Weekend Linkages: Where’s My Cookie?

A note on this photo: my wood shop is right on the street and I have a dog cookie jar for the neighborhood doggos. The ones on extendo-leads just run into the shop and others pause with this expectant expression until I stop working and open the jar. We’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven A nice collection of Indian recipes The reasons medieval people slept in cupboards Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for arti...

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Weekend Linkages: How does one represent that which, by definition, must not be represented?

...https://youtu.be/5wlj8nsygWA?si=F6QW7r3kUjfi0mKj Trevor Paglen is an artist and geographer who explores the blank places on the map. I came across his work during my time at the Center for Land Use Interpretation. In lieu of links today here’s a short but detailed dive into his work. I’m especially fond of the secret program patches he’s collected....

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Let’s Just Call it Sunday Linkages Until My Schedule Changes

one of the wildest home inspector tik toks ive seen pic.twitter.com/CKI8snirxd — kristin (gone bonkers) (@jkac) April 23, 2021 Mars Sucks The pole vaulting shepherds of the Canary Islands If you’d like to live in a giant Taco Bell and have $6,000,000 laying around this house is for you A 1,000 year blue dye mystery solved Kid, I blew up the honey: fallout from nuclear bomb tests detected in US pots Gender reveal party host turns himself in to pol...

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Weekend Linkages: Advent 4

...Detail from Canterbury Cathedral. Pruitt-Igoe: A Black Community Under the “Atomic Cloud” LA Trade Tech has a nearly 100-year-old vacant theater on its campus that it plans to demolish This house may or may not be real Hide Glue from the Gas Station Kisho Kurokawa’s metabolist masterpiece ‘capsule house K’...

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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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