📡 by Mike Rugnetta
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📡 – 2025-04-28
April 28, 2025
More than 200 years of computer diseases
📡 – 2025-03-23
March 24, 2025
Addicted to the entire world
📡 – 2025-03-11
March 11, 2025
An "empathy game"
📡 – 2025-02-24
February 24, 2025
A good tool disappears into its use
📡 – 2025-02-10
February 10, 2025
They invented this new kind of debt
📡 – 2025-01-27
January 27, 2025
Too cooked to be back; too back to be cooked
📡 – 2024-06-07
June 7, 2024
Photo by Anqi Lu on Unsplash 👂 Greg FoatThe Fish Factory Sessions & Gigi Masin loscilUmbel PrioriThis but More TrudgerDormiveglia CandyIt’s Inside You Lola...
📡 – 2024-05-17
May 17, 2024
Photo by Marcin Simonides on Unsplash 🖋️ I keep accidentally engaging with the AI assistants that are showing up in all the text-input boxes in my life, and...
📡 – 2024-05-07
May 7, 2024
Photo by Gilles Rolland-Monnet on Unsplash 🖋️ Friends! I hope you're well. I'm going to keep it brief up here, and get to The Stuff – some of which has been...
📡 – 2024-03-01
March 1, 2024
Transmission Received via flickr 👂 Oh hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! Wrecked LightshipAntiposition SquarepusherDostrotime Ben FrostScope Neglect Kate Carrmaking...
📡 – 2024-02-16
February 16, 2024
Hands? On Deck 🖋️ Hello! It has been a minute – and for that I apologize. I made a big deal about moving to Buttondown and then... poof. I think my excuse is...
📡 – 2023-12-29
December 29, 2023
image via dall•e 🖋️ Friends, hello – a brief pre-New Year 📡 to get the new Buttondown system up and running (check the last email for details if you need...
📡 – 2023-12-22
December 22, 2023
🖋️ See the end of this section for details on the end of this newsletterand where we’re headed next It is rare that a decision is so easy. I’ve been...
📡 – 2023-11-06
November 6, 2023
Image via DALL•E Once more, this time with feeling… 👂 📚 Body Void’s Bulldozing Doom Isn’t Just A Sound. It’s A Philosophy. Bandcamp DailyBody Void’s...
📡 – 2023-10-31
October 31, 2023
Image via DALL•E 🖋️ Friends! I hope you’re well! Here is a make-up Tuesday post for a missed missive two weeks back; planning on another mailing Friday-or-...
📡 – 2023-10-06
October 6, 2023
Image via DALL•E Back at it again! Apologies for the missed missives – gonna try to keep this one lean and not overwhelm, but the back-catalog is big, and...
📡 – 2023-09-08 (observed)
September 11, 2023
Image via DALL•E 🖋️ Baldur’s Gate 3 might be the last “““AAA””” game I play for a while. Famous last words, I know. Having bounced from the latest God of...
📡 – 2023-08-25 (observed)
August 29, 2023
Image via DALL•E Apologies for the tardiness! But of course I would not abandon you! Right to it: 👂 👆 Remaster / rerelease of a classic banger. Highly,...
📡 – 2023-08-11
August 11, 2023
Image via DALL•E At this point I have seen plenty of art made with AI tools. And I have seen some which were impressive. But the “Wow!” always has a...
📡 – 2023-07-28
July 28, 2023
Image via DALL•E Friends! I hope you’re well. Another brief one this week as I’ve been swamped working on two new, and largish projects (on top of the rest...
📡 – 2023-07-14
July 14, 2023
Image via DALL•E 👂 😎 🥵 😈 👹 📚 You Just Lived Through the Three Hottest Days on Earth—and More Is Coming You Just Lived Through the Three Hottest Days on...
📡 – 2023-06-30
June 30, 2023
Image via DALL•E 👂 spicy 📚 Can Art Change Attitudes Toward Climate Change? Can Art Change Attitudes Toward Climate Change? A study found that people who...
📡 – 2023-06-16
June 16, 2023
Image via DALL•E The painting Tod by Jean Colombe served as the logo header for Rotten dot com until its closure in 2012 🖋️ CW: Discussion of websites which...
📡 – 2023-06-02
June 2, 2023
Image via DALL•E 🖋️ By waferboard on flickr I am guilty of it, of course. Of thinking – at one point – and of telling people (people who hired me to tell...
📡 – 2023-05-19
May 19, 2023
Image via DALL•E 👂 The theme of this week’s LISTENING section is: PRE-ORDERS ONLY! Probably one or more of these’ll make another appearance after their...
📡 – 2023-05-05
May 5, 2023
Image via DALL•E 👂 Hello! It’s Bandcamp Friday! If you haven’t heard, workers at Bandcamp are attempting to unionize. You can learn a little more about that...
📡 – 2023-04-07
April 7, 2023
Image via DALL•E 🖋️ Friends! It’s Bandcamp Friday! And did you know the workers at Bandcamp are attempting to unionize? They are! If you have a moment (and...
📡 – 2023-03-24
March 24, 2023
Image via DALL•E Depiction of the assassination of King Eglon by Israelite Judge Ehud, Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1360. / via WP News has broken of...
📡 – 2023-03-10
March 10, 2023
Image via DALL•E Three Quick Labor Things before we get to The Stuff: 1. NLRB Says Sub-subcontactors are Joint Goog Employees Alphabet (née Google) is a lot...
📡 – 2023-02-24
February 24, 2023
Image via DALL•E In the middle of doing client work – looking for artists on Instagram to commission work from – I was locked out of my account, and told it...
📡 – 2023-02-10
February 10, 2023
Image via DALL•E CW: ongoing scatological metaphor ahead At the end of the 📚 section, you’ll find an open-access paper looking at the work of Marina [née and...
📡 – 2023-01-27
January 27, 2023
Image via DALL·E I’ve given you a fair bit of material to peruse in this edition of 📡, and it’s all REALLY good, so I’m gonna keep this top section brief,...
📡 – 2023-01-13
January 13, 2023
Image via DALL•E: “photo of a campfire fueled entirely by satellite antenna dishes” willy 🌜💧 @willystaleyPicturing a 6-flame Viking range with wok stand,...
📡 – 2022-12-30
December 30, 2022
Image via DALL•E: “a satellite dish peeking out of the top of a snowbank in a dirty city” It’s not a very cool opinion, but one of my favorite artists is the...
📡 – 2022-12-16
December 16, 2022
Image via DALL•E, “A city of satellite antenna dishes sinking into the ocean” I have known many boxes. The first, I think, was the AIM Away Message Box,...
📡 – 2022-12-02
December 2, 2022
Image via DALL•E - Satellite dish goes food shopping President Biden @POTUSI promised I would be the most pro-union president in our history. That’s another...
📡 – 2022-11-18
November 18, 2022
image generated by dall•e, but you could probably tell that Hi. It’s nice to see you! It’s been a while, a couple years in fact since this last went out....
📡 – 10.23.20
October 23, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 10.09.20
October 9, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 09.27.2020
September 27, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 09.11.2020
September 11, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 08.28.2020
August 28, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 08.14.2020
August 14, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Since I missed a couple of these, though I might do an extra. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not...
📡 – 08.07.2020
August 7, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 05.22.2020
May 22, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 04.25.2020 + 05.08.2020
May 8, 2020
I forgot to cross-post the 04.25.2020 📡 from Patreon (sorry!), so here’s both, interleaved! — A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of...
📡 – 03.03.2020
April 3, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
📡 – 02.28.2020
February 28, 2020
A small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of this is new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think about....
🌹📡❤️ – 02.14.2020
February 14, 2020
This is a slightly larger than usual collection of things I ~consumed~ recently, because I'm not using social media this month and it turns out that means I...
📡 - 01.31.2020
January 31, 2020
This is a small collection of things I ~consumed~ recently. Not all of it new. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. All of it gave me something to think...