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Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Soil.
I'm inherently biased towards the everyday forms of resistance, because it's what I research, but even allowing for there does seem to be a growing sense that the best battles to fight when it comes to big tech are the local ones.This...
Here’s the background: Mayor Giuliani took the unusual step of naming the Manhattan Detention Complex, the Lower Manhattan central lockup known informally as the Tombs, after a still-living person: Kerik. Giuliani’s police commissioner...
Do you remember last year when seemingly the entire world discovered Anterique’s flagship ballpoint pen as a result of a viral news article? We do, because overnight...
I ran across this essay, Freddie deBoer offering a bet to Scott Alexander that the AI singularity isn’t coming in the next 3 years, based on a decent decent set of economic measurements: https://substack.com/home/post/p-187862732 I used...
We introduced STILE in a post few months ago — now the published version – Delivering Insights with STILE is in ESOMAR, a global research site and community for insights professionals. We consciously chose an insights forum as we believe...
The first day at a new site in the summer is always a bit abrupt. Even as I took time to prepare for the transition, it still caught be a bit off guard! (I have a theory that as a younger scholar, I was more able to switch gears between...
To paraphrase Linda Martell, field watches are a funny little genre, aren’t they? It encompasses archetypal styles, military styles, other military styles, futuristic lovable oddball military styles – the genre… The post Astor + Banks...
We are not even halfway through 2026, and LAMY has had quite the year of releases! One of my favorites has been their neoncolors Safari Series, and I’m giving away the ne...
But that's still not as silly as Mary's nickname: K...
DIY testing of air cleaning is practical, and thoughtful experimental design can substitute for high-quality sensors including for evaluating air purifier setups that give 100,000x particle reductions. I've done a lot of DIY testing over...