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The Daily Triptych100 / 365

10 APR 2026

Day 100

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot · Little Gidding
A flat puppet carved from buffalo hide in strict profile, with exaggerated features, elongated limbs, and intricate perforations across the torso and clothing, mounted on a slender rod.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Javanese Wayang Kulit Puppet

Javanese · Early Modern · Buffalo hide, pigment, horn

Cut from buffalo hide and pierced with hundreds of holes, this flat puppet was never meant to be seen directly. Its exaggerated profile exists to solve a problem of projected light.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Open Weights, Closed Frontiers

Systems and judgement · 100 of 100 · LLaMA, February 2023

You can download billions of parameters and run them on hardware you control. That does not mean you have the recipe, the data, or the right to call it open source.

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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified

A Tibetan Buddhist painting on cloth showing a central deity surrounded by smaller figures arranged symmetrically, with rich mineral colours and gold detailing.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

A Tibetan Thangka

Tibetan Buddhist · Plant and mineral pigment on silk or cotton · Medieval through present

Every finger-width, every curve of the halo, every distance between eye and navel follows a grid laid down centuries before the painter was born. The measurements are theology.

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