Saturday Tweets: Taking Back the Wheel

September 8, 2018

Taking Back the Wheel https://t.co/zjRXht0UUP via @DissentMag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 7, 2018 An increasingly powerful and influential social group is hard-coding its biases into the software running our societies. https://t.co/mbl8kgbTQe — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) September 6, 2018 New Video and Map Reveal L.A. Streetcar Transit History https://t.co/KALI187GtI via @StreetsblogLA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 8, 20...

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Saturday Tweets: Low Hanging Fruit

Mr. Homegrown

September 15, 2018

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Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks https://t.co/CMU0nQ37Ig via @motherboard — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 15, 2018 Should we consider using plants from warmer, more southern climates to help us deal with climate change (assisted migration)? This one study says perhaps not. Resiliency will require us thinking about the full complexity of adaptive plant systems.https://t.co/bcpmRMcTC9 pic.twitter.com/nkbHs2XmRi — Thoma...

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Saturday Tweets: Neuro-Talk, Bitcoin and Other Modern Problems

Mr. Homegrown

September 22, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...com/W2AyBucTRU — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) September 18, 2018 Methodist Urbanism: Ocean Grove https://t.co/Pqbp0HRNQk via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2018 On the Dissing of “Ornamental Plants” https://t.co/3iLS4cd9cq via @Garden Rant — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2018 From the Head https://t.co/7ZRVQuVfbh via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2018 To make a coiled basket of plasti...

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Saturday Linkages: Dig that Passive Solar Birdbath!

Mr. Homegrown

January 4, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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Passive solar birdbath. Image: Builditsolar.com Passive solar birdbath: http://tinyurl.com/kbalf7x A Veteran Gets Criminal Treatment and Censored over Chickens http://tinyurl.com/lenrx9m Termite Ventilation – Natural Airconditioning http://feedly.com/e/2Zrz8bkc Rhone Street Gardens: 2013…Looking Back http://www.rhonestreetgardens.com/2013/12/2013looking-back.html One-minute doc on a man’s love for thrifted sweaters – http://boingboing.net/2013/12...

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Saturday Tweets: Bad Data and Cats

Mr. Homegrown

January 12, 2019

Saturday Linkages

According to technocratic fantasies, data will soon make politics irrelevant, and those who refuse to accept “what the data says” must be malevolent or stupid. It should come as no surprise if this view leads citizens to discredit data-talk entirely.https://t.co/hTpNeEWA86 — The New Atlantis (@tnajournal) January 11, 2019 The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End https://t.co/Gtj1LMbRQ9 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 13, 2019 "We can...

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