iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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hilke @hilk.eu · 27/09/2026

Last December I lead a workshop in German about open social media for artists. It took a while to put it online, but it still quite a useful introduction to the subject. pckt.blog/b/hilkeu/ope...

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Open Social Media: Eine Einführung auf Deutsch - Hilke schreibt

Im Dezember 2025 wurde ich vom Musikbüro Basel eingeladen, einen Workshop über Alternativen für Big Tech im Musikbereich zu leiten. Der Workshop wurde aufgenomm...

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Glad we’re finally validating Weiser’s instincts about head mounted computers

Whenever people learn something
onto their eyes; they wear gloves or
sufficiently well, they cease to be aware
even bodysuits that sense their mo-
MARK WEISER is head of the Comput-
er Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo
Alto Research Center. He is working on
the next revolution of computing after
workstations, variously known as ubiqui-
tous computing or embodied virtuality.
Before working at PARC, he was a profes-
sor of computer science at the University
of Maryland; he received his Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan in 1979. Weis-
er also helped found an electronic pub-
lishing company and a video arts compa-
ny and claims to enjoy computer pro-
gramming "for the fun of it." His most
recent technical work involved the imple-
mentation of new theories of automatic
computer memory reclamation, known
in the field as garbage collection.
of it. When you look at a street sign,
tions and gestures so that they can
for example, you absorb its informa-
move about and manipulate virtual ob-
tion without consciously performing
jects. Although it may have its purpose
the act of reading. Computer scientist,
in allowing people to explore realms
economist and Nobelist Herbert A. Si-
otherwise inaccessible-the insides of
mon calls this phenomenon "compil-
cells, the surfaces of distant planets, the
ing"; philosopher Michael Polanyi calls
information web of data bases-virtu-
it the "tacit dimension"; psychologist
al reality is only a map, not a territo-
J. I. Gibson calls it "visual invariants";
ry. It excludes desks, offices, other peo-
philosophers Hans Georg Gadamer and
ple not wearing goggles and bodysuits,
Martin Heidegger call it the "horizon"
weather, trees, walks, chance encoun
and the "ready-to-hand"; John Seely
ters and, in general, the infinite rich-
Brown of PARC calls it the "periphe-
ness of the universe. Virtual reality fo-
ry."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

re: @andymatuschak.org’s Primer post (link below) I’ve been thinking about this for years. I think as we enter the middle of the 21st century it’d be good if we admitted that it sucks that poor kids these days related to Chromebooks like …

A screenshot shows a social media post quoting Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age about kids needing answers from humans, followed by a user asking for the book’s primer and responses with links to resources.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Got diagnosed with a brain stem issue 🧠🫁🎉🥳🍾 On the plus side this is why I’m so invested in tools for thought, specifically physical/embodied memory and the Method of Loci pnemonics (see: all the crazy Jesuit rosary tactile memory tricks) Feeling grateful as it puts into perspective a lot …

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Folk music is drastically increasing in popularity. Prepare for an apocalyptic recession.

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celine @cozylittle.house · 04/09/2026

You can make subpages in leaflet, it’s amazing for making wiki style things it’s amazing and one of our most defining features 😭😭😭 Type “/“ in a new line and scroll to new page from the resulting block menu

Screenshot of leaflet demonstrating our subpage feature

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A bit worrying that the NY Times doesn't recognize democracy when confronted with it directly

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Nature @nature.com · 01/09/2026

Initiatives to attract Indian researchers who are working abroad do not offer long-term income security, some scientists say. go.nature.com/4gEtS2J

go.nature.com

India has an ambitious plan to lure scientists back — will its plan work?

Initiatives to attract Indian researchers who are working abroad do not offer long-term income security, some scientists say.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nice book cover :-) 🟦⬜ ⬜🟦

Book cover of *Mitochondria in Health and Disease*, edited by Carolyn D. Berdanier, featuring a geometric blue and grey split design.

Excerpt from the "Series Introduction" of *Mitochondria in Health and Disease*, highlighting key insights on oxygen as a "dangerous friend" and the dual role of free radicals in both cellular injury and normal human metabolism.

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A slide from a lecture I'm working on #StarTrek

A slide titled "Perspective Drawing" with digital pencil sketches of The USS Enterprise and a sandcastle. A caption reads "Play with it! See what you can build using the basic 3D forms we've covered"

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We do this with Tcl in @folkcomputer.bsky.social :-) Long was until we can wrap end user software but the idea of nested DSLs and FFIs simply being another kind of closure is very fun once you get used to using it for day to day work!

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When this dialog pops up and you see anything other than ASCII + dashes, once you get into wild Unicode transliteration errors into Latin-8 encodings, you know you’re gonna have a good time

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

pondering which language to pick at my new doctor’s office

Preferred language menu: Egyptian (Ancient); Ekajuk; Elamite; English; English, Middle (1100 - 1500), English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1. Easily modifiable margin annotations in tangible space (sticky notes, cut up to fit in the especially thin margins of this DBT workbook) 2. lol @ these being the things that piss people off (valid, but just very unrelatable to me)

Radical Acceptance DBT exercise with some boxes to check off the radically accept: read a controversial story in the newspaper without being judgmental about what has occurred, the next time you get caught in heavy traffic, wait without being critical, watch the world news on television without being critical of what’s happening c listen to a news story or a political commentary on the radio without being judgmental; review an unpleasant event that happened in your life — one that is not too upsetting — and use radical acceptance to remember the event without judging it

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm much more interested in tools for doing Real Things these days

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Nature @nature.com · 19/08/2026

A topological description of ‘knittability’ can be used to design yarn patterns that are resistant to unravelling go.nature.com/3Uq1RD3

go.nature.com

Mathematics holds the secret to ‘ladder-proof’ knitting

A topological description of ‘knittability’ can be used to design yarn patterns that are resistant to unravelling.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Painting by YongJae Kim ‘There’s good out there‘ 2025. Oil on panel. Size 16 x 20 inches.

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Utopiah @benetou.fr · 05/06/2025

Closing the loop, paper prototyping the AR prototyping on the prototyping architecture.

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folkcomputer.bsky.social @folkcomputer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From audreygu.io on the @folkcomputer.bsky.social Discord: > i experimented with a few configurations of the interface, like some where the pages are decoupled from the view, but i found the direct manipulation of a projection on a single object to be the most compelling

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GreenWitch Tea @greenwitchtea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Never let anybody dim your shine ✨ Artist ~ Canna Pothecary 🐸 #greenwitchtea #greenwitch #animism #art #shine #peace

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Daniel Pipkin 🦥 @danielpipk.in · 09/08/2026

Some @folkcomputer.bsky.social demos that we showed at Craft Lake City today 🖐️🖥️

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@folkcomputer.bsky.social @ SVA IxD I particularly love the paper crafted: - folded, 🟨 construction paper bird → “cheep cheep” noise when it’s opened up* - folded at 45° 🟪 construction paper piano → short piano sound effect gets played **

Folk table at SVA with many colorful pieces of paper and a lamp from which a yellow folded bird descends

A Folk Computer slice sequence animation

Person with bob haircut drawing animation frames on paper

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

hmmm “Tools for Conviviality” A 2 hour conference, 10 speakers, max 14 minute talk length (open to shorter ones tho) Who wants to speak? Organize? Host???

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Daily bunny no.3394 would much rather be with the boys

Two bunnies, two cats and a squirrel sit around a couch in an apartment. One of them holds a remote, glancing at a tv that is not in the picture. Bear cans and chips lie on a table nearby, and film posters for "Brain Candy" and "Dark City" are on the wall behind them

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Recurse Center @recurse.com · 28/07/2026

The @atproto.nyc community day will be held at the Recurse Center on Saturday, 8/22! Details and tickets below: blog.atproto.nyc/3mrionom6ck2k

blog.atproto.nyc

atproto.nyc community day 2026

Join us on Saturday, Aug 22nd at the Recurse Center in Brooklyn to learn, hack, and build with the AT Protocol!

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Can I install Gemma 4 31B on an iPhone to run locally? & then have that Gemma 4 31B instance change how DNS routing works by having it interface with a custom VPN on iOS or Android maybe?

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/07/2026

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

huggingface.co

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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atproto.nyc @atproto.nyc · 28/07/2026

👀😋

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This was really fun!!! if you would like my slides they’re at: are.na/andres-cuerv...

QR code, navy blue, linking to: https://are.na/andres-cuervo/compute-like-water-27726-11-54am

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Bizarre” feels like too much anthropomorphizing tbh

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 26/07/2026

What disturbs me about the practices and myth-making of the AI labs is they are intentionally using bad and unsafe design to create systems that they make-believe are out of their control in order to use this as a forcing function to get governments and civil society to cede them more power

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A laundromat is basically Substack. Instead of email, their computers control washing machines, but it’s basically the same business model.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Have been thinking about this with all the bricked Lightform LFC / LFX / LF 1’s and 2’s out in the world. Very good computers & projectors, basically just sitting there because their software steward got acquired :-(

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm increasingly interested in how reverse engineering can be a form of cultural stewardship. Every abandoned instrument, sensor, or HID controller contains knowledge that can disappear long before the hardware itself fails.

Screenshot of Processing (at right) communicating with p5.js (at left) over WebSockets.

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Andrés Cuervo @cwervo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Automating Interactivity >> “Artificially” “Intelligent” The hard parts of inventing novel interface hardware are (almost) never the software. The hard parts are the “glue”: drivers, update software, cross-OS compatibility transpiration, weird bytecode from some board.

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I can't look away from these lost interfaces. I want to document them carefully and return them to the commons before they disappear: to empower artists, preserve public knowledge, and keep capable hardware out of landfills.

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