ALT Description: Open Access Series 001 Aaron Swartz - Programmer, Activist, Open-Access Advocate Aaron Swartz (1986–2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, and internet activist known for his influential role in building open web technologies and championing the free flow of information. A prodigy in computing, he helped shape the early digital culture of openness that defined the internet’s idealistic age. Key facts * Born: November 8, 1986, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. * Died: January 11, 2013, New York City, U.S. * Known for: Co-authoring RSS 1.0, co-owning Reddit, co-founding Demand Progress * Awards: Internet Hall of Fame Innovator (posthumous, 2013) * Cause of death: Suicide at age 26 Early contributions At 14, Swartz co-authored RSS 1.0, a web syndication standard still used to distribute online content. He later joined the World Wide Web Consortium to help design data formats for the semantic web and collaborated with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, which revolutionized open licensing. His startup Infogami merged with Reddit, making him a co-owner when it was acquired by Condé Nast. Activism and philosophy Swartz’s activism centered on information freedom and civic transparency. He co-created the Internet Archive’s Open Library and founded Demand Progress, a nonprofit that helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012. His 2008 “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” urged civil disobedience against the privatization of knowledge, asserting that publicly funded research should be freely available. Legal troubles and death In 2011, Swartz was arrested for downloading millions of academic papers from JSTOR via Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s network. Though JSTOR declined to press charges, federal prosecutors pursued 13 felony counts carrying potential decades in prison. Facing trial, he died by suicide in early 2013. His death sparked global outrage and debate about prosecutorial overreach and digital rights reform . Legacy Posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame, Swartz remains a symbol of open-access advocacy and digital civil liberties. His work inspired campaigns to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and continues to motivate technologists and activists seeking a freer, more equitable internet .

ALT Description: Except from “Project ID: Deep-Digital Excavation // Sector 7G (The Hollow Circuit) Date: October 14, 4026 Lead Researcher: Dr. Elara Vance, Xenogeological Synthesis Dept. Overview: The Paradox of the “Great Mute” As we sift through the petrified silicon strata of the site colloquially known as The Hollow Circuit (a coincidental name [there are many references to different versions of The Hollow Circuit and their meanings in 21st-century archives] possibly derived from Holocene), we are struck by the profound irony of the 21st-century “Information Age.” While our ancestors produced more data than all previous generations combined, the physical record is remarkably fragile—a period we now call the Great Mute. Our latest findings include a partially reconstructed PDF fragment, a seminal text by Lewis and Maslin (2015), which provides the missing link for our current stratigraphic modeling.” Archivist’s notes: * Records show previous epochs defined by environmental factors: climate shifts, mass extinctions, tectonics, and ocean &/or greenhouse gas changes. In Defining the Anthropocene (2015), Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin claim that humans are now the main force changing the planet at a global scale. * Unfortunately, no further comment can be made as the paper is only available to those with funds or institutional membership. Scholars and activists including Aaron Swartz, Peter Suber and Robert Darnton have questioned the purpose and ethics of restricting publicly funded research to paying audiences. * No further information found on Deep-Digital Excavation//Sector 7G (4026). * No accurate identity match for Dr. Elara Vance. Sources: NEO-STRATIGRAPHIC RECOVERY UNIT Defining the Anthropocene Nature volume 519, pages 171–180 (2015) by Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin Click for more on Open Access

AI companies are currently selling consequences — your business will run better, your research will go faster, your decisions will be sharper — while refusing accountability for the output those consequences depend on.

Art of FACELESS R&D Division | artoffaceless.org | February 19, 2026 On February 18, 2026, Anthropic published Measuring AI Agent Autonomy in Practice — a large-scale empirical study analysing millions of human-agent interactions across Claude Code and their public API. It is careful, rigorous, and in several places, quietly remarkable. It is also, for us, personally significant. Continue reading The post Anthropic’s Agent Autonomy Research — And What We Submitted in January appeared first on Art of FACELESS Research and Development.

THE HOLLOW CIRCUIT™ CANON RELAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT http://dlvr.it/TR2F6B

Project ID: Deep-Digital Excavation // Sector 7G (The Hollow Circuit) Date: October 14, 4026 Lead Researcher: Dr. Elara Vance, Xenogeological Synthesis Dept. Overview: The Paradox of the “Great Mute” As we sift through the petrified [...] The post ARCHIVAL ACCESS: NEO-STRATIGRAPHIC RECOVERY UNIT first appeared on The Hollow Circuit™.

The Hollow Circuit™ represents the convergence of 14 years of Cardiff street photography, philosophical investigation, and practical AI research into a cohesive transmedia universe now protected by international trademark law.

Description: Field report on Grangetown-based spatio-temporal-memory anomaly. Archivist’s note: Potential triggers appear to include historical remnants (industrial/colonial) lingering in the city’s subconscious, hauntings by specific unresolved pasts and sympathetic resonance with external vibrational activity. Some evidence of surface-level, but not psychogeographical investigation. Excerpt below: There is a rupture beneath the paving slabs…We don’t know if this is safe. But it is sacred. Something underneath wants to speak…Perhaps it’s always been bleeding, and we just now learned how to listen. — Awen Null Archived and posted here as signal relay. Source: The Hollow Circuit

My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I'm posting this here. There's something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new? Links: Bobo Design Studio for Updates & Submitting Information Arrows Aim Greenhouse + Chroma Rex are putting together a complaint with WA State Attorney General's Office + Templates for complaints / opt out Articles: Hey, that's us and a bunch of our friends! This whole thing SUCKS so bad and we're pissed. We've intentionally not listed our products on Amazon for the 15 years we've been in business. We're ready to join a class action lawsuit and kick some ass.

Somewhere between the static and the silence, a question flickered: What if the signal wasn’t broken—just waiting for the right kind of mind to tune in? Welcome, Operator. You’ve stumbled into a frequency that was never [...] The post A Broadcast from the Future: Do Not Adjust Your Memory first appeared on The Hollow Circuit™.

Description: “Recovered Fragment // Transcribed from beneath the city // Authored by the Unnamed // Disabled Artists of the Circuit” “In a city pulsing with surveillance, where lights hum louder than conscience and invisible systems weigh the worth of a body by its compliance, something stirs. Two figures move through corridors of neon and shadow. One limps from pain denied, the other carries the slow scars of battles never recognised. They do not ask to be seen. They remember ink, not forms. Creation, not claims. They are the ghosts of stolen futures — artists stripped of support, repackaged as burdens, then told to disappear quietly.” – Awen Null Archivist’s note: Background (minimal as evidence remains): * Dehumanising and painful ‘Work Capability tests * Medication-compliance monitoring * State and press-sanctioned stigmatisation of disabled people * Forced (meaningless) productivity programmes * Increasingly intrusive biometric surveillance * Punitive social credit scoring Themes within the text: * Love, endurance and creativity as gentle, powerful political action * Checking out, not giving up * Meaning and purpose over performance and packaging * Personally created value over Capitalism-constructed 'added value’ * Fashion and tech changes, archetypal stories replay * Resistance to being reduced to data is consciousness protecting itself. * “if you’re reading this, you’re part of it” = there is no 'outside’. * Live, love, create!

altcardiff2026: Hacked Footage Central Square Cardiff http://dlvr.it/TQy2JF ALT Archivist’s note: Hacked Footage Central Square Cardiff “Proceed with extreme caution” A warning about one unknown, from another. Suggestive, subjective. A reveal/conceal dance? A trolling power-trip? A game or genuine desire for contact? Both, one to safely achieve the other? Hacking? Yes. Hacker bragadoccio? No. The city = visible. The speaker = hidden. Suggestive of threat, but who/what/where is the source? Language used cryptically. Identity stated cryptically, if not comprehensibly. N.B. * “he is Outside.” Outside what? (uppercase O, why?) * “we are trapped in”. Where? Who is “we”? Does “we” include the reader? * “why is he here” and “He is here to document”. The sender states they are inside and “he” is “Outside”. However, the sender also says “He is here”, suggesting presence and shared location = contradiction according to linguistic convention and traditional interpretations of ‘here", “there”, “inside”, “outside”. * Who is watching the watchers? * Is the reader watcher or watched? * If “He is walking through the city he is rewriting” is the reader who makes it this far through the text, the same one who began at the top?

AI isn’t the threat. The economic system is. We live in a world where 90–99% of jobs are invented — administrative padding, managerial theatre, compliance rituals, productivity pantomimes. Jobs exist to justify the economy, not to serve human meaning.

afk-art: Made this zine last year about my cat and her love of weird snacks (for a cat anyway lol). Don’t know if I’ll make these in colour or not, but I do love adding pencil crayon to these! Cats! They are everywhere. This one even like melon! 🍉 LOVE THIS! 👆💥

radicalgraff: “Fuck Feb 14, Make Love & Class War” Sticker seen in Nambour, Australia.

frog-memes: The cats are converging in Cardiff right now, too. What the fuck is going on? How many other cities around the world is this happening in?

anarchistmemedistro: “ALT”

…we do alternative Cardiff stuff instead:

fenrir-kin: calystarose: domhnall-na-feannaig: domhnall-na-feannaig: kyliaquilor: If your language lost, it should die with dignity, not be put on artificial life-support because ‘reasons’ #Sorry but I have no sympathy for that fight#let the dead languages be dead#grumping#controversial opinions#because people always get annoyed with me when I say this#but Gaelic (for example) shouldn’t still exist ———– Gaelic hasnt been lost.  It’s never died or been brought back.  There’s an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language.  That doesn’t seem like a ‘lost’ language to me.  Furthermore I’m not sure what ‘artificial life-support’ means in this context.  Gaelic is given funding for schools because there’s still native speakers of the language.  It’s no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons. If anything is ‘artificial’ its the imposition of a foreign language (English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language.  Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a people’s own language. But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die.  There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance? “There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?” — THIS RIGHT HERE Also just gonna point out here: In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (that’s Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didn’t just “die out.” There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off.  For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, they’d be given a “Welsh Not”, a wooden plaque engraved with “WN” to hang around their neck. They’d pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating.  Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died. And languages are never revived “just because.” The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if you’re content to let a language die then you’re content to let history die. People talk about “dead” languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but that’s rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didn’t have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents.  Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can.  It’s a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you don’t see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country we’ve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language.  Mae eu blog yn anactif. Tybed pam? Mae Zine yn Saesneg a Cymraeg.. 👇

Central Square, Cardiff. On location. As featured on the episodic series Alt.Cardiff2026 with Rwth and Rhiannon. Photo by ichbinLloyd. More here at Pixelfed

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Central Square, Cardiff. On location. As featured on the episodic series Alt.Cardiff2026 with Rwth and Rhiannon. Photo by ichbinLloyd. More here at Pixelfed

Hacked Footage Central Square Cardiff http://dlvr.it/TQy2JF

SYSTEM ALERT: UNIDENTIFIED FILE TYPE // “FLESH.MKV” SOURCE: EXTERNAL UPLOAD [CARDIFF_NODE_CENTRAL] STATUS: QUARANTINED NARRATIVE INTEGRITY: COMPROMISED TRANSMISSION START Identity: Seya [The Terminal Witch/ Node 404] Subject: The Anomaly in Central Square Do not look at [...] The post Hacked Footage Central Square Cardiff first appeared on The Hollow Circuit™.

Recovered Fragment // Transcribed from beneath the city // Authored by the Unnamed // Disabled Artists of the Circuit The Faceless Ones: A Forgotten Project, A Lunar Punk Resurrection Long before the world burned blue [...] The post The Faceless Ones: A Forgotten Project, A Lunar Punk Resurrection first appeared on The Hollow Circuit™.

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