Chenoe Hart
@chenoehart.bsky.social
Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
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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.
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Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
If a parking spot is empty on Black Friday, it never needed to be built in the first place. Today is an opportunity to document the physical footprint of excessive parking requirements while you happen to be out shopping.
Wanna go on a mission today that's beyond just shopping? Take the Black Friday Challenge and change your town! Here's how: originalgreen.org/blog/the-bla...
The Black Friday Challenge
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November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If a parking spot is empty on Black Friday, it never needed to be built in the first place. Today is an opportunity to document the physical footprint of excessive parking requirements while you happen to be out shopping.
Are corporations more indifferent about keeping customers than they were in the past, or is it just me? I feel a subtle sense that maybe 10yrs ago some companies would have cared a little more about potential competition or positive word-of-mouth, but today they realize those notions aren’t real.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Are corporations more indifferent about keeping customers than they were in the past, or is it just me? I feel a subtle sense that maybe 10yrs ago some companies would have cared a little more about potential competition or positive word-of-mouth, but today they realize those notions aren’t real.
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There was a kind of a delight in being in tech after the 2000–1 crash, because it was back to us true believers. LLM-based AI has been coupled with the AI bubble. Once that bubble pops, I think we'll see the advancement of on-device, ethically-sourced LLMs, and I think they'll be fun.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There was a kind of a delight in being in tech after the 2000–1 crash, because it was back to us true believers. LLM-based AI has been coupled with the AI bubble. Once that bubble pops, I think we'll see the advancement of on-device, ethically-sourced LLMs, and I think they'll be fun.
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We problematize poor communities of color but not affluent white ones part 1000
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We problematize poor communities of color but not affluent white ones part 1000
If the tech industry wanted to, we'd find a way to rewrite computer operating systems, software and even hardware to detect AI use as it happens, just like we implemented DRM to mitigate piracy. And then more people would get the educational benefits of not using AI. We'd just need the willpower.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If the tech industry wanted to, we'd find a way to rewrite computer operating systems, software and even hardware to detect AI use as it happens, just like we implemented DRM to mitigate piracy. And then more people would get the educational benefits of not using AI. We'd just need the willpower.
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On the one hand I remain adamant that computers should try new shapes because there are too many rectangles. On the other hand, we all seem to agree that computer orb is bad. Must find a new computer shape that pleases the people
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
On the one hand I remain adamant that computers should try new shapes because there are too many rectangles. On the other hand, we all seem to agree that computer orb is bad. Must find a new computer shape that pleases the people
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So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
There should be a version of the yak shaving idea but for career advancement. Like if I do x and then y and then z, will that be enough for me to get a certain opportunity that ostensibly looks on paper like it should be easier to obtain?
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There should be a version of the yak shaving idea but for career advancement. Like if I do x and then y and then z, will that be enough for me to get a certain opportunity that ostensibly looks on paper like it should be easier to obtain?
You don’t just get more work done when working under a deadline, but the work that you do is distinctly different. You’re forced to act more decisively than you otherwise would.
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
You don’t just get more work done when working under a deadline, but the work that you do is distinctly different. You’re forced to act more decisively than you otherwise would.
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I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
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There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
It’s gross how you can talk to someone and their perception of you totally changes when they know what schools you did/didn’t attend. You’re the same person either way, but your words and your actions don’t really mean anything. The only thing that matters is your value as a branded commodity.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It’s gross how you can talk to someone and their perception of you totally changes when they know what schools you did/didn’t attend. You’re the same person either way, but your words and your actions don’t really mean anything. The only thing that matters is your value as a branded commodity.
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I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was.
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Historians and political scientists: has anyone written an accessible history of de-Nazification efforts in Germany after WWII or a comparative assessment of similar efforts around the world? (I suppose American Reconstruction is another case study)
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Historians and political scientists: has anyone written an accessible history of de-Nazification efforts in Germany after WWII or a comparative assessment of similar efforts around the world? (I suppose American Reconstruction is another case study)
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The way the word “slop” has re-entered the lexicon as a general purpose word describing “someone’s made-up bullshit that’s being forced on people” (even outside of AI contexts) is good because it feels like we didn’t have a simple way to point out how common that is aside from domain-specific jargon
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The way the word “slop” has re-entered the lexicon as a general purpose word describing “someone’s made-up bullshit that’s being forced on people” (even outside of AI contexts) is good because it feels like we didn’t have a simple way to point out how common that is aside from domain-specific jargon
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When writing science fiction, always Google your made-up planet name—9 times out of 10, it's an existing yeast infection medication.
April 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
When writing science fiction, always Google your made-up planet name—9 times out of 10, it's an existing yeast infection medication.
Wonder if in the future there will be a specific market for privacy-oriented home robots, and if any companies will try to make our market them. The issue could be an uphill challenge for consumers given how much data robots will collect.
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Wonder if in the future there will be a specific market for privacy-oriented home robots, and if any companies will try to make our market them. The issue could be an uphill challenge for consumers given how much data robots will collect.
For readers interested in the future of New York, I just discovered that @queenslink.org has an account on here. I’m looking forward to keeping up with their progress!
November 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
For readers interested in the future of New York, I just discovered that @queenslink.org has an account on here. I’m looking forward to keeping up with their progress!
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LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style.
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility
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New @carefultrouble.bsky.social paper out today with a whole bevy of academic partners, on the impacts of AI in urban environments. As the plan for AI Growth Zones starts to roll out, we find innovation policy is disconnected from the real impacts of AI on people and places
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New @carefultrouble.bsky.social paper out today with a whole bevy of academic partners, on the impacts of AI in urban environments. As the plan for AI Growth Zones starts to roll out, we find innovation policy is disconnected from the real impacts of AI on people and places
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Individually designing and wiring and doing warranty for physical buttons is actually truly not a trivial cost. I don't know the exact inversion point where a central touchscreen displaced that cost, but there was an inversion point. For very complex vehicles with many features.
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Individually designing and wiring and doing warranty for physical buttons is actually truly not a trivial cost. I don't know the exact inversion point where a central touchscreen displaced that cost, but there was an inversion point. For very complex vehicles with many features.
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Was at car dealership today. Noticed something funny. The normal cars had door poppers and overwhelming screens. The $120,000 car had physical door handles and tons of buttons.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Was at car dealership today. Noticed something funny. The normal cars had door poppers and overwhelming screens. The $120,000 car had physical door handles and tons of buttons.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.
May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.