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Institute of Diagram Studies
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Research and practice by David Benqué
http://diagram.institute
🐘 @diagram_studies@post.lurk.org
📍🇮🇪 Cork, IE
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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
💔 😭

🔗 [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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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📰 🥐 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
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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/
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"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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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🗄️✨ New Institute collection:

🔭 AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
www.are.na/institute-of...

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
📄 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
⊞ This is a political compass

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

Filed: 2020-10-15
Under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
☄️🗓️ Fireball events

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

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

Algorithms and the Occult
asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

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
asapjournal.com
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.”

asapjournal.com/node/sigil-s...
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...
asapjournal.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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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October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Nikolai Burenin’s 1902-1905 European smuggling route for banned literature.

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

Filed under: 🕸️ Infragram
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October 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🌐🕸️ 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)
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Strong line create many moneys

Filed under: 🕸️ Capitalogram
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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
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
are.na
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Telemessage archival of Signal messages

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs - Micah Lee @micahflee.com

🔗 micahflee.com/despite-misl...

Filed under: 🕸️ Cryptogram
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September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📶 Testing: Rayhunter "An IMSI Catcher Catcher" by @eff.org

efforg.github.io/rayhunter/

Installed on TP-Link M7350 and seems ready for field deployment
July 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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#Bolloré + #Stérin + réseau #Atlas + cryptos + anti-écolos

Au «sommet des libertés», le rassemblement des droites libertariennes et réactionnaires
multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/...
June 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Top Excel Functions for Decision Making

🔗 x.com/exceldiction...

Filed under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies
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June 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
NightRadio - Cycles of Light - (Sunvox synth)

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK1V...

Filed under: 🕸️ Intergram
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NightRadio - Cycles of Light
YouTube video by Alexander Zolotov
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Institute welcomes @agapakis.com as Honorary Professor of Radical Biotech 🙏🏻

If you too would like an honorary position, please bribe us with merch.
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The deep border
Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM