first flush: Shizoka region’s campaign to reclaim its status as the world’s number one tea producer
tippy the turtle and cubby the bear: the long history of drawing short-cuts before AI
portraits of population: in 1971 and 1981, the Indian government conducted a people’s census with accompanying illustrated volumes to explain the motivation for collecting data—via Quantum of Sollazzo
top of the hour: programming schedules and regular segments for a veteran blogger influenced by a career in radio
the books are open: following a distressed shoe company’s pivot to LLMs, pasta sauce maker Prego releases a table top device to record family dinner conversations to cherish for all time—via Super Punch
extrapolated futures: a reverse look-up archive of speculative fiction to explore how science-fiction authors of the past assay a real world scenario of the present—via Kottke
the edge of sentience: the theory of mind, our history of underestimating the internality of others and how we might be diminishing the conscience of the machine
hanami: Kyoto gets a new caretaker for the records of cherry tree blooms (see previously) that goes back to the ninth century, one of the oldest, continuous archives of climate data in the world
