All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Julia Doyle Double Bass Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Rewilding The Internet The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. NOĒMA 16 Apr 2024 We Need To Rewild The Internet "Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word . They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within. We all know this. We see it each time we reach for our phones. But what most people have missed is how this concentration reaches deep into the internet’s infrastructure — the pipes and protocols, cables and networks, search engines and browsers. These structures determine how we build and use the internet, now and in the future. [...] Up close, internet concentration seems too intricate to untangle; from far away, it seems too difficult to deal with. But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday “ hyperobject ,” but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope? Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view. Ecologists know something just as important, too; how to keep going when others first ignore you and then say it’s too late, how to mobilize and work collectively, and how to build pockets of diversity and resilience that will outlast them, creating possibilities for an abundant future they can imagine but never control. We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it. [...] We need to stop thinking of internet infrastructure as too hard to fix. It’s the underlying system we use for nearly everything we do. The former prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, and former Canadian deputy foreign minister, Gordon Smith wrote in 2016 that the internet was becoming “the infrastructure of all infrastructure.” It’s how we organize, connect and build knowledge, even — perhaps — planetary intelligence. Right now, it’s concentrated, fragile and utterly toxic." READ THE FULL ARTICLE https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ For more: Protocols, Algorithm, Cloud, Decoupling, Design, Regulation Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Faradena Afifi Viola / Vocals / Objects / Conductor Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back How to do VFX Start Time 19:00 Running Time 50 Minutes Location 14. The Grand GYG Event Type Talk About the Event Introduction Provide a practical introduction to what you need to know and where to get the software to start doing VFX along with video examples. More on the event lead Val Wardlaw - VFX and Comp Supervisor. Event Information This event is free If strong demand this event might require a free ticket in advance - please check back before attending. ___ Even more information ___ Check out Val's credits here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0912036/ THIS PAGE IS BEING UPDATED See Val's Muppet work here: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Val_Wardlaw Val Wardlaw is a visual effects artist working in the digital field. She worked with Jim Henson's Creature Shop variously as compositor, animator, or supervisor of computer-generated or supplemented Creatures . She had previously worked with the Computer Film Company, including on The Muppet Christmas Carol . Wardlaw co-founded the visual effects house Baseblack, which worked on Harry Potter movies, Hotel Rwanda, Casino Royale , Hot Fuzz, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In 2011, she founded a new company, Perluceo, working mainly on documentaries and 3D films, including Disney 's Bears. Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Michael Dobbie Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #3 7 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Tansy Spinks Violin Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #36 7 June 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Chris Arnold Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #175 1 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Guido Spannocchi Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #1 31 May 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. "There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work." TARANIS IN TECH 12 Dec 2025 The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space. If you've not worked specifically in this area before, I'll caution against making gut assumptions, because the reality of making space hardware actually function in space is not necessarily intuitively obvious. [...] The first reason for doing this that seems to come up is abundant access to power in space. This really isn't the case. You basically have two options: solar and nuclear. Solar means deploying a solar array with photovoltaic cells – something essentially equivalent to what I have on the roof of my house here in Ireland, just in space. [...] The first question is where in space? If you are in low Earth orbit (LEO), you are inside the inner radiation belt, where radiation dose is similar to that experienced by high altitude aircraft – more than an airliner, but not terrible. Further out, in mid Earth orbit (MEO), where the GPS satellites live, they are not protected by the Van Allen belts – worse, this orbit is literally inside them. Outside the belts, you are essentially in deep space (details vary with how close to the Sun you happen to be, but the principles are similar). There are two main sources of radiation in space – from our own star, the Sun, and from deep space. This basically involves charged particles moving at a substantial percentage of the speed of light, from electrons to the nuclei of atoms with masses up to roughly that of oxygen. These can cause direct damage, by smashing into the material from which chips are made, or indirectly, by travelling through the silicon die without hitting anything but still leaving a trail of charge behind them." [Follow link for full article] https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/ For more: AI, CPU, Design, GPU, Infrastructure, LLM Previous Next

< Back Harriet Hammond Local born and bred Harriet Hammond began coming into the Fourth Portal in the early summer of 2023 and was soon developing the Hypermedia event series along with co-founder Joe Clarey. See video below Q1: How and when did you first discover the Fourth Portal? See video below Q2: What were your initial impressions? See video below Q3: How has Fourth Portal inspired you? See video below Q4: Will the inspiration be of benefit in the future? See video below Q5: (optional) Anything you wish to add? Watch video below Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Saulius Bendoraitis Electronics Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #09 19 May 2025 ImproVox #04 28 October 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Caroline Kraabel Alto Sax Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Dec22 5 December 2022 Boat-Ting Dec 2022 http://Website or social media email or phone number