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It's still what computers still can't do
The cover of John McPhee’s book Oranges, which is about, you guesed it, oranges. It’s great. The New Yorker writer John McPhee, perhaps the 20th century's...

The Story of Mel
This was posted to USENET by its author, Ed Nather (utastro!nather), on May 21, 1983.
Why we stopped ballon framing 👍 #carpentry #framing #codes #building #learn
Cursor Park
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Lots of us are hashing out new plagiarism/AI statements to share with our students. Here’s a draft of the last part of my very earnest one. pic.twitter.com/4Nqh7rZDcF— Jeff Melnick (@melnickjeffrey1) September 1, 2026

Publishing is fucked. The ATmosphere could save it. | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Building a future for publishing that keeps authors and readers at its heart.

The Daily Planet #126: A Plausible Dystopia - The Daily Planet

The Eyeball Problem
This week: why the collapse of print media is contagious; some stuff invented for space; and Pablo Escobar’s drug hippos.

Monumental | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Sunset 5.3 is here! Plus, why this newsletter has a new home.

The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian

Don't worry guys, Part 2 is here: Houston, we've got a book & review lexicon! I don't think it is in it's final shape just yet, but I believe it to be a strong proposal, and well justified if I may say so, myself 😌
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2)
nick-the-sick.pckt.blogNick The Sick
I've been thinking a lot about how to define a shared book lexicon for the Lexicon Community Working Group: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/in-which-a-book-lexicon-is-… But, instead wrote a treatise against ISBNs. I hope I can link to it whenever someone asks why their import didn't work on @bookhive.buzz 😝
It's that time of the week again! Today, we're sharing Chalk, a document editor that shows how apps that need fine-grained permissioning can be built on spaces. Chalk is built on our last three releases!
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk
habitat.leaflet.pubsome thoughts about the shenanigans this weekend I thought maybe we should all read.
I got banned from Bluesky last weekend, let's all have a talk about it
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