Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week 28 July, 2026
“Safety cell” for prisoners scene to be “at risk”. San Francisco County Jail 1 in 1996, now closed. Photo: Robert Gumpert from project “Lost Promise: The Criminal Justice System
Old Orchard Beach, Maine. 1986. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Forensics test. San Francisco Police Department, 1996. Photo: Robert Gumpert from project “Lost Promise: The Criminal Justice System
Union Square - San Francisco, California. 18 May 2017 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Housing project at San Francisco City Hall - San Francisco, California 1999 Photo: Robert Gumpert
Reading, Listening, Looking
Voodoo, exorcism and a killer at age 7. Meet Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor - Mark Z. Barabak/LA Times
Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem - Ali Rıza Taşkale, editor Sam Haslby/Aeon
Gulliver Learns About the Gullible - Steven Heller/Print
Japanese port town regeneration among projects from Singapore University of Technology and Design - dezeen
AI Tends to Develop New Stereotypes to Base Hiring Decisions On, Study Says - Ece Yildirm/Gizmodo
The History of Bad Ideas: Celebrity - David Runciman & Greg Jenner/Past Present Future podcast
Shipowner Offers Seafarers Six Months’ Pay to Sail Through Strait of Hormuz - Mike Schuler/gCaptain
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids - Michael Schulman/New Yorker
MVRDV wins competition for Rotterdam's 'shift embassy', a landmark for ecological change - Thomai Tsimpou/designboom
How stadiums are turning into entertainment districts - Ellen Eberhardt/dezeen
Esther Bubley - Howard Greenberg Gallery and Esther Bubley Photography Archive - Stephen Clark/arstechnica
Accidental Historian - Photos: Ray Di Pietro; Words: Libby Callaway - The Bitter Southner