For the month of September 2026, I'm going to break from posting. I want to spend some time thinking about what this blog is for and what might change, which might be nothing. During the month, anything I might have wanted to publish will be scheduled for October.
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The Vatican is the Oldest Computer in the World
Francis Spufford once said that Bletchley Park was an attempt to build a computer out of human beings so the credit for this metaphor belongs to him. But it can be generalised to any bureaucracy. They are all attempts to impose an algorithmic order on the messiness of the world, and to extract from it … Continue reading The Vatican is the Oldest Computer in the World
