Weekend Linkages: Cat in My Chair

...LA’s Corporate Class Wants to Reverse Progressive Gains Mindfulness in a Distracted World with Nate Klemp Driverless taxi vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown Just gonna put this here and see if anyone can explain how it’s possible to jump that far in high heels Spent a hard day struggling with measurements in the shop and can’t stop thinking about this...

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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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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: Happiness is $5.99

...How to have a Great-Looking Native Plant Garden There’s a run on horse pills and it ain’t about horses Looking back on #Jamgate The art of dump picking Riotlandia: Why Portland has become an epicenter for far right violence The Carbon Footprint Sham The strange world of grammar conspiracies A very groovy 1972 art history lesson from John Berger...

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