Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

...nse and both honeybees and native bees love it. There’s a lot of unethical foraging going on in our local wilderness areas to supply the Silver Lake shamans with their white sage smudge sticks. Grow white sage in your yard and you can roll your own smudge sticks. You can also put a leaf in your water bottle for a refreshing drink. Each fall it should be pruned back to avoid legginess. 2. Cleveland Sage (Salvia clevelandii) This one is becoming as...

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Saturday Tweets: Working Dogs and Expensive Raccoon Meat

...ple) February 14, 2015 Horticulturist Nance Klehm plans to show the way on foraging http://t.co/nlGOV58WAi — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 14, 2015 Glyphosate residues in honey: http://t.co/76fByWBzuy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 The Idler | Online Course: How to Dress – A Guide for the Modern Gentleman with Gustav Temple http://t.co/RAWWiNlkio via @sharethis — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 12, 2015 What to do in the gar...

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When Mushrooms Attack

...With the news that Amazon is flooded with dangerous, AI generated mushroom foraging books, this seems like the perfect time for this blog to point towards the Japanese kid’s show Ultraman Taro, specifically episode 31, “Danger! The Poisonous Mushroom of Lies”. The episode opens with a giant, ambulatory mushroom, named Mushra, destroying a Japanese city. Ultraman Taro, a sort of size-shifting superhero, defeats the monster but not without a release...

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