Saturday Tweets: Bad Data and Cats

January 12, 2019

...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

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2019

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

Mr. Homegrown

March 1, 2019

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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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Tweets!

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...you didn’t have to drive, park, fuel, or insure? No, it’s not an Uber or a self-driving car… it’s the bus! Our latest episode, “Making the Bus Sexy Again,” is here. https://t.co/Qn6WT81cQU pic.twitter.com/xxdXriepKI — The War on Cars (@TheWarOnCars) March 7, 2019 I quit as a math teacher in the public schools in America when I realized I had to choose between doing the BS to prove I was doing my job, or actually doing my job. Complying with the BS...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Links

Mr. Homegrown

April 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ther reforms. Because capitalism produces an inequality that perpetuates itself, we need system change. https://t.co/y3EoSav8Ql — Richard D. Wolff (@profwolff) April 16, 2019 Temple Street is down to one lane in each direction this morning — how is it working? Watch & find out! ⁦@MitchOFarrell⁩ ⁦@LosAngelesWalks⁩ ⁦@lacbc⁩ ⁦@StreetsblogLA⁩ ⁦@awalkerinLA⁩ ⁦@bikethevote⁩ ⁦@LADOTBikeProg⁩ ⁦@VisionZeroLA⁩ pic.twitter.com/RgzQd0eJsr — Marc (@mcas_LA) Ap...

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