palm of the mind

what is that sound now? what is the wind doing?

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

congratulations on your 1-dimenisional thinking.

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

this is actually never a question, excluding price - always

[kristina v. saint @kristinatastic]

amazon, $1.25 mcmaster-carr, $0.76

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

@zapovednix We might cross prof paths, or at least we should

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Scenes from the nerve centers of yore

[Kat ♱ @albertcamslut]

Havent streamed Severance yet but the stills ive seen from it remind me a lot of Lars Tunbjörk’s Alien at the Office, a collection of photos dedicated to exploring the surreal nature of corporate environment & the sorrow that lingers in those cubicles even after the workers leave

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

I’ve said this my entire life, and I will continue to

[Devin 🌱 Thomas O'Shea @devintoshea]

it's that time of year

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

Note 2 self: connect to - JE Smith, Virillo, E Baker, M Gandy, P Belanger, N Smith, Jameson, HJ Buck, K Arsenault, S Stoll, M Davis, S Mattern. Quality of work as quality of workING and disregard for repair over (un)making, as late cap meth. of wrld/myth mkin

[RiscV @MKVRiscy]

The belief that software engineers are uniquely intelligent has done unimaginable damage on society

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

Communication & narrative studies… it’s your time to shine

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

I wrote about this idea pretty extensively in yesterday's newsletter - in the age of speculation, narrative production is far more important than real production

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

@in_a_dry_season have you read Fire By Design?

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Metabolic and processual over typology and designation

[Jason W. Moore @oikeios]

@BueRubner To be clear, my comments is about necessary steps. Necessary, not sufficient. Marx and Engels were absolutely emphatic on this: our point of departure is not Man and Nature but the labor-metabolism as a class dynamic, among other implications.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

It is unfortunately insane how much of the modern world is build upon technological desperation of WWII. You trace it back, it's all war. Everything is fucking war. Your weather forecasts are war. Your material science is war. It's all people dying, repurposed in a grace period.

[Brian Turner @briankturner101]

1/ A thread about James C. Scott and rivers.

It seems (?) Scott had been preparing another polymath magnum opus about rivers over the last 20 years, in addition to research on Burma.

I hope he left enough notes and drafts that his protégés & students can write something up.

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

This is how W40K hab units and hives are designed fyi lol

[Will Jennings  @willjennings80]

Soon we won't need architecture students to spend seven years deeply considering ethics, site, theory, context, poetics, material etc etc. We will just have an AI app.

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

Kudzu discourse has been taking all sorts of twists and turns as of late

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Seed power.

[Yurok Tribe @TheYurokTribe]

The Klamath River is experiencing an amazing transformation. The remaining 3 of 4 dams are coming down. This winter, Yurok crews hand planted 8.5 tons of native seeds in the former reservoirs. Now, an array of locally adapted wildflowers & grasses cover much of the clay soil.

[Zach Coelius @zachcoelius]

Imagine if we let the smartest of silicon valley build housing as freely as they are allowed to build software.

The creativity and innovation that would be unleashed would create the most fascinating city in the world.

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

@alexnpress have you read Nicole Starosielski? see The Undersea Network in particular

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The rise and fall of California's ghost lake, Tulare Lake.

Tulare Lake grew to nearly the size of Lake Tahoe last spring due to massive storms and a record California snowpack before disappearing again this winter.

Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes before vanishing 130 years ago due to the draining of the lake for agriculture and human water use.

[Oedipa Maas @bridgietherease]

one of the all-time saddest things I have ever read

[palm of the mind @awprindle]

what if AGI is a stillborn?