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Chenoe Hart

@chenoehart.bsky.social

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Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space. https://chenoehart.com/

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · Nov 11

An introduction for anyone who’s new to my account: I explore how technology will make our built environment more complex & more interactive. I’ve prototyped robotic furniture, theorized about how computers perceive our cities and predicted that someday we will all live in driverless cars.

Wheeled vehicular pods congregate at dusk within a depopulated landscape.

Illustration of server racks being used as home furniture.

Illustration of a robotic furniture product. Items deposited into a storage box are photographed and appear on a smartphone.

Design proposal for a large outdoor monument consisting of a walkway through a tunnel of steel frames.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 3h

It’s not exactly the same as present-day authoritarianism, but I suspect the problem might not be totally decoupled from how academia has long functionally operated in a right-wing manner, hierarchically sorting people to an often greater extent than the private capitalist job market.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 10h

Feel like I started noticing them in media the 2010s. From a quick glance Wikipedia says that they emerged in the 1990s. I’d guess they’re probably easier to wear/store than traditional mascot costumes.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 15h

Mostly involving writing. I’m thinking about trying to experiment with creative applications of wireless charging and/or with creating some kind of an installation using e-ink screens next year, after I get through more of my current writing-related goals.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

This is because dancing, for robots, is something that looks hard but is actually easy. It looks hard because it's hard for humans! But as robot tasks go, it's a pre-scripted set of motions in a totally controlled environment. You program it and test it over and over until it works right.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I’ve noticed that seems to happen less often on this site. Like when I write something that gets shared it doesn’t necessarily lead to connections. I suspect a lot of accounts (myself included) are still trying to figure out how growth happens now that the starter pack trend has died down.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

It seems to show a lot of personal posts I’d otherwise miss!

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, it is for sure. I suspect I need to accomplish more recent work (I’m trying to write more articles if I can do that in today’s publishing climate) to better show people more of what I do, but I feel like in an ideal world there’d already be enough information available.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

I first started teaching myself programming when I was younger because I wanted to make games, so I’m definitely sympathetic to that pursuit.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, when I saw your account I think I followed because the robotics angle seemed interesting! My background is in architecture, but I’ve also been interested in technology and robotics for a long time, and I’ve previously done some self-directed electronics projects.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 19h

I could try it. I need to try various alternative feed options often enough to really get a sense of what they offer that doesn’t always come through in an initial first glance.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

I could look into it. I think some of what I’m talking about is a collective problem where when multiple people don’t have easy ways of reaching each other fewer options for collective social interaction emerge. But certainly improving how one account reads & communicates can’t hurt.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

That makes sense for sure. I should probably look more into creating lists for the many accounts that do seem to focus on particular kinds of content, as opposed to those which combine them together.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

I’m glad to hear that. I feel like the world in general has become more cold and atomized lately, like I’ve had a bunch of attempts to network with people fizzle out, and I wonder how much of it is something I’m doing vs. the general situations people are going through right now.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe I need to as well, and I used to do that more in the past. I think I’ve been shy about replying on really popular threads, and maybe I shouldn’t be.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

I felt like Twitter used to do a better job of showing me posts I was interested in, and also of boosting posts on relatively niche topics so they found an audience. I get the idea that finding a specific community anywhere requires an element of luck & the right conditions.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

It might help if there was a way to mute words by the specific feed/list, so you could choose to keep up with mainstream discourse but also to filter it out when you wanted to let smaller & more personal conversations become visible. Posting late at night sometimes has a little bit of that effect.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

During the last Trump administration so much social media discourse was about specific personnel being incompetent, which meant by muting specific names you’d avoid a lot of hot air w/o missing substantial news. That’s harder to do today with the administration more effectively pursuing its goals.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of the general mainstream content these days is of course politics, and I do use this site as one channel for being aware of things happening in the world, as I also did w Twitter. So it feels wrong to filter too much of it out, even if I don’t always know what to say online in response to it.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 20h

It feels in a way like Bluesky is less social than old Twitter was, even though it’s a smaller community, and I wonder what mechanics of feed construction cause that. I think the non-algorithmic feed places more general mainstream content in my timeline, which I scroll past more often w/o engaging.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how nostalgia leads us to see things in a positive light. Gateway’s branding was striking and this image delivers a first-impression mood, but I also remember specs where Gateways were noticeably underpowered vs competitors. It’s another layer to the impossibility of this idealized image.

〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 2d

pics that go hard

the gateway country retail store, its facade done up with giant cow print

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

this points to something Paul hints at toward the end of the piece: high-literacy/comprehension is increasingly and worryingly become upper or upper-middle-class coded, rather than being taught in public (US sense) schools. You can see the same happening in the US with phone bans for kids.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 4d

What kind of physical + technological space could be described as the opposite of an automated warehouse?

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like the reproductive crisis isn’t even a problem to the extent that it incentivizes us to look for those kinds of socially-beneficial solutions, where we otherwise might not be sufficiently motivated to do so.