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The Tudor Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — black-and-white timbered upper storey above a brick or stone first storey, multiple steeply-pitched gables intersecting at picturesque angles, a massive …
The piece of furniture most often understood as “antique French” in the Anglophone domestic interior — the …
The rug at the centre of every American living room of any pretension between roughly 1890 and 1940 was, very probably, …
There is in the connoisseur’s habit of mind a quiet expectation that any object of sufficient age, well-made, will …
The kill floor of a modern American beef packing plant moves at a speed that does not lend itself to deliberation. A …
Three in the morning is not, by any usual reckoning, a productive hour. The work day is long over, the next is far off; …
The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no …
This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. …
This is the fourth post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series …
This is the third post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first …
The Tudor Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — black-and-white timbered upper storey above a brick or stone first storey, multiple steeply-pitched …
There is in the connoisseur’s habit of mind a quiet expectation that any object of sufficient age, well-made, will on inspection prove to have a story …
The kill floor of a modern American beef packing plant moves at a speed that does not lend itself to deliberation. A large plant — at IBP, JBS, Cargill, …
Three in the morning is not, by any usual reckoning, a productive hour. The work day is long over, the next is far off; the company one had at dinner has gone …
The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no manifesto, no period name of its own, and no …
This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers Anthropic, OpenAI, …
This is the fourth post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers Anthropic, OpenAI, and …
This is the third post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first two posts covered Anthropic and OpenAI; …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | architecture | Tudor Revival | 5108 | 24 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Louis XV | 4056 | 20 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Heriz | 3696 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Reading the Antique | 1254 | 6 min |
| 2026-05-14 | ai | AI in the Slaughterhouse | 2424 | 12 min |
| 2026-05-14 | ai | AI at 3 a.m. | 2306 | 11 min |
| 2026-05-14 | architecture | Foursquare - Reading the American House | 5491 | 26 min |
| 2026-05-13 | ai | The Chinese AI Trajectory | 3476 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-13 | ai | The Meta AI Trajectory | 3366 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-13 | ai | The Google DeepMind Trajectory | 3753 | 18 min |