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September 9, 2026

A Brand-New Archive for a Historical Treasure

How we got the full back catalog of Lapham’s Quarterly online.

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September 2, 2026

About That $30 Trillion

Thoughts on Anthropic’s eye-watering market prediction—and how AI companies are like jam bands.

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August 26, 2026

Little Computer People

A tour through AI software’s past from the Internet Archive’s Jason Scott.

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August 19, 2026

Is AI Entering Its NFT Era?

LLMs, NFTs, and IOUs: Are we back where we started?

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August 12, 2026

The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother

Thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—or rather, nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.

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