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#introduction

hello, i'm phoebe. i live in nyc. i dont love computers but i do love talking to friends and strangers on the internet so it is an uneasy truce.

what i wrote in my bio is "i am a weird tech loser and artist. i enjoy contrarian ways of thinking about computers. i like plan 9, apl/k, forth, minimalism in technology, and maximalism in art" which is also true.

i put some of my art and writing on www.timeflayer.com which is my website.

it's quite difficult to find information on this work, but this looks extremely interesting and i'm surprised i hadn't heard about it before: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380572.The_Inoperative_Community?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=LR8LILa0Fr&rank=1

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100004465

somehow i got down a rabbit hole where ive been researching the spider divination rituals of western cameroon. they rule. semi-related to this is a pack of oracle cards an artist made inspired by these spider divination practices, which also really rule: https://studiotomassaraceno.org/arachnomancy-cards/

is there a term for "sybil resistance" that doesn't carry the same ableist baggage but also conveys the idea? i see "pseudospoofing" but i've never heard the term before and it's not very self-evident what it means

playing the game where i try to find weird cool stuff on archive.org and today i won. heres a cool document that's p much an scp, when the cia was apparently trying to explore mars with psychokinesis https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9/mode/2up

enjoy http://www.fujichia.com/

imagining some sort of web challenge game "lettrist art or sprite sheet" etc

i feel like the most important caveat to this is that i don't believe i have access to a 3d printer

making a logo "turtle" seems pretty cheap and feasible even for me who has 0 robotics experience - has anyone else done something like this? i am contemplating this for Art purposes so something extremely janky is fine and in some ways preferred

i do think its quite funny that when i am trying to find research papers on tech concepts, the main SEO-optimized site that will paywall me is literally called "researchgate"

rummaging through archive.org hoping interesting things will find me, found the massive back archives of some forth magazine i didn't know existed: https://archive.org/details/forthdimension

considering that people on here are often looking for forth examples (@neauoire, @eris) i bet there is likely a lot of salvageable resources in here

i feel like this is a dumb question but: how do routers work? how does a message to a remote server end up getting sent to a device behind a router? im guessing it is some IP field but i am not sure what

what are some virtual machines or computational substrates that you find particularly compelling or at least quite unique?

thinking about:
- warren abstract machine
- dis
- fractran
- nock, other combinator machines
- movable feast machine