Hamadan
The six prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, Kashan, and most recently Bidjar — treated, …
Date
2026-05-20
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3678
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18 min
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Italian Baroque
The five prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, English Chippendale, and Gustavian — have together …
Date
2026-05-19
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3561
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17 min
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C
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D
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C
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E
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E
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D
Bidjar
The five prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, Bakshaish, and most recently Kashan — laid out the …
Date
2026-05-19
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3506
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17 min
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C
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D
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C
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E
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A Bestiary of AI
I set an agent a contained task last spring and left it running. The task was well-scoped: locate a set of related …
Date
2026-05-19
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615
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3 min
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E
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A
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E
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E
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E
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D
Gustavian
The four prior posts in this arc — Louis XV, Louis XVI, Biedermeier, and English Chippendale — have together described …
Date
2026-05-18
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3571
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17 min
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D
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C
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E
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E
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Kashan
The four prior posts in this arc — Heriz, Tabriz, Caucasian Kazak, and most recently Bakshaish — built the body of …
Date
2026-05-18
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3826
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18 min
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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
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2535
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12 min
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E
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C
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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
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2691
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13 min
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E
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The Three-Year Lab
The frontier AI lab that existed as xAI for three years — founded in July 2023, building the largest single-site GPU …
Date
2026-05-17
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2646
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13 min
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The Editor's Pen
I should perhaps begin by saying that Henry Avening was, when I first knew him, an honest writer — by which I mean only …
Date
2026-05-17
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4076
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20 min
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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 …
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A Bestiary of AI
I set an agent a contained task last spring and left it running. The task was well-scoped: locate a set of related functions across a modest codebase, propose a …
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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 …
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The Three-Year Lab
The frontier AI lab that existed as xAI for three years — founded in July 2023, building the largest single-site GPU cluster in Memphis Tennessee through 2024 …
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The Editor's Pen
I should perhaps begin by saying that Henry Avening was, when I first knew him, an honest writer — by which I mean only that one could tell, in reading anything …
| Date | Category | Title | Words | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-20 | antiques | Hamadan | 3678 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-19 | antiques | Italian Baroque | 3561 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-19 | antiques | Bidjar | 3506 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-19 | ai | A Bestiary of AI | 615 | 3 min |
| 2026-05-18 | antiques | Gustavian | 3571 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-18 | antiques | Kashan | 3826 | 18 min |
| 2026-05-17 | antiques | English Chippendale | 2535 | 12 min |
| 2026-05-17 | antiques | Bakshaish | 2691 | 13 min |
| 2026-05-17 | ai | The Three-Year Lab | 2646 | 13 min |
| 2026-05-17 | writing | The Editor's Pen | 4076 | 20 min |