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The revolution will not be computed. Lead curator, Gallery 404. Researcher, Beyond the Frame. Born: 335ᵖᵖᵐ CO2. Find out more: `finger schmudde@tilde.club`.

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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Yorba team was built to build. I argue that's exactly why our products kept failing to communicate "less." With help from Don Norman and Melvin Conway, it became clear that the fix isn't a better feature, it's restraint. www.yorba.co/internet-les...
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Escaping the paradox of more
The Yorba team was built to build. So our product failed to communicate "less." Norman and Conway showed us the fix isn't a feature - it's restraint.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new ghost bike. All hit hard, this one just a little harder. merveilles.town/@schmudde/11...
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D. Schmudde (@schmudde@merveilles.town)
Attached: 4 images A new ghost bike was created this week. This time to memorialize a 7 year old riding his bike to school. Two morning rides were immediately organized along his route. Today there...
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Remco van Mook @rvmnl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New site: Interdependencies. Long reads from the junctions between infrastructure, capital and law — nothing interesting ever breaks in one discipline at a time. Five essays up. i15s.org (yes, that's a numeronym; I'm still a nerd)
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Interdependencies | Interdependencies
Essays on the intersection of technology, finance, and geopolitics.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"This is why a new cassette player can be larger and mechanically worse than a #Walkman sold more than 30 years ago. [...] During the Walkman’s peak, shaving another millimeter from the body could justify a new motor and new tooling." ~ obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-c...
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Why Sony Can’t Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models
Explained by a former Sony engineer
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Users create assets for corporate benefit - they are literally doing the work that drives corporate value - but they are not employees. In this way, social media platforms keep people in an unnegotiated space between employee, customer, and citizen." ~ schmud.de/posts/2020-0...
IBM advertisement
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#Canadian #Painting of the Day: #AlexColville, Kiss with Honda, 1989 h/t Adam Tooze’s Chartbook open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
An Alex Colville painting depicting a woman standing beside an old-style Honda Civic hatchback leaning forward to kiss a man in the driver’s seat of the aforementioned car.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
On the idea of authenticity in our mediated world. schmud.de/posts/2026-0...
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Cowboy Clothes and Sunday Best
The question of authenticity in a medium that was supposed to bring us closer together has only pushed us farther apart.
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Daina Bouquin @dbouquin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
TIL the Internet Archive has a full audiobook of One Million Random Digits and 100,000 Normal Deviates and I’m so happy 🔢 archive.org/details/a-mi...
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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - Audio Edition : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An audiobook edition of the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Absolutely gonzo situation. We are in a terrible equilibrium with no guardrails. "An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face - Marginal REVOLUTION
AI has just had what I considered to be the first truly concerning security breach. The facts, as we know them so far, are wild. On July 16, Hugging Face, a vast repository housing over a million open...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Well we went into deep waters in this discussion. Gareth King and I talk about software, identity, and contemporary art on "Ruined By The Internet?" - www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/digital-huma...
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Digital Humanity: From Real Minds to Synthetic Hallucination? | …
The internet promised to be a vast global network of human thought and connection. But as the digital ecosystem is increasingly choked by synthetic content and non-…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Spotted in NYC
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Users create assets for corporate benefit - literally doing the work that drives corporate value - but they are not employees. Social media platforms keep people in an unnegotiated space between employee, customer, and citizen." schmud.de/posts/2020-0... #privacy
Advertisement that reads: "Personal privacy. Everyone wants it. Everyone believes in it. And with so much personal information being stored in computers and other files, it’s been of continuing concern to us at IBM."
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
With all this talk about GitHub recently, the most complete perspective comes from @mitsuhiko.at on what we have gained and lost over the years. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/be...
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Before GitHub
Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
On Trevor Paglen’s new book about images: `Icon, emblem, relic, talisman: these are surely rich with their own interpretive modes that, negatively applied, may yet yield strong positions from which to resist what Paglen calls “the society of the psyop.”‘ 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“Reduce your attack surface. Everything you’ve been putting off with Zero Trust, now is your time to do it. That will reduce your attack surface as you brace for a wave of new patches." "Patch faster is not a viable solution."– Katie Moussouris
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xCoAx @xcoax.org · 14/05/2026
We repeat: we are not the same. Register at xcoax.org#registration and join us in Turin! #notTuring #xcoax2026
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Lucy snatches the football away from Charlie Brown causing him to fly up in the air and shout "AAUGH!" Charlie, however, continues to fall upwards. He says "haha yes, it is finally happening..." Lucy looks on in disbelief. Charlie rises and says "I am ascending to the realm of God to take my fated plave at his right hand." As he rockets into the stratosphere he shouts "this is the reward for my endless suffering! This is my reward!!"
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Companies have institutional memory; those that have faced regulatory scrutiny or bankruptcy behave differently than those which have not. The long tail of no longer enforcing the law (SEC, EPA, etc) is that younger megacorps will not have tasted limits to their power. www.wired.com/story/xai-ad...
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xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If you're curious about what I'm working on right #now, I've updated my Now page with the latest: schmud.de/pages/now.html Book nerds, map nerds, music nerds are all invited.
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What I’m Working on Right Now
My /now Page
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 30/04/2026
Before music was on her radar, Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon was a visual artist. Now you can see a survey of her work dating back to 2007 at “Count Your Chickens.” The show “incorporates humor, intelligence, vulnerability — and, of course, music,” says writer Natalie Haddad.
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Kim Gordon Was Never Just the “Girl in the Band”
Best known as co-founder of Sonic Youth, her visual art incorporates humor, intelligence, vulnerability — and, of course, music.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
On aerial phenomenon from the year 1561. With a surprise twist at the end: flashbak.com/celestial-ph...
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Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg - April 14th, 1561 - Flashbak
As the rosy-fingered dawn broke across Nuremberg in Germany on April 14, 1561, the city’s inhabitants looked up. Above them  they saw a mass of objects – crosses, tubes, globes, strips of colour and a...
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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 23/04/2026
Happy birthday @inkandswitch.com! Ink & Switch is now 10 years old, and is celebrating with a piece of interactive digital art on www.inkandswitch.com – have a play with it :)
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Ink & Switch
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 22/04/2026
Love this.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/04/2026
Tried to book trains to Torino from London. No problem booking, but impossible to pay nearly £1000 for two people round trip. We are flying and we really don't want to. The subsidies should be paid to rail not air travel.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This post on the use of lines in generative art (blog.veitheller.de/Generative_a...) reminded me of Charles Csuri's "Sine Curve Man" (1967). Recently saw it printed in Turin on plexiglass. It's spectacular.
Charles Csuri's "Sine Curve Man" (1967)
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An outsider's view of the ongoing fight in #Chicago: "Se le città sotto assedio sono diventate la scenografia perfetta della resistenza all’autoritarismo, nella provincia del Midwest ... la vita continua sui binari sonnolenti di una quotidianità indiscussa." www.doppiozero.com/iii-luisanne...
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III. Luisanney, cinque anni, in carcere | Linda Birke
Alle sei del mattino, Chicago sembra paralizzata dal ghiaccio. Dan spinge forte sui pedali, indossa un passamontagna e due paia di guanti. Ha un’ora di tempo per raggiungere tre venditori ambulanti a ...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
'Deep within the Karateka cartridge on the #Atari 7800, the programmer mixed in one human-readable message with the computer code: "Mommy and Me Are One." It never appears on screen. It is only visible to those looking at the code contained within.' ~ schmud.de/posts/2020-1...
"Karateka" Atari 7800 (1988) (c) Board Game Geek
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Not sure if this clarifies or confuses me on HTTP codes. Therefore, probably the best instruction manual for this technology. httpstatusdogs.com
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HTTP Status Dogs
HTTP Status Dogs. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Response status codes. And dogs.
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jenny @jenny.cool · 10/04/2026
they're not drone strikes, they're vibe bombings
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"The result is an emerging aspirational class who have everything except the thing they actually want: the ability to [...] bomb a foreign country. Turchin identifies these people as counter-elites —[who] have hit the limits of capital's affordances." ~ newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-g...
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The Great Convergence and Its Discontents
The world is unrecognisable. The people responsible are the ones you least expected. And you may ask yourself, "how did we get here?"
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/04/2026
The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”. [thehtml.review]
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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
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Play History @playhistory.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
For last few years, an Italian production studio has been conducting hundreds of interviews with video game people. vgpplay.com/home You need to sign up to view it - and it's in Italian - but it's well worth it. I'll highlight some of their amazing gets on occasion.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Workers organizing is the strongest check against systemic tech abuse that impacts everyone. A related story from Keyna: www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met... May Day everyday! #labor
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Yorba and yours truly in Forbes today. Working hard to try to make this darn internet thing a little better. www.forbes.com/sites/garydr...
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The Cost Of Convenience In The Age Of AI
Spam filters have been keeping our inboxes protected for decades. Now they’re losing to AI spam.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
As usual my Taste of 2025 arrives fashionably late. And as usual, it's full of interesting cultural and personal moments. Check it out here: schmud.de/books/taste-... #contemporaryart #industrial #buddhism
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Taste of 2025
Some of my highlights from last year - books, movies, exhibitions, travel, and more.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Yorba's State of Clutter 2025 is here! Exercising #privacy rights should be simple. Instead: 💌 Email unsubscribe? 84% success, takes seconds ♾️ Deleting your account? 48% success rate, might take weeks There's more juicy info on the gap between our rights in theory and practice: stateofclutter.org
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State of Clutter Report | Yorba
48% of data deletion requests go unresolved. Find out what all the "convenient" accounts are really costing you and how to save your time and money.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Protip - @bunny.net advertises pay-for-use but quietly enforces a mandatory minimum fee for active zones that even violate their own “round up to $1” policy. Many corps, small and large - like Hetzner, AWS, and GCP - actually bill based on real usage, even when it’s under $1.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“Federalism is sacred… unless it’s violated in the most violent means. Then the federal government can do whatever it wants.”
Data via The Chicago Council Council on Global Affairs.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
After 30 years, First Monday is ceasing publication. Its existence is a tribute to openness and the web we want. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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First Monday @ 30 | First Monday
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
After 30 years, First Monday is ceasing publication. Its existence is a tribute to openness and the web we want. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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First Monday @ 30 | First Monday
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"The world's first cyber nation recognized by a UN member state." (Antigua and Barbuda) www.joseon.com/l/en-US/
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Joseon
Appointed by HIH Yi Seok, HIH Andrew Lee is leading Joseon forward with his mandate to empower the common people with equality and opportunity and unionize the common people of the world to strengthen...
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
personal computing, magazine, cover (1977) archive.org/details/Pers...
a woman has just given birth to a computer. a doctor wearing glasses with a white lower face mask is holding it up, power cord/plug on the ruffled up blanket. the mother is reaching for her computer baby. it's a big baby.
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computer modeling - lots of games - electronic tar baby

birth of the computer
is it the first of a new generation?
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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more. www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Italian Communists, specifically Bruno Magno, made great posters - via the Ettore Fico Museum
Cold War Italian poster. Cold War Italian posterCold War Italian posterCold War Italian poster
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Alma Campos @almacampos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
After months on the picket line in Little Village, Teamsters at the Mauser plant have reached an agreement, union leaders told @southsideweekly.bsky.social on Friday. The strike began over unsafe conditions, low pay, and job security. Full story ✍️ José Abonce southsideweekly.com/little-villa...
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Little Village Mauser Workers Reach Deal
fter seven months on the picket line, Teamsters from Local 705 at Mauser Packaging Solutions’ Millard plant in Little Village reached an agreement to end the strike on January 21.  Workers began strik...
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