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1.	Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype(publicdomainreview.org) 46 points by benbreen 1 day ago \| 5 comments
2.	Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history(resobscura.substack.com) 5 points by benbreen 3 days ago \| 0 comments
3.	Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale(spectrum.ieee.org) 3 points by benbreen 4 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'(michaelnotebook.com) 1 points by benbreen 9 days ago \| 0 comments
5.	Cooking the Hashish Cookbook(cookingthehashishcookbook.com) 9 points by benbreen 10 days ago \| 3 comments
6.	Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics(blog.mozilla.ai) 4 points by benbreen 12 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)(sciencehistory.org) 59 points by benbreen 13 days ago \| 19 comments
8.	A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia(rightscon.org) 105 points by benbreen 16 days ago \| 48 comments
9.	Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930(resobscura.substack.com) 17 points by benbreen 17 days ago \| 3 comments
10.	The Last of the Lost Generation(porticoquarterly.com) 25 points by benbreen 23 days ago \| 6 comments
11.	When your digital life vanishes(newyorker.com) 75 points by benbreen 25 days ago \| 20 comments
12.	The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations(resobscura.substack.com) 60 points by benbreen 25 days ago \| 4 comments
13.	"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)(publicdomainreview.org) 17 points by benbreen 33 days ago \| 2 comments
14.	Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)(publicdomainreview.org) 5 points by benbreen 46 days ago \| 1 comment
15.	Photos from my time in Iran, 2017(resobscura.substack.com) 3 points by benbreen 47 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	Obsolete Sounds(citiesandmemory.com) 248 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| 50 comments
17.	The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)(metropolitanreview.org) 36 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| 9 comments
18.	When do we become adults, really?(newyorker.com) 100 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| 141 comments
19.	Desperately Seeking Space Friends(reviewcanada.ca) 40 points by benbreen 53 days ago \| 3 comments
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22.	When Do We Become Adults, Really?(newyorker.com) 5 points by benbreen 58 days ago \| 4 comments
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24.	Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017)(denizcemonduygu.com) 6 points by benbreen 67 days ago \| 0 comments
25.	Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel(royapakzad.substack.com) 102 points by benbreen 73 days ago \| 23 comments
26.	How important was the Battle of Hastings?(historytoday.com) 85 points by benbreen 74 days ago \| 62 comments
27.	The remaking of Thomas Mann(commonwealmagazine.org) 18 points by benbreen 76 days ago \| 2 comments
28.	The history of knocking on wood(resobscura.substack.com) 54 points by benbreen 82 days ago \| 10 comments