Jessica Caporusso

Absolutely! I just heard back from AAA and they’re aware of the issue; they’ll be pushing back the deadline until April 18th to accommodate

Same here! I’ve also sent a message and am awaiting a response.

Hopefully it gets resolved before the deadline tonight or they push it back to compensate

Major Internet Outages are Getting Bigger and Occurring More Often: A Reflection on the CrowdStrike IT Outage | Platypus Greater societal dependence on the internet means that downtime is more noticeable and more disruptive. This outage may at least prompt organizations to consider diversifying their network security, t...

What are the dangers of consolidating computing infrastructure? This week on #Platypus, A. R. E. Taylor writes about the ways that internet outages reveal the vulnerabilities of centralizing computing infrastructure💻

Read this piece on the link below!
blog.castac.org/2025/02/majo...

But it’s mostly mills/independent energy producers that are using it

It’s still used in sugar mills, absolutely, but for new applications. Diverse varietals are used for different purposes (energy cane, feedstock for bioplastics and bio ethanol, and of course sucrose extraction). Lots of innovation, but mostly around trying to find new uses away from table sugar

Merci!

Hi! So great to connect! I’m looking at some of the tensions between using bagasse and fatak for biomass incineration, especially given other possible options (photovoltaic, wave energy). As you might imagine, it’s not simply about technical concerns, but political (and nostalgic) ones, too

Could I be added to this list as well?

Substitution Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...

Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Decarbonation as Substitution? (Avec traduction française) COP28, which closed on December 13, 2023, was presented as signaling “‘the beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel e...

Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.

culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I can definitely see that! Batteries and storage in general will be one of the most pressing concerns to be sure

Fascinating! Would love to learn more about your work, especially with regards to electrification. Im interested in the transformation of by-products into co-products as a way to recuperate value from discards. This has all sort of implications for substituting agricultural inputs down the chain

Thank you!

Hi Everyone 👋

Given all the recent activity on BlueSky, this is as a good time as any to introduce myself. I’m an environmental anthropologist working on (neo)colonialism and green energy futures in Mauritius. I focus on the reimagining of colonial crops into durable biofuels and its consequences

Hi, could you please add me as well? Thank you!

Thank you! And yes, please do!

What a great list, thank you for compiling it! Would love to be added to it as well if possible. My work involves biofuels production and (post)colonial knowledge-making practices