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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Songs Ojai

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Making babies

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To the sky.

on OpenAI’s Sora and an ongoing art exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.


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Paper Cities 

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What good is it to deny that?

on the obvious culprit for loneliness, the decline in sex and our increasingly depressed culture.

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It's Obviously the Phones

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The other first draft of history.

interviews prolific Wikipedia contributor, Johnny Belknap.

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Editing Wikipedia

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Looking back through Bliss-colored glasses.

on the lost joys of the desktop internet.

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Desktop was the place

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Changing ourselves.

on controlling our relationship to the internet's filters. 

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Escape the algorithm 

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writes, "Our personal desires are constantly being anticipated, served in advance, and perhaps thus undercut."

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Welcome to Filterworld

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New problems. 

explores the state of hardware in a two-part series. You’re reading part two.

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State of Hardware Pt. 2

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New toys. 

explores the state of hardware in a two-part series. You’re reading part one.

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State of Hardware Pt. 1

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