Where does the internet live? This graphic highlights the biggest data center markets in the world by electricity consumption. visualcapitalist.com/cp/top-… via @visualcap
Job Alert 🚨 TWO postdoc positions in observational #seismology at @anuearthscience in beautiful Canberra 🦘 Details & apply here: bit.ly/seismologypostdocs
Happy to chat at #AGU23 next week. Send me an email, DM, or catch me at my poster on Monday morn (T11D-0210) 🧵 1/2
Join our mission to advance human-centered AI! @StanfordHAI is seeking a new Director of Policy and Society to lead our team in producing critical scholarship and convening global discussions on the intersection of technology, policy, and society. stanford.io/3TcWggX
Chuck Bigelow Don Knuth in the same room again, 40 years after their pivotal work together
Face/Interface: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction @Stanford@HumanAtStanford
And I do realise it requires furthe context ... For which I offer this ... Hello Robert Luther Thompson's 1947 "Wiring a Continent" which feels, as I read it, a little uncanny or perhaps just familiar #telegraphy#history
We are thrilled to have @feraldata deliver our Annual Academy Dinner Lecture, at @Library_Vic speak about the intersection of humans, history, AI & automation. #AAHSymposium
Wonderful to be representing @CHASS_Aus at the @HumanitiesAU annual dinner, listening to @feraldata tell the amazing story of Banjo Patterson's science fiction, The Cast Iron Canveser. Thanks for the invite @HumanitiesAU team. #AAHSymposium.
Communication with London and the world was revolutionised for Adelaide and Australia #OTD 21 Oct 1872. The 3200 km Overland Telegraph to Darwin was in place and finally the undersea link was working. A telegram from London to to the GPO took hours versus several weeks by sea.
Great day at #SXSWSydney. Shared the stage w/the inspiring Genevieve Bell, on the importance of gaming to Intel & the #IntelGaming team welcomed gamers to our @IEM Sydney booth w/systems & games showcasing the new #IntelCore 14th Gen. Going to be a great week! @feraldata@Intel
Today at 3:30 PM at @SXSWsydney: discussing the intersections of #Indigenous cultural heritage, technology, & sovereignty featuring #ANUexpert Angie Abdilla of the School of Cybernetics.
MORE: schedule.sxswsydney.com/sess…
Want to increase your knowledge & skills in #Indigenous#Diplomacy? Early bird registrations close TOMORROW for this outstanding ANU Exec Ed course 'Weaving the mat'. An intensive workshop on Indigenous sovereignties & diplomacy - on 13-17 Nov.
Register: quicklink.anu.edu.au/5ibi
A really good book - not an easy topic by any means. I hope people in my generation appreciate all the major contributions Aspray made to the history of technology.
My next book is *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.* It's a recipe to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The book is from @VersoBoooks, but the #audiobook is from me - because Amazon refuses to sell it:
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ALT My forthcoming book 'The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation' in various editions: Verso hardcover, audiobook displayed on a phone, and ebook displayed on an e-ink reader.