| 1. | | Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 229 points by benbreen 21 days ago | past | 80 comments |
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| 2. | | Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 174 points by benbreen 28 days ago | past | 44 comments |
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| 3. | | The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 225 points by benbreen 78 days ago | past | 122 comments |
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| 4. | | Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 117 points by benbreen 83 days ago | past | 25 comments |
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| 5. | | LLM Based Education Games Will Be a Big Deal (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by philips 3 months ago | past |
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| 6. | | Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 492 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 240 comments |
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| 7. | | What Is Happening to Publishing? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 83 points by benbreen 5 months ago | past | 55 comments |
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| 8. | | Why they stopped building wooden stupas: on survivorship bias in history (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 5 points by benbreen 5 months ago | past |
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| 9. | | Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930 (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 17 points by benbreen 5 months ago | past | 3 comments |
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| 10. | | Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 2 points by arbesman 5 months ago | past |
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| 11. | | The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 60 points by benbreen 6 months ago | past | 4 comments |
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| 12. | | Photos from my time in Iran, 2017 (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by benbreen 6 months ago | past |
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| 13. | | The history of knocking on wood (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 54 points by benbreen 8 months ago | past | 10 comments |
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| 14. | | What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 135 points by benbreen 8 months ago | past | 129 comments |
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| 15. | | I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 257 points by benbreen 10 months ago | past | 49 comments |
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| 16. | | How well can Gemini 3 make a Henry James simulator? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by benbreen 11 months ago | past |
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| 17. | | Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past |
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| 18. | | The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 3 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past |
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| 19. | | Can automation help make the humanities more human? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past |
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| 20. | | The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by benbreen on Oct 2, 2025 | past |
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| 21. | | All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 84 points by benbreen on Aug 13, 2025 | past | 41 comments |
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| 22. | | OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 137 points by benbreen on July 31, 2025 | past | 147 comments |
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| 23. | | AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 279 points by findhorn on June 3, 2025 | past | 312 comments |
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| 24. | | Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful? (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen on May 21, 2025 | past | 1 comment |
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| 25. | | Onfim's world: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 37 points by benbreen on May 15, 2025 | past | 7 comments |
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| 26. | | AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 2 points by benbreen on May 7, 2025 | past |
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| 27. | | Onfim's World: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 13 points by benbreen on April 16, 2025 | past |
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| 28. | | 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 |
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| 29. | | AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 1 point by benbreen on March 5, 2025 | past |
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| 30. | | The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope (resobscura.substack.com) |
| 17 points by benbreen on Feb 5, 2025 | past | 2 comments |
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