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1.

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder (resobscura.substack.com)

279 points

a year ago

2.

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)

257 points

6 months ago

3.

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)

252 points

a year ago

4.

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past (resobscura.substack.com)

244 points

a year ago

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Why early modern books are so beautiful (resobscura.substack.com)

225 points

3 years ago

6.

Simulating History with ChatGPT (resobscura.substack.com)

175 points

3 years ago

7.

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude (resobscura.substack.com)

170 points

3 years ago

8.

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)

167 points

a year ago

9.

On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com)

161 points

2 years ago

10.

Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com)

154 points

2 years ago

11.

Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide (resobscura.substack.com)

149 points

3 years ago

12.

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)

145 points

3 years ago

13.

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery (resobscura.substack.com)

137 points

10 months ago

14.

What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI (resobscura.substack.com)

135 points

4 months ago

15.

Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI (resobscura.substack.com)

134 points

2 years ago

16.

A deep history of Halloween (resobscura.substack.com)

132 points

2 years ago

17.

Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? (resobscura.substack.com)

113 points

3 years ago

18.

Why did clothing become boring? (resobscura.substack.com)

104 points

2 years ago

19.

There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries (resobscura.substack.com)

101 points

3 years ago

20.

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis (resobscura.substack.com)

86 points

3 years ago

21.

Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com)

84 points

2 years ago

22.

All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning (resobscura.substack.com)

84 points

10 months ago

23.

What Is Happening to Publishing? (resobscura.substack.com)

83 points

19 days ago

24.

Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy? (resobscura.substack.com)

74 points

3 years ago

25.

The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com)

71 points

2 years ago

26.

Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s (resobscura.substack.com)

70 points

3 years ago

27.

Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)

68 points

2 years ago

28.

Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes? (resobscura.substack.com)

63 points

3 years ago

29.

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations (resobscura.substack.com)

60 points

2 months ago

30.

The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com)

57 points

3 years ago