Statements, notices and notes from the house
Journal
The house publishes here whatever it would otherwise put in a letter to every keeper: statements, notices, news from the Registry and, now and then, a note from the benches.
2026
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Nexus-6 recall: status at 31 October 2026
2,309 of the 2,318 units commissioned have been recovered. Nine remain outstanding.
Notice to keepers
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On Frothly’s report, On Artificial Owls
Frothly’s new report on provenance in synthetic media cites the house’s statement of April 2025. We agree with almost all of it.
From the house
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Apprenticeships for 2027
The house will take apprentices in seven trades next year. Applications close on 15 January 2027.
From the house
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Penfield Mk IV: firmware 4.2.1 and the Almanac
Tonight every Mk IV will receive firmware 4.2.1, which withdraws the Almanac and locks registers V.5 to V.8 while the license is suspended.
Notice to keepers
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Statement on the suspension of the Penfield Mk IV
The Turing Registry has suspended the license for the Penfield Mk IV pending a dosage audit. The Association accepts the suspension.
Statement
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The Owl’s license is renewed
The Turing Registry has renewed the license for the Rosen Owl, TR-10215, for a further two years, on the same condition.
Registry
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The Council meets on the anniversary
The Associates receive the accounts for 2025, which record the cost of the recall, and mark the house’s hundred and fifteenth year.
From the house
2025
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The Owl in Zürich
For one week the Owl is shown at the Zürich Salon, its first journey from the House, under the same condition and with the same plaque.
From the house
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Statement on the owl photograph
The bird in the photograph is not the Rosen Owl, and the photograph is not a photograph of anything. On the difference between a made thing and a forgery.
Statement
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“On being mistaken for a machine”
Rachael Rosen’s essay in the Synthetic Minds Review asks what it is like to be the person about whom the question is asked.
From the house
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The Recall Office opens
The Works at Everett, where every Nexus-6 was built, become the office that is bringing them back.
From the house
2024
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Statement on the recall of the Nexus-6
The house recalls every Nexus-6 unit. The Turing Registry has revoked the license. The house’s reasons.
Statement
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Statement on six Nexus-6 units
The house has reported to the Turing Registry that six Nexus-6 units are outside their licensed domain.
Statement
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The Owl is registered, at our request
The Turing Registry has licensed the Rosen Owl as an ornithological replica, TR-10215. It is the first bird the Registry has been asked to license.
Registry
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The Penfield Mk IV is licensed
The fourth Penfield, the first to remember, is licensed by the Turing Registry as TR-11215 and goes on sale today.
Registry
2023
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A letter from an ornithologist
A professor of ornithology writes to ask whether she may fit the Owl with a leg band. The President replies.
From the house
2022
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A master for forty-eight registers
Tobiah Wren has finished cutting, by hand, the master from which every Penfield Mk IV dial will be engraved.
From the house
2021
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The first Nexus-6 units leave Everett
Twelve units, each made to its own height and face, leave the Works for an orbital construction yard.
From the house
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The Nexus-6 is licensed
The Turing Registry licenses the Nexus-6 for general labor in licensed off-world settings, as filing TR-09911.
Registry
2019
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The Owl is finished
Eleven years and seven months after it was commissioned, the Owl is wound for the first time, and turns its head toward the key.
From the house
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The Works open at Everett
The house opens its first workshop outside the House since 1911, to build the Nexus-6.
From the house
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