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Life-Centred Design | Action research | Germination | 回 originally a spiral 🐚 同志 🪷 May all beings be free 🪷

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Jackson Keys @jackson-keys.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/03/2026
“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”
restofworld.org
From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI
Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.
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GRAIN @grain.org · 15/05/2026
Digital justice movements and platform workers challenge Big Tech’s power around the world. The food sovereignty movement is also active on digital issues. To fight back Big Tech we also need to build alliances with those confronting digital trade. grain.org/e/7380
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How are those 'Sustainable' Limited Edition coffee capsules sourced? Machine learning models trained over surveilled satellite imagery, predicting remote growing areas unknown. Surveyor sent out to validate predicted GPS coordinates. Will he get lucky? New CO2 polygon captured + locked in.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/09/2025
White Supremacy, Ableism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia, Eugenics, Colonialism, Extractivism… These projects (and more) are all bound up at the roots, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Never forget that.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"Either war is obsolete or men are." Fuller - 1966
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ontological unrest.
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Grist @grist.org · 03/09/2025
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow. Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty. grist.org/food-and-agr... #PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
grist.org
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Tongzhi (同志), the all-encompassing term for queer people in China also means 'comrade'.
magazine.catapult.co
My Queer Chinese Comrades, in My Mother Tongue
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 02/09/2025
Even as they fight colonialism, it is still deeply embedded in the culture.
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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“People doubted the Internet, too” no we doubted NFTs and the metaverse and other such bullshit these snake oil peddlers tried to hustle shut up
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
On this day 80 years ago, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence - freedom from Japanese occupation, as well as an end to French colonialism. He and his ideals were ostracised by reinforced French control, aided by British and American support.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere.” 2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel. 💔
theguardian.com
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
'The ores extracted from holes in the ground were sold to create the stories in the air. The deeper the extractions went, the higher the great towers of office work stretched into the sky' - Kate Crawford, Atlas of A.I. The wound and the polished facade.
The image shown is not an ore mine but is used for comparison with it's accompanying image. This image shows a vast marble/stone quarry, carved deep into the earth. Towering vertical walls of stone rise high, cut into precise geometric blocks, their surfaces - serrated grey. At the base of the quarry, large rectangular slabs of marble have been separated, with machinery, cables, and ladders scattered across the floor. Dwarfed by the massive scale of the quarry, workers and equipment appear tiny against the monumental rock face, emphasizing the immensity of human extraction compared to the natural landscape. In contrast to Ore deposits often appear as veins, streaks, or patches within host rock, and the site would look more chaotic, with piles of fragmented rubble rather than neatly cut blocks. This site is producing dimension stone. Dimension stone is used intact for buildings.The buildings rise steeply, their sharp angles and repeating window grids creating a sense of precision and order. The mirrored glass panels capture fragments of neighboring structures, producing a play of reflections that blurs where one building ends and another begins. The perspective emphasizes height and verticality, making the towers appear monumental and almost abstract against the empty expanse of sky. To the left of the image, we see a surveillance camera, perched on an arc of metal - watching. There is a large red 'no-entry' sign on the bottom right of the image. There are cranes perched on top of the buildings - construction of steel, metal and stone towers continues.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
No comment.
The image is a surreal artwork showing the large, disembodied head of an elderly Caucasian man resting on a hospital bed. His head is attached to numerous wires and electrodes, connected to medical monitors. Around him, a group of doctors in white coats observe and take notes, as if studying his brain or consciousness. He has a dull, lifeless eyes - staring into space. This scene is impossible in reality — the man’s body is absent, leaving only his head as the patient.

Treating consciousness and life as a series of measurable signals.
The man is under surveillance and control — the wires and machines symbolize how modern medicine and technology monitor and manage human existence. He is totally disembodied. The rest of the body (and perhaps the soul) is absent. The patient is present physically (his head), but absent in fullness (his whole personhood), highlighting the tension between science and humanity.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is what solidarity against USAI-funded murder looks like! Saoirse don Phailistín 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!
peoplesdispatch.org
The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 ships will set sail for Gaza : Peoples Dispatch
Global Sumud Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocidal war waged on Palestinians.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Cultural spaces are lifelines for communities, not just for 'fun and decadence'. Dancefloors are sites of resistance and togetherness.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"Perhaps we lose sight of wisdom when we try to see the world from a godlike perspective." - one of 'masculine maximalism'.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It called those who see behind the mystification & the illusions 'woke' because it fears the people's awareness. It fears others waking up to the fact that we are all oppressed. We are all colonized. It is the ontology of colonization itself and it replicates like a virus inside the host until seen.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
All of our struggles are interconnected. All of them.
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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Humanitarian groups say that 'Israel' has blocked fruits with pits or seeds that could be planted, such as olives or dates, from being sent to Gaza. truthout.org/articles/tho...
truthout.org
Those With Chronic Illness in Gaza Say They’re Denied a Bare Minimum to Survive
Living with chronic illness means not just fighting disease and hunger, but also trauma and a collapsed health system.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
jasonhickel.substack.com
Why does the US support Israel's crimes?
Why does the US support Israel’s genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of overwhelming international condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing ...
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses. "It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
osw.waw.pl
The act on the land market – a key step towards the development of Ukrainian agriculture
On 28 April, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the Act on introducing an agricultural land market in Ukraine. The document envisages that the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land will be part...
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Buffer Zone: Surrounding the core zone, the buffer zone allows for limited human activities that do not threaten conservation goals. Core Zone: This is the innermost area where human activities are strictly prohibited.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
And the 'cutest branding' prize goess to my mango 🥭🐥
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"He imposes his own contours on the vanquished who internalise this shape and become ambiguous beings 'housing' another."
media.tenor.com
a woman is talking on a cell phone in a room .
ALT: a woman is talking on a cell phone in a room .
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
An entity's role is whatever it needs to be in order to bring more life into the system
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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Recently posted to our events board: 💻 Rooted in Justice: Global Voices on Indigenous Food Sovereignty 📔 Hosted by @futureoffood.bsky.social 🗓️ 2 Sept 2025 from 14:30 - 16:00 BST 🌍 Online ➡️
buff.ly
Rooted in Justice: Global Voices on Indigenous Food Sovereignty | TableDebates
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are a powerful pathway to food justice. They offer a holistic approach to food systems that protect nature, restore degraded lands and ecosystems, and support…
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konagirlartist.bsky.social @konagirlartist.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Food sovereignty is true sovereignty. #AlohaAina #kawaiola #environmentaljustice #waterprotectors #indigenouswisdom #sustainability #NationofHawai`i youtu.be/24uCCr3KjCI?...
youtu.be
How Hawaiian Rebels are Rebuilding an Ancient Food Paradise
YouTube video by Andrew Millison
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
AI reproduces the oppressors methods of domination -it instills a command and control ontology which cultivates the oppressor housed within - guiding, ordering and commanding.
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Katie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Earlier this year, I went to Zambia's Copperbelt region to report on environmental damage caused by China's Belt and Road Initiative. A Chinese state-owned mining company's waste pit, known as a tailings dam, had spewed millions of gallons of acidic and toxic sludge into communities and rivers. 🧵
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Many boomers, especially white heterosexual men... have felt disoriented as their world has shifted and changed around them. The clean energy transition symbolizes part of this change."
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Is this the seat at the table you wanted?
particle.news
Particle News: Trump Launches 'America by Design,' Creating National Design Studio in the White House
Agencies face a July 4, 2026 results deadline under a three-year White House design push.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
During a fit of fascistic authoritarianism - under the smoke and screen of legacy holographic left/right-isms - it pivoted to techno-eyeball-scanning-cryptocorporate-feudalism, all while preaching safety and liberation through algorithmic governance. 🧵...
The image shows a snake's eyeball hovering like a planet on a black background. Below the glaring eyeball are the letters 'P = NP' in white capital letters.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
One of the most impactful and harrowingly beautiful documentaries I've ever seen - I still think about it. The opening scene gave me shivers. I wonder how those workers are doing today.
filmsforaction.org
Manufactured Landscapes (trailer)
2 minutes | MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature-length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarr...
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In collective action, we create a space for different knowledge forms to thrive. "Meitheal is the Irish expression of the ancient & universal appliance of cooperation to social need.” #speirgorm
diankillian.substack.com
Sheltering Each Other: Longing for "Meitheal" in our Modern Times
This summer at Irish school in Ballyferriter, mo mhúinteoir (my teacher) repeatedly used the word meitheal even when speaking English.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Complex, beautiful & with no discernible beginning or end, the Celtic knot embodies the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. These digital versions also reminds us of our intricate dance with technology - bound up together in a continuous cycle.
This digital Celtic knot is blue and white. The rendering of this knot shows how the paths criss-cross and intersect - even moving through and repeating itself at various points. Celtic knots are typically characterized by interwoven lines with no discernible beginning or end, suggest a metaphysical representation of eternity and interconnectedness.This digital Celtic knot is pink and orange and looks like extruded Play Dough. It forms 5 rings woven together at different angles with the negative space created looking like stars. Celtic knots are typically characterized by interwoven lines with no discernible beginning or end, suggest a metaphysical representation of eternity and interconnectedness. This digital Celtic knot is bright green. Celtic knots are typically characterized by interwoven lines with no discernible beginning or end, suggest a metaphysical representation of eternity and interconnectedness. This one depicts green loops and interlaces, spirals and steps.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future ... in the "here and now," which constitutes the situation within which they are submerged, from which they emerge, and in which they intervene."
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Often, people simply want to trade 'facts' and call this connection - claiming arbitrage of the truth whilst reinforcing a dynamic. Right/wrong conditioning ignores the beautifully intricate, contradictory interdependence of reality. Strange loops, indeed.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A system built on dehumanization.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A Three Body Problem: [ Feudalism 2.0, Enlightenment 2.0, Romanticism 2.0 ]
Detail of the spiritual theatre of Wat Suan Mokkh in the Surat Thani province of Thailand. Wat Suan Mokkh was established in 1932 by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. This mural depicts enlightenment and suffering.Fate: Liquidated / converted into corporations. VEB Kombinat Robotron was was the largest East German electronics manufacturer. As a VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb, or "People-Owned Enterprise") Kombinat, it functioned as a conglomerate of related companies under centralized state management. This image shows a parade with female workers parading PC 1715 on roller trolleys at a parade in East Berlin, 1987.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Mindfulness reminder to self: Every bite carries a system of care and control. To eat mindfully is to taste that paradox.
A pear still clinging to its branch, artificially sculpted into the serene form of a meditating Buddha using a removable plastic mold. This fusion of human intervention and natural growth invites contemplation on the commodification of wild nature, the ethics of manipulated food, and the journey from tree to table. A symbol of late-capitalist novelty, urging mindfulness about how we shape and consume the living world.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"It’s an attempt to create a local food system and is like microdosing socialism" - Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project Volunteer, New York
insideclimatenews.org
A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy - Inside Climate News
The Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project grows more than beans and greens. It is an open-air classroom about nutrition high in the sky between Port Authority and the Lincoln Tunnel.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"It’s still uncertain how to solve the terrible maths of food’s climate problem... we need to keep trying things until there is some tangible progress." This looks like an interesting read. Thank you for the heads-up @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In Vietnam, they say 'về để đi' - to return, in order, to go. Just like the Sankofa bird in the image, I'll look back to move forward. Next week, I'll be sharing lessons from some past projects that still resonate today in the hopes that they might spark some insights and further explorations.
Entangled Time Tree acknowledging the interweaving of multiple ways of knowing the future, linked to multiple presents and threads of multiple pasts. Rather than flowing from right to left, time is conceived as a baobab tree with deep roots in the past referencing the ancestors, and acknowledging the multiple lost and erased knowleges and distorted truths from the past that inform multiple presents from which the branches of the future arise. We illustrate three potential ways of thinking through these future spaces, one that is circular and does not project up, but returns to be grounded in an infinity loop with pasts. The second draws on the Sankofa icon to reference the need for groundedness in the past as the future is navigated. Finally, the multiple time cones draws on the diverse literatures on opening up from projected time and recognising that there are multiple subjectivites informing the boundaries of each cone. Each pathway is porous and can be influenced by each other, referencing the Cat’s cradle string game of rhizomatic relations connecting multiple cultures and how there is no singular dominant viewpoint. We offer this heuristic as a talking point for further discussion and more examples from other cultural contexts
Source: Authors of linked journal article.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Walked past a ‘Rebuild Ukraine’ pitch in Berlin's Factory back in 2023 and popped in out of curiosity. This image was on the screen, presented by a Ukrainian mining official. The map tells the story, no? Ukraine has around five per cent of the world’s total mineral resources.
'THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF UKRAINE' lists extracted commodities in icons: Oil, Metals, Gas, Precious metals, Coal, Rare earth metals, and Ores. The minimalist design evokes a corporate or governmental presentation.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Every now and again, I think about the 'endangered elements' table from my material science lectures. Some of these are in your phone right now. Funny how we were taught to design engineer for linear mass production while staring at a chart screaming: 'We’re running out.'. #TechWaste #RightToRepair
The building blocks for everything on Earth are made from 90 different naturally occurring elements.

This visualization made by the European Chemical Society (EuChemS), shows a periodic table of these 90 different elements, highlighting which ones are in abundance and which ones are in serious threat as of 2021.

On the graphic, the area of each element relates to its number of atoms on a logarithmic scale. The color-coding shows whether there’s enough of each element, or whether the element is becoming scarce, based on current consumption levels.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/08/2025
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In the past my teammates picked up military-related projects that I was able to turn down because management knew someone else would do it. This, unfortunately, does not surprise.
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