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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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🔗 [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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"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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⊞ 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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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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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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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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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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🗺️ First contribution to OpenStreetMap with fresh Institute account

Changeset 163905914 www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16...

Adding surveillance cameras from observation

Visible on the Surveillance under Surveillance map
sunders.uber.space?lat=51.89683...

#openstreetmap #cork #surveillance
"screenshot of Surveillance under Surveillance map. Open Street Map with security camera icons displayed in blue with their field of view outlined"
March 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF

🔗 gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

Filed under: 🕸 Control Diagrams
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"flowchart of the procedure to check a project's title, summary, and description for forbidden words and end the grant/award"
March 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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SpaceX Starship explodes and sends debris across night sky

www.youtube.com/shorts/tfEW7...

Filed under: ✏ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮
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burning debris that looks like a bright meteor shower or fireworks in the dark sky
March 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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📚 Delighted to receive my copy of ALGOFFSHORE, The Art of Automating Tax Evasion by RYBN published by @freeklomme.bsky.social
book cover: Algoffshore, the art of automating tax evasion, RYBN.org, [00] astract, [01A] Tax Evasion schemes generator, 2017, [01B] on economic slavery. Citizens against bank exploitation, Nassau, 2017. [02A] Tax Optimizer Through Art, 2018. Open book showing a diagram. circle labelled D, arrow points to rectangle with text "2.2.4 give $aw to a museum", arrow points to rectangle with text "benefit from charitable tax deduction", arrow points to text "go to subproc 2.3"
January 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Pyramid of Age #1 - fatalities verified by OHCHR killed in residential buildings in Gaza since October 7 2023

OHCHR UPDATE REPORT
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Filed under: 🕸️ Dark Dataviz
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Pyramid of Age #1 - fatalities verified by OHCHR killed in residential buildings in Gaza since October 7 2023. This further shows that the main victims of strikes on residential buildings were children, with the three categories of age mostly represented in the verified fatalities sequentially being the ones from 5 to 9 years old, from 10 to 14 years old and from 0 to 4 years old, for both boys and girls. Furthermore, compared to previous escalations, such as in 2021 and 2014 (see Pyramid of Age #2, Pyramid of Age #3)22 the current ongoing escalation has killed women (26 per cent of verified fatalities) and men (30 per cent) in roughly equal numbers. Since 7 October 2023, the youngest victim whom OHCHR verified was a one-day-old boy and the oldest victim a 97-year-old woman.
November 23, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Matt Gaetz Venmo transactions

Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women - The New York Times
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...

Filed under: 🔭 Yarnwork
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venmo transactions between all individuals as of 09/14/20 presented as a network graph of actors such as Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg and lots of women nodes and the amounts they paid as arrows between them
November 21, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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LoL thank you
screenshot of Clearsky showing that I am a member of 5 lists: 3 "Pro Hamas" lists, one Inverted Red Triangle, and one "Academia"
November 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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Me greeting people as they arrive from Twitter
Meme: top half: leonardo showing his sketchbook to Kate on the Titanic deck Bottom half: a very badly drawn electronics diagram
October 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Me greeting people as they arrive from Twitter
mathematical diagram in a triangle shape with lots of lines. Text in meme font on top: if you look like this DM me immediately
October 18, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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🚀🪄⛧ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires
Institute collaboration with Lucile Olympe Haute
📄 Full paper from the Radical Futures conference is now available: sigil-seance.diagram.institute/radical-futu...
"cover of the website for Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires with this title in rounded retro typeface then a sigil symbol then buttons for seance room, about, paper, all on a dark background"
June 12, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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📄 DCVCEV: Dispositif critique de veille et de contrôle d'expansions vectorialistes

Article dans le numéro 93 de Multitudes pour accompagner le travail de RYBN sur la propriété intellectuelle et le brevet comme objet diagrammatique. en très bonne compagnie dans ce numéro sur les communs négatifs
Fig. 1 Résumé symbolique du dispositif DCVCEV\n\nPour tout vecteur a⃗ capturant une idée sous forme d’actif vectoriel, le dispositif présenté permet l’une ou plusieurs de ces opérations :\n 1. Collection de a⃗ et vecteurs adjacents en tant que forme M, notamment matricielle [a⃗, b⃗, c⃗, … n⃗]. Observation des évolutions de cette forme dans le temps.\n\n 2. Formation de a⃗’ capture pré-emptive de a⃗.\n\n 3. Formation de a⃖ contre-vecteur opposé à a⃗.\n\n 4. Noyautage de la forme définie et observée en 1. pour en extraire au moins un sous-espace. photo de la page de couverture de l'article dans la revue imprimée couverture du numéro 93 de la revue Multitudes table des matières du numéro 93 de la revue Multitudes
February 28, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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🕸️💡 Interesting quirk of the Mermaid JS syntax the following code will create an edge label in the middle and not a node
SEA<--FREE-->RIVER

mermaid.live/edit#pako:eN...

(also: no one is free until Palestine is free)
diagram output of the code
February 7, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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🧠 🕸️ Niche PKM content
I'm probably the only one even interested in this but HMU if you need to export a #Kinopio board as #Obsidian .canvas
#PKMbros #PKM #mindgarden
"a kinopio board where nodes of text are connected by colored lines" "obsidian canvas with the same content as the kinopio board and following the same layout"
October 24, 2023 at 8:32 PM