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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 19/03/2026

What would you call the lineage of poets invested in the material substrate of writing—Blake, Mallarmé, Haroldão and Augusto, Kenny G, &c—and where would you find their heirs today? Is it PennSound/Jacket2? Where else should I look?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 05/01/2026

Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, no, no…

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 16/12/2025

Trying out Substack as a place to publish some crônicas (photos and short poetic pieces) open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...

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VERMELHO ALCLEAR

O policial pipocou.

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Daniel Pipkin 🦥 @danielpipk.in · 09/11/2025

Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 05/11/2025

I think this is true. I don't really have a background in the free software world, but it does seem to have failed. These days, I'm in a funny position where somehow it seems that LLMs might make e.g. personal websites and Linux on the desktop a thing by reducing activation energy.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 05/11/2025

My worry is that your stated paradox makes people confuse commoditized movements with mass movements.The latter is what shifts currents in the world, and becoming mass requires dealing with scale. A mass movement must implicate and interpellate ordinary people. It can't be a niche ideology.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 05/11/2025

This is mostly an issue with capitalization leading to loss of ownership. You raise money and lose authority to direct the movement.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 31/10/2025

I watched one a long time ago and have been winging it since!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/10/2025

Here’s a ghosted version of flipping through the pages.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/10/2025

Some documentation of my latest photography project Hurry hurry! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/hurr...

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Hurry hurry!

A photobook of interlaced street photographs.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 15/10/2025

I often wrap print statements with a bunch of new-lines to make them easier to find in a fast moving debug log. I'm curious if anyway has the habit of using color with ANSI escape sequences? I wonder how common it'd be if languages had `print(msg, color="red")` baked in.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 17/09/2025

Someone should make really good FFmpeg, OpenGL, and Linux merch

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 13/09/2025

an idea for a bluesky feed

I want a version of the timeline where posts show up on a delay proportional to the distance in the real world they have to travel to get to me.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 09/09/2025

Edmund Leach’s introduction to Levi-Strauss is very lucid and didactic.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 28/08/2025

Recent programming experience has me thinking that the divide between I/O and compute should extend to languages. You want Erlang-style observability, concurrency, lightness for the I/O part, and Rust-style correctness and performance for the compute part. These don’t need to be the same language!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 28/08/2025

the thing is, Runway wants you pay $14.99 to not pay $14.99...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 11/08/2025

“software knows about it”

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 02/08/2025

The writing kit: Muji pouch, earbuds, two small notebooks, Kindle, three hand-bound books, an assortment of printouts, two pens (black and red) and two crayons (green and blue)

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henry @henryzoo.com · 25/07/2025

a combo of extension + arena: this augments a page with automatic wikipedia-like blue links to any Arena channel if the text is contained there

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/07/2025

It is imperative that the government have an open online archive of every book in existence and readily accessible, high-quality printers distributed throughout every metropolitan area at the density of roughly one printer per acre.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/07/2025

The folded-in-half, two pages per sheet, A5-sized pamphlet is the zenith of reading. A laptop, a bunch of PDFs, and a printer is the basis of the contemporary library. All the rest is object fetish masquerading a conservative impulse to prevent the distribution of information.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/07/2025

I’ve read fresher thoughts on aesthetics, technics, and politics in a dozen pages of Haroldo de Campos, and another dozen of Lina Bo Bardi, then in all of the canonical stuff I’ve read on art and technology or any of the discourse on social media.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 20/07/2025

Added local model support by building on top of `simonw/llm` instead of directly calling the Antropic API. Seems like the right design decision: all API key management, model management, etc, is handled by that tool. Keeps the plugin simple.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 17/07/2025

Finally migrated fully from Vim to Neovim. No more funky vim.cmd('source ~/dotfiles/vimrc'). Bye NerdTree, Vundle, etc... What plugins do you guys swear by?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 16/07/2025

"literally an emanation of the referent"

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'd say I'm both an ML true believer and an AI skeptic: super hyped about the concept of extrapolation from compressed distributed representation of statistical patterns in data, think it's useful and philosophically significant, not sure it's good at building genies

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 09/07/2025

contra-Borges, por lo inmaduro, lo bajo, la oscuridad de Retiro… cuenta un anarquista bastante turbio

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 08/07/2025

isn’t search just compression?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 07/07/2025

A-side: MJ Lenderman, Wristwatch B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 07/07/2025

I experience it as a pernicious little identitarian devil lurking in my mind, asking to pin myself down, to reject opacity. It manifests materially as the pathetic labor of résumé → LinkedIn → personal website... and yet, when I find a nice tidy bio, what reassurance it gives!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 03/07/2025

This talk bears a ton of load, particularly the discussion after the reading on Perec, Oulipo, prosaic descriptions, and their "dirty little secret" about writing and patchwork— www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Os...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 03/07/2025

The words are not your own. You must not attempt to pin them down to extract rent. You must channel language, become the body without organs, embedded in the field of immanence. There is no plagiarism, only connection. There is no copyright, only fleeting glimmers of meaning.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 01/07/2025

Artifice is nature, nature works in artifice.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 01/07/2025

prompted by @sbenthall.bsky.social via @omar.website on Philip Agre, c.f. digifesto.com/2020/07/29/c...

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 01/07/2025

A recurring shape in my thought—There is no work/life balance, only life! No nature/artifice divide, only artifice! No original/copy distinction, only patchwork! No individual/collective trade-off, only interdependence! No mind/body duality, only embodied experience!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

Curious how you think of these walkthroughs vs streaming the whole process. I'm thinking about starting to stream a bit of my recreational programming.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

A simple "review diff" mode as well!

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

The academic, before hyper-specialization

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 30/06/2025

are boundary2.org and jacket2.org related?

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/06/2025

Main addition was an affordance to easily "pin" a line into context, with the same kind of selection + keyboard shortcut approach.

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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 26/06/2025

The time has come for Woke 2 Here's what I'm proposing:

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 26/06/2025

Chat frustrates me because I have no control over what's in the context. All of the hallucinations are just stuck there in the chat, can't get rid of them. In this scheme you can always just write the question somewhere, select everything, and send it off to the llm.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

I'm very interested in this flow! Feels like it makes a screenshot archive/note-taking tool that is entirely image based possible, through a textual search layer.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

Second one, ~50loc, is to just use visual selections for context and dump outputs directly into Vim.

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cristóbal @arquipelago.org · 25/06/2025

First dead simple, ~100loc, LLM interface is getting input and piping outputs to dmenu. Selections get copied to the clipboard to be used elsewhere.

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