@debcha@saturation.social

Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Feb 23, 2026

I'm nearing the end of a two-month residency at MakerLabs, a community fabrication space here in East Vancouver. I'll write and share more about it online soon, but if you're in the Lower Mainland, please come out this Wednesday, February 25th from 7-8:30pm to see what I've been up to, along with the rest of the cohort!

Link + RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tools-for-change-showcase-meetup-tickets-1974947151093

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social

Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Feb 14, 2026

A demonstration of how English scrobbles up words from other languages, in two sentences.

[from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque ]

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Shower thought: way more food is "mostly just grain + cheese + tomato" than you would think lasagna spaghetti (marina + parmesan etc) enchiladas grilled cheese & tomato soup nachos if there's salsa I

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Dec 22, 2025

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Kraft Dinner with ketchup. (sorry not sorry)

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social

Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Dec 19, 2025

“Why I Keep Returning to Middle Earth”.

This, by Tolkien scholar Michael D. C. Drout, is fascinating: textual analysis reveals the connection between how _The Lord of the Rings_ was written (and revised) and how it feels to read.

But, and also: In the words of @glennf@zeppelin.flights , it “stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through”.

In the heart.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/tolkien-grief-lord-rings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.cHMV.eG9y1OxU9wRB&

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FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80). Our national

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Sitting in a cafe in East Vancouver, BC (an hour north of WA) and this is what the intergenerational group at the table next to me is talking about — how they go hiking and camping on the other side of the border, and the impact (and message conveyed) by the sharp rise in costs for non-residents.

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Nov 20, 2025

One for @clive@saturation.social: “Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator.” Adversarial poetry is notably effective at delivering attack prompts for LLMs. https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

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@debcha@saturation.social @kevinriggle@ioc.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win I didn't know this!

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social

Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Nov 10, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @kevinriggle@ioc.exchange Here’s a bit more on the story, from the Museum of New York: https://www.mcny.org/story/contentious-history-supplying-water-manhattan

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Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social

Engineering professor (on leave 2025-26). Researcher, communicator, connector of things, people, and ideas. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.

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@debcha@saturation.social · Dec 15, 2024

Once again, it's time for that festive tradition of listening to holiday music. A lot of it, at once -- digitized and compressed and tweaked and regenerated into what can only be described as the musical essence of the festive spirit: @bwhitman@hachyderm.io's "A Singular Christmas."

Listen* here (download or stream), plus more details. Because who doesn't love a holiday album that has 'Statement and Methodology' in the liner notes?

https://notes.variogram.com/2009/11/30/a-singular-christmas-2004/

*drone, with occasional silver-y bell

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