologies-lab/ #FFHCI #ClimateChange
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- Generative systems (Computation) are interesting.
- ReGenerative systems (Flora & Fauna) are critical for survival. -
Stacking Planter Bundle: https://www.areaware.com/products/stacking-planter-bundle?variant=6832970563619 #FFHCI
