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Chris Speed
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Feb 20
Announcing the Launch of the Planetary Civics Inquiry!

RMIT University are thrilled to introduce the Planetary Civics Inquiry, founded by RMIT University, Dark Matter Labs, Politics for Tomorrow, and RISD Center for Complexity.
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Dominique Hes @regenhes.bsky.social · Dec 20
Set up a Regen Folks Starter Pack... Please share as I couldn't find many on here yet... #regen #biomimicry #biophilia #permaculture #placemaking #RegenAg all welcome!
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Dominique Hes @regenhes.bsky.social · Dec 20
#RegenTourism with @lorettabellato.bsky.social

Pod & resources - insights and explanations on regen tourism

#regeneration #podcast
#regenerativechangeagents
#livingsystemspotential
#regenerativetourism
#regenerativeagriculture

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Regenerative Change Agents · Episode
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Dario @dariogargas.bsky.social · Dec 5
@bsc-cns.bsky.social is looking for a director for its new AI Institute. If you are interested in coordinating the research of 50+ researchers across 4 different scientific departments, in a leading HPC institution, consider applying!
www.bsc.es/join-us/job-...
AI Institute Director
Reference: 784_24_DIR_DIR_AID Job title: AI Institute Director About BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the le
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Dec 5
What is the role of libraries after AI? Do they build their own LLMs? What might be the sustainable business models for a civic data-driven infrastructure? It surely changes their license to operate… @katecrawford.bsky.social
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Dec 5
From the Atlas of AI to a timeline of Empires. The next turn in @katecrawford.bsky.social and Vladan Joler’s mapping of technologies entanglement with labour, minerals and power… calculatingempires.net
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 19
And let’s assume that we have to take the position that ALL new products and services are Environmentally Unready unless proven otherwise.
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 19
How do we create opportunities to understand Social Readiness? And probably more importantly Social Unreadiness?
Jan-Hendrik Passoth (person on screen). What methods does Design have…
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 19
€100m Horizon fund opening in 2027 specifically for the humanities and social sciences to address the tech determinism that currently drives fundamental research. Start planning consortia!
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 19
invited to speak in Kracow, where lack of trust seems to be a cultural disposition. If Paulina Lenik is right that “trusting individuals tend to interact more, are relatively more eager to enter relationships and thus encounter valuable learning” then a collaborative futures is going be tough…
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🗡🪄Vault-tec Witch 76💙🇺🇦 @vaulttecwitch76.bsky.social · Nov 18
This deserves a repost.
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 18
Under the assumption that Technology Readiness Levels won’t get us through the transition with equity and less extraction, what are the barriers for demanding Social and or Environmental Readiness Levels to become part of innovation grants? #CETEF2024
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · Nov 17
Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says German minister #Climate
Countries must set aside differences and agree climate finance deal, says German minister
Jochen Flasbarth called on Cop29 delegates to press on as world faces increasing crises and drop in solidarity
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Jan 4
Toilet roll followers will be pleased to see that normal service has resumed…
toiletroll.chrisspeed.net Thanks to Evan @designinformatics for his plumbing skills
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
How does the university of the future (present) respond to ‘the weaponisation of grain’ and other political and economic entanglements with ecological systems? Maja Gopel #universityofthefuture @UoE_EFI
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
“The problem with the notion that nature is indestructible is this: it is wrong. Once economists accept that they are mistaken on this count, it could revolutionize the way in which we calculate economic progress” Dasgupta, 2021 via Maja Gopel #universityofthefuture @UoE_EFI
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
“Every market is the result of an Institutional mind set” paraphrasing Maja Gopel asking questions of what and how universities teach & research that which perpetuates our destructive economics. What does the x-curve mean for universities? #universityofthefuture @UoE_EFI
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
Let’s recover the idea that a university plays a vital role within enabling and empowering agents of change within social, environmental and economic systems. Kick ass provocations from Maja Gopel #universityofthefuture @UoE_EFI
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
“The capacity to create untried beginnings from which to evolve fundamentally new way of living, when existing ecological, economic & social conditions make the current system untenable” Stockholm Resilience Centre via Maja Gopel how many harvests are there left? @UoE_EFI
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 12
So many crossovers in conversation with Steven Drost and presentation from Maja Gopel on ‘script dependency’ & the x-curve. Script dependency is perhaps our adherence to established ways of doing things, and the x-curve asks us to anticipate the new. @UoE_EFI x @EdinburghUni
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 3
“As human bodies become increasingly entangled with technology, how do we maintain agency, creativity and empathy?” @tkoterwas collaboration with @emmabrea , Atul Kumar and AI for @CreateInf
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 3
Bounce and Feel. @tkoterwas @emmabrea , Atul Kumar and AI (with audience prompts) for @CreateInf
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Nov 3
Build and Destroy. Performers and AI connected in a feedback loop via bodily data and tactile sensation. @tkoterwas with @emmabrea , Atul Kumar and AI for @CreateInf
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Oct 27
"Who decides what order is and what order looks like?
Do people need to be led? Who decides that people need to be led?" Questions from Sharon Anyiam @UoE_EFI on reframing anarchy away from disorder, and both a call and action toward change #PowerTrip
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Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social · Oct 27
"They see me as black, but they don’t see the steam punk" Dr Tiffany R Holloman @TippSkies on what 'they' don’t see, and what they don't. Inspirational words to take courage and grasp the right to make it better @UoE_EFI #PowerTrip