Barrett

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brain: hey let's go run around the house and plant a garden and climb all the trees.

body: have ... have you not been reading my maintenance reports?

A tool for tracking, and avoiding, IRL #enshittification : https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/
The Brand Ledger | Worse on Purpose

Tracking brands across tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.

The Brand Ledger
I’ve been thinking for a while about how sci-fi serves a predictive function, allowing us to “war game” scenarios and response options. The Extrapolated Futures Archive puts some data to that idea and has built a searchable interface for finding fictional precedents for scenarios: https://urubos.github.io/efa-site/index.html #NeatDataTools
Extrapolated Futures Archive

After reading the linked article here, I’ve purchased the book “Mini-Forest Revolution “ which supposedly provides a primer on how to actually grow a forest following these principles. I’m aware of research casting doubt on some of the claims, but my main interest is plant density for sound insulation and privacy and this approach seems to accomplish that. We’ll see. https://kottke.org/26/05/0048869-pocket-forests #miyawakiforests
How the West Could Turn a Trickle of Water Into an Endless Supply

David Byrne learns how to recycle water — and why surprising places like Las Vegas and Orange County are perfecting this complicated process.

Reasons to be Cheerful
Is agentic coding the future of software development?
yes
17.1%
no
82.9%
Poll ended at .

While we celebrate The Onion's brilliant InfoWars takeover, let us also remember that the Sandy Hook families have yet to receive a dime from Alex Jones.

#AlexJones #SandyHook #PayUp #Deadbeat #Infowars #USPol

Also …
The earth has an important message for us
Gratuitous #kitten yawn for #Caturday