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 …
NYC microstudio transforms on-demand with wall-embedded furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on July 13, 2025 When Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”) bought her first home—a 634-square-foot studio in Manhattan she first …
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 …
Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2025 Experiencing MO.CA gives one the feeling of entering a new type of experiencing mobile living: it’s flexible, indoor/outdoor, and entirely …
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 …
Thrifty couple grows all their food in their food-forest backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on June 30, 2025 When Kenta learned that 90% of Hawai‘i’s food—and nearly all of its carbohydrates—are imported, he began to rethink how he …
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 …
Couple encases brick farm inside greenhouse for indoor/outdoor all year by Kirsten Dirksen on June 22, 2025 On the windswept island of Mors in Northern Denmark, Anna Marie Madsen and Rasmus Møller have reimagined rural living by …
Building budget homestead little by little in worthless, remote (is)land by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2025 Thirty years ago, Vici stood on the rocky hillsides of Serifos and imagined a home made of stone — like …
We needed uncomfortable intellectuals. Instead, we got ad-engaged influencers by Nicolás Boullosa on June 12, 2025 As we leave Spring behind, some of us already miss a few of the intellectual and spiritual heavyweights that left …
