@aleesteele

(digital) anthropologist. community-led tech w/ @turingway @turinginst. back at school w/ @sfpc & @schoolofcommons, ex: fellow @okfn @internetsociety.

 London, UK
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Joined March 2014
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finally got a copy of @mindyseu's wonderful 'cyberfeminism index', and realising why i'm sad to & have hesitated so much in leaving twitter. for years, i've used this space for gathering: for notes, links, lists, quotes, for thinking out loud about all sorts of things.
Cover page of "Cyber-Feminism Index" by Mindy Seu: a bright green book cover with a long list in small text of the pieces enclosed in the book.

ALT Cover page of "Cyber-Feminism Index" by Mindy Seu: a bright green book cover with a long list in small text of the pieces enclosed in the book.

Quote by Mindy Seu's introduction: "I have long been a gatherer. In Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guin posits the first technological tool as the basket, not the spear, thereby recasting the first protagonist as a gatherer, not a hunter. Not only did this address the deeply gendered roles of these two parts, it reframed our history of technology and changed the singular hero to the plural collective, from he to we. Gathering, for Le Guin, is not a masculine, techno-utopian process of disruption or of moving fast and breaking things, but the methodical, deep labor that comes from "looking around, rather than looking ahead," from gathering rather than hunting"

ALT Quote by Mindy Seu's introduction: "I have long been a gatherer. In Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guin posits the first technological tool as the basket, not the spear, thereby recasting the first protagonist as a gatherer, not a hunter. Not only did this address the deeply gendered roles of these two parts, it reframed our history of technology and changed the singular hero to the plural collective, from he to we. Gathering, for Le Guin, is not a masculine, techno-utopian process of disruption or of moving fast and breaking things, but the methodical, deep labor that comes from "looking around, rather than looking ahead," from gathering rather than hunting"

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jackie luo
@jackiehluo
Sep 23
i made an @AREdotNA chrome extension that shows you the "likeliest homes" for the link you're saving i have hundreds of channels and sometimes forget when i already made one for a topic or what i named it, so now @typesafeai shows good recs to install: chromewebstore.google.com/de…
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David McCandless@mccandelish
Jun 9
True? True
A humorous image showing "THE CREATIVE PROCESS" as a numbered list of 6 stages: 1. THIS IS AWESOME, 2. THIS IS TRICKY, 3. THIS SUCKS, 4. I SUCK, 5. THIS MIGHT BE OK, 6. THIS IS AWESOME. The text appears in white letters on a black background, styled to look like a projection or display screen.

ALT A humorous image showing "THE CREATIVE PROCESS" as a numbered list of 6 stages: 1. THIS IS AWESOME, 2. THIS IS TRICKY, 3. THIS SUCKS, 4. I SUCK, 5. THIS MIGHT BE OK, 6. THIS IS AWESOME. The text appears in white letters on a black background, styled to look like a projection or display screen.

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threadass🪡🥨@disco_martini
Apr 23
evvvverybody in this thread needs to listen to articles of interest season 7 by @trufelman and I mean EVERYBODY
ella devi
@ellad3vi
Apr 22
chloe iris kennedy said it best regarding lockheed martin streetwear
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html energy ❇️@htmlenergy
May 5
This year (2026) HTML Day is on Saturday, August 8, 2026 ❇️
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Science for the People@sftpmag
Apr 7
Batool Almarzouq offers a critique of the extractivist underpinnings of the open science movement, showing how the language of democratization can be mobilized in ways that reproduce colonial hierarchies and unequal relations of knowledge production: buff.ly/bHGZGcs
A graphic with purple background and white and darker purple text. To the right is a circle overlay with a drawing of a pipette in white, purple and pink. The text reads with the following pull quote, "The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research... Universities promoting Open Science operate in a clear contradiction; they call for global knowledge sharing while funding the destruction of knowledge systems in the Global South."

ALT A graphic with purple background and white and darker purple text. To the right is a circle overlay with a drawing of a pipette in white, purple and pink. The text reads with the following pull quote, "The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research... Universities promoting Open Science operate in a clear contradiction; they call for global knowledge sharing while funding the destruction of knowledge systems in the Global South."

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jess yin
@itsjessyin
Apr 3
discovering the coolest stuff by making a website that lets me doomscroll the MoMA, Met, and Art Institute of Chicago APIs
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connie@connie_surf
Mar 29
looking to commission editorial illustrators (3D/graphic design) and a layout designer for @kernel_magazine! DM or email connie@joinreboot.org with your portfolio for more details ⚡️
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Newspeak House@nwspk
Mar 27
Applications are now open: newspeak.house/study-with-us
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My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across my motherland... a very personal project, a few years in the making. Thank you to @maxnc & shelby for being wonderful, patient editors!
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maxwell neely-cohen@maxnc
Mar 20
Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art
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Jackson Dahl
@jacksondahl
Feb 25
Charles Broskoski believes everything should be personal: your work, your tools, your taste, and perhaps most provocatively, the business you build. I talked to @broskoski about knowing yourself, noticing patterns, casual research, and building a personal business in @AREdotNA. Charles is an artist turned software engineer and co-founder/CEO of Arena: a platform for collecting, connecting, and self-directed learning. Arena is coming up on its 15th anniversary, and Charles hopes it can last another 15 and far beyond. I discovered him through his essay and talk, "Here for the Wrong Reasons", and was struck by his philosophy that who we are is made up of the things we pay attention to, and specifically what we see in them. We discuss that and more: - Why creativity is decision-making and problem-solving - Charles's case for "casual" research - Why skateboarding is a model for being a beginner - How information that inflects you becomes part of who you are - Personal versus performative taste (and why it shouldn't be thought of as a competitive skill) - Creating a typeface to replace Arial that looks (almost) exactly like Arial - Why more creative people should start businesses - Drawing inspiration from a 1,300 year old Japanese hot spring hotel - "The reward is the work. That you get to hang out with your friends and make something cool." - Why Arena wants to fade into the background Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights 1:21 - Intro: Charles Broskoski 4:00 - Thanks to Notion 5:26 - Start: Creativity as Self-Knowledge and Problem-Solving 13:37 - Self-directed Learning and Casual Research 21:33 - Skateboarding, Being a Beginner, In Defense of Posers 33:26 - Contextual Patterns and Channels 45:54 - Nodal Points, Your Radar, and Careful Attention 1:04:57 - Subjectivity, Self-Knowledge, and Taste 1:15:09 - Performance: Here for Fame and Not Love 1:22:53 - Aspirational Attention 1:29:02 - Designing Generous Tools 1:42:44 - Space in a Product and Fading into the Background 1:50:01 - Why Creatives Should Be Entrepreneurial & Building an Independent Business Online 1:54:11 - Patience, Durability, and Antifragility 1:59:48 - Personal Businesses 2:10:27 - Grab Bag: Authenticity, Bohm Dialogue, Skateboarding, and Keeping Things Personal 2:28:28 - Thanks Again to Notion @DialecticPod Ep. 40: Charles Broskoski - Everything is Personal - is out now, below and on all platforms.

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UN OICT@UN_OICT
Mar 9
The United Nations Open Source Portal is now live! A new hub for collaboration across the UN system, connecting projects, people and open source solutions to strengthen digital innovation and cooperation. Explore the portal: opensource.un.org
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For my fellowship with the @softwaresaved this year, I’ll be seeding connections between the worlds of creative computation and academic computing. Please fill out this short form – and share it with others who might be interested too: tinyurl.com/ssi-ac-art-compu…
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David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 23
Qiu Zhijie’s all-seeing maps are transformative experiences that unsettle viewers’ sense of self and world. Unlike his earlier Mapping series, this group of 26 works integrates traditional Chinese brush-and-ink techniques, asking how calligraphy and painting can depict contemporary realities—dense cities, industrial zones, and shifting landscapes—while retaining their spontaneous vitality. Qiu seeks a form of “cartographic calligraphy” that blends realism with expressive freedom and reconciles the organic variability of nature with the geometric structures of modern life. Rooted in Chinese artistic tradition yet open to global diversity, his approach echoes Confucian ideas of relational harmony: through “family likenesses,” different cultures coexist without being flattened into a universal sameness. Qiu’s bird’s-eye views challenge Enlightenment cartography by redistributing knowledge and blurring boundaries between private and collective worlds. Acting as a mythmaker, he enlarges overlooked details into expansive narratives, transforming fragments of history into imaginative cosmologies. Drawing on the spirit of shan shui landscape painting—where cultural meaning outweighs strict topography—his maps question the neutrality of observation and recall the political dimensions of imperial mapping. Ultimately, Qiu’s cartography reimagines history, culture, and global relationships through poetic, critical vision. (Derived from "Viewed Through the Eye of A Bird: On Qiu Zhijie's Cartography" by Chang Tsong-Zung, translated by Don J. Cohn) davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet…
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Avery Trufelman@trufelman
Jan 13
I can tell you why. It's a really fashion story. I made a podcast about it articlesofinterest.co/podcas…

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Covie
@covie_93
Jan 11
Why are ICE agents wearing camo???
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As a part of #OpenDataDay organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, I'll be running another internet infrastructure tour... this time, with an open data twist! 📅 Sunday, 8 March ⏰ 10:30 - 12:30 PM ​📍London, UK I have capacity for ~25: luma.com/zy0hjdkx
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Art Encyclopedia
@artenpedia
Jan 15
Cueva de las Manos, Argentina
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tldraw
@tldraw
28 Sep 2025
we are hiring creative product engineers in London, visit tldraw dot dev slash careers
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Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD | 道 🐲🌋@taoleighgoffe
15 Oct 2025
Deadline is OCTOBER 20th! Scroll through the images for full details, including how to apply. NYC preference but open to anywhere in the 🌌🪐
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As a part of this year's @antiuniversity festival, I'm so excited to be facilitating the online panel: "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology" 📅 Thursday, 16 October ⏰ 9:00 EST / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST Sign ups: luma.com/3rpoc79c
Cyanotype image with the title "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology" with subtitle "16 October. 9 EST / 14 BST / 15 CEST" with a luma link below. Five logos from five schools are below the poster for the School of Radical Attention, School of Machines, No School Nevers, School of Commons, and LungA School.

ALT Cyanotype image with the title "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology" with subtitle "16 October. 9 EST / 14 BST / 15 CEST" with a luma link below. Five logos from five schools are below the poster for the School of Radical Attention, School of Machines, No School Nevers, School of Commons, and LungA School.

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These panelists will discuss their relationships to legacy institutions, tactics for sustaining alternative education, visions for the future, and more. - @BenjaminGaulon (@noschoolnevers) - Rachel Uwa (@SchoolOfMaaa) - Peter Schmidt (Strother School of Radical Attention)
Photo and biography of Benjamin Gaulon of No School Nevers.

ALT Photo and biography of Benjamin Gaulon of No School Nevers.

Photo and biography of Rachel Uwa of the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe

ALT Photo and biography of Rachel Uwa of the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe

Photo and biography of Peter Schmidt of the Strother School of Radical Attention.

ALT Photo and biography of Peter Schmidt of the Strother School of Radical Attention.

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- Chantelle Lue-Elton (@schoolofcommons) - Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson (@lungaschool) We just had our check-in call, and I'm so excited for this conversation. During what feels like a broader crisis of imagination, learning from minds like these feels more important than ever.
Photo and biography of Chantelle Lue-Elton.

ALT Photo and biography of Chantelle Lue-Elton.

Photo and biography of Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.

ALT Photo and biography of Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.

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