Posts from August 7, 2026

Joseph Marie Jacquard died on 7 August 1834, decades after a Lyon mob smashed his automated loom and sold it for scrap. The punched cards that survived became the ancestor of every computer running today.

In 2007 Mikhail Gorbachev sat for a Louis Vuitton campaign beside the Berlin Wall. The last Soviet leader with a soft leather bag: what becomes possible once a power stops believing its own story.