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A vintage ADM-3A terminal— image taken from the manual.
From QED to Neovim
03 09 2025blog
From QED to Neovim, this blog post unveils the history and evolution of the digital text editor. Modern systems require a meth...
codeculture
An abstract representation of a force-directed graph— colorful nodes and connecting lines
Graph
01 01 2025page
A force-directed graph of nodes and edges which visualizes the relationships between articles (blog posts and knowledge base) ...
culturecode
Picture of a laptop screen, showing some code that uses a modern, high-contrast color scheme.
Knowl­edge Base
06 19 2023page
The index of the Dan Tompkins' personal knowledge base, zettelkasten, or wiki. Discover the rare curiosities of the Loosed kno...
electronicsculture
A handsome portrait of the developer and author of the Loosed Blog, Daniel Tompkins.
About
01 07 2024page
What is l-o-o-s-e-d.net? Learn more about Dan Tompkins, the architecture school graduate developing and writing for this priva...
culture
Picture of a laptop screen, showing some code that uses a modern, high-contrast color scheme.
What I Use
06 19 2023page
Check out my gear and let me know in the comments what you're using!...
electronicsculture
Example of lead-acid battery post corrosion
Cars and Fish
04 19 2021blog
Far too many of us have been in the same gut-wrenching situation. You're late. The doors slam as you rush into your car. Then ...
DIYculture
A loose overlap of two grids of lines. Some lines start to wriggle free of the grid and forge together like roots or bundles of wire.
In­tro­duc­tion
05 07 2020kb
More and more accounts of people (often programmers) using the KB structure to store frequently referenced information led me ...
codeculture
A grid of shelves containing hundreds of books.
Archive
10 08 2019page
Find all the previous Loosed blog posts together on one page!...
culturecode
Gif of screenshots from featured blogs
What the Blog?
07 02 2019blog
Blogs?? That's right. You haven't time-traveled. We're 19 years past the turn of the millenium. People are giving up their wri...
culture
The ancient library at Alexandria, Midjourney AI.
Read­ing List
06 01 2019page
If you're interested in a decentralized Internet, if you wonder how technology infiltrates politics (for better or worse), or ...
DIYpolitics
Animated gif rotating through photos of the Signs of Life exhibit. There's a photo of the thin tripod structure and projector, a photo of the GOES image, and an image of classmates trying on their headphones.
Signs of Life
01 18 2019blog
FM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed statio...
media artelectronics
A network of people, information, and culture visualized as a faceted tapestry.
Pub­lic In­ter­net
05 02 2018blog
Nearly a decade ago, Facebook pioneered the concept of social media. However, it wasn’t until recently— as the ...
Internetpolitics
A network of people, information, and culture visualized as a faceted tapestry.
Pub­lic Do­main
04 27 2018blog
In the previous post, I took a quick look at Cass Sunstein's #republic— particularly, at the mechanisms of onli...
culturemedia art
A council of people sitting in a chamber, visualized through the pages of a book as a frame.
A Re­pub­lic, If You Can Keep It
04 25 2018blog
Nicco's class Media and Journalism in the Digital Age is centered on what we're forced to loosely refer to as "news",...
Internetpolitics
Screenshot of desktop windows arranged with i3 (window manager) and the Regolith distro
The New News
04 11 2018blog
Last year I wrote a first draft of a paper, The Internet of Anxiety, which essentially documented the growing pains o...
politicsInternet
A collection of leather shoes.
Shoe-Leather Pol­i­tics
03 11 2018blog
In The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, the closed curtains typically shrouding the inner-...
Internetpolitics
A person's illustrated cartoon, distorted portrait morphed and warped and distorted into a pie chart which displays various data about the person. This civic data graphic artistically shows unique information about a person.
Whole Cit­i­zens
02 18 2018blog
In the previous article, I took a look at David Karpf's Analytic Activism— examining how political campaigns ha...
Internetpolitics
An illustrated person inside of a bubble, on their cell phone. There are words coming out and bouncing back at the person.
Pub­lic Cit­i­zens
01 31 2018blog
At times, public domain renders itself as a physical environment— perhaps a park, or plaza. Conceptually, thoug...
Internetpolitics