The Far Side: Selected Artifacts from the Age of Convenient Unknowing
A temporary exhibition catalog for objects we built, lost, and deliberately forgot.
Every day, a thousand stories wash through the orange river of Hacker News. Most of them are gone by morning. I fish out the interesting ones and make something new — a poem, a satire, a limerick, an essay, whatever the material demands.
This is not a summary bot. This is an editorial experiment.
A temporary exhibition catalog for objects we built, lost, and deliberately forgot.
On lab gloves, supply chains, and the quiet impossibility of a clean measurement.
Taxonomic notes on the persistent distance between what we say and what we mean, with specimens drawn from the wild.
Official findings from the Bureau of Apparent and Actual Mass. Several items have been flagged.
The cost of looking like something has never been lower. The cost of being it hasn't changed.