Tabriz
If the Heriz post that opened this arc described the village-workshop tradition of the Iranian Azerbaijani highlands — …
Date
2026-05-15
Words
3702
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18 min
Power
B
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D
Range
C
Durability
E
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E
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D
Dashboard
Latest transmissions
AI at the Back of the Bank
The deposit operations centre of a large American commercial bank — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. …
Date
2026-05-15
Words
2717
Read
13 min
Power
D
Speed
C
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Tudor Revival
The Tudor Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — black-and-white timbered upper storey above a brick or stone …
Date
2026-05-15
Words
5108
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24 min
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A
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E
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D
Durability
E
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E
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D
Louis XV
The piece of furniture most often understood as “antique French” in the Anglophone domestic interior — the …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
4056
Read
20 min
Power
B
Speed
E
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Heriz
The rug at the centre of every American living room of any pretension between roughly 1890 and 1940 was, very probably, …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
3696
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18 min
Power
B
Speed
D
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Reading the Antique
There is in the connoisseur’s habit of mind a quiet expectation that any object of sufficient age, well-made, will …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
1254
Read
6 min
Power
E
Speed
B
Range
E
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
AI in the Slaughterhouse
The kill floor of a modern American beef packing plant moves at a speed that does not lend itself to deliberation. A …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
2424
Read
12 min
Power
D
Speed
C
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
AI at 3 a.m.
Three in the morning is not, by any usual reckoning, a productive hour. The work day is long over, the next is far off; …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
2306
Read
11 min
Power
E
Speed
C
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
Foursquare - Reading the American House
The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no …
Date
2026-05-14
Words
5491
Read
26 min
Power
A
Speed
E
Range
C
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
The Chinese AI Trajectory
This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. …
Date
2026-05-13
Words
3476
Read
17 min
Power
C
Speed
D
Range
A
Durability
E
Precision
E
Potential
D
- AI
AI at the Back of the Bank
The deposit operations centre of a large American commercial bank — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, any of the regionals of any size — …
- ARCHITECTURE
Tudor Revival
The Tudor Revival house of the inter-war American suburb — black-and-white timbered upper storey above a brick or stone first storey, multiple steeply-pitched …
- ANTIQUES
Reading the Antique
There is in the connoisseur’s habit of mind a quiet expectation that any object of sufficient age, well-made, will on inspection prove to have a story …
- AI
AI in the Slaughterhouse
The kill floor of a modern American beef packing plant moves at a speed that does not lend itself to deliberation. A large plant — at IBP, JBS, Cargill, …
- AI
AI at 3 a.m.
Three in the morning is not, by any usual reckoning, a productive hour. The work day is long over, the next is far off; the company one had at dinner has gone …
- ARCHITECTURE
Foursquare - Reading the American House
The American Foursquare is unusual in this series in that it has, by any reasonable reckoning, no architect, no manifesto, no period name of its own, and no …
- AI
The Chinese AI Trajectory
This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series also covers Anthropic, OpenAI, …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | antiques | Tabriz | 3702 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-15 | ai | AI at the Back of the Bank | 2717 | 13 min |
| 2026-05-15 | architecture | Tudor Revival | 5108 | 24 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Louis XV | 4056 | 20 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Heriz | 3696 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-14 | antiques | Reading the Antique | 1254 | 6 min |
| 2026-05-14 | ai | AI in the Slaughterhouse | 2424 | 12 min |
| 2026-05-14 | ai | AI at 3 a.m. | 2306 | 11 min |
| 2026-05-14 | architecture | Foursquare - Reading the American House | 5491 | 26 min |
| 2026-05-13 | ai | The Chinese AI Trajectory | 3476 | 17 min |