“Bastard Chairs” by Michael Wolf, photographed between 2003-2005 “Photographed in the back alleys and streets of Hong Kong and mainland China, these hybrid seats were improvised repairs made by local residents using whatever materials were available. Broken plastic backs grafted onto wooden stools. Metal legs bolted i... Show more

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the split in “attention economy” discourse this is a term coined in political economy to describe the systematic harvesting of human cognition as a capital resource — one of the defining extractions of late capitalism, strip-mined for profit without meaningful consent in... Show more

In in my vibecode era

Public service infrastructure, delivery, and accountability needs to be better. looking forward to work on this at @decentralpark

Please be careful with your relationship to health & wellness industry. Remember that the best techniques to improve your physical and mental health are usually free, and don’t necessitate your entanglement into the hyper-consumerist web of subscription fitness models and obsessive body metric tracking.

Got my hands on @july ‘s roc camera and took a selfie (Not my camera sadly, it’s Ron’s lol)

Deconstruction Same, but different

Lounge lawn, Shanghai

“Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer t... Show more

Urbanism arc started early

I’ve been casting about this project for over a year, and now we’ve made a Decentral Park workshop around it :’) next step is to reimplement this again for real in NYC