📃 Luddite Academy; Towards a politicised digital creative practice
https://luddite.academy/assets/UCC-2026-paper/

The write-up of our inaugural presentation given last April in Cork is finally available! with nods to @320x200 @danmcquillan @varia @titipi @prepostprint @JulianOliver and thanks to @jcalpickard

Thanks for sharing @diagram_studies !

Also in good company on https://zines.dair-institute.org/guest-zines

📄 AGENTS.md - GoToSocial
@gotosocial

🔗 https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/src/branch/main/AGENTS.md

Filed: 2026-06-10
Under: ✏️ Luddite Academy
https://are.na/block/46911019

📓🌱 resources for Radical Infrastructures, Permacomputing, Stealth Hosting and Other Networks
by @colm et al.

🔗 https://miriamreynoldson.com/2026/06/08/resources-for-radical-infrastructures-permacomputing-stealth-hosting-and-other-networks/

Filed: 2026-06-18
Under: 🕸️ Permagram ✏️ Luddite Academy
https://are.na/block/47126589

AI War Cloud

AI War Cloud is an interactive database and tangible interactive installation connecting and explaining the current techno-imperial boomerang that is perpetuated by machine learning.

🔗 https://aiwar.cloud/

Filed: 2026-03-27
Under: 🕸️ Wargram
https://are.na/block/44810960

My pre-ASCII art / pictorial typography / text art archive site is out now!

People have been making ASCII-like text art on letterpress for over 300 years, building pictures entirely out of metal type, ornaments, and rule. The practice has often been dismissed as "tasteless", "wasted effort" and "nothing to do with art", which is why I think it's gone largely undocumented. So, I've spent the last 8+ years collecting ~2500 of these works into an archive. Thanks to @adelfaure, who developed the site, it's now online for everyone to browse:
https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/
or read more about it at https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?essay

Happy $SPCX IPO Day!

Unfortunately we can't hold a sigil séance to curse the SpaceX IPO in real-time today

But we are sharing some sigils for you to launch from home or work

The NASDAQ bell ceremony should be around 9.30AM EST on Friday 12th June (3.30PM CEST). Payloads should be launched around that time and throughout the trading day 📦 🚀 🚫

@luh2203 & @diagram_studies

#spacex #curse #magick

:kare_news: Journée d'études « Quand le code rencontre l’interface : hybrider les outils du design graphique » – jeudi 25 et vendredi 26 juin 2026 à l’amphithéâtre de la MISHA, à Strasbourg.

Organisé par @julieblanc, Clémence Imbert et moi-même dans le cadre du projet WYSIWYG.ch. Toutes les infos sont ici : https://wysiwyg.ch/symposium-code-interface/ y compris le lien pour pouvoir suivre en distanciel. 1/3

#wysiwyg #graphicdesign #webdesign

Schadenfreude https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

Aurora forecast for the next 30-90 minutes.

Full forecast data: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #AuroraAustralis #NorthernLights #SouthernLights #forecast

if you haven't seen the Virtual OS Museum yet - check it out, it's genuinely remarkable.

this is *not* the kind of work that is within our mission, but it is adjacent to what we do and we appreciate it so, so much. it's the combination of everyone doing their individual things that leads to an incredible variety of ways to understand and access this history https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Mai fait ce qu'il te plait…

4 ep Liminal, eaux, vies, travails et luttes
https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@liminal

6 épisodes Hydromédia − Lorraine, pollutions, eaux, histoires, luttes
https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@hydromedia

1 CHILL H I P pour souffler, Émission irrégulière Hacktivisme Intimiste sur P-node.org
https://podcast.micro-ondes.org/@chill_hip

J'ai pas compté mais cela doit faire quelque heure, proche du 100 de radio… … ahemen

Si vous avez possibilité et envie de soutenir financièrement ce travail

Liberapay : https://liberapay.com/Xav.CC/

Ko-Fi : https://ko-fi.com/xavcc

Chaque centime sera dans la couche de notre enfant⋅e qui arrive plus vite que les épisode radio live et redif en podcast…

The Peculiar Supply Chain of Data: Data Centres as Infrastructures of Empire

Date: Thursday, 4 June 2026
Time: 18:30–20:30
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)

Join us for a lecture, conversation and videogame walk through all about data centres. These energy and resource draining, power and control granting, obfuscated behinds to our current realities will be our focus of attention this evening.

To map the supply chain of violent surveillance technologies is an unwieldy task for many reasons. This is, in part, due to how surveillance technologies are conceptually unruly as a subject of investigation, often traversing different categories in technical, marketing and legislative environments. Drawing crucial lessons from abolition geographies and critical cartographies, Yung Au will present four maps of the peculiar supply chains of data-driven surveillance and explore different ways to visualise obfuscated processes and the larger surveillance industrial complex that data systems are embedded in. Reem Al-Masri will then bring these violent processes into sharp focus, examining data centres built on occupied Palestinian land and how these infrastructures are yet another manifestation of israel’s regime of colonialism, apartheid and genocide that has been ongoing for decades. Following this lecture we will open out to a conversation including Jill Toh, who will respond with her practices against and research into laws and discriminatory labour practices that uphold extractive processes in our technologies. Alongside this Artemis will share experiences in alternative, smallscale infrastructures and the collective work required to maintain them, as counter to the vast regimes of domination submerged within Big Tech.

After lecture and conversation we will roam through an imaginary, gamified data center, devoid of technocolonial context, with a play test of ‘Data Center’, released in March 2026 by Waseku. It is a first person simulator game where you can, “Build, cable and automate. Assemble racks, servers and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life". We’ll contrast this world to self-hosting practices, and bring a critical commentary to the popularised vision of data centres.

With Reem Al-Masri, Yung Au, Artemis Gryllaki, Jill Toh

This workshop is facilitated by Varia members Czarina Calinawagan and amy pickles @p_p with the support of SocTalk.

https://varia.zone/en/2026/data-centres-infrastructures-empire/

art world challenge -- support and promote computational art without art-washing techno-fascism.

Adobe Creative Cloud banner spotted on a recent visit to Goldsmiths university in London.

If anyone knows on what terms Adobe offers free accounts to all students in universities our DMs are open! 🤫

🗓️ Last week an Institute delegation presented "Design as archaeological practice" at the MA Design Expanded Practice, Goldsmiths University of the Arts London, as part of their "Design as..." series

📄 Slide deck (35+MB, no notes or context) https://docs.luddite.tools/file/#/2/file/7siRfmvOXbNlb1nXGOasPTi1/

a line is a dot taking a walk

🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏼‍♀️
OSP is excited to continue the plotter workshop series, a series of four workshops from February to June, focusing on languages and uses related to pen plotters*.
 
📁📁📁
During this second workshop, through: scaling up, scaling down, making bold, thin, thick, on top, next to, drawing with a modern or old machine, using Posca or Stabilo pens, copying, and remixing and reusing vectors and paper — we will play with the line, its tension, its vibration and sharpness; and experiment with drawing, flirting with the fragility the machine brings.

📊📊📊📊
Together with our special guest Louis Garrido we'll look at existing vector libraries and use their illustrations to draw on various administrative papers.

🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️🗑️
A phone bill, a train ticket, an unpaid invoice, a cherished receipt, a useless diploma, a recycling guideline letter from the commune… bring any administrative paper lying at home that you are willing to tweak, customize, mark. 

🗂️🗂️🗂️🗂️
What to bring?
- your computer
- useless administrative papers

📋📋📋📋
optional :
- Inkscape** installed on your computer
- your favorite snack

(…)

Bailliages, sénéchaussées ou juridictions assimilées ayant formé unité électorale pour la convocation des États-Généraux de 1789.

Ça fait (un peu) relativiser l'imperfection des découpages administratifs actuels 👀

Source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Bailliage_et_s%C3%A9n%C3%A9chauss%C3%A9e

#géographie #france #1789

📚 ⛰️ 📏 Institute Book Heap reaches height of 500!

https://www.are.na/institute-of-diagram-studies/book-heap-mjy3eec7ui0

> A bad AGENTS.md file can confuse your agent, become a maintenance nightmare, and cost you tokens on every request.
https://www.aihero.dev/a-complete-guide-to-agents-md

Music to our ears 😇 anyone interested in thinking about the worst possible AGENTS.md file?