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Saturday Tweets: Hello 2019

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...3d1 — World of Succulents (@SucculentWorld) January 2, 2019 Unsurprisingly self-driving cars are not as easy to make as boosters said 2 years ago. Also, looks like they’ll be used to automate and deskill the heavily unionized transportation sector: https://t.co/cCYUu2POXy v — david a banks (@DA_Banks) January 5, 2019 Happy National Bird Day. Starling murmurations function through chaos theory and critical mass mathematics, but they also wander int...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

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Gardening
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...n as if it were nothing at all. In tilling the soil many a child “found himself.” In one school there was an Italian boy who just naturally could not help fighting. Though punished, he had a fight almost daily. All of a sudden he got interested in the work in agriculture and asked for a garden of his own. All the good land having been apportioned he was given part of a dump heap in a mean corner of a vacant lot just being put under cultivation. Af...

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Saturday Tweets: Bad Data and Cats

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...maybe access to spare parts. Maybe we'll also decide that designed obsolescence is unethical too. #ClimateBreakdown#ExistentialThreat#breathehttps://t.co/OmMdYeeeDP — Tom Butler (@TheTomButler) January 9, 2019 Self-driving Tesla knocks over autonomous robot https://t.co/ergHYw4Czn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 9, 2019 pic.twitter.com/W7Ct498939 — raskolnikov did nothing wrong (@hannahgais) January 9, 2019...

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Cybernetics: A Fatal Flaw

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Thoughtstylings
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...ed work: cooking, child care, and washing. A founding member who called himself Lord Byron presided over the group and reserved the right to have sex with any woman in the commune . . . “There was constantly a background of fear in the house–like a virus running in the background. Like spyware. You know it’s there, but you don’t know how to get rid of it.” Levine contends that this type of “cybernetic utopia gone bad,” birthed in the idealistic pa...

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February 2019 Garden Update

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Gardening
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...g the fence line. If I could step into a time machine and advise my former self, back in 1998, about what to do with our yard I would say this: Be bold. Remove any trees that are in the wrong place, too big or just plain ugly. Then plant trees that either feed native wildlife (such as oak) or provide fruit. Think carefully about their placement. Do all hardscaping first and build it out of durable materials. Those retaining walls that failed in th...

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