Saturday Linkages on Sunday: With Cat Hugs

February 9, 2020

...What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society Vienna’s Cultural Approach to Going Car-Free Cat snoring through an echo microphone of the day. pic.twitter.com/Rkic9X0u6k — Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) February 6, 2020...

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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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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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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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Thinking Local

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...both partners must work means that we have less time to gather in the evening. But these are not a reasons to live lives of lonely desperation playing video games and waiting for the next Amazon package to arrive. If we’re to get out of the mess we’re in here in Silver Lake and everywhere else in the world it’s going to be a team effort....

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