Stories by benbreen

Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history

Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale

Notes on Tanya M. Luhrmann's Book 'How God Becomes Real'

Cooking the Hashish Cookbook

Sovereign AI: Control, Choice, and Why It Goes Beyond Geopolitics

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930

The Last of the Lost Generation

When your digital life vanishes

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

Elizabeth I's Manuscript of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Photos from my time in Iran, 2017

Obsolete Sounds

The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)

When do we become adults, really?

Desperately Seeking Space Friends

Obsolete Sounds

The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025)

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