Res Obscura resobscura.substack.com

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire. Also: AI in research and teaching.

Why they stopped building wooden stupas
resobscura.substack.com·4d·Substack
Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field?
resobscura.substack.com·2w·Substack
The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
resobscura.substack.com·3w·Substack
Photos from my time in Iran, 2017
resobscura.substack.com·6w·Substack
The Secret History of Knocking on Wood
resobscura.substack.com·11w·Substack
What is happening to writing?: Claude Code and the negative space around AI
resobscura.substack.com·12w·Substack
Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
resobscura.substack.com·23w·Substack
How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator?
resobscura.substack.com·25w·Substack
Can automation help make the humanities more human?
resobscura.substack.com·27w·Substack
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
resobscura.substack.com·32w·Substack
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
resobscura.substack.com·39w·Substack
OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
resobscura.substack.com·41w·Substack
Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful?
resobscura.substack.com·51w·Substack
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
resobscura.substack.com·53w·Substack
Onfim's World: Child artists in history
resobscura.substack.com·56w·Substack
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
resobscura.substack.com·58w·Substack
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
resobscura.substack.com·62w·Substack
Happy Lupercalia
resobscura.substack.com·65w·Substack
The Familiar Loneliness of the Kinetoscope
resobscura.substack.com·66w·Substack
When the Sackler brothers studied LSD
resobscura.substack.com·67w·Substack

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