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Inside the Internet Archive: A Meat World Tour

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Thoughtstylings
...he building, our tour guide showed us the contraption they use to digitize books. He noted that the majority of the books they digitize are sent to the Philippines and digitized with cheaper labor. You can donate books and other materials to the Archive. They have an app that will tell you if they need a particular item and will sometimes pay for shipping. The Internet Archive is a throwback to the heady, more optimistic days of the Internet famil...

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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

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Thoughtstylings
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...tables. On a trip to San Francisco, I noted that they keep the philosophy books locked up at Green Apple books. Our Saluki Ivan likes to go out and lay on the hot pavement even in the middle of summer. Plane spotting has become a boring new pastime. Kelly and I have hundreds of photos of our cats snuggling together. Our friend Daniel used my shop to make frames for a show about his desert lighthouse project. It was one of the best art shows I’ve...

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Dystopia Report: The I-710 Corridor Aesthetic Master Plan

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...may be the best ever proof of the thesis of David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs book, that perhaps half of all people in Western countries are engaged in useless, soul-sucking office work. I mean, spend a moment appreciating the visual chaos that is this image. Ask yourself if it has any purpose whatsoever other than fulfilling some checkbox on a list of meaningless public engagement metrics. What possible purpose does this slide fulfill? Then apprecia...

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William Morris is the Marie Kondo We Need

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...er an object “sparks joy” or not. The slogan reminds me of David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs which shows in sometimes funny, sometimes gut wrenching detail how much of the work done in our time is meaningless, unnecessary and destructive of the planet and the mental health of so many people. A common misunderstanding of Morris message is that he thought that we should all go back to hand work. It’s clear from reading him that it isn’t a matter of...

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Art and Grains

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Design, Food, Thoughtstylings
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...Grain Revolution. Just in time for Easter she has posted a recipe from the book for hot cross buns with marzipan crosses. Roxana was a big supporter of the Los Angeles Bread Bakers, a meetup group that I co-founded. It’s been a rough year for restaurants, so consider picking up a copy of her book or, if you’re a local, getting some takeout. Meanwhile, friend of the blog Federico Tobon is launching a new zine, has completed 100 days of small drawin...

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