Eating the Void: On Making a Raw Café Gratitude Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

...e to explain every aspect of our lives in the language of business. A pull quote next the the I Am Bliss recipe enjoins me to “Consider that a leader always apologizes first and takes 100% responsibility. Where in your life can you take the lead?” It turns out that the owners of Café Gratitude call it a “a school of transformation disguised as a cafe” and have, allegedly, forced employees to attend culty Landmark Forum seminars. During the pandemi...

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Saturday Linkages: Artisinal DIY

...itter … The best LED grow lights: http://ow.ly/1XdFBr Just Add Water: Concrete Buildings Built With Air + H2O | Designs & Ideas on Dornob http://dornob.com/just-add-water-concrete-buildings-built-with-air-h2o/ … We close with a quote: “Inconvenient truths tend to create more anxious neurotics than they do enlightened stakeholders.” -Douglas Rushkoff in his new book Present Shock For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @root...

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Saturday Linkages: Murder Hornet Halloween

...arn Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” in a Detroit Parking Garage I close with a quote that seems appropriate both for Halloween and for the political crises we’re in. It’s from one of my favorite books, Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? and builds off of Marx’s love of a snarky vampire metaphor: The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-ma...

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Saturday Linkages: Tiny Houses, Pink Slime and Martinis

...evealed:”We are taking a beating from the media” – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/31/usda-internal-discussions-of-p.html … @itspastormatt How Doctors Die: Not Like the Rest of Ushttp://ow.ly/gypnB Closing Quote Buñuel martini recipe: allow “a ray of sunlight to shine through a bottle of Noilly Prat before it hits the bottle of gin.” For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

...ker (@awalkerinLA) June 8, 2018 If you don’t have time to read the full 70-page UCLA study, then watch this short video on why transit ridership has declined and what can be done about it https://t.co/09uPpcyDCK — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) June 7, 2018 Beautiful gardens in the back of Japanese mini pickup trucks https://t.co/Euw432jyF4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 7, 2018 At the peak of its technological advancement, human civilization be...

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