Civic Interplay / Tool
Familiar Terrain
A walkable semantic terrain. Texts, noticings and ideas cluster into regions based on the patterns embeddings find in them. Nearby points share more than language.
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What you're walking through
Every text in the terrain has been turned into a set of coordinates by an embedding model, so the distance between two points is a measure of how alike a machine finds them. Walking it is a way of seeing what those judgments look like from the inside, including where they are wrong.
Created by Irina Panovich for the Gathering Intelligences Workshop, March 2026. A work in progress.