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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 22h

Seven theses on resistance: "Song of a Lost World" @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social (Plus- Roger Williams) Pondering a positive possible: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/09/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Lighthouses of the World": every charted maritime navigational light on the planet, sweeping to its actual reach, on its actual arc, and on its real cycle @aaronjbecker.bsky.social @kottke.org (Plus- The Peshtigo Fire) Illuminating: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/08/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Artificial intelligence and alchemy-- grappling with Hubert Dreyfus's 60 year old critique. @himself.bsky.social (Plus- the first all-transistor calculator) Thinking about transmutation: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In SW Virginia, thousands of musicians gather every August to keep a centuries-old tradition from flickering out: "A Place Among the Fiddlers" @longreads.com (Plus- Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys) Pick: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/06/l...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ted Kaczynski was uncomfortably prescient about modern politics: "The Unabomber on Donald Trump" (Plus- the Gregorian calendar) Fumbling into the future: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/05/b...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The uncontested early modern king of brackets and the place of the parenthesis: "Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis" @publicdomainrev.bsky.social (Plus- Ship in a Bottle Day) Interrogating interpositions: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/04/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Physics and phenomenology: "Consciousness is the hidden architecture behind fundamental and quantum physics" @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social @iai.tv (Plus- Bunch of Stiffs) Contemplating cognizance: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/03/m...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking beyond what the Supreme Court does to *how*: "Supreme Court ‘Shadow’ Docket Is Now Bigger Than The Real, ‘Transparent’ One" @joepatrice.bsky.social @abovethelaw.com (Plus- Thurgood Marshall) Disinfect with sunlight: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/02/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A beautiful (and thorough) visualization and explanation of the ships of The Iliad; at the same time, an example of AI's use in scholarship/education: "The Catalogue of Ships" @emollick.bsky.social (Plus- Alexander the Great) Set sail: roughlydaily.com/2026/10/01/n...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A breakthrough? "a bane for bioethicists"? Or both: "How To Tell If You're Dead" @scattercushion.bsky.social @nautil.us (Plus- James Dean) (Attempting to) understand undoing: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/30/d...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Physicists are questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to be done: "Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe" @quantamagazine.org (Plus- Enrico Fermi) Keep an eye out: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/29/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller: "The Women Who Sold Books Door to Door" @liviagershon.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- Herman Melville) Getting a foot in the door: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/28/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chaos that scales- "The Network Always Beats the Castle": an argument that that organizations are about to change completely (Plus- James H. Wilkinson) Trying to peer over the horizon: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An arboreal meditation on time and rebellion against the straight line: "Ways of Treeing" @orionmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Nehemiah Grew) Learning from elders: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/26/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"More than 100,000 people in Japan are now aged 100 or older" @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (Plus- "Time is on My Side") Centenarians: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/25/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?" New research isn't encouraging. @nikkogasa.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social (Plus- the largest ozone hole) Pray for rain: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/24/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pedestrian traffic signals from around the globe: "Walking Men Worldwide" @kottke.org (Plus- Robert Bosch) Look both ways: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/23/e...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How should philosophers (and we) approach ethics? "Williams, Dewey, and the nature of value inquiry" (Plus- Dōgen) Thinking about thinking: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/22/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not our imaginations... and it's bad for our memories: "Your Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped" @noemamag.com (Plus- Richard Trentlage) Coping with chronopathy: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/21/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Veronese's Dogs"- art and The Inquisition @publicdomainrev.bsky.social (Plus- National Service Dog Day) Celebrating canines: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/20/o...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Awards ‘for achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK’: "2026 Ig Nobel Prizes" (Plus- Orville Redenbacher) Extolling the eccentric (yet efficacious): roughlydaily.com/2026/09/19/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Love Affair With Chess (and the lessons it yields): "My Personal Zugzwang" (Plus- The Addams Family) Make a move: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/18/b...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares (e.g. "Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue") @fortune.com (Plus- Occupy Wall Street) Mind the gap: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/17/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What is quality? Why/how is it degraded? An ode to Pirsig: "On Quality" @worseonpurpose.bsky.social (Plus- General Motors) Interrogating enshittification: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/16/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On imagining life on the other side of (what we now call) the AI revolution: "The Curiously Playable Universe" @vgr.bsky.social (Plus- the ACM) Craning to conceive what's beyond our cocoon: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/15/e...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The most extreme possible automated factory- how would you build it? How would you manage/govern it? "The Superdark Factory" @antikythera_xyz and @mitpress.bsky.social (Plus- the first lighthouse in America) Feeling our way forward: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/14/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

300 years ago, a satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge: "Jonathan Swift v. AI" @donalgill.bsky.social @thedialmag.bsky.social (Plus- the pipe wrench) Shaping our tools: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/13/p...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ansel Adams photographs of National Parks. (Plus- Lascaux cave paintings discovered.) Wonder: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/12/l...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A new way into Wittgenstein: "The Foldable Tractatus" @marcogiancotti.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy (Plus- Theodor Adorno) Beyond linearity: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/11/w...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A reader's guide: "Jump in the Deep End With Philip K. Dick" @reactorsff.bsky.social (Plus- The X-Files) Wrestling with reality: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/10/w...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the "representative" (back?) into representative democracy: "Why working‑class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US" @theconversation.com (Plus- the Philadelphia Balloon Riot) Playing fair: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/08/w...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Honest Abe was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: "Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value" @liviagershon.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social (Plus- Prison treadmills) Take the day off: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/07/l...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The rich getting richer: "Who Ultimately Pays Credit Card Interchange Fees?" @nber.org (with @annielowrey.bsky.social ) Plus- Jean-Baptiste Colbert Pondering plastic: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/06/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Striving to understand the nature of consciousness: "Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality 'Everywhere Whole'" @noemamag.com (Plus- Auguste Comte) Get real: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/05/r...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting our minds-- and our hands-- around the places we are: "Folding Globes" (and 24 variations on time) (Plus- WJ McGee) Orienting ourselves: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/04/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The prehistory of AI: "Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward" @textfiles.com @archive.org (Plus- The Sun) Reminisce: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/03/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An invisible essential: "Inside the Billion-Dollar Industry That’s Keeping Your Beer Cold—and Saving Lives" @lonlozzin.bsky.social @texasmonthly.bsky.social (Plus- World Water Week) Be cool: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/27/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The rise and fall of subscription book publishing and the birth of mass media: "Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher" @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social (Plus- Lee de Forest and Philo Farnsworth) Roll the presses: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/26/w...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Technology, science, time, and the fraught subject of progress: "What Does 'Progress' Mean, Anyway?" @literaryhub.bsky.social (Plus- Peter Cooper Hewitt) Parsing progression: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/25/a...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s so much more than it seems: "The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild" @tamaramc.bsky.social (Plus- The Beatles day off) Celebrating shrooms: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/24/n...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The order in seeming chaos: "Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?" @nattyover.bsky.social @quantamagazine.org (Plus- Moritz Cantor) Go with the flow: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/23/e...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Why are health care costs so high in the U.S.? A 'wrong turn' in 1980: "How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action'" @harvardmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic) Actually make America healthy again: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/21/o...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer: "The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit" @dkthomp.bsky.social @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social (Plus- the proto-NFL) Playing ball: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/20/i...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No, we don't "have time": "The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate" @ghostpanther.bsky.social @currentaffairs.bsky.social (Plus- Pascal and his wager) Facing up: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/19/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The League of Fire: "Inside the searing, strangely wholesome world of competitive chili eating" @huckmag.com (Plus- National Fajita Day) Turn up the heat: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/18/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mapping where knowledge lives: "The Atlas of Learning" (Plus- Paul Kammerer) Doing the work: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/17/r...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing: "What Makes Humans Stupid" @sfiscience.bsky.social @nautil.us (Plus- Trump Tower Chicago) Investigating imbecility: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/16/t...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A wonderful series on architecture-- and more broadly, on planning for the long term: "Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn, with music by Brian Eno" @stewartbrand.bsky.social @openculture.bsky.social (Plus- Taliesin tragedy) Take the long view: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/15/f...

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How words give shape to legacies- the art of the obituary: "Speaking for the Dead" @longreads.com (Plus- William Oliver) Remember: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/14/t...

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