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 …

Probably the cutest paper you’ll read today. The wetting and general tribology of cats has not progressed enough to give a definitive answer to the capillary dependence of the feline relaxation time. …

It seems monstrosity requiresan organic element. When there isn’t one, monsteris more often an adjective than a noun qualifying an incomplete potentialfor monstrosity. […] Monumentality embodies …