Submissions from resobscura.substack.com

		Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by benbreen 15 days ago \| past
		The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com)
		54 points by benbreen 50 days ago \| past \| 10 comments
		What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)
		135 points by benbreen 56 days ago \| past \| 129 comments
		I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)
		257 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| past \| 49 comments
		How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator? (resobscura.substack.com)
		1 point by benbreen 4 months ago \| past
		Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by benbreen 4 months ago \| past
		The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by benbreen 5 months ago \| past
		Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com)
		2 points by benbreen 5 months ago \| past
		The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com)
		1 point by benbreen 6 months ago \| past
		All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning (resobscura.substack.com)
		84 points by benbreen 8 months ago \| past \| 41 comments
		OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery (resobscura.substack.com)
		137 points by benbreen 8 months ago \| past \| 147 comments
		AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (resobscura.substack.com)
		279 points by findhorn 10 months ago \| past \| 312 comments
		Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful? (resobscura.substack.com)
		2 points by benbreen 10 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Onfim's world: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)
		37 points by benbreen 11 months ago \| past \| 7 comments
		AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder (resobscura.substack.com)
		2 points by benbreen 11 months ago \| past
		Onfim's World: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)
		13 points by benbreen 12 months ago \| past
		When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
		167 points by benbreen on April 2, 2025 \| past \| 61 comments
		AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research (resobscura.substack.com)
		1 point by benbreen on March 5, 2025 \| past
		The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope (resobscura.substack.com)
		17 points by benbreen on Feb 5, 2025 \| past \| 2 comments
		When the Sackler brothers studied LSD (resobscura.substack.com)
		45 points by passing on Jan 29, 2025 \| past \| 2 comments
		Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)
		252 points by benbreen on Jan 22, 2025 \| past \| 203 comments
		2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com)
		244 points by benbreen on Jan 15, 2025 \| past \| 90 comments
		Why did clothing become boring? (resobscura.substack.com)
		104 points by benbreen on Dec 4, 2024 \| past \| 136 comments
		A deep history of Halloween (resobscura.substack.com)
		132 points by benbreen on Oct 29, 2024 \| past \| 47 comments
		Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)
		68 points by benbreen on Oct 23, 2024 \| past \| 73 comments
		On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com)
		161 points by benbreen on Oct 9, 2024 \| past \| 209 comments
		Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com)
		84 points by benbreen on June 11, 2024 \| past \| 42 comments
		Why I love etymologies (resobscura.substack.com)
		1 point by benbreen on May 23, 2024 \| past
		LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com)
		8 points by benbreen on May 16, 2024 \| past
		LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by arbesman on May 14, 2024 \| past
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