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Chenoe Hart

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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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like SkyMall was more fun though. Many of the kinds of things you saw which seemed absurd in a SkyMall context would just seem tedious if you encountered them in an internet video today.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like adding these kinds of map features onto more apps & platforms could be a relatively feasible way to make cycling infrastructure more usable.

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1d

Are there cities where the Google maps bike routing feature tells you what class/type of bikeway each segment of your ride is? That is, if I want to prioritize routes with better bike infra, or avoid routes with mixed traffic, etc. So I don't have to toggle between Google and a local bike map.

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 3d

Intriguing plan that goes well beyond symbolism. "Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs."

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not in a situation where people are giving me NDAs, and if I was I wouldn’t have made a post like that. I was only referring to work I’ve been creating on my own.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

I’m starting to think I should start on a more incrementally legible self-directed project soon, almost just so I have something to talk about and share with people. But it’s a different kind of project, and I don’t know if it would translate into supporting larger/less shareable efforts or not.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to be working on a project for which you don’t know how to document/share pieces of it online while it’s in-progress, so it appears invisible from an external perspective. I don’t know what else to say about that situation except that I’m in it right now.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 2d

i’d like to hear more about generative AI tools developed and deployed outside of the United States or China.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

This is a fun graphic. I feel like this kind of bold/dynamic and unapologetically digital imagery is also already nostalgic, like a reminder of a more optimistic pre-2024 point in time.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 3d

(Particularly since travel involves putting in an extra input of effort/planning/energy that taking other kinds of breaks doesn’t necessarily require. There’s a kind of work involved with travel which doesn’t exist in the same way for some other activities.)

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 3d

Cost is definitely an issue, but I wonder how much time is a factor as well. We live in such a competitive world these days that it can feel like taking the kind of break that’s needed to do significant travel would leave you behind in other ways.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 3d

The appetite for risk certainly varies by domain, but I get a general sense that some approaches to ambition & speculation changed following the rise in interest rates. Particularly in terms of work that leads to downstream cultural impact, like funding for publications.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 3d

Will we even remember it, or will it be a time period that we collectively forgot like we did with COVID? I suspect the simultaneous reduction in economic risk-taking + cultural production that’s happening right now (as also occurred during COVID) might make it a time that’s harder to remember.

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 5d

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/a072...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 20d

Trying out april tags. Thinking about how it could complement hand tracking and vision models.

This is using github.com/arenaxr/apri... and I know what april tags are because of folk.computer.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, when I saw that news I immediately wondered about scaling. Since their launch in Atlanta has been limited (ie. via the Uber partnership) I wonder if activities like advance mapping or adapting to local signage could have been scaled back as well, & if that could be a factor in the incident.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6d

an amusing fact is that slop is banned from most serious ai spaces, either actually or de facto. we all see it 24/7 and it is just mind-numbing rot that never ends, if we sent it to EACH OTHER we could never do anything else

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 6d

Found some content for something I’m learning about that was written ~10yr ago on a blog, and it’s weird how it now seems slightly quaint and old-fashioned to read. There’s a sense of luxury to how it assumes you have a long attention span, and it’s sad that people don’t anymore.

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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · Sep 6

The widespread glee in killing spotted lanternflies tells me that there is a need for widespread reflection on killing.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations!!!

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 7d

when i noted this trend on the @designobserver.com podcast, a researcher reached out to note that the demographics and community bonds in this country were also altered and ma never be rebuilt.

losing 22k homes when CA only builds ~80k a year is significant

Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 8d

We're living in the worst era of wildfire in California history. My colleagues and I found that an astounding 22,500 homes burned down in the five most destructive fires in the state from 2017 through 2020. Just 38% of them have been rebuilt. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

22,500 homes lost. Over five years later, only 38% rebuilt: What California fire survivors face

Just 38% of the 22,500 homes burned down in California's five most destructive wildfires from 2017 to 2020 have been rebuilt, The Times found.

www.latimes.com

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 7d

We need a word for physical objects designed by GenAI - slopjects?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 8d

I want this to be true so badly that I can’t trust myself: I have to refuse to believe it until I see a dotted line physically connecting the smoking gun to the body.

If it were true the consequences would be huge.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 8d

Like they can make it say certain things (“there are only two genders,” “migration bad”) but there isn’t enough text out there in the world describing a conservative consensus reality because it’s just not a coherent thing. They can’t make a conservative Wikipedia, even synthetically

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