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Touching Time
Or, the new adventures of Spaceship Earth
Jun 13
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Mindmap June 6, 2026
Stuff I'm thinking about
Jun 6
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May 2026
From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories
A Transmission Hypothesis for the French Precision Revolution and Its American Transformation
May 30
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Time, Enlightenment and Romanticism Between Modernity and Divergence
World Machines learnings from recent book club readings
May 30
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Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
May 23
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Many Act 2 Games are Afoot
Protocol Institute, Long Now Labs, Strange Rules art show, vgr_zirp update, World Machines, TensTorrent
May 23
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Capital Must Seek Delight
Too few people are experiencing the delights and serendipity of AI, causing capital misallocation
May 15
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Ribbonfarm Resurrected
As a museum blog with an AI curator that is
May 9
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Getting Gooier
How AI is transforming humans
May 2
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April 2026
AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
Apr 25
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Writing Liveness
The message of the medium of generated text is liveness
Apr 19
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Intentions have a surprising amount of detail
Auteur managerialism, the myth of one-shotting, and the chindogufication of engineering
Apr 10
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