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.
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 liz@themultiverse.school and it's done.
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.
saul shipped the alpha of a typing tutor that teaches through stories, and thanked the Agentic SDLC class for it. The left hand is done and the right hand is in QA.
“Thank you to the SDLC class -- I've got my alpha out for a typing app: learn to type with stories instead of stress”
digger_is_taken runs a sustainable landscaping business in Duluth. When Nextdoor throttled his posts, he built a nine-tool browser harness and is fine-tuning small (about 3B) models for each subtask, with students helping on design. He is also building carboncatch.net for local gardeners, and zayarocks offered free tutoring on responsive layout.
“Long term vision is affordable personal landscaping robots. They'll tend the food forest and run off solar power. Or my grandchildren are cooked.”
demonbunny has two working Meshtastic nodes in a 3D-printed "cotton candy cloud" case, and is recruiting local tinkerers.
Meshtastic
3D-printed case
demonbunny
No. 07HardwareCool AI Tools
EEG decoding, version three
wombat83 posted the third version of his EEG decoding work, as video and images.
EEG
v3
wombat83
No. 08Hardwaresolarpunk
An old PC, reborn as Zorin OS
mixternoodles turned an old PC from Marketplace into a Zorin OS Education machine for home.
Zorin OS Education
mixternoodles
No. 09SketchArt&Crafts
Mouse and bunny, fall edition
dfx4509b posted a fall and Halloween series of more than fifteen mouse-and-bunny images, from mid-September into October.
dfx4509b
I signed up and attended like 2.5 classes… but it also completely altered the trajectory of my life
Compressed air instead of batteries
wombat83 described a system he helped set up in East Africa. 800 W of solar runs a compressor, the compressed air is stored in LPG canisters, and a turbine drives a generator. "all pretty much to avoid having to buy expensive batteries from outside of the country"
One word
On September 29, lorepunk posted a single word in the Job Search room: "HIRED". Congratulations.
The work I came here to do is not the work that keeps me here now
Cassidy's year
In the spring, Cassidy (@xananthium) went back to college for math. By October he was studying full-time, doing AI-benchmark work, and offering referrals to classmates in Job Search.
walked in thinking I was behind and left having built a little multi-agent system on my own two servers.
I gave Claude Code directions to bring up my original goal and give me a heads up if I seem like I'm straying.
mine threw me in a whole intergalactic courtroom testifying for humanity
not can't, don't yet understand how.
The room with my 3090's is like 10 degrees warmer than the rest of my house though...
This has been very helpful for me to get some better hygiene on these matters!
the idea of disappointing my fake lil bird works on me
Pick a learning path. Recordings and curriculum, or live class seats too. Every class is pay-what-you-can, and scholarships are open to anyone who needs one.
