Humanoid robots are coming. Can we shape who they become? by Nicolás Boullosa on September 4, 2025 Humanoid robots aren’t just a sideshow — they’re the new front line of global competition. As China pushes mass production, …
Flying over the cuckoo’s nest—2025 edition: mental illness & homelessness by Nicolás Boullosa on August 28, 2025 How social changes, housing policy, and neglect worsen mental health and homelessness in America. Lessons from history and abroad show …
Go West (conditions apply): the New Frontier is not a place but a gut feeling by Nicolás Boullosa on August 22, 2025 The American Dream was once a horizon, not a gated path. It carried a collective promise. But living in places …
Entropy fighters: on maintenance + Andy Campbell’s car (1.2 million km) by Nicolás Boullosa on August 13, 2025 Why paying attention to the small, unseen work makes the difference between collapse and endurance. From solo sailors to your …
Walking the margins: how places reveal themselves in the gaps by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2025 From the cul-de-sac to the canal path, our built environments shape how we move, think, and belong. Psychogeography isn’t dead—it …
Quiet corners of the internet: on friendship, inquiry & slow connection by Nicolás Boullosa on July 23, 2025 The internet can sometimes live up to its promise and be a force for good. One of the places where …
Slouching Towards the Singularity: AI musings from Telegraph Avenue by Nicolás Boullosa on July 17, 2025 On Telegraph Avenue from Oakland to Berkeley, where rebellion once thrived, conformity and resignation now scroll by. What does it …
When a friend dies, the algorithm falls silent: friendship & grief today by Nicolás Boullosa on July 11, 2025 We live amid digital echoes and fading connections. Yet when a friend dies, the quiet truth breaks through. Social media …
Civilizational purity myth: zeitgeist, DNA, & the fiction of unmixed origins by Nicolás Boullosa on July 3, 2025 From Nazi archaeology to modern Egyptian nationalism, the search for ancestral purity distorts the very idea of civilization—founded not on …
Until it’s gone syndrome: seeing home through the eyes of distance by Nicolás Boullosa on June 27, 2025 From a forgotten Mediterranean hillside to the streets of Paris and Barcelona. On presentism, memory, and the clarity that comes …
