A few weeks ago we hosted a virtual Q&A with Jathan Sadowski, author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism and host of the […]
Well! Our situation has turned around since last week, thanks to an outpouring of support from the community around Iffy Books. We now have a few months’ rent on hand […]
In 2021 we were pushing anti-blockchain arguments. In 2022 we were pushing solar-powered music and encrypted mesh chat. We’ve been against LLMs since before ChatGPT came along, and we hope […]
On September 9th, 2023 we hosted a workshop on how to make a one-time-use Faraday shield for your phone to block radio communication via the cell network, wi-fi, and Bluetooth. […]
On Saturday, August 26th we hosted a self-guided Python Turtle workshop to coincide with the Philly Bookstore Crawl. It went really well! Here’s the zine we used, which you’re free […]
Saturday, June 24th, 20231:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. You can find this document at the following URLs: For the past few months, a handful of people in the Iffy Books […]
We’ve been hard at work running tests and writing documentation for on our upcoming workshop Let’s make a solar-powered chat network, in which we’ll build weatherproof LoRa nodes running Meshtastic to support a […]
This past weekend we hosted a workshop called Make a Solar Zoetrope, as part of the DVAA Everyday Futures Fest. It was super fun! If you didn’t make it, we’re […]
The following is transcribed from a conversation with Jim from Trashpanda Village, with a few edits for clarity. You can buy your own Atlas Media challenge router here. What we […]
We liked this blog post by Dante Scanline so much, we made it into a zine! We’ve handed out hundreds of copies at Iffy Books, and now you can print […]