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My first post on Mastodon, as well as my first day in the Fediverse and a new start away from the bin-fire that is Faceb00k. -
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said.I could even be argued that all of our current tech is, in one form or another, based on textiles. See the discussion in the attatched vid. The referenced book is interesting, too.
In the book, the author actually references "simple" string bags as being a seminal innovation. (& also a lot more labor intensive than you'd think.)
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said.I'm trying to stay off YouTube today bc #GeneralStrike, so let's see if I can get this to embed properly:
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said.Oh, who the heck is it I saw recently—oh, right: Virginia Postrel's The Fabric of Civilization
Riffing on Clarke's famous dictum: "Any sufficiently common technology is indistinguishable from nature."
Brought to you in a roundabout way by (grossly oversimplified) Hank Green stepping in it wrt knitting on a podcast. Marvelous conversation here:
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One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, a... -
One of the many, many, many horrible things about what ICE is doing is that now any group of white men in tactical gear with an SUV can attack, beat up, and kidnap any random person — and nobody will stop them, because who knows, they •might• be ICE, a...Okay, now that's just mean
But I'm also remembering the phase of the NoDAPL protests where the fash turned firehoses on the protesters in the dead of Dakota winter and...maaaaybe that's not a tactic we want to remind them of.