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Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.
Posted inHistory Living

Uff Da! Yeah, You Betcha.

Lutefisk does have a distinctive odor, but it's a unifying force, too.
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January 31, 2026
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology

Fiat ars, pereat mundus

Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
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January 30, 2026
Slips of yellow paper with typewritten words. Austin Kleon poses interview questions to interviewees on paper in this manner, and the person being interviewed takes the paper and responds to the question using his or her own typewriter. The image shows two such interactions on two slips of yellow paper, side-by-side.
Posted inHistory Living Technology

Today, typewriters are for art

Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
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December 30, 2025
On a grey mass in the shape of the Southeastern US, orange colored blobs and slight orange strings connecting them appear. The image was created by a computer model, but it looks like a view from space of urban lights against a dark background of undeveloped land.
Posted inAutomobiles History Living

Deep influence of the asphalt below us

Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
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November 11, 2025
Perforamnce artist Avital Meshi stands in front of a black background. She has long blond hair draped over her right shoulder. She hold her right hand up over her chest, her left hand clasping the right. On her right forearm an electronic device is strapped. The photograph shows the electronics, uncovered.
Posted inTechnology

Between artist and GPT

Avital Meshi says, “I don’t want to use it, I want to be it.” “It” is generative AI.
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September 28, 2025
The Substack logo on an orange background. The logo has been jittered in vertical stripes so that it appears as though it is melting.
Posted inCommentary Technology

Why I’m Quitting Substack

Substack has evolved, as a business characterized by "network effects." That's (mostly) why I'm no longer there.
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August 12, 2025
A composite picture of vertical strips from letters, all handwritten. The words themselves are random, because they've been stripped haphazardly from the pages. The inks used are blue, black, red, and brown, on paper that is a faded brown (aged white paper?), yellow legal pad, and bright white.
Posted inCommentary History Living

“This is a test of the Emergency Handwriting System”

Handwriting enriches human expression. A side effect of a New Year's resolution.
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June 18, 2025
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory are in conversation. André's face is visible, and he holds his hand up, index finger and thumb spread, as he makes a point. We see Wally's bald spot on his head, but his face is turned away from us as he looks at André across the dinner table.
Posted inCommentary History Living

Islands of Safety and Ironic Points of Light

When hunkering down can also renew foundations.
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April 25, 2025
A man wearing sunglasses, a white hat, and a light blue shirt stands next to a highly polished cherry red 1950s Edsel convertible.
Posted inAutomobiles History

Blurry Patina: Grimy Reverence or “Polished Turd”

Writing about American cars stranded in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, John McElroy observed…
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March 28, 2025
Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
Posted inBook Review Technology

Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

James Boyle claims the that "line" separating humans from things is going to be redrawn.
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March 27, 2025

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