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"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."

The Orwell Foundation

Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation

"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of par...

If you've already wandered across the Resonant Computing Manifesto please give this a read too:

gameboat: a blog

the resonant computing manifesto

() background: the resonant computing manifesto counts among its drafters at least three xooglers with at least a decade of tenure each[^2]; th...

thx @ailepet

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships (which have been constant for at least a decade, if not longer): > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including but not limited to: women, people of color, LGBTQ+, ability/disability, non-binary gender identities, etc.

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Scholarships

I'm always a sucker for a good network graph visualization, and these are really top notch:

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Because of the way the JavaScript was packaged I couldn't really tell how they were built, although it looks like it might be D3 based? If you have any tricks for providing insight please let me know. I'm probably overlooking something obvious. But after spending a bit of time searching up the people and orgs involved I decided to drop them an email.

I'm experimenting with publishing short summaries of what I've been reading during the week. It uses the bookmark app I have running on a Raspberry Pi at home to add an entry to my static site:

Shiori bookmark summaries

e.g.

Weekly Bookmarks

☾ hi I'm new here, thanks for being open to new instance members. My work focuses on software & design in digital preservation. I've been drawn here by all the posts I've seen over the past few years orbiting around sustainability and permacomputing -- especially how they relate to art practice. #introduction