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@JohnBrady I figured it would be you if it was anyone! That’s great. It must have been interesting… that was just before I started paying attention to the kinds of things that might have let me know about it. The current Plain magazine is an architectural/design rag (!) but I managed to find a specific issue reference via Amazon and may be able to hunt down a copy. As I’m finding requests for the magazine on obscure forums I have a feeling it was never digitized.

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I did find an article from Utne Reader, whose author would up charmed and converted but began with this description, which you can confirm or deny:

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>My God, what an unruly collection of beards! Ratty Quest for Fire beards, free-flowing Deadhead beards, tousled Walt Whitman beards, kooky Kaczynski beards, hipster goatees circa San Francisco 1958, and dozens of untrimmed, Quaker “peace” beards affected by the most studiously “plain” folk in the crowd. Also, everyone–from the punk who was so pierced he seemed perforated to the serenely bonneted Quaker women–was wearing those little round John Lennon glasses, not to mention a depressingly practical assortment of hike-the-Appalachian-Trail-and-construct-a-cow-barn-in-your-spare-time shoes…. I had seen neo-Luddite utopia, and it was sensibly shod, nearsighted, and hirsute.

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Shot in the dark: Does anybody have a copy of the Statement of Means written at the Second Luddites Congress in 1996? Or know where I can find one? I have found all sorts of writing about the event but only brief quotations from the document.

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(Obviously the idea of looking for it on the internet is absurd,...

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@annahavron Now I did not know that was where the name “Bushong” came from. We had a family of Bushongs where I grew up in Pennsylvania. Makes sense though.

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@ReaderJohn Oh, I love that one, actually. Simple, clear, usable. They’re not wasting their (your) money and time on flash. My only complaint is that if they’re going to be early-web classic, they should use the purple for visited links, because that color choice made me think something was wrong.

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@jabel Interesting. I’m going to have to try some of their tomato seeds next year (assuming I get my crap together early enough to grow from seeds, which I haven’t the past couple of years). I also like Baker Creek Rare Seeds… I recommend the big catalog just for January reading.

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@annahavron “Shoppe” is so 1950s retro-fancy I’d expect it to be down-market. Exactly the sort of place to serve scrapple. Just as long as nobody gets turf toe tripping on that plastic grass!

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@ffmike I will not be joining them, in case anyone was wondering.

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Seen from afterward the time appears to have been
\n all of a piece which of course it was but how seldom
\nit seemed that way when it was still happening

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—W. S. Merwin

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@wcaleb “Not so bad that I need to stand here talking to a coffee pot”?

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@jaheppler Excellent.

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@jaheppler Wonderful! What’s its first job?

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@tinyroofnail oh, yes—a wonderful book!

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Yesterday seemed like another day of drought-clouds that promised without delivering, but near midnight thunder rolled and a quick storm brought half an inch of rain, after an inch this weekend. It’s a long way back to normal, but hopefully we’re making a start.

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@jabel lovely.

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@ffmike He looks like if he heard you calling him cute he would kick your ass.

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@ablerism Congratulations!

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@jabel …as you should be.

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@JohnBrady Don’t know what it served you, but the ad in the sidebar when I clicked the link is for “collaborative AI for lawyers.” Of course.

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Is it too early to start printing “No More Mr. NICE Guy” t-shirts?

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@tinyroofnail I really used to want an Alfa Romeo Spider. But I gather people spent a lot of time begging them to go, too, only for different reasons.

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@isaacgreene It must really suck to break that mark and lose. OTOH I suspect they only broke it because they were pushing each other.

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@JimRain This reminds me that during COVID the American Shakespeare Center, having already prepared stagings of three of shakespeare’s plays, made video performances available for streaming for donations, and in Henry IV Part I Prince Hal wore a t-shirt that read “Hotspur Sucketh.” Not really relevant to your post, I’m afraid.

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@ablerism Happy birthday from someone who can, in fact, barely make that out without his glasses. :)

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I remembered this week that one need not bother with shaker and cocktail glass to enjoy a martini: a rocks glass and a few ice cubes will do, granted the proper gin and a good vermouth. It may not, all things considered, be a good thing that I remembered this, but for the time being I’m enjoying it.

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@aemiliana We really do need rain.

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Spring here is not spring as we know it: the cool, wet promise of snowmelt and frozen ground yielding into mud. Here, a sudden heat falls out of the sky one day, and one breathes and moves as if deposited inside a kettle of soup. In response, vegetation shoots out of the ground with irresistible force. Just when the body wishes to slow down and give way to lassitude, it must instead accelerate, for the challenge is to keep human labor on a pace with the work of Nature, or else by overrun by the excesses of her abundance.

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—Geraldine Brooks, in March. About as good a description of a Southern spring...

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@todd @jabel Wasn’t familiar with that one, checked out the website. “Grow your own dishrags” sounds like a satire of homesteading magazines but it is not, of course. For me the best thing about magazines like that is being reminded that there are people out there way more hardcore and crazy than I’ll ever be, which is kind of empowering.

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@jabel Whenever people go on about how much “we” have learned or accomplished, e.g. after the Artemis mission (never mind their using the first person is more or less like my referring to the Philadelphia Eagles as “we” when they won the Super Bowl) I am apt to think how much we (and now I do mean we) have forgotten.

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@isaacgreene Congratulations!

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(“Compensation adjustment.” Good lord)

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@tinyroofnail Back at you if you come to North Carolina

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@jabel I’m afraid I feel the same way as @JohnBrady. I would find it annoying to get a postcard with a QR code. There was a time when I’d have appreciated your putting one on the beer label but now I just see them as a symbol of digital-tech tyranny. But it is widely known that I Am No Fun.

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L. M. Sacasas:

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Discussions around the human in relation to technology, specifically AI, parallel older debates about science and religion. In that discursive context, there was a form of argument known as “God of the gaps.” The idea was that God was simply a name for the gaps in our scientific understanding of the world. Of course, once those gaps were filled, God would be effectively squeezed out of the metaphysical picture. Similarly, we are operating with a “human of the gaps” model when we try to locate the essence of the human creature by pointing to what cannot yet be accomplished by a machine,...

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Salad days

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Came home this afternoon to find the local five-foot black rat snake (whom I call Ermengarde) sunning herself on the front steps digesting a chipmunk-sized bulge. I always like seeing Ermengarde, but she is less excited to see me, so we kept it brief. (Maybe you’ve had relationships like that.)

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All right, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s a go at some butterflies.

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Matthew Walther:

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“Blasphemy” is not a phrase we are used to seeing in print these days even in magazines like this one. When it does appear, it is usually in a non-literal sense, meaning something like “insouciance.” But blasphemy is not a mere casual lack of concern for sacred things; it is their willful profanation.

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If the image posted on Trump’s TruthSocial account on Sunday evening… is not blasphemous, the word has no meaning.

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Walther’s rare hot takes always manage to be both cogent essays and barn-burners, but I’m going to push back, gently, and say that if one accepts his definition of...

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Man. Now lay we mortal flesh upon the fire,
\nAnd, raising toothsome searings to our nostrils,
\nBring us pleasure.
\n       Dog. My jowls are all a-water!
\nMan. Sit thee on thy haunches, knave, and wait!
\nSweet morsels will I grant a trusty servant.

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Currently reading: the new Library of America volume of John McPhee books (early evenings); a paperback P. G. Wodehouse collection I picked up this week at a used bookstore (on the nightstand); and David Kline’s The Round of a Country Year (a little at a time, in the morning).

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Field madder, another tiny flower I’d never noticed before—or mistook for bluets from walking eye level. Apparently native to Europe, North Africa, and West and Central Asia, but naturalized here. (“Here” very specifically being along the edge of a mini-park.)

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Ground ivy, which I had never noticed before. (I would say “never seen” but that probably isn’t true.) Lovely flowers that my phone refused to focus on even in macro mode, but you get the idea.

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Ten reasons not to use a tool

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Mary Harrington on scrolling as the return of Charles Taylor’s unbuffered self:

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[W]e should also pause for a moment on how post-print selves are now formed, in practice. Specifically: as selves are growing less buffered, many are embracing this new state of affairs with remarkably little discrimination on how external influences may contribute to the formation of mental habits…. [A]nyone who simply absorbs whatever the scroll throws up, without discernment, will end up being formed by discourses often optimised less for truth, or wisdom, or human flourishing, than for maximum immediacy in playing on...

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Finished reading: The Matter with Things Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist 📚

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Those who have said that this is one of the most important books of the past (n) years are not exaggerating.

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I didn’t do it, but I’m filing the idea away in case I ever turn to a life of crime.

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To make scrapple at home: social.davidwalbert.com

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An update on the cowbird situation

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If you’re looking for some music to welcome in the new year, may I suggest\n“Spring” from Ailbhe McDonagh’s Irish Seasons? I love the whole work, but that’s (obviously) the place to start.

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Six carved panels in a reclaimed window — a work for spring, that also represents the Annunciation. (More birds singing Bach. My birds always sing Bach.)

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You’re going to get AI whether you like it or not, because that’s where the money is.

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