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Upcoming talk at UC Berkeley!

Meet our next speaker

Julia Solano
a multidimensional designer and maker whose work thrives at the intersection of art, technology, and futures.

She founded Making Tangible Studio and she is also the Community Architect for The Tech We Want.

Don't miss it — RSVP link:
https://luma.com/1nub6ckh

🗓 Monday, October 27th at 5:30 PM
📍 Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

[SOLD OUT]

Monday's event with Dr. Ivan Poupyrev on Physical AI is sold out, but we have two more sessions left in our Design Field Notes series at UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute. Join our mailing list to catch the next ones. Looking forward to an inspiring evening.

https://luma.com/DesignFieldNotesFA25

We're halfway through our speaker series at Berkeley!

We've had inspiring speakers on groundbreaking work from neurotech to DNA data encoding to kinetic art.

Coming up on Monday the 20th: Ivan Poupyrev, his name is synonym of big ideas in the space of interaction design whose startup Archetype AI is pioneering a Physical take on AI.

Join us for an exciting conversation about the future of tech at Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation, Monday 20th at 5:30pm!

https://luma.com/nqyj6g9w?utm_source=psm

Qualcomm buys @arduino 

Congrats to the team and @mbanzi! While this might shake makers, I'm excited to see what Arduino's founders will do next, and for Arduino to have a major company's support to stay competitive in a ever concentrated tech space and create a new category for makers - with never seen capabilities on the edge. Best wishes for Arduino to stay competitive and relevant! #Arduino #Qualcomm

#MakerCommunity #IoT #OpenSource

https://www.arduino.cc/qualcomm/

#mastodon to me is such a marvel of serendipity to come across jaw dropping stuff in so many domains. The concentration of extraordinary people and ideas seems to be so high all have to do is just read on.

#thankyou #awe #grateful

Episode 3 of our lecture series 🚀

Next Monday: Jussi Agnesleva — multidimensional artist creating experiences from the future by fusing design, algorithms & mechatronics.

This is going to be 🔥

RSVP Link:
https://luma.com/mf7qnjfv?utm_source=ps

It's easy to invent the car, but hard to predict the traffic jam.

These and other discussions about the impact on design in charting the future of emerging technologies in a series of lectures at UC Berkeley.

Join us every Monday, free and open:

https://medium.com/@pierdr/design-field-notes-reclaiming-the-future-through-design-8fc1a79c87fd

Introducing Design Field Notes: Where makers, artists & designers share how they're crafting optimistic futures and reclaiming technology as something the design discipline can directly influence.
Read more about the series 👇

https://medium.com/@pierdr/design-field-notes-reclaiming-the-future-through-design-8fc1a79c87fd

Meet Monika Seyfried: interaction designer, researcher & futurist exploring tech-nature interdependencies.
Her crafts spans from biotech to interactive exhibitions.

Come listent to Monika on our open lecture on Mon Sept 29, 5:30 PM in Berkeley.

RSVP:
https://luma.com/vhundu8b

In a future drowning in data, what do we choose to remember?Designer Monika Seyfried creates provocative scenarios that force us to confront the ethical dilemmas of our tech age.

Come listen to her in Berkeley!
Mon Sept 29, 5:30 PM ✨

https://luma.com/vhundu8b?utm_source=pso1

Yesterday we had a blast with the first lecture! 🚀

Next Mon we're hosting Monika, who explores how living systems can reshape our future. She creates immersive mixed-reality experiences at the intersection of biotech, digital media & nature.

RSVP here:
https://luma.com/vhundu8b?utm_source=pso

I’m super excited to host a Design Lecture Series in Berkeley University this fall, starting tomorrow.

We have put together a lineup of radical makers and thinkers to create a platform for inspiration in the Bay Area.

Join us in person!

RSVP Link:

https://luma.com/DesignFieldNotesFA25?k=c

A conversation with Arseni Harkunou about the reality of hardware innovation.

From Apple's culture to startup lessons - we covered why even the best teams struggle, the future of voice interfaces, and building products that actually matter.
Thanks for having me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdvyAQ08HU

The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word

by #CaitlinJohnstone
Jul 15, 2025

The #NewYorkTimes has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what #Israel is doing in #Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.

It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.

In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and #genocide studies named #OmerBartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out #Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow #Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-new-york-times-finally-stops?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #NYT
#news #press #politics @palestine

Data that tells a story.

Here is my **indoor** air quality sensor showing the air getting bad during the fireworks of 4th of July.

This is a symptom of the disconnect we have with our environment, how little do we understand it, how little we care for it.

Important to watch.
Nothing new, but well explained.
Datacenters are drying up drinking water supplies & consume the energy of cities - models with less/little compute are possible & the public needs to step up to understand the consequences of big tech in their backyards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU&t=905s&sttick=0

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Stop feeding the hand that bites you. 🦈

Tomorrow at UC Berkeley: I'm exploring how nature's 4-billion-year design process can guide human creativity with ecological architect Dr. Eugene Tssui.
Exclusive documentary footage + my students' work exhibition.

#design #biomimicry #architecture #sustainability

https://lu.ma/fsnxcbt8?tk=j6xEZu