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- Sep 22, 2026
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If we fix the phone, we fix society (opens the original)
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On the desire to live in a cabin in the woods (opens the original)
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Why do I romanticize 18th-century chores? (opens the original)
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This sewing machine powers AI (opens the original)
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“If everything is automated, how should I spend my leisure time?”I’m asking an AI, but not Claude or ChatGPT. This one is trained on the works of William Morris, a textile designer during industrialized London, and a socialist who raged against the machine. And this AI does not live in the cloud, hosted on large data centers; it’s in my home—a small clear box disconnected from the internet or even power. It doesn’t use water or energy from the grid; I turn a hand crank 50 times to power it up an
Even Christopher Nolan prefers 70mm film (opens the original)
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