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Isabel Richards
@1sabelR@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

(1/3) What do #reflexive practices look like on #cybernetic fieldwork?

For our research team, we use a combination of #embodied methods and second-order #cybernetics to inspire fresh perspectives on historical #technologies, the natural #environment, and past identities in #Australia ☀️🤖💡 We “explore the emotions, sensations, and lived experiences of us as researchers and the researched (telegraph workers, surveyors, repeater stations, railway lines etc.).”

But how do we do this? …⬇️⬇️

Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Isabel Richards
@1sabelR@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

(1/3) What do #reflexive practices look like on #cybernetic fieldwork?

For our research team, we use a combination of #embodied methods and second-order #cybernetics to inspire fresh perspectives on historical #technologies, the natural #environment, and past identities in #Australia ☀️🤖💡 We “explore the emotions, sensations, and lived experiences of us as researchers and the researched (telegraph workers, surveyors, repeater stations, railway lines etc.).”

But how do we do this? …⬇️⬇️

Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Two hand drawn maps of the overland telegraph line through Australia. The bottom one is a sketch of gibber plains with key sites such as Coober Pedy, Oodnadatta, and Strangways Springs. The top one is a map with prose “we joke about songs we will write, the ballads of dirt and dynamite, over the crackle of walkie talkies. We follow the lines on the map and off the map again, chasing shadows of the nineteenth century and men we can never meet, even though we talk about them like admired friends and bosses we never had. We wash red earth off our hands and faces everyday, and everyday there is more. We see the signs everywhere - poles, insulators, track, tree stumps - as we call the names down the wire - beltana, strangways, the Peake. We call other names too - Araban, Arrernte, Adamanye. We are connected through this country, those lines, these stories, that time.”
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻
@mapache@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Ok, regarding #bluesky and #missisipi, #uk, #australia I think a great opportunity for age verification would be a company using something like @badgefed , where there only purpose is to do physical world credentials verification, and then emit a decentralized badge (18+ years old) and then companies can just use that badge to let them login.

I mean, if the badges are emitted to fediprofiles, they can even login with their accounts!

Dreaming awake I know.

#fediverse #atproto
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻
@mapache@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Ok, regarding #bluesky and #missisipi, #uk, #australia I think a great opportunity for age verification would be a company using something like @badgefed , where there only purpose is to do physical world credentials verification, and then emit a decentralized badge (18+ years old) and then companies can just use that badge to let them login.

I mean, if the badges are emitted to fediprofiles, they can even login with their accounts!

Dreaming awake I know.

#fediverse #atproto
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Australia's Fortescue secured a yuan-denominated loan worth 14.2 billion Chinese yuan ($1.98 billion) to ramp up its decarbonisation plans, weeks after scrapping its $550 million green hydrogen project with the U.S. due to policy uncertainty.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/australias-fortescue-secures-yuan-loan-worth-2-billion-green-energy-plans-2025-08-07/

https://hydrogenindustryleaders.com/fortescue-cancels-550-million-green-hydrogen-hub-project-in-buckeye-amid-us-policy-uncertainty/

#usa #china #australia #economics #geopolitics
simonv
@simonv@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week
#storytime ...so during pandemic (late 2020), I found a local Gumtree ad for somebody giving away some SPARC hardware and some software that came with it (boxed bundle of Solaris 2.5.1 server with extra stuff I recall). The guy who was giving it way had more stuff but I don't drive so I lugged what I could from Wolli Creek all the way home. It wasn't a typical SparcStation 10 so I had to look it up and after going down an interesting rabbit hole I believe it to be a locally sold clone/variant known as a 'PizzaPAC'.

Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.

Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))

Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html

#sparc #australia #ancienthistory
simonv
@simonv@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week
#storytime ...so during pandemic (late 2020), I found a local Gumtree ad for somebody giving away some SPARC hardware and some software that came with it (boxed bundle of Solaris 2.5.1 server with extra stuff I recall). The guy who was giving it way had more stuff but I don't drive so I lugged what I could from Wolli Creek all the way home. It wasn't a typical SparcStation 10 so I had to look it up and after going down an interesting rabbit hole I believe it to be a locally sold clone/variant known as a 'PizzaPAC'.

Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.

Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))

Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html

#sparc #australia #ancienthistory
Fedi.Garden 🌱
@FediGarden@social.growyourown.services  ·  activity timestamp last week

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