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15 July 202615 July 2026

Build your own floating island

More playing with Claude. The idea is to create a “home” to play and build on, ala sim game (ideally, Godus like) that is based on topography of the physical world.

The pipeline now goes: draw a box over your chosen area – the starting point at the moment is São Miguel island, Azores → fetch real elevation → click a contour ring to set the coastline (doesn’t have to be the actual coastline… rediscover Atlantis 🙂 ) → carve.

An important point is the idea is to be inspired by physical reality, not tied to it. Part of this is the “sculpted, not surveyed” nature of the renders, so it sometimes has artefacts. That’s intentional.

It’s still very buggy, of course, but check it out!

12 July 202612 July 2026

Testing Claude code

The idea is to have stuff happen in the three.js scene – like rain falling when you click the cloud, and then that updating in the Sankey diagram below that (see the mm increasing). It’s not much yet and meaningless at this point, Sao Miguel is also “sculpted not surveyed” which is an interesting approach I may explore more intentionally, but it’s not bad for about 2 hours of playing over the weekend. Damn, AI is scary.

São Miguel, Azores — stylized elevation, not survey data

Click the cloud to make it rain · Drag to look around · Scroll to zoom

Sete Cidades max (mm) Lagoa do Fogo max (mm) Furnas max (mm)

Lagoa do Fogo 50% / 50% Furnas

No rainfall recorded yet — click the cloud on the São Miguel island scene to make it rain.

8 April 20268 April 2026

Danish Tiny Houses

Backstory: I bought my first physical Etsy thing! (previously only digital files for papercraft): the Miniature Tiny House made by Turkish company Terrarium Stories. The seller and I started chatting (because I am now also intrigued by Turkey) and I asked if they have considered making the Klein A45, you know, the tiny house I am obsessed with. They said not yet, but they are taking a short trip to Denmark soon = The Bjarke Ingels Group, who designed the A45, is Danish. This conversation reminded me of when I got to see the A45 up close during a tiny house exhibition in Denmark in 2022.

the little house kit I ordered on Etsy. It hasn’t arrived yet – pic from Etsy.

27 March 202627 March 2026

Fever duck dream

I dreamt a lot last night, take that for eating roast duck just before bed!

Update: the song for this (not in the dream, but it captures the zeitgeist): Don’t Take the Money by the Bleachers:

18 March 202619 March 2026

Emergent Education as Metaplay

Or, Education as an emergent game, where metagaming is core to play. I’m presenting this at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education: Insights conference, happening online in SecondLife March 19-21, 2026. This is adapted from a piece submitted to the Virtual Education Journal which in turn led from a presentation at the Open Simulator Community Conference.

12 March 202612 March 2026

Patriarchy and Our Relationship to Nature …

I’ve been feeling lost in my work, like I’m drowning in (bureaucratic and very stressful admin) details, and forgetting what it is I’m doing in the bigger picture. Cue sleeping a lot and watching Netflix. I then stumbled on the documentary “Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere“. It wasn’t very good. Theroux spends most of his screentime in mute shock, and I guess they thought that keeping this in the final edit means the audience will fill in the blanks. While the doccie does well at showing to some extent why men would choose to go down this road, it doesn’t clearly show the flaws in their thinking or what to do to change this situation. And the deeper problem is that the audiences will fill those gaps with all sorts of weird things, because most, if not all, the reasoning from these men start in a legitimate place, and we have to acknowledge that.

Fortunately for me and my limbo, the “more like this” button suggested “Beyond Men and Masculinity” which is also available free to watch on Youtube. As I watched I remembered what I’m doing in the bigger picture. I remembered my post – Building an ecofeminist metaverse. And then I heard Carol’s voice before I saw her and it was like seeing an old friend!

27 January 202627 January 2026

The use of disruptive technologies towards improving the functions of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR).

This is a draft Notice of Intent to Apply (NOI)² for the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2026 International Joint Initiative for Research Harnessing Disruptive Technologies to Address Global Challenges¹

20 January 202620 January 2026

Building an eco-feminist metaverse

This is chewing through the philosophy of the biosphere metaverse project. It’s still messy, and trigger warning, it involves mention of patriarchy and ecofeminism. In more developed framing it won’t mention these to avoid the hangups around the words. Probably won’t mention metaverse either for the same reason.

outline:

Background: why does patriarchy persist
Pathological defences against loss applied to our relationship with nature
Repairing relationship through association, ways of listening
A globally accessible ecosystem of integrated data
Case study: UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
Funding

16 January 202617 January 2026

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

notes from the book by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

I wasn’t mad about the style of the book, it lacked coherence to me, and then I found the more recent book “In a Human Voice” which I loved (notes here and here) and so I never recorded my notes on this book. Here it is, and reading the notes again proved very helpful! (thanks Stela)

13 January 202613 January 2026

Care-giving, care-taking, and the feminist metaverse

In the past week, friends have had intertwining conversations that I want to try weave together here. The overarching theme is the power of information to make care, visible. To make the connections and relationships between everything visible. If this in turn has the power to change anything, well, that is another thing and where the post unravels towards the end.