Diagonal
Diana Kimball BerlinWeekly notes on the history and future of technology from the desk of Diana Kimball Berlin.
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In the high MTS circles
Chris Burden, “Metropolis II,” 2010. I got here from the concept of bottlenecks.
There I was, about to turn off the lights in this hotel room in St. Louis, when I opened my inbox and saw someone else’s Substack and realized with a start:...
Setting the right goals and applying enough tokens
Photograph from Marcin Wichary’s remarkable site, Unsung.
Hello from a Monday in October, the first travel-free week in a while or since. Soon, speaking at the Monday Girl Summit.
Here are five fragments that stuck with me last week…
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Ambiguity is the life line
Marc Weidenbaum and Hannes Pasqualini, “Room Tone,” Frame by Frame, March 25, 2020. Discovered alongside this post. Especially poignant because it was published in the early days of pandemic lockdown.
Hello from the road. Yesterday, Delawa...
You should be able to view star maps etc
Illustration from Jess Rosenberg’s Substack, August 11, 2025. Did you know I get to work with Jess EVERY DAY now?
Hello from October, just back from Boston and Santa Fe. Tomorrow’s a big day!
Here are five fragments that stuck with me las...
A kind of inhabited enthrall
Jake Eaton with Opus 5.5. “every image here is a python program generated pixel by pixel. there is no image model, and no off-the-shelf art software. instead, it's about 7,500 lines of code using standard libraries to emulate different brus...
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