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Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance?
Temporal forcing of non-Newtonian precommodified ooze in the appropriate context tanks might lead to prescience
Jul 18
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The Taste Essay
Taste cultures, risk, cruelty, and kindness
Jul 12
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A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
Jul 9
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Dead Forest Theory
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
Jul 5
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Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
A ridiculous generated photo essay taking a meme much too far
Jul 1
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June 2026
Strange Knowledgeability
Human knowing in perspectival encyclopedicity
Jun 26
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Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
Solving the distribution crisis in marketing
Jun 22
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A Camera, Not an Engine II
Further thoughts on photography in latent space, now with agents!
Jun 20
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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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