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Newsletter October 2026

Hi, this monthly newsletter is meant to give those interested a little insight in what is brewing, what is popping, and what has popped and passed.

First, I'd like to quickly catch up with how sudo nano has developed thus far. I made the first versions of the website last February, and quickly had big ambitions to publish texts and rally the community around a topic that I felt was lacking attention in the literary landscape (that topic being the digital demons that infest us and the big tech warlocks that sent them).

Despite the big ambitions, it remained a passion project that was only allowed to grow slowly in the shadowy cracks of a busy personal and professional life.

Both of us fascinated with the cyberdeck renaissance online, I joined forces with Ischa from art magazine Simulacrum to reply to an open call for workshops by BURO Stedelijk, and we got a tiny bit of budget to realise a cyberdeck workshop on the 11th of June. For some photos of the event, check this page.

The amount of registrations and enthusiasm excited us; there seemed to be a latent community interested in writing, small tech and internet culture.

Summer rolled around, professional deadlines had to be met, grass needed to be touched, and in september I moved to Groningen, preventing us to organise something in the short term to meet the interest that was shown.

In talks with Waag FutureLab and Hackers & Designers, we are now planning a six-part workshop series on designing, hacking and coding a cyberdeck, a keyboard, and a text-editor. For this, we applied to the Stimuleringsfonds for funding. Fingers crossed!

Now in Groningen with some more time on my hands due to being in between jobs, I teamed up with Marián Crespo López (from the queer-political magazine ISSUE) to start a Cyberfeminist Reading Group here. The group will have its first meeting on the 24th of november, 19:00h, in Cafe Bentomo, where we will discuss the first few chapters of Sadie Plant's foundational text on the movement: zeros+ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (1997). More details about the reading group can be found here.

Also to finally kick off sudo nano's publishing practice, the call for participants in a circular letter chain is now online! In this letter chain, participating writers get full creative freedom to riff off of the previous writers piece on the effect of LLM's on the future of writing, with the first piece being edited or appended to reply to the last letter. Besides publishing it online, it will be printed and distributed as a zine. Check out the call for participants here, and send it to writers you know that are into digital culture!

The website has been given a fresh coat of paint for these developments, and I'm excited to start organising the first writing meetups and workshops.

Funding, however, stays an issue. Things will go slow. If you feel like organising something in the digital-literary space, and feel like working together on it, reach out and we can go for a coffee.

Best,
Wisse

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