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A knowledge worker for the crafts living in Narrm, Melbourne, Australia. https://kdsm.pub/
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I've found interesting research about the damage screens can do to the growing brain: pca.st/episode/66b8... It shows how important the experience of physical manipulation is for cognitive development. It gives more weight to the argument for a "right to craft".

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"All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated elite. This is like a civil war in a fancy prep school in which the sleazy kids are going after the pretentious kids." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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I have read Musa Al-Gharbi's "We Have Never Been Woke." It makes me ask, what is it that we symbolic capitalists are good for? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPuT...

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Richard Powers' Playground is filled with magical thinking, involving both nature and technology. It is a surprisingly anthropocentric narrative for such a supposedly environmentally minded author.

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It's worth remembering the extraordinary story of Soviet seed custodians. Now, it seems that Russia only knows how to destroy. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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