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Deepwater horizon timeline. Rise of Oil and Gas in the Wellbore. the graph shows the depth of the oil and gas over time as it started rising through the well at 20:40 to causing the explosion on the surface at 21:50. Key events are highlighted with their time. The critical phase starts at 21:38 "Gas enters riser"
Diagram of the blowout preventer (BOP) labelled "Deepwater Horizon BOP Port Side". The BOP is shown as a technical diagram with some parts labelled. The podcast hosts have added hand-drawn annotations in red as they explain the various failures that happened
Underwater photograph of the broken oil well with oil gushing into the ocean water in brown. A hand drawn red line annotation by the podcast host shows where the well ruptured.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) map of the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It shows the oil spill area in red extending up to 200 nautical miles out of the location of the oil rig, and a wider area of fisheries closure in orange
🏭🔥🤠 The Deepwater Horizon Disaster | Well There's Your Problem | Episode 193 | 30 Jan 2026 @wtyppod.bsky.social
📺 🔗 youtu.be/za2BCfdN6BM?...
Filed: 2026-02-27
Under: 🕸️ Infragram
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🚀 🚫 📨 Invitations for the next Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires will be sent out in the next week or so. The theme of this edition is: Datacenters in Space.
As usual we will be looking for exactly seven participants on a first-replied-to-the-email basis. To be included in the mailing list for this and future séances please fill up this form:
docs.luddite.tools/form/#/2/for...
More about the project: sigil-seance.diagram.institute
🚀 🚫 📨 Invitations for the next Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires will be sent out in the next week or so. The theme of this edition is: Datacenters in Space.
The Institute strongly condemns the mindfulness-washing of ecocidal war machines 🪷
openai.com/index/our-ag...
boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford. ‘Critical Questions for Big Data’. Information, Communication & Society 15, no. 5 (2012): 662–79. doi.org/10.1080/1369....
Bouk, Dan. How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Desrosières, Alain. The politics of large numbers : a history of statistical reasoning. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Barnes, T. J. ‘Big Data, Little History’. Dialogues in Human Geography 3, no. 3 (2013): 297–302. doi.org/10.1177/2043....
Porter, T. M. Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Daily Life. Princeton University Press, 1995.
Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. Objectivity. Zone Books, 2007.
Hacking, Ian. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Gigerenzer, Gerd, Theodore Porter, Zeno Swijtink, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty, and Lorenz Kruger. The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
"Critical Statistics" reading list
Some references pulled from the institute library yesterday after someone asked for critical readings on statistics. Thought we would share this list of absolute bangers 🧵
Floor plan of a rectangular building filled with a grid of cell blocks, with 5 tiny basketball courts distributed on the top and bottom edges. The right part of the blueprint is filled with more irregular shapes that appear to be canteens, mess hall, and other facilities. The labels on the plan are barely legible
🏭 ICE detention center floor-plan
A floorplan shows details of the Department of Homeland Security's planned 2026 conversion of a warehouse in Social Circle, Ga.
via: www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
🔗 www.gpb.org/news/2026/02...
Filed: 2026-02-23
Under: 🕸️ Control Diagrams
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![Meme formatted image with text: STOP DOING BORDERS • FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE RESTRICTED • YEARS OF DRAWING LINES ON MAPS yet NO BENEFIT FOUND for EXCLUDING PEOPLE based on what LINES THEY LIVE WITHIN • Want to draw lines anyway for a laugh? We have a tool for that: It's called "WORLDBUILDING" • "Yes please suspend HUMAN RIGHTS near the lines. Please make it illegal to cross the lines without CERTAIN PAPERS" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Authoritarian LOOK at what States have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the maps & walls we've made for them (These are REAL Borders, enforced by REAL States) ???? ??2777 ???????????? "Hello may I see your [image of a Passport] please?" They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c2f6kqjgw7h6gdgsnoj2r3ki/bafkreicxoiodiu7rxukaenr4abmtffuvqpbvzrheieyvt7jb2knrmmzw5a)
Meme formatted image with text: STOP DOING BORDERS • FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE RESTRICTED • YEARS OF DRAWING LINES ON MAPS yet NO BENEFIT FOUND for EXCLUDING PEOPLE based on what LINES THEY LIVE WITHIN • Want to draw lines anyway for a laugh? We have a tool for that: It's called "WORLDBUILDING" • "Yes please suspend HUMAN RIGHTS near the lines. Please make it illegal to cross the lines without CERTAIN PAPERS" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Authoritarian LOOK at what States have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the maps & walls we've made for them (These are REAL Borders, enforced by REAL States) ???? ??2777 ???????????? "Hello may I see your [image of a Passport] please?" They have played us for absolute fools
Stop doing borders
🔗 bsky.app/profile/ike.... @ike.blue
Filed: 2026-02-18
Under: 🕸️ Countergram
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
🔗 taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Filed: 2026-01-07
Under: ✏️ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮
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SpaceX files plans for million-satellite orbital data center constellation - SpaceNews
🔗 spacenews.com/spacex-files...
Filed: 2026-02-05
Under: ✏️ Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires 🚀🔮
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A DHS chart of deportations : number of people removed from US within fiscal year. Shows Obama deported about 400k ppl/year
Trump has ICE working hard to beat Obama's record as deporter-in-chief.
#AbolishICE
Figure 2.1 information searching strategies: connecting material from various 'orbits of relevance'. The figure shows concentic circles with a central point connected to smaller nodes at various distances from it, some are small circles some are ellipses. The outer circle is a solid grey. The legend reads: Relevancy of material; solid dot like the one at the center: very little absolutely (subject specific); small circle nodes: some partially (discipline specific); ellipse nodes: much slightly (e.g. cultural); grey like the outer circle: vast amounts of almost totally unrelated (e.g. astrophysics)
🛰️ Orbits of relevance
Gray, Carole, and Julian Malins. 2007. *Visualizing Research : A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design*.
Filed: 2020-06-22
Under: 🕸️ Methodogram
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While this particular application failed we will endeavour to find another home for this work in 2026.
#fail #shareyourfailures #notsuccess #luddites #kingludd
Diagram summarising all the aspects of the project proposal. the left side has the students, staff, and University College Cork, the right side is the Luddite academy. Both have arrows pointing to a middle column where they meet around the tree main activities of the project: Audit (interviews, office hours, reports/maps), Experiment (online prototypes, workshops), and Document (curated resources, publishing platform). The arrows coming out of the luddite academy towards these activities are labelled with the modes of action of the academy: produce artwork, curate, produce tools/code, teach, publish/host
We proposed to 1) Audit the university's dependence on Big Tech 2) Experiment with alternatives with students and staff, including but not limited to hosting our own (experimental) digital services and 3) Document everything so that it could outlive the residency.
The project was titled "The Luddite Academy" and proposed to bring the current resurgence of luddite theory and praxis to bear on the university's digital arts and humanities departments.
🚫 🛠️ We are disappointed to report that an application for the role of "Digital Artist in Residence" at University College Cork (UCC) submitted by The Institute earlier this year has not been successful.
Hexen 2.0 deck in its back carboard box with one of the intricate card drawings as a cover: a mystical mountain with a sun inside radiates out, clouds above have the words Cyberwar, Infowar, Netwar written inside them
Hexen 5.0 deck in its green cardboard box with one of the intricate card drawings as a cover: St. Francis of Assisi patron saint of ecology is depicted surrounded by colourflu shapes and messages, the words Spiritual and Ecology feature prominently at the top and bottom
One of the fold-out diagrams included with Hexen 5.0. Inter-connected nodes with labels such as "The mystical nature of physics", "Space law", or "techno-cosmic and techno-shamanic movements"
The Devil card from Hexen 5.0 depicts "Government & private space colonisation" in a colorful composition saturated by word bubbles, some list the names of "defense and space contractors"
🗃️ The Institute is delighted to announce the acquisition of HEXEN 2.0 and HEXEN 5.0 tarot decks by Suzanne Treister for inclusion in the permanent collection.
🔗 HEXEN 2.0 (2009-2011) www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN...
🔗 HEXEN 5.0 (2025) www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN_5/HEXE...
📰 bindloareswhfytupkmcg
The Institute and @lucileolympe.bsky.social are featured in issue #148 of Versogerin with an interview about Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires by Tanja Brandmayr
EN: versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2...
AT: versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/12-2...
🗃️ Rank and File
What if my note-taking system could think for me? Robert Minto, Real Life Magazine 2021
🔗 reallifemag.com/rank-and-file/
Filed: 2021-01-08
Under: 🔭 Yarnwork 🏫 PKM Bro Bootcamp
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A screenshot of the blog post at https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
Heatmap matrix visualization with compound insult parts on each axis and colored squares marking the frequency of the combination at each intersection. Darker red squares indicate most frequent insults (maximum is 3 million comments) examples: dumb-ass, sum-bag, dip-shit, lib-tard. Pale squares indicate rare insults (0 or under 10 comments) examples: dirt-hat, lib-sucker, trump-nozzle, scum-wit
📊 Compound Insults on Reddit
🔗 www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Filed: 2022-06-29
Under: 🕸️ Grammargram
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📹 🔁 Looping Surveillance Cameras (like in the movies) - Van Albert and Banks - DEF CON 23
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOq...
Filed: 2021-03-25
Under: ✏️ Telecommuters
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Telecommuters wiki by RYBN
wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=...
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?
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
💔 😭
🔗 [OC] Data visualization of American wages and productivity over time
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Filed: 2020-11-2
Under: 🕸️ Capitalogram
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🗺️ Cartofaf, their work mapping the French far-right
cartofaf.streetpress.com/carte
Filed: 2024-11-11
Under: 🕸️ Cartogram 🔭 Antifa mapping
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