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James Bridle
Personal blog · booktwo.org/notebookaiculturephilosophy
James Bridle's personal blog at booktwo.org covers ai, culture and philosophy. Since 2010, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-09-06
- Rainbow Plane2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
- A Flag for No Nations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-04
- AI Chair 1.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Artist James Bridle calls them "Rainbow planes" and has used this in his art. Rainbow Plane 002: Kiev. October 29, 2014: https://booktwo.org/notebook/rainbow-plane-002-kiev/ Rainbow Planes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/sets/72157637938061015/
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on “Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps”Submitted The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSlightly tangential but James Bridle's printing of an article's history is an interesting kind of archiving: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
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on “Wikipedia Raises $16 Million to Remain Ad-Free”Submitted Anatomy of a failed rendition as a story · 62 points
HN discussionI can't believe this guy has no sense of humor[1]! He's completely serious about providing a service and making tons of money from it. In one question the interviewer asks: 'could you make a novel for instance?' to which he replies 'well, novels don't usually make money'. Wouldn't you think the correct answer would be 'well, it wouldn't be very good'? Hauntology at its best[2]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8W…
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on “Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon”Submitted Fraunhofer Lines as a story · 57 points
HN discussionJames Bridle's "Robot Flâneur" is technically similar: http://robotflaneur.com , http://booktwo.org/notebook/robot-flaneur
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on “Show HN: Random Google Street View”Submitted Floor Plan Models as a story · 47 points
HN discussionhttp://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/ An excellent talk on this subject from 2010.
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on “The Ruins of Dead Social Networks (2011)”Submitted Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionHere is a twelve volume set consisting of the entire edit history of the "Iraq War" entry on Wikipedia. http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
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on “0.01% of Wikipedia as a printed book”Submitted Stop Lying About What You Do as a story · 19 points
HN discussionFor a different axis, see also: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
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on “0.01% of Wikipedia as a printed book”Submitted Spectacular Sports Visualisations as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMore here: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
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on “The Iraq War: A Wikipedia Historiography”Submitted Open Bookmarks and the future eBook as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Distractor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Chair 1.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surveillance Spaulder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Could Make That as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Data, No Thanks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Planespotting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drone Shadows, Diagrams, and Political Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Chair 1.1: Llamafiles and Mistral as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Chair 1.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dig Where You Stand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Levelling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI and the Tree as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rainbow Plane as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A State of Sin (2018) as a story · 1 points
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