The Open Web
I'm aligning with IndieWeb principles. The geography problem is real and I'm naming it. The class problem is real and they know it. The institutional gravity problem is real and it hasn't gone away just because there's now a meetup in Edinburgh. Then I tried to actually join. Seven updates follow.
Game Development
"Players aren't going to visit a webpage for lore. They're going to navigate a world that exists whether or not they're playing. That distinction matters enormously."
The HERAKLIKATS
are Or: how a cider, some cats, and a Minoan palace produced a lino cut. It started, as most things in AOF do, in a location that had absolutely no business being the origin point of a hip-hop collective. Heraklion, Crete. A forbidden apple cider called ΜΗΛΟ ΚΛΕΦΤΗ — which translates,
Alt.Cardiff2026
We've posted this image (Rwth, from Alt.Cardiff2026) on Instagram and Pinterest, with a simple challenge: can your algorithm tell the difference between AI-generated content and skilled 3D human-made work? You already know our history with Pinterest. Legitimate work, falsely flagged, removed. Content built with craft and intent,
Authentic Slop Catalogue
The Pinterest Exhibit Art of FACELESS Editorial | April 2026 We left Pinterest in February 2026. The reasons are documented. If you want the full account, it's here: On AI Labelling, Digital Craft, and Platform Withdrawal. The short version: Pinterest's automated classifiers were systematically labelling legitimate skilled
Publishing
Not everyone can take the deal. Not because they are ungrateful. Not because they are difficult. Because the deal was designed by and for people who were never going to struggle with it.
Published: 13 April 2026 | Awen Null | Art of FACELESS Let's talk about Google's AI Overview. Specifically, let's talk about how it has spent the last several weeks confidently, publicly, and wrongly telling the internet what The Hollow Circuit™ is. We've been monitoring
Alt.Cardiff2026
Cardiff to Athens to ? https://www.tumblr.com/altcardiff2026/813436783150907393/the-hollow-circuit-altcardiff2026 Awen Null: books, biography, latest updateFollow Awen Null and explore their bibliography from Amazon’s Awen Null Author Page.Amazon.co.ukRead full bio
Art of FACELESS
If you've been here before, you know what Art of FACELESS is. If you're arriving for the first time — through a QR code, a recommendation, a stray signal from somewhere you weren't expecting — then this is where you start. Art of FACELESS has operated
Art of FACELESS Est. 2012
They didn't discontinue a service. They broke into your home and nicked the painting off the wall.
We have been building The Hollow Circuit as a transmedia VN/RPG for years — a fictional world embedded in real infrastructure, designed to bleed through the membrane between story and platform. It appears the membrane is no longer holding.
![Headline: [NODE STATUS: RE-ARCHITECTING THE CIRCUIT]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a1/a7/a1a78115-42bd-4176-af21-766e4c8f4ee9/content/images/size/w600/2026/03/Portugal.-Peeling-Paint.jpg)
Date: March 2026 Location: Variable (Co-ordinates: Porto/Cardiff/Void) Protocol: VEYLON-00-B "The signal has become too dense. To facilitate the Cognitive Colonisation™ of the next epoch, the Art of FACELESS magazine is shifting from a passive transmission node to an active developmental interface. We are thinning the static. The
I saw work there — hand-drawn, hand-painted, hand-printed, entirely and provably biological in its production — that was, without equivocation, bad.
The Hollow Circuit universe is simultaneously a fictional construct and a resonance pattern drawn from real encounters.
The Heraklikats are an ancient Greek feline rap collective of disputed origin and impeccable taste. Their influences include Attic tragedy, trap production, and the ambient resonance of Athens at 3 am. They do not give interviews.
What you see when you visit is Evans's theory expressed in load-bearing concrete. There is no obvious seam between what was found and what was invented.
Independent users of these systems deserve an honest account of what they are participating in. Not a version of events in which Anthropic's narrow red lines are presented as a comprehensive ethical position.
If you are an academic institution, publisher, commissioning body, or platform using AI detection tools as part of assessment or gatekeeping: You are deploying an unvalidated instrument in a high-stakes context.
The Acropolis has seen a few things. Democracy. Philosophy. War. Mythology. The slow grind of centuries turning marble into memory. And on St David's Day 2026, somebody is holding a paperback in front of it that contains circuits, ghosts, a city that doesn't quite exist, and
Capitalism does not care whether you use a brush or a neural network. It will extract value from both equally, if you let it.
Art of FACELESS | artoffaceless.com | February 2026 We have withdrawn our image portfolios from Threads and Instagram, some from Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky too (that were linked to Pinterest specifically). This is not a temporary measure. It is a considered response to a systemic failure in how social platforms are
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