@debcha.bsky.social
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.
NLRB
FAA: Investigations
NHTSA crash tests live
CISA: Los Angeles
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
this is very good
(& maybe a good thing to read when you're a bit sad and/or annoyed as a reminder)
(also I may have swapped in the words weird little noise at some point while reading just because)
they succeeded, in fact. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Shing has done so much stuff I love but this still might be my absolute favourite (also such a good entry point for others into their work).
Thread, and also a reminder to go read/watch @shing.bsky.social’s “MAKE LITTLE GUYS: a (very brief) manifesto”.
www.patreon.com/posts/make-l...
Thread, and also a reminder to go read/watch @shing.bsky.social’s “MAKE LITTLE GUYS: a (very brief) manifesto”.
www.patreon.com/posts/make-l...
I have not! (I don’t have Disney+ and they def have Borg’ed a lot of stuff I might otherwise see, but I’ll figure out how to watch it if you think I should!)
Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.
"Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump."
I think the colours are probably driven by the project, but this does seems like the perfect use case for an iridescent glass (like an iridescent dark blue or purple + a pearly white?)
I love you northeast Ohio regional sewer district ❤️
See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !
Week 1: Feed half the kids for a year
Week 2: Feed the other half
Week 3: Electricity guarantee for 1/10 of Americans.
Weeks 4-12: Electricity guarantee for everybody else.
We can save thousands of people from heat strokes and death this summer by mid-July at this rate.
Back of the envelope math: for the same $11.3 billion, we could end electricity shutoffs and pay the annual energy bill for every. single. person. in California who qualifies for energy assistance. (100% bill assistance for HH up to 80% AMI)
dazzle brigade reporting in, ma'am
With the Sephora livery, maybe it will be difficult for the other drivers to estimate her range, speed, and heading.
I'm honestly reminded of this every day (and we have a bunch in common, I think?)
Sadly, I'm now too far away to make good on that necessarily in-person offer (otoh, if your kids ever need a place to stay on the other side of the border...)
[not unrelated: my standing offer to my friends' kids (including yours!) to call me if they ever need someone to post bail]
I am totally swiping this principle for my in-progress Aunty Manifesto -- that aunties (and uncles, and fairy godparents, and all the rest of us) are at the service of our niblings' liberty and autonomy.
I've read Francis Spufford's new novel NONESUCH already (#galleybrag, I guess, sorry sorry) and it is super-fun, highly recommended -- and out in the US as of yesterday!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b...
This is now and @ollywainwright.bsky.social is off to a great start (and I am very much missing down living the road from Harvard today!)
Architecture and built environment folks: this "Criticism Now: What's Next for Writing on the City?" panel is today; livestream starts in 2h. Ft. @langealexandra.bsky.social, Mimi Zeiger, etc. More info (including links to pieces by all the participants!) here:
www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/critic...
Kobayashi Maru that shit. The whole premise is bullshit. Shut the trolley down. No one needs to die.
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
An MV Kalakala fry boat might have to be a DIY retrofit but I have a laser printer, cardstock and an Olfa knife and would happily come down for Washington State F(er)ries.
A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.
Right? I just read it aloud three times (under my breath to myself, I’m on the bus, I’m not a monster) and it’s so the opposite of clunky that I don’t know where you’d could even *put* punctuation.
I’m on leave from Olin (DIY sabbatical, basically) and I relocated to Vancouver for the duration, as of last August.