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: Move On Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8USz7gb2RGQ The news has been bleak. In times like these I always recommend a listen to Curtis Mayfield’s song Move On Up. Turn up the volume and listen to those lyrics. Huntress a short film about the world of female bike couriers Exclusive: carmakers among key opponents of climate action ‘Collapse OS’ Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse Climate Beer: “Take turns expressing how your knowledg...

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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: Bad Ideas and a Few Good Ones

Via @70s_party. EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical Hollyhock House Archive What happened to that $100 laptop idea? Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time The World’s Most Annoying Man Car ads are bad for our cities No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion ‘Mindless growth’: Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day A dry (and warm, in most places) Jan...

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Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

Hermann Hendrich, Parsifal. Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year” What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist...

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