almanac.sh | an ecoesoteric bulletin about computation

Here the link for the RSS feed of the almanac!

And here the link where to read the almanac

Open call for contributions

• When: At every new moon of 2026
• Where: Email newsletter/RSS feed/Signal and Telegram bot/XMPP channels/Post mail

The aim of almanac.sh is to attempt a non-technical reading of everyday (and not) technology, questioning its serialized use and escaping the complete full-productivity fetishism of current tech trends.

Proposing an esoteric approach to the aforementioned topics, we want to imagine a different narration for the devices we have in front of us right now, doing what machines cannot do: imagination and real randomness.

What we call a computer is an apparatus with different shapes (laptop, smartphone, wearable, IoT...): some have called it an extension of us, while others describe it as a fragmentation of perceptions and therefore an impoverishment of the original source¹. These days, the second vision seems probably the more fitting one.

Is the digital pool of memory that we call devices an extension of ourselves or a truncation of our inner (and possibly, ancestral) memory?

We won't (maybe) know, but we can invent and narrate some other stories, departing from a monolithic reality.

If you* have any written contribution or if you want to write about these topics** please write! at poni[at]riseup.net

The idea for the almanac started during a AMRO/servus.at² Research Lab (2023).

The research laboratory "Perma-cultivate Computational Hybridity" aimed at exploring sustainability and resource conservation in the context of advancing digitalization, specifically focusing on the topics of Low, Small, & Minor Tech, as well as Permacomputing³ and other ecologically-attentive technological practices⁴.

Any contributions are appreciated - topics will be imagined after receiving some texts.

You might not have a possible contribution for now, but would you like to keep in touch? Write anyway! at poni@riseup.net

When the sky is dark at night, when the moon is new and whistles to the shadows, a notification appears; it's the almanac asking for sudo⁵ power.

The monthly almanac will follow this template:

Intro of the month

:: Introduction of the topic of the month, creating a dramaturgy between it and the classic almanac topics (i.e., regarding agriculture, moon energies on XYZ, astrology...)

Tangible Cloud Oracle reading at the Holy Mountain, at full moon

:: A sort of tarot reading but with the named deck made by Marloes de Valk and [...]. They will be read at the "Holy Mountain" (a big sacred rock next to Habitat headquarter - Cà de Monti) with the light of the full moon.

Haiku (contribution)

:: A very small poem on the topic :)

Writing of the month (contribution)

:: External contribution regarding the topic of the month

Spells: contribution from almanac.sh workshop

:: Some "tips" and tasks from this pad, generated from the almanac.sh workshop happened in amro 2024

Statement against the pure technic approach - fixed every month - a shorter and less formal remix of the description above

:: A statement about this project that works as a prayer

Colophon of the bulletin

:: Colophon :)