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Detroit Phone Restored

The Detroit phone on Breckenridge St. is again operational and the chair has been restored. We repeat, the phone is back and the chair has been restored. Thank you to the City of Detroit Blight to Beauty program for their financial and operational support.

Last Stop for Hardware

When these routers were too obsolete for the Personal Telco Project, Russell figured out a smaller build that would allow the Futel VPN client to be crammed in there. The e-waste cycle is depressing but we are proud to be the last step, squeezing the last juice out of so many devices long after the intended path was for them to be discarded.

Poetry on the Mother Foucault's Phone

The Mother Foucault’s phone is now featuring poems from Aloha Irish Trees by Eileen Myles. These come from the spoken word record published by Fonograph Editions, a nonprofit press and literary record label based in Portland.