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Research and practice by David Benqué
http://diagram.institute
🐘 @diagram_studies@post.lurk.org
📍🇮🇪 Cork, IE
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🚫 🛠️ We are disappointed to report that an application for the role of "Digital Artist in Residence" at University College Cork (UCC) submitted by The Institute earlier this year has not been successful.
December 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🗃️ The Institute is delighted to announce the acquisition of HEXEN 2.0 and HEXEN 5.0 tarot decks by Suzanne Treister for inclusion in the permanent collection.

🔗 HEXEN 2.0 (2009-2011) www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN...

🔗 HEXEN 5.0 (2025) www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN_5/HEXE...
Hexen 2.0 deck in its back carboard box with one of the intricate card drawings as a cover: a mystical mountain with a sun inside radiates out, clouds above have the words Cyberwar, Infowar, Netwar written inside them Hexen 5.0 deck in its green cardboard box with one of the intricate card drawings as a cover: St. Francis of Assisi patron saint of ecology is depicted surrounded by colourflu shapes and messages, the words Spiritual and Ecology feature prominently at the top and bottom One of the fold-out diagrams included with Hexen 5.0. Inter-connected nodes with labels such as "The mystical nature of physics", "Space law", or "techno-cosmic and techno-shamanic movements" The Devil card from Hexen 5.0 depicts "Government & private space colonisation" in a colorful composition saturated by word bubbles, some list the names of "defense and space contractors"
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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📰 bindloareswhfytupkmcg

The Institute and @lucileolympe.bsky.social are featured in issue #148 of Versogerin with an interview about Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires by Tanja Brandmayr

EN: versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2...
AT: versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2...
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The project Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires by David Benqué & Lucile Olympe Haute was shown in autumn at the media art festival MFRU31 in Maribor. Here is an interview with the two of them.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🗃️ Rank and File
What if my note-taking system could think for me? Robert Minto, Real Life Magazine 2021

🔗 reallifemag.com/rank-and-file/

Filed: 2021-01-08
Under: 🔭 Yarnwork 🏫 PKM Bro Bootcamp
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Rank and File — Real Life
What if my note-taking system could think for me?
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November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
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A screenshot of the blog post at https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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📊 Compound Insults on Reddit

🔗 www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Filed: 2022-06-29
Under: 🕸️ Grammargram
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Heatmap matrix visualization with compound insult parts on each axis and colored squares marking the frequency of the combination at each intersection. Darker red squares indicate most frequent insults (maximum is 3 million comments) examples: dumb-ass, sum-bag, dip-shit, lib-tard. Pale squares indicate rare insults (0 or under 10 comments) examples: dirt-hat, lib-sucker, trump-nozzle, scum-wit
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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📹 🔁 Looping Surveillance Cameras (like in the movies) - Van Albert and Banks - DEF CON 23

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOq...

Filed: 2021-03-25
Under: ✏️ Telecommuters
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Telecommuters wiki by RYBN
wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=...
DEF CON 23 - Van Albert and Banks - Looping Surveillance Cameras through Live Editing
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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💔 😭

🔗 [OC] Data visualization of American wages and productivity over time
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Filed: 2020-11-2
Under: 🕸️ Capitalogram
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Four panel comic in black and white, manga aesthetic. panel 1: a dark dot and light dot with eyes are holding hands, each is leaving a trail behind and there are little hearts between them panel2: the dark dot looks weak "wait ... something's wrong I ... I can't " the light dot looks worried "sweetie? bebe, what's happening??" panel 3: the light dot is in the foreground crying and looking distressed "no! wait! you have to come with me! somebody do something!" the dark dot is falling behind in hte background "I ... love you ..." panel 4: a graph of productivity vs wages from 1960 to 2020, the productivity line is the color of the light dot and the wages line the dark dot, each has a little dot at the end. from around 1970 the productivity line kept rising while hte wages line stays at the same level. We understand that the dramatic scene above was the point where they diverged
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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📰 🥐 The Institute is proud to support @streetpress.bsky.social for their important work in a French media landscape steam-rolled by far-right billionaires

💰 Donate: soutenir.streetpress.com
Soutenez StreetPress contre l'extrême droite - soutenir.streetpress.com
Gagnons la bataille culturelle contre l’extrême droite ! Faites un don à StreetPress pour soutenir un média indépendant, engagé contre l’extrême droite, dont tous les contenus en accès libre.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This AI Implementation Bingo Card Generator is so close to home 🥲

www.workersdecide.tech/bingo/
AI work implementation bingo
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"Every Tesla is a surveillance device"

🔗 @crimethinc.com todon.eu/@CrimethInc/...
🔗 Fashion Tips for the brave: crimethinc.com/2008/10/11/f...

Filed: 2025-03-21
Under: 🕸️ Control Diagrams
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Eight cameras provide 360 degrees of visibility Narrow Forward Camera Max distance 250m Main Forward Camera Max distance 150m Wide Forward Camera Max distance 60m Forward Looking Side Cameras Max distance 80m Rear View Camera Max distance 50m Rearward Looking Side Cameras Max distance 100m
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🗄️✨ New Institute collection:

🔭 AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
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Research theme. Open to submissions (needs an are.na account)
🔭 AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism | Are.na
Tracking the use of generative AI by fascists and adjacent forces
www.are.na
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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📄 New Institute publication:

Margins on Fire!
European Alternatives Journal, Issue 11, Transeuropa 25
euroalter.com/about-the-jo...
PDF: euroalter.com/wp-content/u...

featuring: Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @lucileolympe.bsky.social
Print Editions - European Alternatives
The entire backlog of the European Alternatives journal is available to download in PDF format, in versions beautifully created for print by the avant-garde designer Luca Pantorno. Follow Luca on inst...
euroalter.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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⊞ This is a political compass

🔗 [source expired] twitter.com/SteffanBlayn...

Filed: 2020-10-15
Under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies
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screenshot of a tweet by Steffan Blayney: this is a political compass showing a screenshot of the Excel border menu and its various options on which borders to apply to cells: No Border, All Borders, Outside Borders, Inside Borders
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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☄️🗓️ Fireball events

🔗 fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_...

Filed under: 🕸️ Cosmigram
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Fireball events
American Meteor Society
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October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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📄 New Institute publication:

Algorithms and the Occult
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ASAP Review @asapjournal.bsky.social, cluster edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com @briana-v.bsky.social

feat. Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @lucileolympe.bsky.social
Algorithms and the Occult - ASAP/Review
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October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Writing against the colonization of the future by the wealthy, David Benqué and lucileolympe.bsky.social perform a ritual for the future: “Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires is a protection ritual and an exploration of peer-to-peer online gathering.”

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Sigil Séance Against Space-Billionaires - ASAP/Review
Our project started in 2021 with the first passenger flight of Jeff Bezos’s space-tourism rocket, New Shepard. This moment acted like a science-fictional vignette, highlighting the figure of the space...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Server-to-server round-trip times between AWS datacenters in various locations worldwide

🔗 ‘Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud’ doi.org/10.1145/3359....

Filed under: 🕸️ Infragram
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Figure 1: Server-to-server round-trip times between AWS datacenters in various locations worldwide. Data from Bailis et al. [26] The figure in a map of the world with 7 datacenter nodes and arrows connecting them with round-trip times. All times are in the hundreds of milliseconds
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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How Nvidia and OpenAI Fuel the AI Money Machine

🔗 Bloomberg [Paywalled] www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
🔗 via maynier.eu/notes/202541/ @tek.randhome.io

Filed under: 🔭 The Churn Turn
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Diagram of money flows between Nvidia ($4.5T), OpenAI ($500B), Microsoft ($3.9T), Oracle, AMD, xAI, Intel, Coreweave, Nebius. All these companies are represented as bubbles sized by market value. linked by lots of arrows of different colors: pink for Hardware or Software, turquoise for Investment, blue for Services, green for Venture Capital
October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Nikolai Burenin’s 1902-1905 European smuggling route for banned literature.

🔗 [source expired] twitter.com/MauriceJCase...

Filed under: 🕸️ Infragram
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Old map titled "Scheme of transportation of prohibitied literature from Switzerland and Germany thru Sweden and Finland into Russia from 1902-1905 organised by N. Burenin" the map text is hand written. The map is made only of graphic symbols such as dots and arrows with showing the smuggling system structure with only few references to geography
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🌐🕸️ Esoteric Ecotechnics; Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking

@lucileolympe.bsky.social and an Institute delegation will present Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires in the exhibition space (👇 details)
Poster for the exhibition Esoteric Ecotechnics Irrational Computation and Conspiratorial Networking MFRU31 26.9 to 5.10.2025
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Strong line create many moneys

Filed under: 🕸️ Capitalogram
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stock images arranged at each corner of the image with arrows between them so they go in an infinite cycle: - strong line create many moneys - many moneys create weak line - weak line create few moneys - few moneys create strong line
October 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Call 4 entries! The 2026 European Media Art Festival welcomes works in the categories Film, Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media artworks) and Expanded (performances, live events, workshops)
Deadline: 22/12/2025.
www.emaf.de
September 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Significant Incidents & Close Calls in Human Spaceflight

🔗 sma.nasa.gov/SignificantI...

Filed under:
🕸️ Dark Dataviz
✏️ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮
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Significant Incidents & Close Calls in Human Spaceflight | Are.na
via https://mastodon.social/@wikkit/115105950308381092 @wikkit@mastodon.social
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September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM