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Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa

#climate #electricity #grid #infrastructure #kenya #solar | Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

4 weeks ago | View Shared by victor
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Tonga | The Guardian

#infrastructure #internet #longread | A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

2 months ago | View Shared by victor
A common urban intersection in the Netherlands – BICYCLE DUTCH

#bike #cycling #infrastructure #netherlands #streets

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Opinion: We Need More Consequences for Reckless Driving. But That Doesn't Mean More Punishment

#cars #incentives #infrastructure #police #safety #toread #urbanplanning | "Punishment" and "consequences" aren't synonyms — and when we confuse the two, we lose lives on our roads.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Why GPS Is Under Attack

#gps #infrastructure #security #toread #us | Satellite signals run the modern world. See just how vulnerable they are.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

#advertising #control #decentralization #infrastructure #internet #podcasts #rss | A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic

#archiving #infrastructure #internet #size #video #youtube

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
The violence of lighting in Khayelitsha

#apartheid #infrastructure #lighting #racism #toread | Located 42km from Cape Town’s city centre sits Khayelitsha and its self-built communities, with tall floodlights hovering above its roughly one million

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world

#book #infrastructure #to_read #world

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Grind Challenges

#bridge #infrastructure #maintenance #nyc #toread | The grand challenges of engineering are widely celebrated, but the grind challenges—like testing and standards—go underappreciated.

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Dangers of Elite Projection

#cities #decisionmaking #economics #infrastructure #politics #psychology | (Leer en español aquí.) Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole. Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
The ghost junction

#infrastructure #money #roads #uk

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
By Design

#architecture #history #infrastructure #kitchens #organisation #society #usa | <blockquote>The history of kitchen design is full of feminist utopias founded on white supremacy.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
RevK®'s ramblings: It's official, ADSL works over wet string

#adsl #connectivity #infrastructure #internet #technology #wire

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why your team doesn't need to use pull requests

#automation #continuous_integration #development #infrastructure | <blockquote>Github introduced the pull request practice, and features to support it, to make it easier for people who run open-source projects to accept contributions fr...</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit - VICE

#america #cars #cities #government #infrastructure #transportation | <blockquote>America is worse at building and operating public transit than nearly all of its peers. Why is that? And what can we do to fix it?</blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Protected Intersections for Bicyclists | A new design for US streets

#cycling #design #infrastructure #safety #urban_planning

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet - Motherboard

#detroit #diy #fiber #fiber_optic #humans #infrastructure #internet #social_justice | <blockquote>40 percent of Detroit residents don't have any access to internet at all.</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
André Staltz - An off-grid social network

#distributed #diy #grid #infrastructure #internet #network #offline #social | <blockquote>User Interface Programmer</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
ArquitecturB

#architecture #art #infrastructure #photography #tumblr

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
City cycling in London is a joke - mux' blog - Tweakblogs - Tweakers

#cyclepaths #cycling #infrastructure #london #netherlands #rant #roads #transport

10 years ago | View Shared by victor

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