Author: Ryan Boren
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 27 2026: From the Tangle to the Map, From the Machine to the Root
The AI pages got a map this week — a front door, a split, and three new crosswalks. Underneath them, a root: Dinah Murray, whose monotropism-and-computing work is the bloodline of everything we say about machines. And a crosswalk handed us a name we’d been missing — relational opacity, the right not to be fully…
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Campfire Learn Together: Two Masters at Two Pianos
For our July 5, 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching two of the greatest pianists in the history of Jazz sit at two enormous grand pianos and talk about the ones who came before them.
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Om Malik: We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Him
Without my recently departed friend Om Malik, WordPress arguably wouldn’t still exist. Automattic, the company I helped start to support WordPress, wouldn’t exist. Stimpunks probably wouldn’t exist. I sold part of Automattic to fund Stimpunks. We certainly wouldn’t have been able to pay staff all these years without Om. My high-support needs family would be…
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Monitor Power, Not People
It’s hard for me to celebrate July 4th given the fascist descent the United States of America is hurtling down. Care systems are being dismantled. Life is increasingly perilous for neurodivergent, Disabled, and queer people in this country. Cruelty is the point. Yet, I am reluctant to let bigots define the day and carry the…
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Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — June 2026
June, in a sentence: we named the method, measured the world by it, refused to consent to the system, and traced our lineage back to the people who taught us how.
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Infodumplings: Farming While Beige, or How to Feed Everybody While Being Funny as Hell
Somewhere between a kill floor in Westmoreland County and a phone camera held at arm’s length, a farmer named Chris Newman has been quietly running one of the most coherent structural critiques of America you can watch in under three minutes. He calls the channel Farming While Beige. He talks about race, class, mutual aid,…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 26 2026: From Convergence to Lineage, From the Bloodline to Brighter Days
The crosswalks grew a home this week, and the new ones trace bloodlines instead of resemblances — a folk school and the freedom schools it raised. The home page named who we are before what we do. And a foundation reached out with brighter days in its name.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Dive and the Water — Dolphining, Attachment Theory, and the Broken-Systems Frame
For our Sunday, June 28, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we’re putting two of our glossary entries in the same room and watching what happens. Dolphining is about how a mind moves through a conversation. Attachment Theory — read through a neurodivergent lens — is about how a mind forms safety with other people. On the…
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Ariana Grande, Brighter Days Ahead, Stimpunks, and the Future of Philanthropy
Ariana Grande and the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation are supporting Stimpunks. The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation works to strengthen vulnerable communities by providing direct support to small organisations, prioritising trans and LGBTQ+ advocacy and protection. The foundation directly funds small, grassroots organisations doing care work for communities the world too often treats as disposable. We…
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Infodumplings: I Saw This and Thought of You
Penguins give each other pebbles. A penguin will search the whole beach for the smoothest, most perfect stone, carry it across the colony in its beak, and set it down at the feet of someone it has chosen. It isn’t useful. You can’t eat it. It just says one thing, completely: I thought of you.…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 25 2026: From the Clinic to the Machine, From the Watch List to the Action
From a model of distress to the architecture of a machine, Week 25 gave the method a name — ARLES — and read three bodies of research against it, finding the same shape each time. And the watch list became an action.
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My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade.
My pride’s a riot, not a parade. This Autistic Pride Day arrives ornery. The right to live in community is being dismantled on every front at once — behaviorism rebranded as care, eugenics said out loud, the institution waiting at the end of every cut. Neuronormative domination is the key problem of our time, and…
