[jauntywundrkind]

There's probably no body of works more impressive to me than Karli Coss's work to capture data from the various devices & systems they use. The map of infrastructure shows off the architecture here, what it takes to read your own systems: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html . The overall blog post/digital gardening plot on the topic is probably https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html .

There's something remarkably smart about OCR as a failsafe that gets around all technical problems. Karlicoss's work shows the extensiveness of reading out data, and even that will have various limitations with what the datastores choose to encode. Simply building super-agency stop the actual agency directly afforded us real humans, by dealing with the screen as interface, has a certain elegance to it (in a world gone mad with difficult unyielding technologies).