Finished chapter 1 of Shadows at Noon. A very dense 83 pages. I can see why Joya Chatterji won the Wolfson History Prize. Reading with a pencil, not a single page is unannotated!

The advent of the “Cloister Web,” a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound …

Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan Starfleet Log, Delta Quadrant—Classified Briefing At the edge of the known, maps fail and instincts take over. We don’t just explore new worlds—we …

There is a shared soul shard between Dwarf Fortress, Emacs, and AI that lured me to them and has kept me engaged for over a decade. For a long time, I struggled to articulate the connection, managing …

AI slop is all around and increasingly extraction of useful information will face difficulties as we start to feed more noise into the already noisy world of knowledge. We are in an era of …