john henry was a steel-driving man: the limits metaphor, transduction and the calcification of man vs machine trope
baxian: the enduring popularity of the Eight Immortals and other Taoist mythology
rheinstone cowboy: yodelling and its exports
vienna model: solutions to the housing crisis across Europe—more here
fandeliers: McMansion Hell (previously) wonders what’s going on with ceiling fans recently displaying drone-like ambitions
tears in the rain: debate rages over the ethics of AI agent dungeon ticker-tape: a look at Bloomberg trading terminals and antecedent technologies of getting ahead of the markets
figures of tolerable disorder (if not used too often nor too thick): the virtue and vice of the parenthesis—see also here, here and here
kidnapping of the sun and the moon: Hungarian pop art cartoonist Sรกndor Reisenbรผchler
from the performative gibberish department: Trump introduces meaningless “morally binding” guardrails for Super Intelligence in the same spirit as Big Tech’s self-regulation
