Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at.

Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

I made a tiling pixel design for a knitting machine punchcard. It repeats horizontally after 12 units (the width constraint of the punchcard) but surprisingly takes 120 to repeat vertically.

Grape the cat

In 'Alien' (1979), the alien is defeated via the destruction of an entire shipment of cargo destined to become profitable corporate commodity. In 'Aliens' (1986) the aliens are defeated by a woman learning to be a good mother and punishing a bad mother.

In 'Alien' (1979), the alien is an expression of capital. It is an aggressive, hostile, amoral, predatory, assimilating, accumulating, consuming, inhuman *structure* or *pattern* that is made out of its victims. In 'Aliens' (1986) it becomes an evil insect representing Vietnamese people.

This is number 2 in a triptych of recent #penplotter drawings of a tetrahedral assembly. The whole set can be seen at etchfo dot com. https://etchfo.com/2025-07-14