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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Weekend Linkages: Throwing Axes in the Garden

Bragging rights if you know where this is and leave a comment . . . Aubergine dip, chicken skewers and beans with dill: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Persian recipes Bunya nut bounty: How to process and cook Australian native bunya nuts Block ads and trackers with a Pi-hole A Twitter thread on what a Pi-hole is 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? Philadelphia Become...

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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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