@debcha.bsky.social - Deb Chachra bsky.app

Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: You can make chocolate chip cookie dough, portion it out onto baking sheets, freeze it, and transfer the raw cookies t...
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About those electricity poles in Bad Bunny’s halftime show — the song is “El Apagón” (“The Blackout”) and the official music video was released as a 23min docum...
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I write and talk about energy and borders and that our collective infrastructure is how we take care of one another, and I like to point out that I’m just one o...
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If you’re thinking, “I should learn Spanish 🤔”, I highly encourage it.
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So so glad this book will be out in the world!
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If I were obscenely wealthy all of my friends would be getting handwritten letters from me all the time like we were in a 19th century epistolary novel.
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Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo...
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My brilliant friend Ån wrote a searing-yet-hopeful newsletter about the promises of computers, creativity, and connection in the current moment, where it all se...
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A glorious paean to the power of living in a multicultural, pluralistic community.
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I don’t make a habit of listening to speeches out of Davos, but this is genuinely one for the history books: a clear-eyed acknowledgment that the old internatio...
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Today in Canada/US news: a beloved boulder* that went missing from its home in Squamish, BC in the fall was just found in the Californian desert (wearing a toqu...
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It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day today in the US, which means I am going to take some time and sit down for a re-read of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”.
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If you’ve heard me talk at any point in the past five years, at least, odds are good you’ve heard me reference this quote.
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[cx link] I was invited by the Future Observatory Journal of the Design Museum, London, to contribute to the ABUNDANCE issue. I wrote about energy and matter
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I was invited by the Future Observatory Journal of the Design Museum, London, to contribute to their ABUNDANCE issue. I wrote about energy and matter
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Will personally co-sign on this one — I bought a Beam Paints watercolour card (the Spectrum card) and they are just lovely paints.
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Ye gods, SAME.
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A useful clarification! Especially for people like me — I’ve had a Metrocard pretty much since they came out, despite never having lived in NYC, so I rarely kno...
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End of a transit era in NYC this NYE: you can no longer use a Metrocard as of midnight. Pouring one out and playing this loud. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ih...
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The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice w...
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