Weekend Linkages: Bass Face

Meme found on the interwebs (not sure where). Totally agree about Trader Joe’s! On the Origin of the Bass Face Demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition A school for “radical attention” The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global A Kali Mirch Paneer Pasta Recipe from Pijja Palace Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate...

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Weekend Linkages: Not Enough Trains

...A mini Red Car at L.A. Train fest Plant-based meat once seemed unstoppable. What went wrong? Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? Pruitt-Igoe residents exposed to government testing seek compensation. ‘What about us?’ ‘Rat tours’ boom in rodent-infested New York Building Myself a Reading Tracker App with Airtable and Deno Fresh, Part 1...

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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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Weekend Linkages: The Passenger

...It’s possibly the most LA thing ever to have a private, invitation-only opening for a piece of public infrastructure built for walking and biking and then provide the attendees with only driving directions. The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba Goblin mode Possum body slams skunk Music break Movie break...

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Weekend Linkages: Let’s Get Tetrahedral

...Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) Dystopian On Trial: Alice Coleman’s Architectural Determinism HGTV Personality Tarek El Moussa Denies He’s Evicting North Hollywood Tenants To Build New Complex Gym shorts and a leotard: subway rider’s bonkers looks divide TikTok Hungry Summer Ghosts...

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