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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 · 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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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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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
'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 · 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 · 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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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
First time seeing a Lisp sticker at a dive bar, behind the bartender. Johnny’s in Manhattan is the place to be.
Land of Lisp
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Release day for Charlie Hooper-Williams' “The Book of Fixed Stars.” Here’s an enticing picture of what it sounds like live. 😉 idol-io.ffm.to/thebookoffix...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Not easy to find Kernel magazine in Turin. But got it shipped overseas and it’s worth it. No better read on the intersection of tech and society. (h/t @kuppermann.xyz )
Kernel Magazine
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Italian Tech Resistance starts tomorrow in #torino! See y'all there.
Poster for the Italian Tech Resistance
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Some of these #Kathmandu fires are the houses of politicians. "Protesters set fire to the house of Minister for Communication and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung in Lalitpur." And there are others. (via kathmandupost.com/national/202...) The air is beginning to smell like burning tires.
burning houses burning fires
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#Kathamndu protests have spread to Patan-Lalitpur. Here’s the scene outside my office. After killing 19 protesters yesterday, the Prime Minister refuses to resign. So the streets remain dangerous today.
Kathmandu tire fire
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Very impressive design fail. Which box is checked, which box is not? Chef’s kiss IRS.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Loving this Padmasambhava stencil around Kathmandu. The Olivetti graffiti in Ivrea is the only equivalent in terms of coolness.
Padmasambhava graffi Chomsky graffi Padmasambhava graffi
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Pretty great energy policy yah got there. substack.com/app-link/pos...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Best error message ever? At least the first time you see it. "Line printer output following a MAD compiler error on an IBM 704 computer at the University of Michigan, c. 1960" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(pr...
Mad Magazine printout.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“The relative progress of the five BRICS countries in dedollarization and green energy and manufacturing. China has made significant progress in non-dollar trade invoicing and commodities pricing; but tackling dollar centrality remains more difficult.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Glad I finally found my GDR pocket constitution. One has to know one’s rights!
Pocket constitution.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is an amazing take on a chorded keyboard co-invented by a Hollywood screenwriter.
1980s ad for a chorded keyboard.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy Independence Day to all those in Italy who continue to fight for those who are oppressed. It’s essential to have a day where we remember those who lost their life fighting against the oppressors. #turin
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I see that the hero who pulls out vandalized scooters from the Po river, also likes to make tidy piles of the corpses. #torino
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What an image. A Caterpillar excavator tears down Peoria's AFL-CIO Labor Temple on Monday to make way for an expansion of a men's shelter. Workers lost the final battle in the 1990s when Cat busted the union & started moving jobs away. We arrived at the final stage. eu.pjstar.com/picture-gall...
A Caterpillar excavator tears down Peoria's AFL-CIO Labor Temple on Monday to make way for an expansion of a new men's shelter
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Always exciting to unlock new screens of death in Linux. Found this gem after hosing my boot loader. The fix was (obviously) to physically replace the RAM in my machine.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Now that I have my cast iron skillet in Turin, I can officially say that I have moved to Europe. It only took 6 years and many inferior pans.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“Dozens of migrants were forced to sleep [overnight in freezing temps] in line in Turin so they could renew their residence permit.” I’ve queued here. It sucks. Italy needs to spend money here b/c you don’t want to end up like the USA.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy to share that the grave of Mies van der Rohe is quite appropriate. The only thing better would have been a 3D black box rather than a 2D black slab.
Grave of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How many cicadas invaded the Midwest this year? Just found one empty body sitting in the snow outside in -13°C weather.
Cicada in the snow
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Rare when you see yourself out in the wild. But here it is - Dark Matter’s Wax Trax! coffee. If you know, you know. And it you don’t, it’s best experience after a night dancing until 4am.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
When Abraham Lincoln uttered “I will heal your wound as I healed a nation!” and endorsed these band-aids, I wonder if he knew these would be so popular so many years later. 10/10 product.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Turns out I’m a big Neil Welliver fan. Discovered after seeing these two large canvases from the 1980s at the #Peoria art museum.
Autumn Blueberry Barren 1982 Oil on canvasSnow on Alder Brook 1983 Oil on canvas
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
As if academic publishing wasn't bad enough, I need JavaScript and Cookies to read a plain text publication in "Internet Histories." Let text live a natural full life, please. Everyone benefits. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/8/3
Need JavaScript for text error.
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Swimming lessons from the 1500s via the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
And then there is "Contemporary Design at 300, 1200 and 2400 baud" from The Anachronistic Press. archive.org/details/TODA...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
The future of the #library from 1980. archive.org/details/TODA...
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Silicon Valley efforts to build community always underestimated the difficulty of such a task. Their generally bureaucratic, automated approach came from JCR Licklider himself. Chef's kiss to Stripe Press putting him on the cover of "The Dream Machine" a few years back. schmud.de/posts/2020-0...
Cover of "The Dream Machine"
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Pretty cool sounding residency: "IDEO’s Creative Residency: publish anything from a set of prototypes, design fiction that points to a particular view of the future, an art installation, the beginning of a new venture, a zine, and more". ideocolab.com/residency
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
This is the kind of arms race the EU and USA should be having with China. "China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy" energyandcleanair.org/analysis-chi...
graph of decreasing Chinese emissions
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Friends - my company, Yorba, is live on Product Hunt! 🔎 Find all your online accounts and delete them easily 📩 Mass unsubscribe from mailing lists 💸 Cancel paid subscriptions you don’t use We're getting momentum but I'd love your help. Join us! www.producthunt.com/posts/yorba
Yorba on Product Hunt
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Trapper Keeper aesthetic and velcro - such a book would fly off the shelf. Other Networks as a concept seems to already fit nicely with the classic art style.
Trapper Keeper
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schmudde @schmudde.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Designs for the federation. "This design attempts to bring together a set of icons that share the concept of a node – a line and a point – and use this to add counters to each letter shape." paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/298/a1/...
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