Last updated: October 19, 2026
About
History told by what survives, one sourced record at a time.
Three timeline families live here, each built on its own evidence rule and graded entry by entry. The AI Timeline is free to open. The Object Record family and Speaking in Unearned Tongues are free to open too, but gated behind a free subscription to Schrödinger's Mood, since that is the publication they run alongside.
Why I built it. AI governance arguments keep skipping the history: who decided what, when, and why it mattered. This puts the full run on one page, from the first print-licensing laws to the current AI rulebook fights.
What it does. A sourced, graded record from 1455 to 2026, each entry tagged by era and by whether it is a word (law, paper, policy) or a practice (a machine, a deployed system), on two spines: technology and governance. A prologue traces print-era precedent (the Stationers' Company, the Licensing Act, the Statute of Anne) before the main run opens in 1943.
I built this to tell Jewish history by what survives, and to judge every claim by the evidence behind it. Five tools sit here, plus a references page. All run on the same rule: a real object or a dated document counts, hearsay does not, and scripture read as history does not.
What it does. All 207 objects on a time spine, grouped into eight eras, opening around 1208 BCE and running to 2026. Open any entry for what the object is, what happened, who acted, and what it changed.
What it does. The same evidence standard, narrowed to the 1780s through the war in Gaza today: emancipation and nationalism, the Mandate and the Holocaust, 1948 and the Nakba, the wars, and the record cited on both sides.
What it does. Fifty-eight sourced events on two lanes, Palestinian and Arab-side actions on one, Israeli-side actions on the other. Curved lines connect an action to the response it is sourced as having triggered.
What it does. Two lanes, texts that asserted the Christ-killer charge on one side and the rulers, councils, and statutes that enforced it on the other, from a 3rd-century-BCE Egyptian slander to the Nuremberg Laws.
What it does. Traces how the same charges and symbols recur across centuries and movements.
Why I built it. American history keeps getting told in parts. This ties the essay series to its own timeline, so the argument and the record sit side by side.
What it does. The sourced record behind the seven-part essay "Speaking in Unearned Tongues," on the same evidence rule as the rest of this page: a dated object or document counts, nothing else does.
The goal is to eliminate ignorance, my own first, by putting the evidence where you can see it and grade it yourself. No favorites. No unsourced numbers. Where specialists contest a record, it says so, and you decide.