HM: rethreading our TC2 digital Jacquard loom—handwork with stick; thinking about how even (especially) in information technology the digital is just an abstraction riding atop analog physics; abstraction itself as an assertion of what we shall ignore, lumping versus splitting, willful disregard of difference for the sake of modularity, scalable design, robust design, error correction, reproducibility, repurposability… how this mechanically complex, computer-sequenced loom has actually the lowest barrier to entry for new weavers, as an experienced technician can do a general-purpose threading that enables a novice to jump on with whatever design they’ve dreamed up (with or without genAI assist) and turn it into cloth after mere minutes of instruction—here the “digital” in digital Jacquard loom serving in practice to bury the hand-and-stick work lower down the protocol stack, just maintenance in the service of making…