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Italian Baroque

The five prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, and Gustavian — have together described the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European cabinet tradition: the French royal …

Date 2026-05-19
Words 3561
Read 17 min
Bidjar

Bidjar

The five prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, and most recently Kashan — laid out the …

Date 2026-05-19
Words 3506
Read 17 min
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Speed D
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
A Bestiary of AI

A Bestiary of AI

The creatures gathered in the present volume have, almost without exception, appeared within the last four years. Of the …

Date 2026-05-19
Words 3879
Read 19 min
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Split-Level

Split-Level

The California Ranch of two posts ago described the Western post-war suburb in its dominant residential form, and the …

Date 2026-05-19
Words 3911
Read 19 min
Power B
Speed E
Range D
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Gustavian

Gustavian

The four prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, and English Chippendale — have together described …

Date 2026-05-18
Words 3571
Read 17 min
Power C
Speed D
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Kashan

Kashan

The four prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, and most recently Bakshaish — built the body of …

Date 2026-05-18
Words 3826
Read 18 min
Power B
Speed D
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
AI and the Spreadsheet

AI and the Spreadsheet

The reigning style of writing about contemporary AI is to treat it as historically unprecedented — a thing without …

Date 2026-05-18
Words 3073
Read 15 min
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Speed D
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Cape Cod

Cape Cod

The California Ranch of the previous post described the Western half of the post-war American suburb — the one-storey …

Date 2026-05-18
Words 3936
Read 19 min
Power B
Speed E
Range D
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
English Chippendale

English Chippendale

The three prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Biedermeier — described one diagonal across the eighteenth- …

Date 2026-05-17
Words 2535
Read 12 min
Power E
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Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
Bakshaish

Bakshaish

The first three rug posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, and Caucasian Kazak — established the two axes along which the …

Date 2026-05-17
Words 2691
Read 13 min
Power D
Speed C
Range C
Durability E
Precision E
Potential D
  1. ANTIQUES

    Italian Baroque

    The five prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, and Gustavian — have together described the eighteenth- and …

    3561 words · 17 min
  2. ANTIQUES

    Bidjar

    The five prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, and most recently Kashan — laid out the antique-rug attribution along two regional …

    3506 words · 17 min
  3. AI

    A Bestiary of AI

    The creatures gathered in the present volume have, almost without exception, appeared within the last four years. Of the twelve species described in detail …

    3879 words · 19 min
  4. ARCHITECTURE

    Split-Level

    The California Ranch of two posts ago described the Western post-war suburb in its dominant residential form, and the Cape Cod of the previous post described …

    3911 words · 19 min
  5. ANTIQUES

    Gustavian

    The four prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, and English Chippendale — have together described the eighteenth-century European cabinet …

    3571 words · 17 min
  6. ANTIQUES

    Kashan

    The four prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, and most recently Bakshaish — built the body of antique-rug attribution out along two …

    3826 words · 18 min
  7. AI

    AI and the Spreadsheet

    The reigning style of writing about contemporary AI is to treat it as historically unprecedented — a thing without antecedents, requiring fresh categories, …

    3073 words · 15 min
  8. ARCHITECTURE

    Cape Cod

    The California Ranch of the previous post described the Western half of the post-war American suburb — the one-storey horizontal Mediterranean-descended sprawl …

    3936 words · 19 min
  9. ANTIQUES

    English Chippendale

    The three prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Biedermeier — described one diagonal across the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European …

    2535 words · 12 min
  10. ANTIQUES

    Bakshaish

    The first three rug posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, and Caucasian Kazak — established the two axes along which the body of antique-rug attribution operates: …

    2691 words · 13 min
DateCategoryTitleWordsRead
2026-05-19antiquesItalian Baroque356117 min
2026-05-19antiquesBidjar350617 min
2026-05-19aiA Bestiary of AI387919 min
2026-05-19architectureSplit-Level391119 min
2026-05-18antiquesGustavian357117 min
2026-05-18antiquesKashan382618 min
2026-05-18aiAI and the Spreadsheet307315 min
2026-05-18architectureCape Cod393619 min
2026-05-17antiquesEnglish Chippendale253512 min
2026-05-17antiquesBakshaish269113 min