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Not another plastic field!!
“If there’s a lesser-known corner of San Francisco history, chances are Chris Carlsson has peeked into it.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
“Carlsson encourages everyone to contemplate their own role in “waking up in the morning and producing this world instead of, potentially, a different world.”
Hidden San Francisco author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social’s tour of the city reviewed on KQED
www.kqed.org/arts/1398317...
I wrote and posted this a couple of months ago... still relevant obviously:
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Where are we headed? Here's some ruminations along with a number of other writer/thinkers...
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
Meme proposal: LLM’s = Large Looting Models. Since LLM’s ( so-called Large language models)facilitate mass theft and exploitation ( of knowledge, text, art, music, images, culture, genetic material, personal data etc) I propose LLM should stand for Large Looting Models . Pass it on / repost!
Starts at 6:30!
📚BOOK EVENT📚
Author @chris-carlsson.bsky.social inaugurates the 2nd edition of his unique historical guidebook to San Francisco's overlooked and forgotten histories.
🗓️Thurs, May 8
⏰7 pm
📍Medicine for Nightmares
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This went up a couple of nights ago and was already ripped down by the next morning...
What I brought to the protest yesterday...
#teslatakedown protest in San Francisco today... Lots of great homemade signs!
In the Mission a few days ago...
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Gil Duran has been doing great work at The Nerd Reich. Here's a 5-minute summary of some of it... Well worth checking out.
I wrote about your book along with Dan McQuillan's and Fressoz's Happy Apocalypse here:
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
Looking forward to saying hi in person at City Lights on January 30!
The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics newrepublic.com/article/1893... via @newrepublic.com
new blog post up at nowtopians dot com:
nowtopians.com/work-and-the...
Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
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Happy New Year!
I squeezed in a last post to my blog...thoughts on multi-species communication and intelligence among other things...
nowtopians.com/nature-and-m...
25 years ago today I was wandering through the rainy streets of Seattle with the Committee for Full Enjoyment, drumming and rushing from lockdown to lockdown to support the shutdown of the WTO. We've come a looong way since then! Sheesh!
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Totally agree Jen!
Have you read the wonderful epic novel Q by Luther Blisset? It's a page -turner on the anabaptist revolt around Munster and a secret agent of the pope chasing an "accidental" revolutionary from place to place... A great historical novel.
first moment on bluesky... not sure I'll stick around, but I just posted this to my blog:
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