benbreen

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31.
Words, Words, Words(aeon.co)
35 points by benbreen 3mo ago|15 comments
32.
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)(publicdomainreview.org)
29 points by benbreen 4mo ago|11 comments
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Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87(nytimes.com)
18 points by benbreen 4mo ago|5 comments
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Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt(historytoday.com)
4 points by benbreen 4mo ago|0 comments
35.
Vacuum-Form Signage(bethmathews.substack.com)
117 points by benbreen 4mo ago|24 comments
36.
Easy Writer: On Ted Geltner's Biography of Denis Johnson(metropolitanreview.org)
3 points by benbreen 4mo ago|0 comments
37.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test(arstechnica.com)
209 points by benbreen 4mo ago|8 comments
38.
The Science of Weather and the Nature of Science(the-hinternet.com)
17 points by benbreen 4mo ago|2 comments
39.
R vs. Dudley and Stephens(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by benbreen 4mo ago|0 comments
40.
The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers(diffuseai.pub)
66 points by benbreen 5mo ago|85 comments
41.
by benbreen 5mo ago
Author here - just wanted to clarify in case there is any confusion that those two (intentionally bad/weird) figures of speech about the echo and the trouts in the redwood roots were human written, by me! I wrote them as parody of an A
42.
What Is Happening to Publishing?(resobscura.substack.com)
83 points by benbreen 5mo ago|55 comments
43.
Russian–American Telegraph(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by benbreen 5mo ago|0 comments
44.
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype(publicdomainreview.org)
49 points by benbreen 5mo ago|6 comments
45.
Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history(resobscura.substack.com)
5 points by benbreen 5mo ago|0 comments
46.
Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by benbreen 5mo ago|0 comments
47.
Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'(michaelnotebook.com)
1 points by benbreen 5mo ago|0 comments
48.
Cooking the Hashish Cookbook(cookingthehashishcookbook.com)
9 points by benbreen 5mo ago|3 comments
49.
Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics(blog.mozilla.ai)
4 points by benbreen 5mo ago|0 comments
50.
The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)(sciencehistory.org)
59 points by benbreen 5mo ago|19 comments
51.
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia(rightscon.org)
105 points by benbreen 5mo ago|48 comments
52.
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930(resobscura.substack.com)
17 points by benbreen 5mo ago|3 comments
53.
The Last of the Lost Generation(porticoquarterly.com)
25 points by benbreen 5mo ago|6 comments
54.
by benbreen 6mo ago
Just wanted to flag that the works of Ian Hacking, especially The Emergence of Probability (1975) and The Taming of Chance (1990) are excellent on this. Dense and challenging at times but also well written and the product of a very orig
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When your digital life vanishes(newyorker.com)
75 points by benbreen 6mo ago|20 comments
56.
The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations(resobscura.substack.com)
60 points by benbreen 6mo ago|4 comments
57.
"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org)
17 points by benbreen 6mo ago|2 comments
58.
Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)(publicdomainreview.org)
5 points by benbreen 6mo ago|1 comments
59.
Photos from my time in Iran, 2017(resobscura.substack.com)
3 points by benbreen 6mo ago|0 comments
60.
Obsolete Sounds(citiesandmemory.com)
248 points by benbreen 6mo ago|50 comments

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