CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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The Infrastructures of the Global Data Economy: Undersea Cables and International Law

The Infrastructures of the Global Data Economy: Undersea Cables and International Law by Roxana Vatanparast :: SSRN

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Beaver Infrastructure

‘Beavers are just being beavers’: friction grows between Canadians and animals | Canada | The Guardian

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Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers

The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage

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(via The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It - The Reboot)

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(via Apocalyptic Infrastructures)

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"[S]tructural linguistics shifts from the study of conscious linguistic phenomena to study of their unconscious infrastructure" Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1945 #InfrastructureStudies

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on Twitter: ""[S]tructural linguistics shifts from the study of conscious linguistic phenomena to study of their unconscious infrastructure" Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1945 #InfrastructureStudies" / Twitter

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Armin Küpper "Worker's Song" Saxophon, echo from piepeline, Röhrensound,...

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Pandemic offers scientists unprecedented chance to 'hear' oceans as they once were

Eleven years ago, environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel dreamed aloud in a commencement speech: What if scientists could record the sounds of the ocean in the days before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe?

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Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources | The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including title IV of the U.S. Commercial Spac

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In order for us to be successful and detect evidence of someone else’s technology, that technology has to be close to us — not only close in space, but close in time. That is, they have to be co-temporal with our technology over the ten-billion-year history of our galaxy. And statistically, the only way that that’s gonna happen is if, on average, technological civilizations last a long time, that their longevity is great. So from my point of view, that’s what a successful detection of someone else’s technology would tell us — that it’s really possible to have a long future, in spite of the challenges that we see, today. I think that’s the best message that the detection of someone else’s technology could bring to us — that it’s possible to survive your technological adolescence. They won’t tell us how, probably, but the fact that somebody else made it through, I think, is an important and motivating factor.

Jill Tarter — It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human - The On Being Project

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(via This Strange Hum Circled the Whole World But Nobody Heard It | Live Science)

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Border patrol radio tower under siege from 300 vultures, which are covering it in feces and urine

CBP employees are fed up with the scavengers.

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Why Irish data centre boom is complicating climate efforts

Surge in processing industry will increase Ireland’s already too high carbon emissions

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(via The lines of code that changed everything.)

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(via Can the Internet Survive Climate Change? | The New Republic)

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For Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, as well as a few smaller cloud competitors like Oracle and IBM, winning the IT spend of the Fortune 500 is where most of the money in the public cloud market will be made. And among those large companies, Big Oil sits at the top. Out of the biggest ten companies in the world by revenue, six are in the business of oil production. In order words, the success of Big Oil, and the production of fossil fuels, are key to winning the cloud race.

Oil is the New Data