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  1. Just read the first chapter of Ursula Franklin’s Massey Lectures ( https://monoskop.org./5/58/Franklin_Ursula_The_Real_World_of_Technology_1990.pdf) because it was recommended by @Mer__edith in this old Politico interview ( https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/12/01/5-questions-for-meredith-whittaker-00129677) and it’s excellent.

    Ordered a paperback ( https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-real-world-of-technology-ursula-franklin/9995479?ean=9780887846366&next=t&next=t ) to finish the rest.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 22, 2025 - 4:31 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/22/114048493762167815/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/22/114048493762167815/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. On my bullshit—in Denver—not nearly my first time here, just visiting friends for the weekend and had a kid-nap-time time to wander.

    p nice!

    a map of downtown Denver, centering the central business district, with the word Denver in bold in the bottom right, and a purple line trailing along a river south-east and back about 6 miles along the river
    Figure 1. a map of downtown Denver, centering the central business district, with the word Denver in bold in the bottom right, and a purple line trailing along a river south-east and back about 6 miles along the river.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 16, 2025 - 10:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/16/114015962669872433/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/16/114015962669872433/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Content warning: sf politics

    “Blah, blah blah. But, blah blah, blah.” — a billionaire.

    https://sfba.social/@MLNow/113985615783033480

    Mission Local (@MLNow@sfba.social)Sunday’s S.F. police chase crash is exactly what Prop. E opponents feared  The suspects were exactly the kind for which Prop. E was intended. And the crash was exactly the calamity Prop. E's detractors feared. https://missionlocal.org/2025/02/sf-police-chase-car-crash-prop-e/SFBA.social
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 11, 2025 - 2:43 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/11/113985780919571936/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/11/113985780919571936/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Content warning: that good good political crit of the “ya’ll wanna see a dead” body genre, which is of course “not for everybody” and about topics “best avoided” and which I explicitly try to not post and why i’m not on bluesky or whatever else gets everyone’s attention because i’ll just inevitably stare into this abyss all the time there with tiny brain worms (which is not to say that people there have brain worms but that I would)

    This was good: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pamela-paul-goodbye-to-the-new-york-times-opinion-columnist.html

    Good-bye, Pamela PaulThe contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.Intelligencer
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pamela-paul-goodbye-to-the-new-york-times-opinion-columnist.html, "Good-bye, Pamela Paul".

    this was good: https://defector.com/billionaire-dipshit-and-his-strike-team-of-greasy-beavises-are-stripping-the-wires-from-the-federal-government

    Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | DefectorThe most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields chewing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care. Every bit of damage they have done and will do springs from and follows this fundamental fact. They don’t know anything about what they’re…defector.com
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://defector.com/billionaire-dipshit-and-his-strike-team-of-greasy-beavises-are-stripping-the-wires-from-the-federal-government, "Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector".
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 08, 2025 - 2:28 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/08/113965906342226893/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/08/113965906342226893/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. 😮😮🙂‍↔️

    our third orchid bloom finally got some sun and opened up but it’s facing the wrong way, this is a photo of the two facing right out into the room looking pretty while the smaller third one is facing mostly to the right and away in the distance
    Figure 1. our third orchid bloom finally got some sun and opened up but it’s facing the wrong way, this is a photo of the two facing right out into the room looking pretty while the smaller third one is facing mostly to the right and away in the distance.
    a photo of the reverse side of the previous one, the new bloom is facing down and to the right in profile, the two bigger older siblings are up and to the left in side-view, behind are a red/green prayer plant, a very healthy fiddle plant, and in the distance, a wall of books
    Figure 2. a photo of the reverse side of the previous one, the new bloom is facing down and to the right in profile, the two bigger older siblings are up and to the left in side-view, behind are a red/green prayer plant, a very healthy fiddle plant, and in the distance, a wall of books.
    a grab of the final two drawings on the final line of the “calvin’s dad tries to get calvin to sit for a portrait in a dress shirt and tie with his hair combed” - on the left is the last picture, where calvin has turned away from the camera just before the shutter was pressed, on the right cavlin’s parents are looking at the photosDad: “WE CANT SENDTHESE IN OURCHRISTMASCARDS. PEOPLEWILL THINK IT'SSACRILEGIOUS.”Mom: “WELL, THESEDO LOOKLIKE CALVIN.. EXCEPTFOR THECOMBEDHAIR.”
    Figure 3. a grab of the final two drawings on the final line of the “calvin’s dad tries to get calvin to sit for a portrait in a dress shirt and tie with his hair combed” - on the left is the last picture, where calvin has turned away from the camera just before the shutter was pressed, on the right cavlin’s parents are looking at the photosDad: “WE CANT SENDTHESE IN OURCHRISTMASCARDS. PEOPLEWILL THINK IT'SSACRILEGIOUS.”Mom: “WELL, THESEDO LOOKLIKE CALVIN.. EXCEPTFOR THECOMBEDHAIR.”
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 07, 2025 - 3:15 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/07/113963260962584963/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/07/113963260962584963/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. “whatya mean, I’m not turning on reactions?”

    screen grab from the opening interview scene in Blade Runner between Holden and Leon before Leon shots a hole in Holden’s stomach with a laser, Leon is sitting in a chair staring at Holden
    Figure 1. screen grab from the opening interview scene in Blade Runner between Holden and Leon before Leon shots a hole in Holden’s stomach with a laser, Leon is sitting in a chair staring at Holden.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon February 04, 2025 - 6:10 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/02/04/113946960114656915/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/02/04/113946960114656915/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Gonna call this variety of slop post-labor-impressionism

    a screenshot of an ad for some financial advice posts or grifts (is there a difference) of a bull with three horns and a bears face and weird feet growling or something with a weird tongue at a bear that is down on one elbow or something, on wall street in new york, I suppose, idk, nonsense neoclassical and NY looking stuff behind it, rendered with photographic realism but obviously AI nonsense
    Figure 1. a screenshot of an ad for some financial advice posts or grifts (is there a difference) of a bull with three horns and a bears face and weird feet growling or something with a weird tongue at a bear that is down on one elbow or something, on wall street in new york, I suppose, idk, nonsense neoclassical and NY looking stuff behind it, rendered with photographic realism but obviously AI nonsense.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon January 30, 2025 - 5:29 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/01/30/113918485532112327/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/01/30/113918485532112327/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. 😮😮

    photograph of the orchid that bloomed a week ago. it now has a bloomed companion, and the last bud week probably join this pair in a few days
    Figure 1. photograph of the orchid that bloomed a week ago. it now has a bloomed companion, and the last bud week probably join this pair in a few days.
    macro of the interior of the new orchid flower with yellow and pink highlights
    Figure 2. macro of the interior of the new orchid flower with yellow and pink highlights.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon January 29, 2025 - 1:23 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/01/29/113909027409720109/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/01/29/113909027409720109/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Aesop’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf And Was Told By The Farmers On The Embankment, Oh, You’re Surprised There’s A Wolf? You’re Tending Sheep, Didn’t You Read that Article In The Atlantic Last Year About This? Here Is A Link It Will Only Take You Fifteen Minutes To Read Oh By The Way It Looks Like The Wolf Ate Your Whole Flock, That Is Really Unfortunate And We Sure Do Hate It.”

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon January 28, 2025 - 4:38 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/01/28/113906962388612814/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/01/28/113906962388612814/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Making chilean sea bass and dry fried green beans and right off the bat the book I’m using ( http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books/the-food-of-sichuan/) for the beans cops that while you could dry fry them, most people deep fry them, and for another thing, you can also just bake them and then stir fry them, which is what I’m doing because I’m feeling p lazy this evening

    The Food of Sichuan | Fuchsia DunlopA fully revised and updated edition of Fuchsia Dunlop's landmark book on Sichuan cookery. Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book Award 2020 Shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers International Cookbook Award 2020 Shortlisted for the James Beard International Cookbook Award 2020 New York Times "Holiday Books 2019―Cooking" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "Best Cookbooks and Food Writing of 2019" • Condé Nast Traveler "Best Travel Cookbooks 2019" • Chowhound "Best New International Cookbooks for Fall 2019" Buy on Amazon US/ Buy on Amazon UK Almost twenty years after the publication of Sichuan Cookery, voted by the OFM as one of the greatest cookbooks of all time, Fuchsia Dunlop revisits the region where her own culinary journey began, adding more than 50 new recipes to the original repertoire and accompanying them with her incomparable knowledge of the dazzling tastes, textures and sensations of Sichuanese cookery. At home, guided by Fuchsia's clear instructions, and using just a few key Sichuanese storecupboard ingredients, you will be able to recreate Sichuanese classics such as Mapo tofu, Twice-cooked pork and Gong Bao chicken, or try your hand at a traditional spread of cold dishes comprising Bang bang chicken, Numbing-and-hot dried beef, Spiced cucumber salad and Green beans in ginger sauce. With spellbinding writing on the culinary and cultural history of Sichuan and accompanied by gorgeous travel and food photography, The Food of Sichuan is a captivating insight into one of the world's greatest cuisines. PRAISE FOR THE FOOD OF SICHUAN 'Cookbook of the year' ― Allan Jenkins, OFM 'No one explains the intricacies of Sichuan food like Fuchsia Dunlop. This book remains my bible for the subject' ― Jay Rayner 'This book offers an unmissable opportunity to utilise the wok and cleaver, brave the fiery Mapo tofu and expand your technique with pot-stickers and steamed buns' ― Yotam Ottolenghi 'I've been cooking and studying recipes for 20 years, but I could spend the next 10 with Fuchsia Dunlop's The Food of Sichuan…This book reminded me of how little I know and made me thankful that experts still exist.' ― Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit 'Fuchsia Dunlop, unquestionably the foremost authority on Sichuan cookery, brings her unmatched knowledge of every aspect of the cuisine to this magnificent volume.'― Grace Young, author of Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge and The Breath of a Wok 'Both poetic and practical, this book offers something to both novices and connoisseurs of Sichuanese food, with recipes for the ubiquitous mapo tofu sitting alongside lesser-known dishes like 'phoenix tails' (tender tufted lettuce leaves) in sesame sauce. It is, in a word, phenomenal.' ― Jenny Zhang, Eater 'A valuable resource for sparking new inspiration and excitement surrounding Sichuan food.'― ― Danny Bowien, chef and cofounder of Mission Chinese Food 'Dunlop shares with her readers not merely recipes, but essays and instructive tables delineating the 23 flavors and 56 cooking methods of Sichuan.' ― Mark Knoblauch, Booklist 'With the original still considered one of the best sources on Sichuan cooking, this new edition is a must-have for anyone interested in authentic Chinese cuisine.'― Devon Thomas, Library Journalfuchsiadunlop.com
    Figure 1. Link preview of http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books/the-food-of-sichuan/, "The Food of Sichuan | Fuchsia Dunlop".

    (not knocking the book, it’s a sign of a good recipe imo when there’s more than one way to do a thing instead of trying to elevate technique over outcomes)

    the beans were good!

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon January 27, 2025 - 2:27 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/01/27/113897953813835947/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/01/27/113897953813835947/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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