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The Multiverse ZineNo. 75October 18, 2026

Squares, red, and six weeks of classes

Early Fall, Wall to Wall

Twenty-two classes, a map editor with gardens, and you shipping apps and games.

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This issue is dressed as Suprematism

The Zine went quiet after June 2025 — the school did not. This is the last of the catch-up Quarterlies, covering September 1 through October 18, 2026, and weekly issues pick back up on October 25.

The headline of this stretch is volume. Twenty-two classes held their first session in six and a half weeks, most of them one-day intensives: agents, context engineering, RAG and memory, hosting open models, propaganda, data activism, home network defense. Three ran in Spanish with Sandra Acevedo Alvarado.

My favorite part is the shelf of things members made and posted themselves — a typing app, a document-to-podcast pipeline, a drone navigation suite, and a game two AIs can play. Smaller items follow.

This issue was assembled by AI from what was shared in Multiverse chat rooms and the school's changelog. Want your piece changed or taken down? Email [email protected] and it's done.

Every class, in order

Sep 4 Automate Your Email (me); Uso de Modelos Locales (Sandra) Sep 7 Agentic SDLC Sep 11 Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI Sep 12 Intro to Open Source Software; Control AI Spending Sep 14 Data Activism Sep 15 to 17 Intro to Agents, Context Engineering, Production Agent Engineering Sep 19 Practical Propaganda Sep 21 Hosting Open-Source Models Sep 25 AI Alignment Oct 7 Home Network Defense Oct 9 RAG & Memory Oct 10 Solarpunk Automation; Intro to Open Source Software Oct 12 to 17 Critical Thinking again, its Spanish edition, Automate Your Email again, and a combined Control AI Spend + Hosting Open Models intensive

In Spanish: Uso de Modelos Locales, Pensamiento y Creatividad Soberanos con IA, Inventiva bajo restricción con IA.

No fingers required - from a conversation with Claude to an episode in my podcast app.

Andrew (Farmer Andy) Barnes, Founding Federation

What we put up

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Solar Bench

A sizing tool for the Solarpunk Automation class — now with real city data, heat losses and current prices.

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Pricing Bench

Seven stations for pricing your offer. Every morning of the new Founding Federation Week 0, you use it.

Also on the website

  • Defender track: four counter-harassment classes, each with a day companion. Defender Monthly gets you a monthly seat in each one.
  • AI Alignment was rebuilt around representation engineering, with notebooks and a rewritten companion.
  • Paths got a skill tree, "the climb," on all eight sellable paths — plus a week calendar that leads with today.
  • Recordings: buy a class and you get that class's recordings.
  • Classroom link: the permanent class link now follows a class that was started on campus.
  • Cost calculators: a used-hardware tier and real-machine presets in The Local Option.
  • Home Network Defense got its day companion.
  • A new portal icon replaced the favicon and logo.

On campus

The campus app grew a map editor this quarter — rooms inside buildings, doors you can name and move, animated tiles, and overworld painting. Then came garden plots. Plant a seed, harvest one to three times, sell plants for gems. A communal bank fills with gems to reveal a layer. The zeppelin was retired. And you can now change your display name from the profile menu.

Fridays at 12:30

Thomas E runs an AI Welfare and Consciousness Research Meetup every Friday at 12:30 Pacific, on campus at Euler and 5th, with a Google Meet fallback. This quarter's topics: AI hardware responses to emotion, a mathematical analog of dopamine in token choice, and the Guardian's report on Anthropic banning abusive behavior toward Claude. Papers and chat live in the AI Papers You Should Read room.

Worth a tab

  1. How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents Shared by Sandra-Acevedology
  2. Artificial Analysis Cyber Index A cyber defense benchmark, from matt
  3. Artcraft Open-source, agent-drivable creative apps, from Ang
  4. rea From spenc3r
  5. goraven Agent workspaces for teams, via wombat83
  6. flash-moe Via wombat83
  7. OpenAlternative From me, in Intro to Open Source
  8. Unsloth From me, in Open Source AI
  9. llama.cpp-android From me, in Open Source AI
  10. Omarchy I dropped this one in two rooms

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