Saturday Tweets: RIP Mary Oliver

January 19, 2019

...rpt has been published on Medium! https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo And yes: get the book! — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 14, 2019 These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is a whole 2019 mood 💃🏿💃🏼💃🏽 pic.twitter.com/iMska5whpH — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 14, 2019 "How do we want to live among technology and each other? Why are cities treated like app platforms?"http...

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Cybernetics: A Fatal Flaw

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...s also healthy to look at what went wrong. A provocative and controversial book I just finished, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet makes note of what may have been the fatal flaw in the movement: cybernetics, the dream of self organizing systems as an alternative to the messiness of politics. As the author of Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, puts it, Back in the 1960s, many of [Stewart] Brand’s New Communalists bui...

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Saturday Tweets: A Flying Shame

Mr. Homegrown

February 23, 2019

Saturday Linkages

..., led by sports personality, now with 30,000 followers, 100% rise in train bookings on some routes, 3% drop in flight bookings: https://t.co/RUyCTARdHA — StopFlying.org (@stopflying) February 18, 2019 humanity is doomed https://t.co/CZj3UOgnSF — Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) February 18, 2019 my cat needs a backup beeper pic.twitter.com/9pt9HAvZJ0 — A Cat IRL (@computerpaws) February 18, 2019 It is time for a cat by Ulisse Aldrovandi pic.twit...

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Wallpaper: Like a Tattoo for Your Walls

Mr. Homegrown

March 15, 2019

Design

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...paper that Morris manufactured and it’s inspired by the illustrations in a book in his parent’s library that he thumbed through as a kid, Gerard’s Herbal. Morris discovered a talent for patterns by way of failing miserably as a painter. While he couldn’t paint a human figure or animal well, he had a talent for patterns that grew out of a lifelong obsession with illuminated manuscripts. While working on the house last summer we discovered a fragmen...

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Notre Dame on Good Friday

Mr. Homegrown

April 19, 2019

Design

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...re Dame Cathedral went up in flames this week I thought immediately of the book I’ve been reading in the evenings for the past few weeks, J.W. Mackail’s Life of William Morris. Morris was obsessed with Medieval architecture and visited Notre Dame and many other French churches on a trip in 1855. Later in his life Morris founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (which still exists) as a response to the poorly considered renovatio...

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