Anaïs Berck just had an impressive book launch with practically everyone involved, including the Oak tree who inspired it, which was summoned into the room, the illustrator, translator, the publisher, printer, the teachers and friends that made it happen, and others. For all those who wish to hear the forest and experience its magic.

Reports from the Forest
More here: https://www.anaisberck.be/reports-from-the-forest/

https://www.passaportabookshop.be/nl/evenementen/reports-from-the-forest-bosberichten

Book is available in Dutch and English

It’s that time of the year again! The course “introduction to cloud as infrastructure: the effects of the new business of computing on practice”, takes off April 22 for 8 weeks for the 5th time!

If you can trek down to delft, you are welcome to join. Course capped at 40 students, priority goes to Master students. Please help spread the word!

#cloudsarenotanoption
#programmableinfrastructuresproject
@tudelfttbm @tudelft

the biggest harm of ai so far is not in its bias, it’s snake oily density, etc but its role as a driver of inequality:

America’s gravity-defying economy

“The AI boom is not just fuelling eye-popping levels of investment in building data centres: it has also helped send US equities to multiple record highs, based on confidence in the technology…The increase in value of tech stocks provided [some] US households with $5tn in extra wealth over the past year alone.

https://on.ft.com/3WbDUNy

It is that time of the year again!
Come join (physically) our course “Introduction to Cloud as Infrastructure: The effects of the new business of computing on practice” in Q4, at TU Delft.

Or, help spread the word to those who can!

Master students have priority, otherwise all welcome. Contact me for more info.

Such an inspiring examlpe of decolonizing knowledge, please help spread!

"The current political moment and the ravages of empire across the region demand that we unlearn and rethink forms of knowing to foreground histories and struggles on the margins. We envisage this series as a way to collectively learn about approaches that can nourish & transform knowledge production & dissemination on a wide range of social, political, economic and environmental issues."
https://msh.ulb.ac.be/storage/medias/1674662094-msh-omam-stories-we-tell-program-23.pdf

"imagine all software is made by people who love you."

from charlotte eifler
turned into a poster for the Counter Cloud Action
https://neondigitalarts.com/from-cloud-to-crowd-poster-campaign/

Seeing the vibe from all the twitter engineers quitting the company right now, and given the hard work from all those who are keeping mastodon servers up, it felt appropriate.