Saturday Linkages: We Are All Liars

Rather than links today, I thought I’d post a quote from a book everyone should read, Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine: On the social media platforms, the incentive is to constantly produce more information: a perpetual motion machine, harnessed to passions of which the machine knows nothing. This production is not for the purpose of making meaning. It is for the purpose of producing effects on users that keep us hooked. It is for the pur...

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Saturday Linkages: Get Off the Internet and Embroider!

My great aunt enjoying a goat chariot in Stockton, CA. Want to learn embroidery? Natalie Richards shows you the stitches on YouTube. Unraveling the Secret Origins of an AmazonBasics Battery All Right Already By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie Meat in the Machine Winds of change: the sailing ships cleaning up sea transport Silicon Valley Leaders Sit Down With Wildfire At Investment Meeting After Being Impressed By Its Rapid Expansion...

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Saturday Linkages: A Big Post of Random Stuff

...Spotted in our local little library. Doesn’t sound like fun to me. Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence? $1.50 for 1000 hens: Hamilton man desperate to rehome birds after accidentally winning auction Gary Nabhan requests career counseling from a pomegranate tree Samhain, Grief, and Photographs on Backyard Ecosystem Democrats’ baffling blind spot on cars The Automotive Police State A 3d printed floor lamp...

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Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

Chicken of the woods mushroom–more on this in a future post. Florence Caulfield and ‘The Illustrated Needlework Book’ This might be the most 2019 thing I’ve seen Sasquatch or Wendigo? Mysterious howls in Canadian wilderness spark confusion (Mini editorial: I think the native spirits are angry with us) Slavoj Žižek on recycling ecology and consumerism Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories Credit Card Skimmers Evolved:...

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Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Sharks and Nudists

Edward Burne-Jones – An Angel Playing a Flageolet. How the all-hands meeting became a way for bosses to give you the finger Use it and abuse it Safe Streets Advocates Stage Die-In to Protest Garcetti and City Council Lack of Vision Zero Progress Oil is the New Data Against We The Squirrels Already Know This: Southern California black walnuts are a local, tasty treasure Purists v partiers: the battle between two popular nudist resorts Shark Bites...

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