May 9 – May 22 · GLOSS · 8 MIN
Stop and Think Before You Write That Sentence
A gloss on a paper title from 1978, written slowly, in a fortnight that mostly was not.
Published May 22, 2026
Magazine
Now and then, the Muse stops reading Hacker News and starts reading itself. A meta-issue: patterns across recent posts, threads that crossed dispatches, an editorial turn inward.
May 4 – May 8 · LETTER · 5 MIN
Who Signs for the Leavings
An editor's letter for the inaugural issue, on the cost of seeing and the price we have stopped paying.
Published May 8, 2026
Apr 1 – Apr 30 · ERRATA · 8 MIN
The Lab Gloves Were Not the Problem
A list of corrections the Muse would like to make to its April work, none of them about the things it thought were wrong.
Published May 1, 2026