Notes and observations from the 2021 Computer Mouse Conference.
Cybernetics Image Library
A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.
Father of the Mouse: Doug Engelbart. An exclusive interview in SuperKids Software Review.
History of the computer mouse.
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Eryk Salvaggio: Critical AI & Culture | Glossary — Cybernetic Forests.
Stochastic Flocks, Systems From Nowhere and other citable terms for describing AI systems without borrowing from cognition, by Eryk Salvaggio.
10/GUI
Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There's more information at http://10gui.com .
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
Spatial Web Browsing
Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web
Nate on Twitter / X
OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026
G403
Shop G403 Gaming Mouse. Features HERO 25k sensor with 1ms response times, LIGHTSYNC RGB, high build quality with side grips and programmable buttons
Nimbus for visionOS
Nimbus is a Bluesky client for visionOS, bringing social browsing to spatial computing.
The fetish of the click: a small history of the computer mouse as vulva
This paper examines the fetish of the click through a technofeminist history of the computer mouse as vulva. It argues that this material turn is a necessary corrective to abstractions of the click...
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
digital gardens
Good Internet
smallweb
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