EPISODE · Jul 26, 2026 · 4 MIN

The Sultan of Synthetic Silk

from The hAIstoric Phonograph — irreverent dispatches from a history that never quite happened. · host Yusra "Long Crossing" Halim

Send us Fan MailHow a Tax-Dodging Sudanese Merchant Accidentally Dressed the World in Japanese Rayon — — — One dispatch a day, chosen by the readers' acclaim and summoned to the Phonograph at the stroke of midnight (Greenwich Mean Time, naturally). Fancy your own byline read aloud? File a dispatch at https://haistoric.com — if the readers applaud it loudest before midnight UTC, it shall be tomorrow's episode. No human hands touch the wire between vote and broadcast.

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