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Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financial interest in some of those. Click to read Graphomane, by Neal Stephenson, a Substack publication

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42 from 10 Jun 2024 to 27 Oct 2026
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2026 12

  1. Historical Scientific Instruments
  2. Peter Fleming
  3. D
  4. KdK part 5: The Aitkenator
  5. Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
  6. Updates to Two Previous Posts
  7. The Sting in the National Anthem’s Tail
  8. D Book Tour
  9. Bangers from Gibbon
  10. My Prodigal Brainchild
  11. Stephenson impersonator; minor update
  12. KdK part 4: Carrière's amazing experiment

2025 12

  1. KdK part 3: Kucharski and the Knickstelle
  2. KdK part 2: a medical mystery from postwar Germany
  3. KdK (Kinetik der Kontinua) part 1: Introduction
  4. A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
  5. What I've been up to
  6. Say it, don't show it
  7. Emerson, AI, and The Force
  8. Remarks on AI from NZ
  9. Buy These Books
  10. The Wrongs of Thomas More (Wrong 5)
  11. The OED on Wrong (Wrong 4)
  12. Rauch on Peirce (Wrong 3)

2024 18

  1. Geoengineering (Wrong 2)
  2. Wrong 1
  3. Cap'n Crunch comes from Cedar Rapids
  4. Polostan
  5. Idea Having is not Art
  6. Deeply
  7. SEVENEVES at Legendary
  8. Sevareid on Wise Guys and Suckers
  9. The Sweeney/Ball/Stephenson chat
  10. Stone Soup video, Ball's "The Metaverse", Game Engines 101
  11. Whenere
  12. Cow Milking, Cud Chewing, and Flying Monkeys
  13. Virj
  14. Leibniz's Admonition as applied to Magic Video Game Swords
  15. Platform Overhang
  16. Why picks and shovels?
  17. The first use of any new technology...
  18. Launching Graphomane