Institute of Diagram Studies @air_pump@post.lurk.org

Been trying to add this #atom #rss #feed to #freshrss but I always get an "unknown error"

https://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/atom.xml

Any tips? #mastohelp #help

↪️ 👀 🐷 Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police

I was a bit disappointed by Paolo Cirio's recent attempt, whose sole purpose seemed to get shut down. (was enraged at the shut down itself too obvs. esp. FR interior minister censoring an art exhibit). Good to learn of other similar projects out there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html

🎧 Blockbuster and Enron and Chill
- RIP Corp episode 1

Happy to learn that Ingrid Burrington is starting a new podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rip-corp/id1534903835

📺 Framasoft, le modèle associatif est-il soluble dans la #StartupNation ?

Très bonne conf' de @pyg pour @designersethiques

https://peertube.designersethiques.org/videos/watch/0e3b464a-3885-4ee4-af76-8b2e8952d548

Wow the UI improvements in @joplinapp 1.2.6 are 👌 🤩 !

https://joplinapp.org (website still has old screenshots)

'To create idiotic speculators, we suggest the building of speculative machines that encourage idiotic speculation. Such machines, designed properly, are like a computer terminal for financial speculators, but for idiotic speculators.'

Guggenheim, M., Kräftner, B. and Kröll, J. (2017) ‘Creating idiotic speculators; Disaster cosmopolitics in the sandbox’, in Wilkie, A., Savransky, M., and Rosengarten, M. (eds) Speculative Research. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 145–162.

✨➡️📦➡️🔮 Idiotic Kernels

I gave a talk at XPUB this morning (Experimental Publishing MA @ Piet Zwart Institute).

We discussed https://almanac.computer and in particular the use of Jupyter Notebooks to develop the project. I argued that they might be used to open up the potential for **idiotic** computing.

Thanks @320x200 & @manetta for having me!

Wine infused writing is going well: I have the idiot (from Deleuze and Stengers) searching for answers on Stack Overflow. Good Night

🌐 The website for Scrolling the Arcane is online. It replicates the dome of the Porto Planetarium where the show is taking place.

scrollingthearcane.com

BTW first bit of writing since the thesis and I definitely have PhD PTSD.

(not to make light of actual PTSD)

Looking briefly into Adobe Sensei for a thing I'm writing and WOW Adobe is now a data analytics company?! Obvious I guess but I hadn't seen the glorious detail of their AI bullshit-speak. I'll come back to this 👀

✨ 📘 ✨ Very happy that my almanac.computer is part of Scrolling the Arcane, a show curated by Joana Pestana in the dome of the Porto Planetarium.

https://scrollingthearcane.com

400+ blocks into this Are.na channel I can confirm that COVID-19 is in fact a diagram.

https://www.are.na/institute-of-diagram-studies/diagrams-of-sars-cov-2

FYI this logo is done in LaTeX.

For now it mainly consists of an Are.na account:
https://www.are.na/institute-of-diagram-studies/index

and my old Instagram which I renamed:
https://www.instagram.com/diagram.studies/

Eventually I'd like to host Diagramstagram, a Pixelfed instance dedicated to diagrams. But that will take a while.

In the meantime I will mirror the Instagram to this fine instance. (I already mirror to are.na as I want the Instagram to be as disposable as possible)

I'm "rebranding" my independent research and practice going forward to: The Institute of Diagram Studies. This will include projects, publications, and any other slow burners I manage on the side of my full-time job.

https://diagram.institute