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hybrid designer+researcher working with #systems & #futures. Trying to figure out renewables at an energy company. atm, ai risk, disaster mitigation.
🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
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uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough
Meek. Atleast this matched the tone boingboing.net/2024/04/02/p...
Protecting Vancouver's pedestrians, one highly-realistic foam brick at a time
Activists in Vancouver are building a safer city for pedestrians, one brick at a time. According to The Daily Hive a group called Vision One Vancouver has taken a unique…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Meek. Atleast this matched the tone boingboing.net/2024/04/02/p...
I mean at this point (…)
September 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I mean at this point (…)
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!! Super excited for this
!! Super excited for this
September 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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!! Super excited for this
!! Super excited for this
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Oh, look at that. They finally found a business use case for AI.
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh, look at that. They finally found a business use case for AI.
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AI has enabled the trend of disciplines being overtaken by technologists and Big Tech, and making actual field specialists and the disciplines themselves a kind of side dish to the "innovation," as is evident in education and healthcare, for eg. A lot of irreparable damage will be done.
~fin~
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August 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
AI has enabled the trend of disciplines being overtaken by technologists and Big Tech, and making actual field specialists and the disciplines themselves a kind of side dish to the "innovation," as is evident in education and healthcare, for eg. A lot of irreparable damage will be done.
~fin~
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If the concern is to get a job afterwards, I would say that it’s increasingly difficult to get an academic position in Norway. And they’d have to learn the language too.
August 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If the concern is to get a job afterwards, I would say that it’s increasingly difficult to get an academic position in Norway. And they’d have to learn the language too.
We might have not have to wait decades plural.
August 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We might have not have to wait decades plural.
With the pace of climate change finally hitting many EU countries, there’s a lot that would need to change, and fast. I don’t know if easy is an option anymore.
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
With the pace of climate change finally hitting many EU countries, there’s a lot that would need to change, and fast. I don’t know if easy is an option anymore.
I agree. There are many orgs working on similar initiatives, eg Civic Square in the UK civicsquare.notion.site/Retrofit-Rei...
Retrofit Reimagined 2022 | Notion
We all know how important our homes, streets and neighbourhoods are. We may have many different ideas about how we relate to them and what they mean to us, but the pandemic showed us all how crucial t...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I agree. There are many orgs working on similar initiatives, eg Civic Square in the UK civicsquare.notion.site/Retrofit-Rei...
Definitely, we have to think about effective ventilation and cooling at the same time we retrofit our ceilings for heat capture.
The latter has significantly reduced my electricity consumption during winters. The former shouldn’t cancel that out with new air-conditioning costs.
The latter has significantly reduced my electricity consumption during winters. The former shouldn’t cancel that out with new air-conditioning costs.
July 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Definitely, we have to think about effective ventilation and cooling at the same time we retrofit our ceilings for heat capture.
The latter has significantly reduced my electricity consumption during winters. The former shouldn’t cancel that out with new air-conditioning costs.
The latter has significantly reduced my electricity consumption during winters. The former shouldn’t cancel that out with new air-conditioning costs.
Yeah. Mine is a concrete building with south west facing windows. I was practically inside an oven for weeks this July.
July 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yeah. Mine is a concrete building with south west facing windows. I was practically inside an oven for weeks this July.
Lived through this exactly in my Oslo apartment the last two weeks. It’s become quite unbearable without needing air conditioning (even if I’m reluctant to go that far).
July 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Lived through this exactly in my Oslo apartment the last two weeks. It’s become quite unbearable without needing air conditioning (even if I’m reluctant to go that far).
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