Museums

The Most Important Tech Museum in America Is Hiding on an Island Nobody Checks

📅 July 25, 2026 📂 Culture & Society

There’s a 125-year-old building on Alameda stuffed with the actual artifacts of radio history — vacuum tubes, spark-gap transmitters, console radios that still work. The Bay Area’s nerdiest residents haven’t heard of it. That’s exactly why it matters more than every glossy tech museum you’ve ever visited.

Bay Area Culture/Trends Innovation Museums Radio Tech History

I Spent 2 Years Mapping 100,000 Stolen Artifacts. The Code Is the Real Statement.

📅 July 21, 2026 📂 Culture & Society

A solo developer built an open-source map of 100,000 displaced cultural artifacts. But the real statement isn’t the data—it’s the code. By refusing to host images or duplicate problematic taxonomies, Ex Situ forces museums to own their own colonial labels. A blueprint for ethical data aggregation.

Artifacts Colonialism Cultural Heritage Data Ethics Mapping Museums Open Source