Weekend Linkages: Makin’ Stuff

...Projector Using Old Smartphones Truss Frame Shelving Unit With Home Theater Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says COVID-Denying Medical Group Implodes Over Founder’s Extravagant Spending Delicious meals for $20 a week: June Xie on changing the way you cook Make a small boat...

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Weekend Linkages: Covid Brain Edition

How to take care of your avocado trees Polyrhythms played on two Igbo cowbells LA City Council meeting now with more cowbell Outrage: future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism Weirdcore and the Eerie Atmospheres of Postmodernity Rationalist Harry Potter and the Collapse of Crypto Elon’s Biggest Boondoggle Why did the world’s richest man spend the past five years trying to sell cities a hole in the ground? The T...

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Weekend Linkages: Advent Hauntology

All Saint’s Margaret Street. Photo: Diliff A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories If you like the idea of Christmas ghost stories let me recommend the writings of M.R. James that you can access here for free Eric Garcetti’s Broken Sidewalks Coincidence department: Will Self discovers evensong and the hidden charm of All Saint’s, Margaret Street (which we visited last month in London) Watch out for the flu Chocolate P...

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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, That Damn Metaverse, Living Pantries and Compressed Air

...Image from the deep internets. The stupidity of AI Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland. No, Cities Aren’t Doomed Because of Remote Work Los Angeles’s Metro Is Using Classical Music as a Weapon ‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy...

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