Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics
Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music.
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Henry Wilkinson
@wilkinson.graphics
· Jul 5
Set up the beginnings of a PBF → ID tagging schema → pmtiles → MapLibre GL style data pipeline
The rationalists are far from the first death cult, but they might be the last one!
September 28, 2026 at 2:28 AM
The rationalists are far from the first death cult, but they might be the last one!
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
"Intern at Epic Games" job listing
*Looks inside*
"Requirements: Ongoing or recently completed PhD"
What the fuck are we even doing, dude
*Looks inside*
"Requirements: Ongoing or recently completed PhD"
What the fuck are we even doing, dude
September 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"Intern at Epic Games" job listing
*Looks inside*
"Requirements: Ongoing or recently completed PhD"
What the fuck are we even doing, dude
*Looks inside*
"Requirements: Ongoing or recently completed PhD"
What the fuck are we even doing, dude
Political meat-proxy astroturfing needs to be legislatively nuked out of existence if we want to have any semblance of a democracy. The use of this tech should be an immediate career ending scandal.
The way the app works is this:
-Supporters sign up and download the app
-Soon, they begin receiving notifications, known in the app as "Digital Fighters Tasks"
-The app auto-generates text for the supporter to post, and offers a reward in exchange for copying it on to social media
-Supporters sign up and download the app
-Soon, they begin receiving notifications, known in the app as "Digital Fighters Tasks"
-The app auto-generates text for the supporter to post, and offers a reward in exchange for copying it on to social media
Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Political meat-proxy astroturfing needs to be legislatively nuked out of existence if we want to have any semblance of a democracy. The use of this tech should be an immediate career ending scandal.
This sucks super hard, but I’m sort of enjoying the through-line of the Canadian government telling Meta they must pay when other people link to news via their website and them pulling an uno reverse and making YOU pay THEM for the ability to link to things instead.
i'm sorry, i now have to sign up for something called "meta one" to post links to my own website from my website's own facebook page?????
September 21, 2026 at 7:03 AM
This sucks super hard, but I’m sort of enjoying the through-line of the Canadian government telling Meta they must pay when other people link to news via their website and them pulling an uno reverse and making YOU pay THEM for the ability to link to things instead.
Wanting more Wikidata-backed projects in the world, I was somehow able to nerd-snipe my partner Liza into making one! She was able to turn her weird esoteric knowledge of this mid 90s philosopher collective into a well sourced computable relationship graph.
Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!
Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!
The internet's most reliable collection of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit's history, concepts, and mythos — procedurally built from Wikidata!
hijinx.world/interactive/...
"A Factual Account of the CCRU", data-vis by @lizadesya.com , @wilkinson.graphics and Evgo Stillwell.
hijinx.world/interactive/...
"A Factual Account of the CCRU", data-vis by @lizadesya.com , @wilkinson.graphics and Evgo Stillwell.
A Factual Account of the CCRU ✦ Hijinx World
The internet's most reliable collection of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit's history, concepts, and mythos — procedurally built from Wikidata!
hijinx.world
September 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Wanting more Wikidata-backed projects in the world, I was somehow able to nerd-snipe my partner Liza into making one! She was able to turn her weird esoteric knowledge of this mid 90s philosopher collective into a well sourced computable relationship graph.
Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!
Go check it out, it's cool, I promise!
New Apple Maps Gaussian splat(?) trees look pretty incredible. Real cool mix of techniques, excited to see it rolled out more broadly.
September 15, 2026 at 7:03 AM
New Apple Maps Gaussian splat(?) trees look pretty incredible. Real cool mix of techniques, excited to see it rolled out more broadly.
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
The contagion of fear
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
bcantrill.dtrace.org
September 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The contagion of fear
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it.
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
September 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it.
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance:
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
As somebody who's been on their forum from the beginning, everything Austin says in this thread rings true and seems pretty tough to deal with.
if you want to start a platform co-op, nobody tells you:
you will be held to the same consumer expectations as any venture-backed platform. functional, beautiful, well-resourced, every feature at launch, every email answered immediately.
1/
you will be held to the same consumer expectations as any venture-backed platform. functional, beautiful, well-resourced, every feature at launch, every email answered immediately.
1/
September 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
As somebody who's been on their forum from the beginning, everything Austin says in this thread rings true and seems pretty tough to deal with.
New from me! Has Google changed the name of Lake Ontario on your website? Here's how you can fix it for good!
wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
Lake America: The Case for Self-Hosting Your Maps
Its easier than ever, I promise!
wilkinson.graphics
September 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
New from me! Has Google changed the name of Lake Ontario on your website? Here's how you can fix it for good!
wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
wilkinson.graphics/blog/2026-09...
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
Unknown_Installer
September 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Unknown_Installer
Protomaps is such cool software, even the debug views look nice.
September 1, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Protomaps is such cool software, even the debug views look nice.
Ebay has livestreams?!
August 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Ebay has livestreams?!
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
“In Yangzhou’s Geyuan 个园, a lovely traditional courtyard garden of rock and bamboo, you need to watch a video advertisement and scan your face to get toilet paper. Once only: the dispenser remembers who you are and won’t give you seconds”
“Aside from the ubiquitous cameras, it is not possible to move around a city on any form of transport or pay for anything without the apps, and they always know who and where you are”
App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
www.chinafile.com
August 29, 2026 at 8:06 PM
“In Yangzhou’s Geyuan 个园, a lovely traditional courtyard garden of rock and bamboo, you need to watch a video advertisement and scan your face to get toilet paper. Once only: the dispenser remembers who you are and won’t give you seconds”
Brotato: French-fries for MEN!
August 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Brotato: French-fries for MEN!
Convert your WACZ web archives into Markdown files! Makes use of @stephango.com’s excellent defuddle library.
inkdroid.org/2026/08/25/w...
inkdroid.org/2026/08/25/w...
waczdoc
inkdroid.org
August 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Convert your WACZ web archives into Markdown files! Makes use of @stephango.com’s excellent defuddle library.
inkdroid.org/2026/08/25/w...
inkdroid.org/2026/08/25/w...
Migration tools like this are incredibly good, migration tools to get off of Substack are even better
Death to Substack?
Yes, its time. No more excuses 🫵🏽 We've been working on migration tools for the last couple months. Promising a few of you it's coming "any day now".
Today is that day 🥳🥂
Export your content from Substack, Ghost, Pika or Buttondown and automatically import it into Offprint.
Yes, its time. No more excuses 🫵🏽 We've been working on migration tools for the last couple months. Promising a few of you it's coming "any day now".
Today is that day 🥳🥂
Export your content from Substack, Ghost, Pika or Buttondown and automatically import it into Offprint.
August 25, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Migration tools like this are incredibly good, migration tools to get off of Substack are even better
MY posts are messages on the cheap!
My posts are messages from the deep.
August 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
MY posts are messages on the cheap!
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.
ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
August 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.
ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Reposted by Henry Wilkinson
August 12, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Me talking to Harry Houdini
“Actually it’s whom-dini”
“Actually it’s whom-dini”
August 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Me talking to Harry Houdini
“Actually it’s whom-dini”
“Actually it’s whom-dini”
I love buying music. Spotify is 14 bucks a month, I just spent $20, all of which went to the artists and now I GET TO KEEP IT FOREVER!
Next month I probably won't buy any new music (we'll see) and I'll still have the things I bought because they're mine! What a concept.
Next month I probably won't buy any new music (we'll see) and I'll still have the things I bought because they're mine! What a concept.
August 8, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I love buying music. Spotify is 14 bucks a month, I just spent $20, all of which went to the artists and now I GET TO KEEP IT FOREVER!
Next month I probably won't buy any new music (we'll see) and I'll still have the things I bought because they're mine! What a concept.
Next month I probably won't buy any new music (we'll see) and I'll still have the things I bought because they're mine! What a concept.
There are few YouTube creators that bring me joy quite like Bobby Fingers. Truly unique every time.
youtu.be/vGt7-WnWdhE?...
youtu.be/vGt7-WnWdhE?...
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
youtu.be
August 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
There are few YouTube creators that bring me joy quite like Bobby Fingers. Truly unique every time.
youtu.be/vGt7-WnWdhE?...
youtu.be/vGt7-WnWdhE?...
Today's side project, rendering the BigBrain dataset in Blender!
August 4, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Today's side project, rendering the BigBrain dataset in Blender!