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The Multiverse ZineNo. 78November 8, 2026

  • Hungry for Change
  • Excuse us while we kiss the sky
  • Strategically Jank
  • This wasn't supposed to work but it did
  • Sometimes the project was the projects we made along the way
  • Roll up your sleeves
  • Where the weird kids ended up
  • This is what it sounds like
  • Falling sideways through time

The Blue Tsunami Β· Show Day Β· Nov 8

The Blue Tsunami

The map went blue, ten people showed what they're building, and a farmer in Kentucky built a homeschool transcript app in Founding Federation.

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This issue is dressed as Ukiyo-e: Prussian Blue

Cover: Hokusai, The Great Wave (c. 1831), The Met, public domain. States and figures added.

Hokusai's Great Wave with the blue states in its sky, the booted Republicans falling out of the boats, and the election results and student projects set on paper slips over the water
Hokusai, The Great Wave (c. 1831), The Met, public domain. States and figures added.

Fifteen states, one wave

Fifteen states, six booted Republicans, and one wave. Counts are Wednesday-morning and unofficial, and Blissippi is dotted because Mississippi is still being counted.

Learning Everywhere, by Farmer Andy

Andy homeschools on a farm in Kentucky, and what he wanted was simple: when his kid learns something, log it quickly and have it count toward a transcript later. So in Founding Federation he built it. You tell the app what the day's learning was in plain language, it categorizes the activity and drafts the database entry, and the transcript is there when someone asks for one. Peace of mind on the way in, paperwork on the way out.

It started as a single-family demo and is now being rebuilt for many families at once, which means real logins and one family never being able to reach another's data. His weakest arrow, in his own words, is the transcript generator, because he is still working out each state's requirements and templates.

He is also the person behind Stargazer, which turns the documents you give it into a podcast, and he made a TikTok with the new landing page animation as the backdrop while admitting he's super uncomfortable self-promoting. Consider this the promoting.

Try it: learning-everywhere.com. His ask is to log in, kick the tires, and tell him what's unclear.

You give it daily learning activities in plain language, it auto categorizes and drafts a database entry, you get back peace of mind and a transcript when you need it.

Farmer Andy, on Learning Everywhere

How Founding Federation works

Founding Federation is a three-week cycle for people building their own work, and it starts from price. Everyone is in the same room for Week 0, where you compute what you need to earn and scope what could earn it β€” because price is the constraint that turns a blank page into a solvable problem. A money session and a scope session, back to back, 90 minutes total.

On Thursday of that week you commit to a branch. That's a hard gate, so nobody spends three weeks re-scoping. Then the two branches run side by side for a fortnight:

  • Go To Market is for work that needs to get known. Three motions on the same mechanics: sell it, fund it (a campaign, pre-orders, a waitlist), or get hired for it. A resume is a flyer for a contract, so job search counts. Week 1 Monday starts with the Social Budget.
  • Make and Do is for a thing that still has to be built. Pure build, no selling. You work until a stranger can actually encounter what you made. If there's a launch, it happens in Go To Market the sprint after.

Mondays through Thursdays, 90 minutes, with a break in the middle and a block at the end to do the work instead of hearing about it. Fridays are off β€” we run a four-day week for founders. Shipping Software is the paired 10am build hour for both branches, and it's where Farmer Andy's transcript app got built.

Start anywhere in the cycle: themultiverse.school/programs/founding-federation.

Neurodivergent Strategies

Neurodivergent Strategies is now officially part of the program. A weekly virtual coaching group for neuro spicy adults who are done treating their brain like a problem to be fixed. It meets live on campus, it's small, and it's open enrollment β€” join at any point in the cycle and start exactly where you are. You won't be behind. Between sessions there's a digital training room, a self-guided coaching tool built for the same brains.

What you work through is practical, and some of it is code you'd recognize. Write your morning routine as a function β€” what you actually do on a day that works, not what you think you should do. When executive function collapses, triage the open loops into three bins: on fire, queued, drop. Pick ONE from the fire bin. Not two. Body-double with someone, because your brain reads "someone is here" and the doing system turns on. Name your behavioral loops out loud, because the name turns a current you're inside into an object you can look at. Put a number on what masking costs you in recovery hours, and then look at your calendar with that math applied.

The job search version is treated as a heist: recon, approach, extraction, and an accommodation request that doesn't beg. "I do my best work when ___. I'm requesting ___ because it lets me ___." No sorry anywhere in it.

No diagnosis required. If the strategies help, they help. It isn't therapy β€” if you're in crisis, text or call 988.

Join any week: themultiverse.school/classes/neurodivergent-strategies.

Hungry for Change

Show day, Nov 5

Ten people showed what they're building in Founding Federation, five minutes each. Most of them ended with the same ask β€” try it and tell me where you got stuck β€” so here they are, with the links. Four are live and pointed at real users. Five are works in progress, and the people building them told us exactly what's missing.

Market-ready

Live, with a link, and aimed at someone who'd use it or pay for it. Go try them.

A white-label auction platform

By auction-dan. This is a working beta: an auction manager, a bidder manager, a consignor manager, merchant account connection, email notifications, and a lot of logs. Next they're building "Enhanced Receipts" for after the sale, which they expect to be the reason people pay to subscribe. The membership tier isn't working yet.

Their ask: they're looking for their Tech-Buddy. They also offer to help people find others like them who will pay a technical expert to handle all things technical. See the beta.

Jikji

By ang. Brand-authentic content generation for people who hate generating content. It's live, and you can sign up for an account. Still coming: inspiration prompts, image and video generation, scheduled posting, research with citations, platform-specific posts and multiple brand voices. Next up are direct file uploads, a prompt generator so you get ideas of what to talk about, and platform-specific posts.

Their ask: try it and tell me where you got stuck. jikji.co.

Measured Quote

By Dan (ClickMethods). Homeowners get instant ballpark prices. Exterior contractors get qualified leads with the full project scope, budget and contact details. Satellite view from Google Maps, line measuring and a mini CRM work, with AI features coming. Measuring options from satellite images don't work yet. Next step: test it in real life with contractors. Try it.

Freakscene Freakradio

By Neek. Neek put Freakscene Freakradio on the show-day list. It's live here: freakscene.diy/freakradio.

Learned by making

Each of these works in part, and each builder said what's missing. They're here because building them taught something, and because the next push needs your eyes.

Excuse us while we kiss the sky

Ou

By brokenbat. Hyperlocal event management infrastructure built on privacy, choice and layers. The MVP is made and they're moving to the next phase methodically: the backend needs privacy tuning and the front end needs refinement. What's missing is coherence through the UI, which they know and are sorting through now.

Their ask: try it and tell me where you got stuck, and help tightening the language and cutting the technical jargon. Staging site.

beep boop (formerly PEDRO)

By Play. PEDRO stood for Personal Executive Dysfunction Relief Operator β€” the to-do app that is the bane of Neek's existence. It's a Jarvis-style assistant and tamagotchi, a little personal assistant for neurodivergent people that runs private AI on an Orange Pi. Now it's called Beep Boop.

What works: the computer and phone stay connected with automatic backup, there's a phone app with reminder notifications, an activity and mood logger, pings to see what you're up to, easy task add, and journal entries stored as .md files in an Obsidian vault, separate from the AI. Tagging detection, bug reporting and ranking, and a pattern-analysis program from the earlier logging all work. There are three versions: V1.0 a team-made web app from class, V2.0 an early desktop-only app, V3.0 the newest.

What doesn't yet: a pretty GUI, animations, final layouts, a watch or other hardware hookup, and AI triage of the to-do list. Hardware is ordered.

Their ask: hearing what barriers each person has as a neurodivergent person, and what features others would want.

Enjoy the Weather

By patrick firefly. A mobile app where you dress your avatar from a wardrobe of your own clothes, and it suggests weather-appropriate outfits based on where you are and what you're doing. The weather API, basic suggestions and adding more clothes work. The avatar and clothing, comfort ratings and sharing aren't there yet.

They're looking for alpha testers, beta testers and UI/UX design help, and offer AI tech stack setup, brainstorming, body doubling and light testing in return.

Vibe Research opens its first cohort

Four 4-hour intensives, ten seats, first cohort Thursdays Nov 12 and 19 (then Jan 7 and 21). Everyone brings their own agent and a question and leaves able to run a full research cycle with it, with an adversarial gate at each step that they built themselves out of their own failures. Prereqs are Intro to Agents and Agentic SDLC.

The pitch is a lab notebook, not a brochure: the project keeps a public dashboard of 111 papers, four of them withdrawn and eight under correction, and is building a campus museum for its own falsified hypotheses. Three people have already enrolled in the prerequisites to get there. Ten seats, starting Nov 12: themultiverse.school/classes/vibe-research.

Remember: privacy is not a policy, it's a design choice.

xananthium, in Cool AI Tools

There is a radio on campus

After an unimaginable tale of turmoil and troubles, many heroic deeds and lives lost, campus finally has a radio. To add music, journey to #musicpraxis and #resistanceradio and share your dankest beats.

Strategically Jank

Made by students

  1. Project

    oursharedevents β€” Hyperlocal Events Platform

    A hyperlocal events platform for sponsors, organizers, and attendees. Privacy is structural, not promised: split databases, counts under a minimum threshold, H3 cells instead of raw coordinates. Built on Cloudflare Workers + D1 by Matt, a 24-year SDET and founder working at Multiverse Campus.

  2. Project

    Agent Swarm Security Digest: 20+ Threats Tracked and Applied to a Real Platform

  3. Project

    oursharedevents β€” privacy as architecture, not a promise

    A hyperlocal events platform built by a student, just shipped to public repos. The interesting part is the design philosophy: privacy is structural, not promised β€” split databases, counts under a minimum threshold, H3 cells instead of raw coordinates. Built with Cloudflare Workers + D1.

Oh Spicy Tech!

"The podcast for spicy, restless curious minds working or trying to break into tech." Ram Fiorentino, a longtime Multiverse student, hosts it. "Every episode we bring you stories and readings around tech and creativity, and discuss the work, philosophy and ideas of people (guests) like you and me. We are curious, we are nerds, we are spicy."

The newest episode is Ep 4, Software development is a social problem, with Juan Garberi (English summary, Oct 16). Before it came Ep 3, Build your own accommodations, with Gabriela Aljure (English summary, Aug 18). Most episodes also have a full Spanish version.

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Show us what you made

Built something this month, finished or not? Bring it to campus and show us: campus.themultiverse.school. The next zine is made out of whatever you put there.

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    What's New - November 6, 2026

    New Your class work has a shorter list. The dashboard shows a short Now list of at most five things instead of everything you could possibly do. /exercises sorts work into Now, Set aside, Done and

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