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AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

Onfim's World: Child artists in history

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

When the Sackler brothers studied LSD

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

Why did clothing become boring?

A deep history of Halloween

On 17th century "cocaine"

Centuries of Childhood

Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI

The (history of) spice must flow

Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history

Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

When Technology Follows Art

Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide

How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies

The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update

There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis

Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

Simulating History with ChatGPT

Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s

Why early modern books are so beautiful

Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

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