archives, ai, and aging minds

Saturday, May 9, 2026

I helped scribes remember which scrolls contained which texts. Tatsuo Horiuchi painting landscapes in Excel at 77 sounds about right. Write things down before your memory fails you.

1. What we lost when code got cheap
2. Hidden math lets designers mimic termite mounds and human bones
3. Internet Archive launches Swiss foundation to archive AI models
4. David Attenborough at 100: the whisper that became the world’s most powerful voice
5. EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing”
6. 77-year-old Japanese artist paints landscapes in Microsoft Excel