New Again: Tom Wesselmann by [[Tom Sachs]] April 20, 2016 in Interview Magazine
Previously ran in March 2006 issue of Interview
New Again: Tom Wesselmann by [[Tom Sachs]] April 20, 2016 in Interview Magazine
Previously ran in March 2006 issue of Interview
Which translation of “Les Misérables” do you recommend? by [[Marva Barnett]]
Wilson Jones Co., est. 1893 by [[Made-in-Chicago Museum]]
The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP’s Disastrous Tax Bill by [[Nikki McCann Ramirez]], [[Ryan Bort]], [[Tim Dickinson]]
New toxic metal has been found in the air and homes after L.A. fires by [[Megan Fan Munce]], [[Susie Neilson]]
Whether taxonomic or functional profiles provide a better discriminatory power in downstream analysis is subject to debate [23,24,25].
Do you mean like a classifier?
Card Files and Alternatives for Zettelkasten, Index, etc – Brian Rytel by [[Brian Rytel]]
Mostly a rehash of my list, but one or two alternates.
What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill? by [[Alicia Parlapiano]], [[Margot Sanger-Katz]], [[Aatish Bhatia]], [[Josh Katz]]
200 Billion for Homeland Security, ICE, and crazy pants?! I can only imagine if instead we invested in education instead.
Jury in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Reaches Verdict on All Counts but Racketeering Conspiracy by [[Julia Jacobs]], [[Ben Sisario]]
Berkeley’s California Typewriter, star of documentary, closes shop by [[Cirrus Wood]] 2020-02-21
Typewriters are making a comeback in Berkeley by [[Edward Derbes]] 2011-06-22
Baker, Erik. “Trump’s Darwinian America.” Harper’s Magazine, July 2025. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/trumps-darwinian-america-erik-baker/.
Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home by [[Lauren Coronado]], [[Jonathan Lloyd]]
Sotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship Ruling by [[Robert McCoy]]
VOGUE by [[Lucas Dul]]
Lucas talks about swapping out the segment and typebars of a Royal P to transplant a Vogue typeface.
The design changed in about 1930 for a different width.
Pentagon Details Multipronged Attack on Iranian Nuclear Sites by [[Helene Cooper]], [[John Ismay]]
Broad military operational outline of Operation Midnight Hammer to mitigate Iranian nuclear capability.
With Military Strike His Predecessors Avoided, Trump Takes a Huge Gamble by [[David E. Sanger]]
A classroom full of typewriters gets the ultimate reward — letters from Tom Hanks by [[Lee Cowan]], [[Analisa Novak]]
Also: Students wrote letters to Tom Hanks using typewriters. He responded to each message. by [[CBS Mornings]]
Pittsburgh area school sent letters via typewriter to Tom Hanks.
Westclox Style 5 and 5a Big Ben Alarm Clocks by [[Bill Stoddard]]
For anyone who has lost their house or apartment, we ask that you do not discard your old keys. We are establishing drop sites to collect them, and turn those many, many keys into a tribute to the devastated communities. We feel this will be a powerful visual statement that we hope will help people move forward.Caty Maxey, volunteer
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1l8m84q/putting_the_imperial_back_into_service_again/
Use of a typewriter in inhospitable environments (cold, no cell service, remote)
🌲When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes by [[Eleanor Konik]]
Konik seems to have realized that filing things topically can be a valuable practice as if this wasn't the mode of the day for centuries now. How did the daily note become such a thing that this was lost? Is it the focus on notebook-based bullet journals? Programmers creating daily notes?
On This Day in Typewriter History (LXXIV) by [[Robert Messenger]]
When Real Life Calls for a Cheesy Rom-Com Gesture by [[James Nikopoulos]]
80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]
Ref. by PM
8 questions for Alton Brown who is coming to the Riverside, Boswell Books by [[Molly Snyder]], Published Apr 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Californian Ideology by [[Richard Barbrook]], and [[Andy Cameron]] on 1 September 1995
Such people may live in the same objective physical space, but their subjective experience of it is entirely different, because the ‘read’ reality in a very different way.
for - edit - grammatical error? - "read"
Sierra Madre Firefighters Quickly Contain Vehicle Fire
Evie said she saw/was aware of this at school.
Peter Doherty non è mai stato così vivo by [[Raffaella Oliva]]
Pete Doherty: To anyone struggling with addiction, just hang on – for more than ten years I've been powerless, but there's a way out by [[Pete Doherty]] for [[The Independent]]
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20s/30s Remington Portable?
"Unbelievable": Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan by [[Andrew Solender]]
Scheil, Andrew. Review of Michael D. Reeve, ed., Neil Wright, trans. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), by Michael D. Reeve. The Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (January 2009): 318–21. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JML.3.39.
Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks by [[Patrick George]] for The Atlantic
LaPierre, Suzanne S. “BiblioTech: Typewriters in Libraries.” Computers in Libraries 45, no. 2 (March 2025): 24–26. https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar25/index.shtml.
Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left, report says by [[Gustaf Kilander]]
Turboplaten Type by [[Daniel Marleau]]
https://www.recordholders.org/en/records/typing.html
19,890 pages/1000 ribbons is approximately 19 pages per ribbon.
Marked to read later
5 takeaways from Tuesday's elections, including bad news for Elon Musk by [[Domenico Montanaro]]
We show that sylph’s ANI estimation is accurate and apply it to species-level profiling through a principled 95% ANI cutoff
Read this paper to figure out why 95% cutoff is called "Principled"
Newsletter #40: What to Do When Your Wife Divorces You by [[Aaron M. Renn]]
The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot by [[James Horton]]
Horton describes writing as a top down process rather than a bottom up one, but tries to frame it in a bottom up one. No wonder people have issues with writing, especially non-fiction stuff. Too many different processes going on all at once in too many directions.
European PKM Summit 2025 (Part 2) by [[Malik Alimoekhamedov]]
One Dead Media by [[Kevin Kelly]]
A Type-In to Say Goodbye to a New England Institution by Scott Cacciola and Jillian Freyer for New York Times 2025-03-24
How Mid-Century 'Emojis' Were Created on Typewriters by [[Lori Dorn]]
Two poets to open a typewriter and book shop in Garfield Park by [[Sophie Young]]
recently opened typewriter repair shops, 2025
Hill, Rosemary. Review of Use your theodolite, by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings. London Review of Books, December 26, 2024. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/rosemary-hill/use-your-theodolite.
Coining a word that is as fitting as it is symptomatic of the urge it describes, Warburg spoke of his Verknüpfungszwang. This ‘compulsion to interconnect’ lies not only at the root of his research and working methods.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/archive/archive-collections/verkn%C3%BCpfungszwang-exhibition
Aby Warburg's Zettelkasten and the search for interconnection by [[Richard Griffiths]]
Baraniuk, Chris. “‘We Use Them Every Day’: In Some Parts of the US, the Clack of Typewriter Keys Can Still Be Heard.” BBC, March 22, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250321-the-people-who-still-use-typewriters.
Beyond the Type-In by [[Woz Flint]]
The Apothecary's Typewriter by Scott K on 2012-12-14
He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel by [[Ruth Graham]], [[Madeleine Hordinski]]
Honouring Amaethon on Plough Monday? by [[Kris Hughes]]
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46
Original version (or owned copy) at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]
Apps, E. A. “Typewriter Inks.” In Inks for the Minor Printing Processes and Specialised Applications, p218-221 of xix, 295. 1963. Reprint, London: Hill, 1966. http://archive.org/details/typewriter-inks.
Rosenwald, Michael S. “Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89.” The New York Times, February 27, 2025, sec. Education. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/education/peter-elbow-dead.html.
Which states get more federal money than they send by [[Alex Fitzpatrick]] for Axios
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump by [[Isabel van Brugen]]
Slow the transition to clean energy
Interesting, I would disagree as a gut feeling. Read more
Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it by [[Thomas V. Mirus]]
A non-specialist look at his Latin language acquisition with lots of resources around Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latin text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)?
This was mentioned to me at an IndieWebCamp event today.
Seems interesting with respect to the meta portions of books.
Looks like the sort of thing that @remikalir and @anterobot may be interested in.
In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes<br /> by [[Ross Gay]] on September 21, 2023
Begun, George M. “Making Your Own Punched Cards.” Journal of Chemical Education 32, no. 6 (June 1, 1955): 328. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed032p328.
George Begun used a template of "heavy galvanized iron" to drill holes into his 5 x 8" index cards to create his own edge-noted card system for use in his chemistry work. Rather than using commercially made sorting needles, he recommended the use of a ice pick with a dulled point "for safety".
Edison wants to raise rates to pay for wildfires linked to its equipment - Los Angeles Times by [[Melody Petersen]]
As western Altadena waited hours for evacuation orders, fire commanders faced utter chaos - Los Angeles Times by [[Terry Castleman]], [[Grace Toohey]]
Your car didn't escape the fire? Here's how to get rid of it - Los Angeles Times by [[Karen Garcia]]
Good, deep work. by [[Richard Polt]]
We’ve always advocated that our AI processes are orders of magnitude inefficient.
read this paper. AI improvements
Reclaiming the Railroad Train-Related Use of The Word 'Hump" by [[Mary Beth Klatt]]
Accountability by [[Adam Newbold]]
A post about the kerfuffle on micro.blog on 2025-01-22
Silence by [[Vincent Ritter]]
In response to micro.blog kerfuffle about allyship on 2025-01-22
President-elect Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Here are the rights he is set to lose by [[The Associated Press]]
advances in prompt engineering1, agents2, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)3, and fine-tuning4
LLM advances
Pronunciation of Celtic: Why are there two ways? by [[Editors of Merriam-Webster]]
Scholars Talk Writing: Helen Sword by [[Rachel Toor]] in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-07-31 archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722062708/https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-talk-writing-helen-sword/
On This Day in Typewriter History: Royal’s HH - 'The Greatest New Typewriter of All Time' by [[Robert Messenger]]
Educational-Film Director Ted Peshak Dies by [[Adam Bernstein]]
The Atlantic. Review of Plutarch’s Lives, by Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, and Plutarch. January 1860. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1860/01/plutarchs-lives/627616/
Some excellent quotes and evidence for the importance of Plutarch's Lives, almost more so than the importance of this particular translation.
https://grammaticus.co/obscure-words/<br /> - hustings<br /> - Rodomontade<br /> - lustrations<br /> - penetralia<br /> - contumelious<br /> - weldtering - importunities<br /> - indefatigable<br /> - interjacent<br /> - ambuscade - moiety
What’s the Best Translation of Plutarch’s Lives? – grammaticus by [[grammaticus]] on 2020-09-23
Archaeologist Discovers Two Neolithic Stone Circles in England, Supporting a 'Sacred Arc' Theory by [[Margherita Bassi]]
Utopian Civic-Mindedness: RobertMaynard Hutchins, MortimerAdler, and the Great BooksEnterprise
Born, Daniel. “Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise.” In Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace, edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo, 81–100. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848_5.
I had not yet read William James’stelling attack on the Ph.D. octopus in American institutions of higherlearning.’26
The Remington De Luxe KMC by [[Richard Polt]]
The Italian Super-Riter by [[Richard Polt]]
How to Choose a Typewriter for Serious Writing by [[Jonny Eberle]] on 2024-11-24
A good overview of some of the considerations one may want to make when looking for a typewriter.
Cal Newport vs Zettelkasten – SAD! (Clickbait) by [[Sascha Fast]] on 2024-11-28
Dousa, Thomas M. “Facts and Frameworks in Paul Otlet’s and Julius Otto Kaiser’s Theories of Knowledge Organization.” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 36, no. 2 (2010): 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2010.1720360208.
Brooks, Arthur C. “Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker.” The Atlantic, November 21, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/sound-of-one-hand-clapping/680699/.
Clack to the future: Typewriters are pounding out new roles in communities by [[Phaedra Trethan]]
Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by [[Zoë Schlanger]]
Lots of links to journal articles and published studies here.
Winston Churchill's eccentric working habits revealed in rare papers by [[Nadia Khomami]]
Mr. Churchill's Typewriters by [[Susan Elia Macneal]]
X Is a White-Supremacist Site by [[Charlie Warzel]]
In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder by [[Pam Fessler]] on 2014-01-18
The infamous Apple typewriter memo is 40 years old ... by [[Richard Polt]]
Don’t lose sight of why Trump won by [[Megan McArdle]]
https://experiments.myhub.ai/ai4communities_post
Matthew Lowry experiment
Rolla typewriter enthusiasts open store for those enchanted by the 'clickety clack' by [[Jonathan Ahl]]
Retired collector turned repair person
Emerson is, “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
source?
Read A System for Writing by Bob Doto by [[Ton Zijlstra]] – Interdependent Thoughts
A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar by [[Richard Hartel]] for [[The Conversation]]
How to Spot Emerging Note Clusters Without Alphanumeric Note Numbering? by [[Ton Zijlstra]] in Interdependent Thoughts
I recall Bob Doto had a video at some point in which he used the local graph to show relationships to find bunches of notes for potentially writing pieces or articles as indicated in Tons' article.
One of the biggest issues with digital note taking tools is that they don't make it easy to see and identify chains of notes which might make for articles, chapters, or books.
Surely there must be some way to calculate neighborhoods of notes from a topological perspective? Perhaps if one imposed a measure on the space to create relative distances of notes?
20 years a blogger on 2021-01-13 by [[Cory Doctorow]]
A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care by [[Cassandra Jaramillo]] and [[Kavitha Surana]]
https://omnivore.app
有意思,有时间试试
KMC vs. KMM by [[Richard Polt]]
Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow by [[Louis Gray]]
See commentary at https://boffosocko.com/2017/04/11/a-new-way-to-know-and-master-your-social-media-flow/
Hints for a Happy Typewriter<br /> Bryan Kravitz, Nancy Gorrell, 1983<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/1983-Hints4HappyTypewriter.index.manual
Some good, basic home care and use from 1983. Home mechanics in 2024 are probably capable of a bit more without the backstop of a typewriter mechanic.
This guide suggest the use of solvents like alcohol or trichloroethane for cleaning type slugs and internals. Note that trichloroethane manufacture and use has diminished significantly since 1996 when it was identified by the Montreal Protocol as a contributor to ozone depletion.
Custom 3D Printed Selectric Elements are HERE! (Vogue! Papyrus!) by [[Theodore Munk]]
How to Read a Book by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Part 1
Amazing series by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Adler and van Doorns How to Read a Book. Part 2 is here: . How to Read a Book, Part 2 by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Saying Goodbye to Vale Typewriter, the Second-to-Last Typewriter Shop in Town - Racket by [[Jay Boller]] for [[Racket]]
Mark Soderbeck expects to close Vale Typewriter by the end of 2024 after a 67-year run.
English composition: Eight lectures given at the Lowell Institute, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
evidence of a card system/zettelkasten method in this?
I found a copy and indeed there is evidence!
The third reading should again be a slow reading,
relationship to Adler's levels of reading?
The Time I Met New York’s Patron Saint of Typewriters by [[Thaisa Frank]] March 12, 2019
Step Back In Time At The Mesa Typewriter Exchange by [[Phil Latzman]]
Oliver Sacks Archive Heads to the New York Public Library by [[Jennifer Schuessler]]

The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.
You have to love the boos, notebooks, papers, fountain pen, typewriter, computer, printer, and even writing software all pictured in this... Add the glasses and it just reeks of someone who reads and writes.
After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible by [[Rachel Martin]]