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Read the full post at - This Land: A Guide to Western National Forests by Robert Mohlenbrock Lands of the Western National Forests by Robert Mullenbach is a directory-style reference book covering the national forests west of the...
Resilience.
This month saw 98,917 votes cast in 43 local authority contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. 19 council seats changed hands. For comparison with May's results, see here. Party Number of Candidates...
“After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries… to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob...
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amounts to an infinite library of background music was fixing the wrong constraint. And...
1963 – Bill (Ramblin' Man) Foster Oh, Anna Lee! / Two Broken Hearts Virgelle 717 1966 – Jefferson (Ramblin' Man) County Organised Confusion / City Billy (both wr. Bill Foster (Jeff County) Dee Gee 3016 Prod. Julian Portman Bill Foster...
‘Olievans’ made a virtual Criterion closet that you can gaze around in 3D and pull out each case for inspection (or get a link to the Criterion Channel, if applicable). Love this. We also spent an hour watching Closet Picks on YouTube...
Jesus Christ it’s hot. Man alive it’s so fucking hot. It’s hard to add too much more than that, to be honest. We’re at about 32 degrees as the high for today, after the last 2 days also being above 30. It’s June! Not even the hot months....
Claude Fable 5 was in public hands for about three days before Anthropic took it back. Nothing was wrong with the model. The block came from a US demand Anthropic couldn’t meet: keep non-US nationals away from it, including the ones...
Police court summons and photo, Nov 1911 Photo credit: Leeds Museums & Galleries Leonora Throp Cohen (1873–1978) was born in Leeds to Canova & Jane Throp. Her father was a stone carver but died in 1879 when Leonora was only 5, after he...
The annual half-price summer sale at Barnes & Noble is now underway!This year's sale will last until July 26th.I've noticed that Amazon also has numerous Criterion titles currently on sale.This year's classic-era Criterion releases...
Four paintings each 7"x5"
I don't follow a lot of the trends and thoughts of the larger information technology culture cum economy. (A deliberate construction that harkens back to Doc's pernicious aphorism that, "Markets are conversations." Culture being a social...
The Dragon, hated and hateful thing that it is, occupies a place of power in the mind; it is the ultimate adversary, a challenge which dynasties have proven or ended themselves against. Some would seek to become like them, to consume the...
Last month, my friend Gordon White set sail for the Undying Lands. Yesterday was his birthday. I spent it thinking about him, writing this, and remembering him. A Recent DreamThe Cringey WizardThe Visitor at the FarmSmall ApocalypsesNews...