Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

September 3, 2023

...‘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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Digital Götterdämmerung

Mr. Homegrown

August 12, 2019

Domesticus, Reviews, Thoughtstylings, Tidying up

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...of his book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Amazon, library) is the suggestion to take a one month break from addictive apps, websites and other digital media. Use that time to figure out some life goals. At the end of the month carefully add back the digital tools you find useful. I just started the one month digital fast and, already, I feel like I’m regaining a long lost pre-internet memory of when I used to read...

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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...chael Pollan (@michaelpollan) May 10, 2018 Inside The Ecosystem That Fuels Amazon’s Fake Review Problem https://t.co/wepfnXO8iq via @itsnicolenguyen — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 11, 2018 They paved paradise, put up a parking lot and here’s how we can take it back: https://t.co/Qolk4BE0zh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 7, 2018 10 herbs you probably haven’t heard of but should grow | Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V...

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Saturday Tweets: Return of the Oakland Monster

Mr. Homegrown

July 27, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...rescued https://t.co/VLm2jka943 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 25, 2019 Amazon has been partnering with police departments around the country for months to offer discounted or free Ring camera doorbells to residents, helping to build a street-level surveillance infrastructure that’s powered by consumer volunteers. My latest https://t.co/yyWoL5962r — april glaser (@aprilaser) July 19, 2019 Rising heat (& hint of monsoonal moisture) as Desert SW...

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On Moon Bases, Free Parking and One Hell of a Grim Swedish Science Fiction Movie

Mr. Homegrown

June 14, 2019

Transportation

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...ecent Swedish movie Aniara, based on an epic poem, which you can watch via Amazon. Let me warn you that this film, despite the lack of gore, is definitely not for kids or for a cozy date night. While I’m not a fan of the film’s nihilism and dismissal of the numinous it does an excellent job of parodying the political impasse we’re currently living in (the spaceship in the film is nothing more than a bland shopping mall lead by leaders who everyone...

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