@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.

So so glad this book will be out in the world!
bsky.app·14w·Bluesky
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.
bsky.app·15w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·15w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·15w·Bluesky
A glorious paean to the power of living in a multicultural, pluralistic community.
bsky.app·16w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·16w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·16w·Bluesky
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”.
bsky.app·16w·Bluesky
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.
bsky.app·17w·Bluesky
[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
bsky.app·18w·Bluesky
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
bsky.app·18w·Bluesky
Will personally co-sign on this one — I bought a Beam Paints watercolour card (the Spectrum card) and they are just lovely paints.
bsky.app·18w·Bluesky
Ye gods, SAME.
bsky.app·19w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·19w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·19w·Bluesky
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...
bsky.app·21w·Bluesky

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