Saturday Linkages: Move On Up

...sts reveal their fears for the future In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis Hey Mayor Garcetti, where’s my bus lane? Right Here Right Now Making messy look good The Mindfulness Racket: The evangelists of unplugging might just have another agenda Arthur Boon’s ‘Make Do’ Chairs...

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Saturday Linkages: On Sunday!

...The revived art of the Orkney Island chair Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze I tried the Light Phone for a week – could I survive on just texts and calls? Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable King Arthur: fable, fact and fiction...

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A Not So Close Shave

...orming a kind of Golem army. We can thank our Silicon Valley overlords for making an old legend a painful force-multiplied reality. And yet, every time I look at social media it causes me to ask how am I also complicit in the curation of an idealized alternate self via this blog and our books? How many times have I presented some neatly tied up homemaking/gardening tip when the actual results were more ambiguous? Or, to go deeper with this, how of...

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Saturday Tweets: Ancient Bread, Wild Horses and High Metabolism Money

...ing bread from dormant, 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from Egyptian bread-making ceramics https://t.co/BWGlliA50q — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 8, 2019 Wild Horses of Nevada by Maynard Dixon , 1927. pic.twitter.com/LsmjluOrwn — Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) August 6, 2019 High Metabolism Money https://t.co/Z7Z27lpnJF via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 10, 2019 Become immersed in the sights and the sounds of the forest as y...

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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

...ketday) July 16, 2019 I’m assuming L.A. bike and housing twitter have seen the opening of Americathon. It’s a dream and a nightmare.https://t.co/RYv7y7OtE0 — Sean Meredith (@seanmeredith) July 15, 2019 We’re testing more AVs than ever and traffic deaths keep going up 📈 We’re making more EVs than ever and emissions keep going up 📈 Just a hunch here but maybe automakers aren’t going to solve these problems for us 🤷🏼‍♀️https://t.co/oHoLicQc6F — Aliss...

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