Who will remember us when the servers go dark? Presented during transmediale 2026 as introduction to the selfservice.studio workshop (Chris Dake-Outhet & Eren İleri), Cade Diehm’s essay on anti-cybernetic frameworks is published now by @newdesigncongress.org ► newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

Wow. What a spectacular long-read by @shibco.newdesigncongress.org from @newdesigncongress.org! 👏 newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

In other news, @newdesigncongress.org is BACK newdesigncongress.org/email/11d79b...

watched Cade Diehm's "Who will remember us when the servers go dark?" again https://youtu.be/m2OFRXLwRvg?si=lt2YtPzvTnUxcnaK do I know anyone that went to the "Cultural memory at the end of the end of history" workshop?

We have been quiet for nearly a year. Starting today, NDC is BACK. Here's why we were gone: newdesigncongress.org/email/11d79b...

It ends by compiling nearly a decade of work I have done, naming the post-institutional movements building outside institutional protection, from @furscience.bsky.social to @kgpaints.bsky.social. This is a concept I call Exilic design. newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

From there it traces the cost of Barlow's Independence of Cyberspace myth against the realities of mask-off authoritarianism channeled through digital archives, social spaces, and infrastructure collapse.

This essay starts with a story I've never told publicly: my time on the original @signal.org team in 2015, and finding myself on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Honolulu. This was the moment I realised that violence is baked into every packet and every byte of the digital revolution.

Today I'm publishing the most personal essay I've ever written for @newdesigncongress.org Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark? newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-w...

I got the tea from members of @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social across Europe on what Trump's victory means for digital rights + tech justice over here. Ft. @coricrider.com @neveragainnw.bsky.social @chriskremidascourt.bsky.social @newdesigncongress.org + other pros blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-x-euro...

A small intro! I'm Cade (aka Shibco), I run a small research group from Berlin called newdesigncongress.org. We do a weird mix of digital security/threat modeling, and research ecologies, subculture resilience, digital identity, and data/interface politics. I'm also quietly designing a video game.

The Internet Archive seriously needs a black ops wing.

SELF-(DE)TERMINATION: THE FATAL AMBIGUITY OF DIGITAL IDENTITY Alongside digital identity's flawed first principles, the incomplete reckoning of the electronic self leaves the entire field incapable of discerning the shortcomings of digital identity: newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2024...

there is nothing ambitious about building a car.

NEW FROM NDC IDENTIFYING THE DIGITAL SELF Despite years of information security innovation, digital identity remains the weakest link in digitised societies. To combat the weaponisation of digital systems, we must rethink the first principle of digital identity newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2024...