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Your mind is a temple where the wisdom and magic of Goddesses reside. Brilliant article!

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kate's avatar

what brilliant writing!! though every piece you write is amazing, this one especially left me breathless and inspired! you can *feel* your reverence from this essay. wonderful!!

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Maalvika's avatar

omg :’) thank you for your sweet words, Kate!

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Daniel Bakker's avatar

This is such a beautiful piece of writing, adding heart to things that are generally considered purely mechanical.

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Maalvika's avatar

that was my goal! i'm so glad you enjoyed it :)

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Candela's avatar

You have outdone yourself!

Such a beautifully written and somehow both heartbreaking and inspiring piece.

Thank you for sharing 🩷

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Maalvika's avatar

thank *u* for reading!! 🩷

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Prachi's avatar

You put this together so wonderfully, I always think about how language is the first step to change the way we think about things. And how important being intentional with language is. You write beautifully, thank you for this!

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Riya's avatar

Such a great piece!

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EggEggEgg's avatar

This is an incredible article. I learned so much. Everyone should read this

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shefoundwonderland's avatar

this is so brilliant and well written omg.

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aditi ◡̈'s avatar

i loved how research backed this piece was!! i felt like i learned so much and didn’t mind it at all ◡̈ another slay!!

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Smithson Winst's avatar

😮

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Rahul Kahani's avatar

Coming from fashion design background, this is why I gravitated towards technology naturally.

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Andrea Hiott's avatar

Wonderful. Agree with and love the spirit, & would say weaving is even richer than computation. It’s embodied and multidimensional, beyond binary (even if including it, even if the machines built from it use binary) and we have much more to learn from weaving. In that same spirit perhaps binary tech is not the end point but the place from which to open beyond either/or dimensions, as does your piece

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Aditi Taswala's avatar

This is incredible! Thank you for writing this and opening my eyes! Could you please recommend further reading sources on this topic?

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Maalvika's avatar

zeros + ones by Sadie Plant 📖

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Jack's avatar

Wow this is sooooo cool I do computational machine knitting for my main job and I can’t express how much I enjoyed this

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Running Rob's avatar

I just shared this on LinkedIn in it resonates with me since I felt that hurt of destroyed knots and lines of binary strings of data, knowledge, understanding, wisdom

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My post reads

An amazing piece of history and imagination to connect so many times periods and technologies and innovations together open the Substack Article it is inspiring and resonates across centuries ... weaving analogue and digital

Connecting head, heart and hands, and fingers and digits ..

The Author in Substack is Maalvika

👏👏

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Sade Wallace's avatar

Incredible.

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veronica's avatar

As a girl who wrote her college essays in 2017 about the intersections of art and STEM and has now found herself doing a design engineering masters, this struck something in me that’s long been hidden under a mess of anxiety and distraction. Thank you for your words

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