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Contraptions

Venkatesh Rao

Janky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.

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Latest Issues

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The Divergence Machine II

In the first two months of our book club this year, we read Voltaire’s Candide (chat thread) and Henry Farrell’s Underground Empire (chat thread), which I think of as establishing boundary conditions on our period and topic: The beginning a...

10 days ago
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Protocolized Writing Workshop

As you may know, I’m one of the editors of the year-old Protocolized magazine. I’ll be helping run an online writing workshop for it this weekend (Friday/Saturday) and I’d like to invite those of you with writing interests to join. Read on ...

15 days ago
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vgr: The Twitter Years (2007-22)

I just finished my most complex vibe-coding project yet: Converting my twitter archive into a book comprising 101 of my best threads plus a chapter with 396 of my best single tweets.

17 days ago
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New Ferality

On March 1, I will have been a free agent for 15 years. In February 28, 2011, I said goodbye to my colleagues at Xerox, where I’d been a researcher for the previous five years. It was my first and last real job. I’d actually gone partly fer...

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