From bb0eeb58b1d0aab6b4f4898bca598d34bc026268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:13:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Say what each card enables Every talking point now leads with the capability instead of the absence: the room answers, the seal is yours, drawing and speaking is the entry requirement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 --- questions/index.yaml | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ questions/shape.yaml | 2 +- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/questions/index.yaml b/questions/index.yaml index 7be3110..412e711 100644 --- a/questions/index.yaml +++ b/questions/index.yaml @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ id: / name: What shapes us? description: > - redoal is a gesture-addressed network — a small network that works - without the things you think a network needs. Draw a line and it - becomes an address: not a username, not a dot-com, the drawing - itself. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else + redoal is a gesture-addressed network. Draw a line and it becomes + an address — the drawing itself, ready to use the moment your hand + lifts. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near. responsible: name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug @@ -42,71 +41,66 @@ alternatives: type: email optional: true - - name: Meet a network with no list and no landlord + - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand description: > - The one trick, and what falls out of it — the parts that run - today, said plainly. The longer version is the zine: printed, - folded, and left in the gallery. + The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today, + said plainly. The longer version is the zine: printed, folded, + and left in the gallery. features: - name: A drawing is an address description: > The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint. Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land - like two houses on the same street, a zigzag on another - street entirely. The fingerprint even draws itself back: - a lo-fi sketch of the shape, with zero network calls. + like two houses on the same street. The fingerprint even + draws itself back: a lo-fi sketch of the shape, straight + from the key. icon: lucide:map-pin - - name: Nobody keeps the list + - name: Your machine asks the room description: > - On the internet you know, finding anyone goes through a - middleman who keeps the list of names and remembers that - you asked. Here your machine asks the machines around it, - "has anyone been near this shape?" Nothing is registered - anywhere, with anyone. + To find someone, your machine asks the machines around it: + "has anyone been near this shape?" Your spiral finds my + spiral directly, peer to peer. The whole directory is the + shapes people know, passed along on a napkin. icon: lucide:users - name: Voices stay where you left them description: > A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top, - and if someone stands at the same drawing right now, just - talk — live, machine to machine, no company carrying the - words. + and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just + talk — live, machine to machine. icon: lucide:mic - - name: A seal, not a sign-in + - name: Sealed by your own hand description: > - Every recording and every stored stroke is sealed with a - signature from the leaver's own machine. Not a name — there - are no names here — just proof that nothing was altered and - that the same hand made the same things. Delete the key and - you were never here. + Every recording and every stored stroke carries a signature + from the leaver's own machine — proof that it arrived + intact and that the same hand made the same things. The key + lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete + it and you were never here. icon: lucide:stamp - name: Twenty-four words description: > Teaching these machines a new behaviour takes a language of exactly twenty-four keywords. "When a voice starts, keep what you hear; when it stops, leave it at this drawing" is about - 240 bytes on the wire — and the language has no word for - reading your files or phoning home. You don't have to trust - the author; you can check the dictionary. + 240 bytes on the wire — small enough to read in full, so you + can check the dictionary instead of trusting the author. icon: lucide:book-open - - name: Nothing that reads + - name: Draw and speak, and you're in description: > - No accounts, no servers, no feed, and almost no text: the - primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A child, - an elder, or a newcomer who doesn't read the local script is - in on the same terms as everyone else — if you can draw and - you can speak, you're in. + The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A + child, an elder, or a newcomer still learning the local + script arrives on the same terms as everyone else — that is + the whole entry requirement. icon: lucide:hand - name: Young, and honest about it description: > - A prototype and an artwork before it is a product, made for - the program «big tech skal vekk». The gesture math, the - fingerprints, the voice recordings, and the machine-to-machine - fetching are real and running; the transport that reaches - across the internet is still being built. The edges are - rough, and the edges are where the interesting questions - live. + A prototype and an artwork first, made for the program «big + tech skal vekk». The gesture math, the fingerprints, the + voice recordings, and the machine-to-machine fetching are + real and running; the transport that reaches across the + internet is being built now. The edges are rough, and the + edges are where the interesting questions live. icon: lucide:sprout - name: Follow the build as it lands diff --git a/questions/shape.yaml b/questions/shape.yaml index 5980349..7107b17 100644 --- a/questions/shape.yaml +++ b/questions/shape.yaml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ alternatives: In the full network a drawing is a place that holds voices — recordings left by whoever came before, and live talk with whoever is standing here now. On this site it holds echoes - for the moment; the voices follow. + today; the voices follow. - name: Draw another description: >