Stories by benbreen

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)

When Do We Become Adults, Really?

Desperately Seeking Space Friends

Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-I Adliye Covers (2017)

Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel

How important was the Battle of Hastings?

The remaking of Thomas Mann

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