Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 39

@lightweight you mean the current anti-spam system that uses Goggle #reSlavery, or the Goggle-free ones they are testing ATM?

@Aerdan I suspect that relocalizing most production and consumption, so we're not transporting the same (or equivalent) commodities out of countries and back into them from somewhere else, will also be a pretty important part of the solution. Since that would massively reduce our total energy spend on transport, which is in turn a huge chunk of our total energy use as a species.

@Aerdan there's a #TeslaTruck? That's potentially game-changing. Although for that potential to be realized, we'd need to increase global electricity generation 1000-fold or more to replace all fossil fuel driven vehicles with electric ones, without doing it by burning fossil fuels. But still, it's *potentially* good.

A sixth speaker. I think I'll have to skip out on the discussion, which I can't understand anyway, and find coffee. Speaker six for the second panel, a young woman with a tartan coat under a sleeveless windbreaker, is also using pretty text-heavy slides. Something about identity? My laptop died too, so I left once the discussion started. Now at a cafe recharging both my devices and myself ;)

The fifth speaker for panel 2 is an earnest young woman in an olive overcoat. Again, most of the slides are bullet points in Chinese, so I'm not sure what her talk in about. Graphics of feminine avatars? Photo of plastic toy representing bald guy in a sweater with a framed picture (or a tablet?) in his hands. Photos from #Westworld. Is this talk about #AI? Was that plastic bald guy a robot? Some names, #BenedictTay, #YounboJung, #TaezoonPark. Epilepsy-inducting flashing photo of 3 men.

Good to see that gender is pretty balanced at this conference so far - biased towards female speakers if anything - although notably more binary than you'd see at a typical western conference these days. Mind you, since I have no idea what anyone is saying, they could all be announcing their pronouns when they get up to speak.

There's a camera above the door, facing the seating area of the lecture theatre #Netizen21 is taking place in. I wonder if we're all being filmed and subjected to #FacialRecognition, and who has access to the camera feed, any recorded footage, and any resulting facial data?

@bhaugen OK, so it appears to be an optional service plan for people who want the benefits of self-hosting while still getting hands-on support from the creators, and to give them financial support. Does that address your concerns @aran ?

@bhaugen ah right, that makes sense. Excited to hear more about the #ActivityPub extensions. Has there been any discussion of these on https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks ?

@dsfgs at this point, that would be no less surreal than any other interpretation 😏

Today's speakers seems to come from a range of universities around China. Now we seems to be moving on to a panel discussion and/or Q+A with the first group of speakers.
#Netizen21.

More images infinite regression. Photo of #SlavojZizek. A surrealist painting. #RadiKarlArchiWe? a space suite on a couch. Everything is quite surreal when I have no idea what's being said 😏

Fifth speaker is talking about "Computer Vision Syndrome" and quoting #AnneFriedberg. Now she's talking about MS Windows and maybe how the overlapping nature of windows on a desktop contrasts with paintings like Alberti's Window and Magritte's window painting, and Friedberg's writing about windows. She quotes #JosephPieper and #TheInvisibleGorilla. Then moves on to "trees blindness" and tree walks. Then to teen use of#SocialMedia and discourses of #DigitalNarcissism.

I'm literally the only non-Asian person in the room, possibly the only non-Chinese person. This is a much more common experience for people of colour in tech situations than it is for me.

The fifth speaker is a young woman in a black Matrix coat and glasses whose presentation is entitled "Blindness". She seems to be talking about #ScreenStudies or "#screenology" and how much time people spend on average online.

What would you call a #FlashMob that turns up predictably at the same time every week? That's a common sight in public squares in China. Most of them seems to be huge dance classes.

Fourth speaker seems to be talking about #geotagging of notable architecture. She quotes #ManuelCastells. A photo of a set of sails above a city. #SailPunk? Photos of white folks in period aristocratic costume, and of palatial built environments, The White Palace? A photo of the contrast between low-rise and high-rise housing, in China? Photos of an old, communal neighbourhood. She quotes #PeterHall and others. A video of lit-up city nightscapes with massive group dancing.

Fourth speaker is a young woman wearing a grey overcoat and orange and black stripey pants. I approve 😉

The third speaker, another young man in hipster glasses is talking about #BertoltBrecht, and various other famous arts figures including John Cage. A B+W photo of an old French protest march. A photo representing infinite regression? Photo of the #Time issue with "You" as Person of the Year.

This second speaker is making minimal use of the presentation screen, as I often do. I'm having an experience maybe akin to that of a visual person attending one of my presentations 😏 He seems to be talking about various examples of #AI applications, and a #Rasabox? A tool for recognising emotions in human faces based on a #vedic schema? A photo of a person doing calligraphy with a brain scanning web attached. Who is Rosa? Why are these posts turning into bad haiku?