it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Morning walk

TRANSFER has evolved from a gallery into Data Co-op for Contemporary Art. Introducing a New Model of Data Stewardship: After 2 years of dedication and development, our vision of an artist-owned archive and conservation network that’s free of dependencies on big tech is live 💫 🌐 TRANSFER.art/trust

Social Media is the new Titanic and trump is the iceberg

Join us on Wednesday July 23 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: @kelani.bsky.social presents on Transfer Data Trust. ​TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network. (​http://transfer.art) Learn more and register here - lu.ma/wondemt3

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Walter Benjamin’s typed manuscript draft of his IX thesis, describing the Angel of History propelled into the future while facing the growing catastrophe of the past.

The future is bouncy

The Uber/Lyft pickup area at Minneapolis/St.Paul Airport is absolutely sane, we can have nice things.

If you have $10 to spare, @grayarea.org is trying to make up for a cancelled NEA grant to organize its annual festival, one of the few in the US “addressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.” Give if you can! ⬇️

This is my second scripted post for DWeb for Creators

This is a test, I'm posting from a script

20TB of storage in the stroller is how I roll

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 literally any 🕯 good news 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

getting freaky with my network attached storage, call that being NASty

it was the worst of times, its was the wow somehow it keeps getting worse of times

Updating YAML files and milking myself while society collapses, wyd?

Artists still have all the power…

Fully drinking the ATproto kool aide. Dug into lexicons and PDS (personal data server) be still my beating heart!

𝐃𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, our popular 8-week dive into the decentralized web for artists and cultural producers is back! 🚀 This course is presented with support from @filecoinfoundation. Classes start April 16! Apply by April 2: grayarea.org/dweb

Head raising must read 🙇‍♀️👇

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Bear with me

The time is NOW‼️

I guess we’ve finally reached the point where clapping when a plane lands makes total sense.

I did a walkthrough, here’s a timelapse. This is probably the biggest demo in D.C. so far post-inauguration, brought together by the 50501 Movement which originated on Reddit. Everyone was chanting “fire Elon!” while I was filming this.

All over today. This is NYC.

Great turnout for the protest in New York City today. People standing up to be counted.

Reading the news: “Are you shitting me?!” Hangin out with the newborn: “Are you shitting ON me?!”

Valentines for these times

Gist of Art, 2021

NEW: The US is in the midst of a political coup that, if successful, would forever change the nature of its government, writes Eryk Salvaggio. But this coup is not taking place in the streets. It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy.

First they came for our relationships, now they are here to muck up our civil liberties. We are witnessing “the transition from democratic government to technocratic automatism.” This is a MUST READ analysis of the coup from @eryk.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

ubu is back

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Before it’s too late…

Baby’s first smiles the same week as the big ick Trump horrors… life finds a way.

Tech for these times…

Even my banana is sad today

Disasters remind us why we need tech built for mission, not profit.

Step into a post-apocalyptic landscape where reality is in flux and boundaries are no longer fixed. How did we get here? Which are our real bodies? What is happening to the boundaries of our physical, virtual, mental, and spiritual realities?

DENTAXUVIA by Antigoni Tsagkaroupoulou & Huntrezz Janos, cyber-feminist tale of dreams, post-apocalyptic cities, and queer love. Jan 10 Gray Area grayarea.org/event/dentax...

What are we doing now that Ignota is no longer publishing the diary in 2025?

the vibes were real off this week