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.
I’m reading Bowling Alone again, and wow everything it says about correlations between TV watching and reduced social/community engagement now feels like a wake-up call to reduce my phone use.
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I’m reading Bowling Alone again, and wow everything it says about correlations between TV watching and reduced social/community engagement now feels like a wake-up call to reduce my phone use.
As big of deal as AI is now, it seems a little odd there hasn’t yet been a big recent movie which makes contemporary AI tech a major part of its plot, or at least no movie which permeated culture enough for me to be aware of it. That shows how certain kinds of cultural production can stagnate & lag.
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
As big of deal as AI is now, it seems a little odd there hasn’t yet been a big recent movie which makes contemporary AI tech a major part of its plot, or at least no movie which permeated culture enough for me to be aware of it. That shows how certain kinds of cultural production can stagnate & lag.
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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Great piece on some interesting finds from a study. Obviously there’s a different equity angle (recommended states likely run into federal/state lands or farms or indigenous lands and water rights/use issues) but I get it
new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Great piece on some interesting finds from a study. Obviously there’s a different equity angle (recommended states likely run into federal/state lands or farms or indigenous lands and water rights/use issues) but I get it
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"This is the pt of the 'gaslighting' origin story that ppl who haven’t watched Gaslight don’t tend to know abt: the part where the gaslit victim pushes back." @noragilbert.bsky.social on the lost ending of Gaslight in @publicbooks.bsky.social. A must read! www.publicbooks.org/the-lost-end...
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
www.publicbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"This is the pt of the 'gaslighting' origin story that ppl who haven’t watched Gaslight don’t tend to know abt: the part where the gaslit victim pushes back." @noragilbert.bsky.social on the lost ending of Gaslight in @publicbooks.bsky.social. A must read! www.publicbooks.org/the-lost-end...
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The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Just 45 cooling towers left in Britain, all but one in the process of decommission and demolition. If, like me, you are fond of these silent sculptural giants scattered across the landscape, you will love @c20society.bsky.social supersized new book.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Just 45 cooling towers left in Britain, all but one in the process of decommission and demolition. If, like me, you are fond of these silent sculptural giants scattered across the landscape, you will love @c20society.bsky.social supersized new book.
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I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
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Hate it, but slowly coming to the opinion that college freshmen should have a course teaching them how insurance works and what private equity is so that they can understand our current social reality 😩
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hate it, but slowly coming to the opinion that college freshmen should have a course teaching them how insurance works and what private equity is so that they can understand our current social reality 😩
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everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
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I think we all sorta knew this, but it's amazing to now have all the minor and local roads added to the maps. I've walked a bunch of these over the years.
Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds | Live Science
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds
The new digital map increases the Roman road network by nearly 100%.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think we all sorta knew this, but it's amazing to now have all the minor and local roads added to the maps. I've walked a bunch of these over the years.
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Should we kill trees because they're ugly? At one point, the National Park Service did just that.
Modern conservation is loaded with value judgments.
Modern conservation is loaded with value judgments.
Witches’ Broom and the Conservation of “Ugly”
Should we kill trees because they’re ugly? At one point, conservationists did. Fortunately, times can change.
blog.nature.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Should we kill trees because they're ugly? At one point, the National Park Service did just that.
Modern conservation is loaded with value judgments.
Modern conservation is loaded with value judgments.
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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
These are 1930s/40s level human rights violations happening here in the US right now, and the people responsible seem unlikely to face any consequences.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
These are 1930s/40s level human rights violations happening here in the US right now, and the people responsible seem unlikely to face any consequences.
I still think the spatial aspect of Mamdani’s campaign hasn’t been as fully discussed or interpreted as it could be. ie. a politician using the visual rhetoric of being in the city and immersed in it, and going to many different places on the subway. It’s a close-up instead of distant use of scale.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still think the spatial aspect of Mamdani’s campaign hasn’t been as fully discussed or interpreted as it could be. ie. a politician using the visual rhetoric of being in the city and immersed in it, and going to many different places on the subway. It’s a close-up instead of distant use of scale.
Feel like I remember seeing a particular image that circulated online a few years ago of a suburban neighborhood where you had to travel a long distance to get between two nearby points that were separated by a cul-de-sac. Does anyone remember what the image/story was?
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Feel like I remember seeing a particular image that circulated online a few years ago of a suburban neighborhood where you had to travel a long distance to get between two nearby points that were separated by a cul-de-sac. Does anyone remember what the image/story was?
How do you figure out whether or not you still exist? What are some ways of testing your continued existence? (Metaphorically speaking of course.)
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
How do you figure out whether or not you still exist? What are some ways of testing your continued existence? (Metaphorically speaking of course.)
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Design is the most important part of any project and the thing we breeze past immediately. It is also the step that AI is really bad at doing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Design is the most important part of any project and the thing we breeze past immediately. It is also the step that AI is really bad at doing.
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“For kids it is also a valuable lesson: Sometimes the only candy available will not be a glorious full-size Twix bar, but rather a strange shapeless globule of taffy with only a rudimentary owl face on its packaging, and you can choose to have this or no candy at all.”
Bring back weird Halloween candies: defector.com/bring-back-w...
Bring Back Weird Halloween Candies | Defector
I don’t give out candy, or anything else, on Halloween. Not for reasons of miserliness or whatever; I simply live in a spooky-looking (at night) log cabin at the end of a very long and dark driveway…
defector.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“For kids it is also a valuable lesson: Sometimes the only candy available will not be a glorious full-size Twix bar, but rather a strange shapeless globule of taffy with only a rudimentary owl face on its packaging, and you can choose to have this or no candy at all.”
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the thing most americans seem to forget and ignore when they’re talking about AI and whether or not it should exist is the fact that US tech companies are not the only ones developing AI — we can’t control china and other countries
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
the thing most americans seem to forget and ignore when they’re talking about AI and whether or not it should exist is the fact that US tech companies are not the only ones developing AI — we can’t control china and other countries
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OH: “real XML has never been tried”
October 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
OH: “real XML has never been tried”
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Data physicalization!
It is done! I knit a budget sweater for the first 7 years of the Textile Makerspace. One row in bright red, full circumference is $2k. Black lines are year dividers. The sleeves are paid student labor, with hours worked in brown. Sleeve on left is color coded by pronouns, right by gender. #DHmakes
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Data physicalization!
Was excited yesterday to go to the launch event for my former architecture professor Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life. It shares some provocative projects and ideas!
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Was excited yesterday to go to the launch event for my former architecture professor Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life. It shares some provocative projects and ideas!
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
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Interested in data centers? In critical data center studies?
Here's an open biblio -- anyone can add or borrow from it. Please do add anything that's missing. Enjoy!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Here's an open biblio -- anyone can add or borrow from it. Please do add anything that's missing. Enjoy!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Critical Data Center Studies
Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; Sa...
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interested in data centers? In critical data center studies?
Here's an open biblio -- anyone can add or borrow from it. Please do add anything that's missing. Enjoy!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Here's an open biblio -- anyone can add or borrow from it. Please do add anything that's missing. Enjoy!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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“…when Dr. Gorbunova and Dr. Seluanov inserted the bowhead CIRBP gene into human cells, the rate of DNA repair in those cells doubled.”
If we had hunted them to extinction, we wouldn’t have learned this. I’m feeling grateful to all the 1970s “save the whales” activists.
If we had hunted them to extinction, we wouldn’t have learned this. I’m feeling grateful to all the 1970s “save the whales” activists.
Life Lessons from (Very Old) Bowhead Whales
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“…when Dr. Gorbunova and Dr. Seluanov inserted the bowhead CIRBP gene into human cells, the rate of DNA repair in those cells doubled.”
If we had hunted them to extinction, we wouldn’t have learned this. I’m feeling grateful to all the 1970s “save the whales” activists.
If we had hunted them to extinction, we wouldn’t have learned this. I’m feeling grateful to all the 1970s “save the whales” activists.