I design and make interactive media for public interest. Bangalore, https://www.recombine.net
Design/art with code, data, visualisations, maps, community building and storytelling tools.
Was/Part of timescape.io , Global Voices, Ushahidi, Srishti, Yahoo, ITP-NYU
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Fantastic writing (as always) from @anildash
https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains?giftLink=8a7150f023f0c4c41c11573b716f8f36
‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going
runme.org was a software art repository I made with Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, launched in early 2003 https://runme.org/
It came from the software art scene mainly defined by the "readme" events, including the readme/runme/dorkbot city camp
http://readme.runme.org/
http://readme.runme.org/camp.php
Last week a load of people involved with these events met ~20 years after the last event. Sadly I couldn't make it (it clashed with intensive rehearsals) but it's so lovely to catch up on the recording to see people come together to reflect on what was special to software art then and what has happened since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr-mrKv-ikE
Here is a network of ideas used to introduce the idea of networks! 🔄
Conducted a talk introducing students of Design at CEPT, Ahmedabad to Kitab.cc and the work of visualising complexity (Manuel Lima).
Kitab.cc is a Visual Thinking Tool. Using it feels like journaling while mind-mapping. It supports note taking while also allowing you to build such maps using your notes.
#visualisation #complexity #networks #informationdesign
#systems #CEPT
I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:
I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>
The frustrating thing about history is: When you study it, you see it all happening again. When one day the grandchildren of the young adults in the U.S. today will ask "Why didn't you say something when they deported innocent people to camps in El Salvador?" I can already tell their answer today "I didn't know."
5/5
It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse.
If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?
Kai Ninomiya
Alex McLean
tomate 🍅
Martin Seeger
Jess Rose
Christina Warren