Not sure I understand what you mean by "Social Practice theory", nor if you're looking for examples of socially pressured changes in #infrastructure or rather general deliberation and theorizing about that. Could you elaborate a bit so I can see if I can give some suggestions?
It’s too bad #Biden told states to spend their excess COVID relief funds on paying #police and not on upgrading school air quality #infrastructure and prophylactic PPE like N95. #health#children
I've been saying this for some time now. Never thought I'd see a US department say the same — but the NYC Department of transportation just did! And it's not the first time I've seen them post some really good stuff about bikes. This gives me hope.
Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My family is dying.
(yeah, ok, it's fun to make fun of individuals like this, but it's mostly society who are at fault. no one should need to commute this far daily, just to survive, and no one should live in a place where it's not safe to bike. yet still many do, and that's seldom their fault.)
I'm still looking for contract work! Architecture for computer services and products of pretty much any kind, software and infrastructure. Rust and Elixir are strong suits, distributed systems as well. I'm available for short term and long term contracts.
«Across Europe, many dams are either approaching the end of their operational life, or the costs of their maintenance are outweighing the benefits they provide. Similarly, in the United States, many are due to be re-licensed, sparking discussions about whether they are still fit to yield services. And it is not just big dams: millions of small barriers block European rivers.»
"People keep dying in crashes on #Portland’s streets, 15 so far this year. [#transportation] #Infrastructure isn’t the only reason for that—but it’s the factor that’s most fully the city’s responsibility, and most directly under the city’s control, and we still aren’t doing as much as we can." #VisionZero#pdxBikes 💯 @bikeloudpdx members putting it on the record every week
Pro-Trump, election-denying #Republican Rep. Pete Stauber took credit for an #infrastructure boost - replacement of a huge bridge between #Duluth, MN & Superior, WI - only to be reminded by Pete #Buttigieg that he, Stauber, had voted "no" on #Biden's infrastructure bill:
The critics are right, rather than have seasonal chaos during to #engineerng works, the #railways & other #infrastructure could be repaired in the first week of January... the UK could have a state-defined #workingfromhome week, with those required to attend the workplace having subsidised travel laid on to avoid the disruption(s), and the whole thing co-ordinated by an active Govt. in the public interest...
Sorry, don't know what happened there, I think I'm hallucinating or something.... sorry
Again, I agree, except that the blood is already of insufficient distance now.
The cloud, corporate, and marketing #infrastructure still subsidizes / enables all of this independent #shortwave radio.
I struggle to grok a vision of the open-source #Fediverse as a place which demonstrates its values to those who most need to see, hear, and read anything about it…by defederating.
A true 1950s banality, charcaterizing the problem(s) as one of omnipotent machines vs. omnipotent humans. That machines, like all tools and tech #infrastructure, create preferences, necessities, and practical constraints that contribute to and determine the options human beings have in their decisions, in fact, the human-machine symbiosis that is in existence since the Palaeolithic, is conveniently ignored in favour of a conception of man of free agency. That is rubbish. Not only with regard to man-in-environment constraints, but also with regard to an underlying scientism that relies heavily in its naïvety on a primitive 19th and 20th century Empricism.
«The International Energy Agency now projects oil, gas, and coal use will all peak this decade. This constitutes a dramatic shift from the last 150 years when the thirst for fossil fuels persistently rose. But now this growth is nearing its end sooner than many expected, driven in part by a surge in renewables.
This significant event, however, masks a more striking possible future: One in which total global energy use peaks and energy’s weight in world affairs diminishes. [...]
In a broader sense, just as history has included the stone, bronze and iron ages, we have been living since the Industrial Revolution in an energy age. But this age, during which energy has dominated so many economic, geopolitical and other dimensions, may be coming to an end with peak energy.»
A bit confusing is the author's talk of "energy peak" which seems to lumb together energy and electricity demands. Thus, whereas I can see a decline in energy demands, I don't see them with regard to electricity demands. (Esp. with all the decarbonisation of industries necessary to accomplish mitigation with climate change.)
Anyway, an interesting piece with a lot of interesting links. Surely countering my musings on #peakrenewables with #peakenergy as the broader concept.