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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
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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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elinorcarmi.bsky.social
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
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
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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
fireball.amsmeteors.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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📄 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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asapjournal.bsky.social
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
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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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wmmna.bsky.social
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
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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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Diagram of how TeleMessage archives Signal messages, based on my analysis of the source code
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📶 Testing: Rayhunter "An IMSI Catcher Catcher" by @eff.org

efforg.github.io/rayhunter/

Installed on TP-Link M7350 and seems ready for field deployment
TP Link M7350 mobile wifi router. a green line at the top of the screen indicates that Rayhunter is running screenshot of the Rayhunter web interface showing the current recording on a green background with "0 warnings", buttons for various download options, another section displays system information about version, storage, and memory
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
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Top Excel Functions for Decision Making

🔗 x.com/exceldiction...

Filed under: 🔭 Critical Spreadsheet Studies
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infographic "top excel functions for decision making" presented by a smiling blond woman in Excel green shirt. A table of tables shows 16 formula: IF, IFS, AND, OR, XOR, NOT, IFERROR, IFNA, SWITCH, ISBLANK, ISNUMBER, ISTEXT, ISFORMULA, ISERROR, EXACT, ISNA and examples of them in use. by Excel Dictionary excel-dictionary.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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
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The Institute welcomes @agapakis.com as Honorary Professor of Radical Biotech 🙏🏻

If you too would like an honorary position, please bribe us with merch.
Hand holding two square stickers with Radical Biotech written like a metal band logo
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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amoorelouise.bsky.social
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