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Sep 22, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    If we fix the phone, we fix society (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    On the desire to live in a cabin in the woods (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Aug 18, 2026

    Why do I romanticize 18th-century chores? (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    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

  5. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    Even Christopher Nolan prefers 70mm film (opens the original)

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