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    "published": "2021-06-16T00:19:14+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/karabaic/status/1404956699148972038",
    "content": {
        "text": "#OUTERBOROUGHSRULE Next up, the Tour de Queens \u2026\n\nnytimes.com/2021/06/15/spo\u2026",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OUTERBOROUGHSRULE\">#OUTERBOROUGHSRULE</a> Next up, the Tour de Queens \u2026\n\n<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/sports/new-york-marathon-brooklyn.html?referringSource=articleShare\">nytimes.com/2021/06/15/spo\u2026</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "every day is anti-fascist struggle day",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/karabaic",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1256785873384861696/QfRzUvne.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "21327161",
    "_source": "2773"
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2021-06-16T00:18:29+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/cleverdevil/status/1404956508094308354",
    "quotation-of": "https://twitter.com/MissionCloud/status/1404874299002048515",
    "content": {
        "text": "Autumn is fantastic. Thrilled to have her guidance and partnership!"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jonathan LaCour",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/cleverdevil",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/744804831064317952/W-gMo7AO.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "refs": {
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            "type": "entry",
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            "content": {
                "text": "We are pleased to announce Mission has named veteran technology executive Autumn Vaupel to our board of directors! Vaupel brings more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry to the Mission Board and we\u2019re thrilled to have her join. hubs.ly/H0QjBgT0",
                "html": "We are pleased to announce Mission has named veteran technology executive Autumn Vaupel to our board of directors! Vaupel brings more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry to the Mission Board and we\u2019re thrilled to have her join. <a href=\"https://hubs.ly/H0QjBgT0\">hubs.ly/H0QjBgT0</a>"
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            "author": {
                "type": "card",
                "name": "Mission",
                "url": "https://twitter.com/MissionCloud",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1404955575159386113",
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        "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E39npkbUcAUV3vZ.jpg"
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    "content": {
        "text": "Getting ready to roll out to co-lead tonight\u2019s odd Tuesday outing. Chill slow 5 mile ride with a beautiful end spot for a picnic - meets at SE 20th & Belmont at 6, rides at 6:30. Dress to impress! shift2bikes.org/calendar/event\u2026",
        "html": "Getting ready to roll out to co-lead tonight\u2019s odd Tuesday outing. Chill slow 5 mile ride with a beautiful end spot for a picnic - meets at SE 20th &amp; Belmont at 6, rides at 6:30. Dress to impress! <a href=\"https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13393\">shift2bikes.org/calendar/event\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/scott_gruber/status/1404948177992749061",
    "content": {
        "text": "LA Rivers Challenge - Ride LA\u2019s Historic Waterways - Bike for Play: scottgruber.me/articles/la-ri\u2026",
        "html": "LA Rivers Challenge - Ride LA\u2019s Historic Waterways - Bike for Play: <a href=\"https://scottgruber.me/articles/la-rivers-challenge\">scottgruber.me/articles/la-ri\u2026</a>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Scott Gruber",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/scott_gruber",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1372657423245213697/zjXOERaG.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "21326606",
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{
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    "published": "2021-06-15T15:45:25-07:00",
    "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2021/06/15/12/disk",
    "syndication": [
        "https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1404933106897854465"
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    "content": {
        "text": "Note to self: don't store your magnetic LED lights on top of your hard drives \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f",
        "html": "Note to self: don't store your magnetic LED lights on top of your hard drives <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F\">\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2021-06-15T22:45:29+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1404933106897854465",
    "content": {
        "text": "Note to self: don't store your magnetic LED lights on top of your hard drives \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/aaronpk",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2021-05-21T20:34:25-07:00",
    "url": "https://boffosocko.com/2021/05/21/55791529/",
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        "text": "RSVPed Attending IndieWebCamp Popup: Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website\nJune 26, 2021 at 11:00AM - June 26, 2021 at 01:00PM\n\n\nLet's come together to discuss using our websites to host, post, share, and store sensitive data, including medical records, habit logs, personal media files, and private writing.\nWhat are the use cases for posting sensitive data on your own website? What plumbing is needed to host and share sensitive data within (and outside) the IndieWeb? What even is \"sensitive\" data, anyway?",
        "html": "<span>RSVPed</span> Attending <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2021/06/indiewebcamp-popup-sensitive-data-on-your-personal-website-DNjCEi05jHfH\" class=\"u-in-reply-to\">IndieWebCamp Popup: Sensitive Data on Your Personal Website</a><blockquote class=\"e-summary\">\n<p>June 26, 2021 at 11:00AM - June 26, 2021 at 01:00PM</p>\n<p>\n</p>\n<p>Let's come together to discuss using our websites to host, post, share, and store sensitive data, including medical records, habit logs, personal media files, and private writing.</p>\n<p>What are the use cases for posting sensitive data on your own website? What plumbing is needed to host and share sensitive data within (and outside) the IndieWeb? What even is \"sensitive\" data, anyway?</p>\n</blockquote>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Chris Aldrich",
        "url": "https://boffosocko.com/author/chrisaldrich/",
        "photo": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5fb4e498fe609cc29b04e5b7ad688c4?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg"
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    "_id": "21324291",
    "_source": "2785"
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    "published": "2021-06-15T21:24:26+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite/status/1404912710702100481",
    "quotation-of": "https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1404345831529009154",
    "content": {
        "text": "\ud83e\udd41"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jared White",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1349070767032438784/Pns0N1s_.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
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        "https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1404345831529009154": {
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            "url": "https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1404345831529009154",
            "content": {
                "text": "The G7 summit should be followed by a C major summit to resolve everything."
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            "author": {
                "type": "card",
                "name": "Martin Kleppmann",
                "url": "https://twitter.com/martinkl",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1404875876215377923",
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    "content": {
        "text": "Haven\u2019t seen one of these in awhile\ud83d\udd7a\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udca5"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
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        "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/aaronparecki.com/2237976286ac6e6cfd7686103b3bad239a0cbe1fe3aa2f272bbd5349efd1766b.jpg"
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        "https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJrkJqB1Oc"
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        "text": "What camera would you use with this setup? \ud83d\udcf8 \n\nMy new PK1 stand to attach the @elgato Stream Deck is now available worldwide! \n\nThis stand attaches to the side of the PK1 stand for the ATEM Mini or Extreme and brings the buttons of the Stream Deck flush with the ATEM. \n\nThe PK1 stand is a great fit with the Hollyland Lark150 wireless microphone and Hollyland Mars 400S Pro wireless HDMI/SDI transmitter. \n\nThe stream deck attachment is available in both right and left side versions and we can ship nearly anywhere in the world! Links to buy everything in this photo are at https://aaronpk.tv/links (link in bio!)",
        "html": "What camera would you use with this setup? <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%93%B8\">\ud83d\udcf8</a> <br /><br />My new PK1 stand to attach the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/elgato\">@elgato</a> Stream Deck is now available worldwide! <br /><br />This stand attaches to the side of the PK1 stand for the ATEM Mini or Extreme and brings the buttons of the Stream Deck flush with the ATEM. <br /><br />The PK1 stand is a great fit with the Hollyland Lark150 wireless microphone and Hollyland Mars 400S Pro wireless HDMI/SDI transmitter. <br /><br />The stream deck attachment is available in both right and left side versions and we can ship nearly anywhere in the world! Links to buy everything in this photo are at <a href=\"https://aaronpk.tv/links\"><span>https://</span>aaronpk.tv/links</a> (link in bio!)"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
        "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/",
        "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/aaronparecki.com/f37b915b436155617750c9a94573fcedf1110b8a781809c35f8531d577b20a9e.jpg"
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Spicy, Bland, Gone

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        "name": "<span class='p-author h-card'>Miriam Avery</span>",
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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2019/06/04/spicy-bland-gone/",
    "published": "2019-06-04T09:59:37-07:00",
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        "html": "<p>Some grieving processes don\u2019t come on all at once. Perhaps the \u201cdenial\u201d stage lasts a bit longer. Maybe some parts of our minds recognize that we don\u2019t yet have the skills, burying a bit of complex bits of the grief for later. Some flavors of grief take a decade or more to ripen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because this, my friends, frolleagues, and comrades, is a story about grief and flavor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grief deepens and matures into resilience, as memory and imagination give us new context with ticks on a scale of days and years and decades and millennia.  I\u2019m feeling a great conjunction of those now, six or more, but today I\u2019ll try to only discuss one: my acute loss at the flavors of onions and garlic as the culinary loves of my life.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>this my friends, frolleagues and comrades, is a story about grief and flavor</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://i0.wp.com/myravery.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/pexels-photo-242178_jpeg__WEBP_Image__3371-%C3%97-2250_pixels__-_Scaled__20__.png?fit=676%2C447&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" /><p>It was March 2018 and I was doing my second bout of elimination diet in two years. Weird bentos of white rice, witted spinach, and salted chicken breast, the whole nine. I was in great distress, and cancelled a trip to Beijing and Shanghai. The clarity and focus I was finally starting to feel unraveled rapidly in a cascade of willfulness, pain, and growing clarity of a different and most unwelcome sort.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d lost onions and garlic and shallots and chives. Four flavors at the center of literally all my favorite foods.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My elimination diet, along with several invasive diagnostic explorations, had ruled out most other culprits. Really: I had no idea how to eat without those four foods. Most days I still don\u2019t. As I remarked more often than I\u2019d liked (seriously, annoying much?) \u201cThose are some culturally significant foods.\u201d</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rarely did I elaborate which cultures. And in the context of catered and other commercial-chef prepared foods, onions and garlic are added to every cuisine onto which they could plausibly bulk up a dish. I just try my best. <br />Some days I fail. My willfulness wins, probably in the form of a taco, maybe in the form of dumplings. Or, like one Friday a quarter when the foulness of my mood exceeds my ability to resist a pepperoni pizza. </p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>Those are some culturally significant foods</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The ones that really hurt, that make me feel like I\u2019ve lost vast parts of myself, are Cal-Mex and Sichuan food. Both are layered with childhood memories and fond adult ones. of Fresno and the sierra foot hills and Berkeley streets, of Chengdu and the tiny slices of it that can be found In kitchens across the south bay. Both now cause me distress. Many kinds of distress. You really don\u2019t want to empathize too hard, really. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most painful for me is the fact they don\u2019t even taste good to me anymore.  I\u2019ve lost my love of the flavor of garlic, which I will mourn longer than the actual bulb.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://c.pxhere.com/photos/01/ab/spices_condiment_aroma_taste_spicy_cook_kitchen_bowls-901568.jpg!d\" alt=\"\" /><p>Some talented people have written well about this. I\u2019ll excerpt a bit that is as resonant as it is representative:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>I have had to strip my knowledge of cooking down to the studs. [\u2026] And I now jealously hoard Swiss chard stems, which have a subtle beet-like sweetness that makes them a great third musketeer in a classic celery-carrot mirepoix. Replacing garlic is harder. There really is nothing quite like the familiar sticky warmth of a fresh clove or two (or three), whether blended into pesto, steeped in a vinaigrette, or grated into yogurt.</p><p>So I\u2019ve leaned into other beloved sharp flavors instead. Citrus is a new mainstay: I use grated zest for freshness, fresh juice for acidity, and preserved lemon or lime rind for aromatic bite. I go through bunches of fresh herbs\u2014parsley, dill, basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, and oregano\u2014and jars of spices like caraway, cumin, fennel seeds, and smoked paprika.</p>Zoe Fenson, <a href=\"https://www.tastecooking.com/everything-starts-onions-garlic-stops/\">TasteCooking</a></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>An allium-free existence is an absolute loss, especially since I already hate chard.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the flavors. The other flavors. If there are only two of anything, it is almost as boring as the bland monotony of one flavor.  Losing alliums, even down to the joy of their flavor, has opened up my culinary world. There are hundreds of flavors I can joyfully explore. The promise of those new memories, and the creativity to get them out in the world, is what carries me forward.  </p>",
        "text": "Some grieving processes don\u2019t come on all at once. Perhaps the \u201cdenial\u201d stage lasts a bit longer. Maybe some parts of our minds recognize that we don\u2019t yet have the skills, burying a bit of complex bits of the grief for later. Some flavors of grief take a decade or more to ripen.\n\n\n\nBecause this, my friends, frolleagues, and comrades, is a story about grief and flavor.\n\n\n\nGrief deepens and matures into resilience, as memory and imagination give us new context with ticks on a scale of days and years and decades and millennia.  I\u2019m feeling a great conjunction of those now, six or more, but today I\u2019ll try to only discuss one: my acute loss at the flavors of onions and garlic as the culinary loves of my life.\n\n\n\nthis my friends, frolleagues and comrades, is a story about grief and flavor\n\n\n\nIt was March 2018 and I was doing my second bout of elimination diet in two years. Weird bentos of white rice, witted spinach, and salted chicken breast, the whole nine. I was in great distress, and cancelled a trip to Beijing and Shanghai. The clarity and focus I was finally starting to feel unraveled rapidly in a cascade of willfulness, pain, and growing clarity of a different and most unwelcome sort.\n\n\n\nI\u2019d lost onions and garlic and shallots and chives. Four flavors at the center of literally all my favorite foods.\n\n\n\nMy elimination diet, along with several invasive diagnostic explorations, had ruled out most other culprits. Really: I had no idea how to eat without those four foods. Most days I still don\u2019t. As I remarked more often than I\u2019d liked (seriously, annoying much?) \u201cThose are some culturally significant foods.\u201d\n\n\n\nRarely did I elaborate which cultures. And in the context of catered and other commercial-chef prepared foods, onions and garlic are added to every cuisine onto which they could plausibly bulk up a dish. I just try my best. \nSome days I fail. My willfulness wins, probably in the form of a taco, maybe in the form of dumplings. Or, like one Friday a quarter when the foulness of my mood exceeds my ability to resist a pepperoni pizza. \n\n\n\nThose are some culturally significant foods\n\n\n\nThe ones that really hurt, that make me feel like I\u2019ve lost vast parts of myself, are Cal-Mex and Sichuan food. Both are layered with childhood memories and fond adult ones. of Fresno and the sierra foot hills and Berkeley streets, of Chengdu and the tiny slices of it that can be found In kitchens across the south bay. Both now cause me distress. Many kinds of distress. You really don\u2019t want to empathize too hard, really. \n\n\n\nMost painful for me is the fact they don\u2019t even taste good to me anymore.  I\u2019ve lost my love of the flavor of garlic, which I will mourn longer than the actual bulb.\n\n\n\nSome talented people have written well about this. I\u2019ll excerpt a bit that is as resonant as it is representative:\n\n\n\nI have had to strip my knowledge of cooking down to the studs. [\u2026] And I now jealously hoard Swiss chard stems, which have a subtle beet-like sweetness that makes them a great third musketeer in a classic celery-carrot mirepoix. Replacing garlic is harder. There really is nothing quite like the familiar sticky warmth of a fresh clove or two (or three), whether blended into pesto, steeped in a vinaigrette, or grated into yogurt.So I\u2019ve leaned into other beloved sharp flavors instead. Citrus is a new mainstay: I use grated zest for freshness, fresh juice for acidity, and preserved lemon or lime rind for aromatic bite. I go through bunches of fresh herbs\u2014parsley, dill, basil, mint, thyme, rosemary, and oregano\u2014and jars of spices like caraway, cumin, fennel seeds, and smoked paprika.Zoe Fenson, TasteCooking\n\n\n\nAn allium-free existence is an absolute loss, especially since I already hate chard.\n\n\n\nBut the flavors. The other flavors. If there are only two of anything, it is almost as boring as the bland monotony of one flavor.  Losing alliums, even down to the joy of their flavor, has opened up my culinary world. There are hundreds of flavors I can joyfully explore. The promise of those new memories, and the creativity to get them out in the world, is what carries me forward."
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019

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    "author": {
        "name": "<span class='p-author h-card'>Miriam Avery</span>",
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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2019/05/16/global-accessibility-awareness-day-2019/",
    "published": "2019-05-16T15:37:02-07:00",
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        "html": "It\u2019s a thing! An important thing. Learn about it <a href=\"https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/\">HERE</a>.\n<p>My firsthand experimentation with accessibility features started with migraines. When screens mean twisting pain and nausea, a screen-free existence is brilliant. Slow, full of compromises and barriers, but brilliant.</p>\n<p>Let\u2019s all take some time today, and everyday, to bringing down the barriers.</p>\n<p>This was that time for me. I\u2019m trapped in <a href=\"https://giphy.com/gifs/brooklyn-nine-b99edit-womensweek-qgvASZ5K7WAMM\">a gif of Rosa D\u00edaz being sick.</a></p>",
        "text": "It\u2019s a thing! An important thing. Learn about it HERE.\nMy firsthand experimentation with accessibility features started with migraines. When screens mean twisting pain and nausea, a screen-free existence is brilliant. Slow, full of compromises and barriers, but brilliant.\nLet\u2019s all take some time today, and everyday, to bringing down the barriers.\nThis was that time for me. I\u2019m trapped in a gif of Rosa D\u00edaz being sick."
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*Test*

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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2019/02/20/test/",
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        "html": "This is a test of the indiewebified @myravery system. Trying to start here for all or most things.",
        "text": "This is a test of the indiewebified @myravery system. Trying to start here for all or most things."
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Indie Web Dose / Rainy Day

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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2018/12/16/indie-web-dose-rainy-day/",
    "published": "2018-12-16T22:51:46-08:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "I\u2019ve flipped, tweaked and punched more toggles and valves under the hood. This little blog just took a great many time-release <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> vitamins. Watch out, my dosage may soon reach therapeutic concentrations.\n<p>In the meantime, this.</p>",
        "text": "I\u2019ve flipped, tweaked and punched more toggles and valves under the hood. This little blog just took a great many time-release IndieWeb vitamins. Watch out, my dosage may soon reach therapeutic concentrations.\nIn the meantime, this."
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A time for tinkering

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        "name": "<span class='p-author h-card'>Miriam Avery</span>",
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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2018/09/01/time-for-tinkering/",
    "published": "2018-09-01T23:41:06-07:00",
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        "html": "There\u2019s something starting here. I\u2019m not sure what exactly, but it definitely doesn\u2019t end here. But I\u2019ve been putting it off for too long and it\u2019s driving me bonkers. I\u2019m going a bit native. I have shiny new widgets care of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a> community, beautiful contrarians whose \u2018selfdogfooding\u2019 is a generative form of participant observation. I theoretically understand how they work. I don\u2019t yet know how to get them to work.\n<p>Simultaneously, my bio and and ego are getting a community overhaul with the <a href=\"http://xrstudio.co/\">XR Studio</a> crowd.</p>\n<p>I have some goals in mind. I\u2019ll list them tomorrow. For today I\u2019m flossing one t<del>o</del>oth.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i2.wp.com/miriamlueckavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20180527_1543426875152686184726256.jpg?resize=676%2C1202&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"20180527_1543426875152686184726256.jpg?resize=676%2C1202&amp;ssl=1\" /></p>",
        "text": "There\u2019s something starting here. I\u2019m not sure what exactly, but it definitely doesn\u2019t end here. But I\u2019ve been putting it off for too long and it\u2019s driving me bonkers. I\u2019m going a bit native. I have shiny new widgets care of the IndieWeb community, beautiful contrarians whose \u2018selfdogfooding\u2019 is a generative form of participant observation. I theoretically understand how they work. I don\u2019t yet know how to get them to work.\nSimultaneously, my bio and and ego are getting a community overhaul with the XR Studio crowd.\nI have some goals in mind. I\u2019ll list them tomorrow. For today I\u2019m flossing one tooth."
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Science Fiction Day 2018

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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2018/01/02/science-fiction-day-2018/",
    "published": "2018-01-02T14:55:11-08:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "Hallmark does invent some holidays.  Sometimes that\u2019s a good thing, for instance, today is <a href=\"https://nationaldaycalendar.com/2018/01/01/january-2-2018-national-science-fiction-day-national-personal-trainer-awareness-day-national-buffet-day-national-cream-puff-day/\">Science Fiction Day</a>.  Hurray! Read some, write some, watch some, play some.  I\u2019m celebrating with option B, write some!\n<p>Please enjoy this post-holiday tribute to the day, and the fine work of the <a href=\"http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2017/09/12/scientists-find-fungus-appetite-plastic-rubbish-dump/\">teams who discovered this gnarly fungus</a> that eats plastic.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/miriamlueckavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/26613354_10157046182074465_669692445_o.jpg?resize=676%2C901&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"26613354_10157046182074465_669692445_o\" /></p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>The Toy Farm</h1>\n<p>Miriam Lueck Avery </p>\n<p>When Mom bought the toy farm I thought it would be fun. I thought I\u2019d get first pick of all the deliveries. But the piles of broken dolls and Lego bricks and fast food tchotchkes overwhelmed me. And, we needed the money from every pound of plastic mulched.</p>\n<p>Into the trenches they went. We shoveled the heavy fungus-laden dirt over them. Once a week Mom churned it with a big backhoe.</p>\n<p>It was two months before I saw the first mushroom ghost. Some toys, they had this plastic that I guess was delicious to our fungal livestock. Ghostly threads of fungus outlined the fashionable toys of years past. Eaten. Replaced. Remade.</p>\n<p>I got so freaked out I tried to convince Mom to sell the farm. The pale memories of toys filled my dreams. I tried to beg out of my chores on the farm, which worked for the dead months of November and December.</p>\n<p>But January came, and the spring cleaning bump. I couldn\u2019t hold out any longer.</p>\n<p>Then, one day, I found her. More eerie than the rest. Also more perfect. The curve of her cheek was dense and soft. Her hair was a delicate fan of pale threads. I thought her name was Mycella. I took her home; dressed her in real doll\u2019s clothes. We held a tea party and invited Mom.</p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t afraid anymore.</p></blockquote>",
        "text": "Hallmark does invent some holidays.  Sometimes that\u2019s a good thing, for instance, today is Science Fiction Day.  Hurray! Read some, write some, watch some, play some.  I\u2019m celebrating with option B, write some!\nPlease enjoy this post-holiday tribute to the day, and the fine work of the teams who discovered this gnarly fungus that eats plastic.\n\n\nThe Toy Farm\nMiriam Lueck Avery \nWhen Mom bought the toy farm I thought it would be fun. I thought I\u2019d get first pick of all the deliveries. But the piles of broken dolls and Lego bricks and fast food tchotchkes overwhelmed me. And, we needed the money from every pound of plastic mulched.\nInto the trenches they went. We shoveled the heavy fungus-laden dirt over them. Once a week Mom churned it with a big backhoe.\nIt was two months before I saw the first mushroom ghost. Some toys, they had this plastic that I guess was delicious to our fungal livestock. Ghostly threads of fungus outlined the fashionable toys of years past. Eaten. Replaced. Remade.\nI got so freaked out I tried to convince Mom to sell the farm. The pale memories of toys filled my dreams. I tried to beg out of my chores on the farm, which worked for the dead months of November and December.\nBut January came, and the spring cleaning bump. I couldn\u2019t hold out any longer.\nThen, one day, I found her. More eerie than the rest. Also more perfect. The curve of her cheek was dense and soft. Her hair was a delicate fan of pale threads. I thought her name was Mycella. I took her home; dressed her in real doll\u2019s clothes. We held a tea party and invited Mom.\nI wasn\u2019t afraid anymore."
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Inktober 2018

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        "name": "<span class='p-author h-card'>Miriam Avery</span>",
        "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2017/11/01/inktober-2018/",
    "published": "2017-11-01T14:04:41-07:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/miriamlueckavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/23131951_10156844581849465_7908059872365806546_n.jpg?resize=676%2C875&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"23131951_10156844581849465_7908059872365806546_n\" /><p>I had a lot of fun this year and learned a lot about metallic-on-black drawing. See \u2019em <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/miriamlueckavery/media_set?set=a.10156749579394465.1073741830.819434464&amp;type=3\">HERE</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156749579394465.1073741830.819434464&amp;type=1&amp;l=b71659ef5e\">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156749579394465.1073741830.819434464&amp;type=1&amp;l=b71659ef5e</a></p>",
        "text": "I had a lot of fun this year and learned a lot about metallic-on-black drawing. See \u2019em HERE.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156749579394465.1073741830.819434464&type=1&l=b71659ef5e"
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For the Love of Place (Dispatch from the Steinbeck Center)

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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2017/07/30/for-the-love-of-place-dispatch-from-the-steinbeck-center/",
    "published": "2017-07-30T17:09:00-07:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "Last month Chris humored me for a trip to the <a href=\"http://www.steinbeck.org/\">National Steinbeck Center</a>, a quirky exhibit in the heart of Salinas, California. It\u2019s densely packed, verbosely curated, and delightful. Museums are places of discovery and reflection for me, and I set upon this one with a question.\n<p>John Steinbeck is up there among my very favorite authors, and is certainly my favorite among the non-genre literary writers. My question was: why? What is it about Steinbeck that I love just so much?</p>\n<p><img title=\"\" src=\"https://i0.wp.com/miriamlueckavery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_20170706_135509669-jpg.jpeg?resize=624%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_20170706_135509669.jpg\" /></p>\n<p>I love nearly all his books, but <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)\">East of Eden</a> has the distinction of being my second favorite novel (after Ursula LeGuin\u2019s The Dispossessed of course). Unlike Liza Hamilton\u2019s bible, the eye tracks in my copy of East of Eden are uneven. I\u2019ve been toting around the same dog eared and pencil annotated Classics Edition since high school. The first few dozen pages are especially worn. When I was traveling most intensely for work, about five years ago, I would carry it with me as a cure for homesickness. Steinbeck\u2019s ode to those dry hills, and the wet years when people forget the dry years, remains my perfect reminder of California.</p>\n<p>As was quoted at least twice at the Steinbeck Center, Steinbeck wrote East of Eden,  </p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am choosing to write this book to my sons. \u2026 I want them to know how it was, I want to tell them directly, and perhaps by speaking directly to them I shall speak directly to other people.\u201d</p></blockquote>\n<p>It spoke to me. And that let Steinbeck, through the mostly student curators of his museum, answer my question.</p>\n<p>East of Eden taught this nomadic child how to grow attached to places. To love places like the Californian hills and be \u201cof\u201d them, even though I could never be truly \u201cfrom\u201d them. I may have also gained some insight into wickedness and free will and the value of a good literary allusion. But those were side effects. The primary effect was codifying the way love of place interacts with the related tasks of caring for those places and the people who live (and may one day live) in those places.</p>\n<p>Lots of influences in my young life reinforced this relationship between landscape and people. My <a href=\"http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/jenglish/Pages/Personal.html\">mother taught a class</a>, \u201cMan in the Natural Environment,\u201d every summer when I was small. It was a field school co-taught with a biologist and geologist, and ranged all over California, Nevada, Arizona, and northern Mexico. I was a three year old who knew what a glacial cirque was, that there were shell middens, and a few hypotheses about why people made shell middens.</p>\n<p>But a scientific and humanist curiosity for the details of people and landscapes doesn\u2019t capture a fraction of how I feel now. When the inestimable Lawrence Wilkinson posted this <a href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/desert-fathers-sins-acedia-sloth\">Atlas Obscura</a> tidbit yesterday in his <a href=\"https://roughlydaily.com/2017/07/29/acedia-est-tristitia-vocem-amputans/\">(Roughly) Daily</a> feed, a piece clicked into place.</p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Acedia</em> comes from Greek, and means \u201ca lack of care.\u201d It sounds a little like today\u2019s sloth, and <em>acedia</em> is indeed considered a precursor to today\u2019s sin of laziness. To Christian monks in the fourth century, however, <em>acedia</em> was more than just laziness or apathy. It was<a href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/4125242\"> more like</a> dejection that made it difficult to be spiritual, avoiding ascetic practices, boredom that led to falling asleep while reading, and frustration with life in a monastery\u2014but the meaning is nuanced and has changed over time.</p></blockquote>\n<p>Polar opposite to those early Christian hermits, observing and reflecting on that interplay between people and landscapes is the antidote to acedia. It\u2019s how to give a shit in a spiritually significant way. Steinbeck got that in a profound way. With that, I\u2019m going to stop writing and go read <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_with_Charley\">My Travels with Charlie</a>. Duly <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/books/steinbecks-travels-with-charley-gets-a-fact-checking.html\">warned</a>, I\u2019m reading it as fiction.</p>",
        "text": "Last month Chris humored me for a trip to the National Steinbeck Center, a quirky exhibit in the heart of Salinas, California. It\u2019s densely packed, verbosely curated, and delightful. Museums are places of discovery and reflection for me, and I set upon this one with a question.\nJohn Steinbeck is up there among my very favorite authors, and is certainly my favorite among the non-genre literary writers. My question was: why? What is it about Steinbeck that I love just so much?\n\nI love nearly all his books, but East of Eden has the distinction of being my second favorite novel (after Ursula LeGuin\u2019s The Dispossessed of course). Unlike Liza Hamilton\u2019s bible, the eye tracks in my copy of East of Eden are uneven. I\u2019ve been toting around the same dog eared and pencil annotated Classics Edition since high school. The first few dozen pages are especially worn. When I was traveling most intensely for work, about five years ago, I would carry it with me as a cure for homesickness. Steinbeck\u2019s ode to those dry hills, and the wet years when people forget the dry years, remains my perfect reminder of California.\nAs was quoted at least twice at the Steinbeck Center, Steinbeck wrote East of Eden,  \n\u201cI am choosing to write this book to my sons. \u2026 I want them to know how it was, I want to tell them directly, and perhaps by speaking directly to them I shall speak directly to other people.\u201d\nIt spoke to me. And that let Steinbeck, through the mostly student curators of his museum, answer my question.\nEast of Eden taught this nomadic child how to grow attached to places. To love places like the Californian hills and be \u201cof\u201d them, even though I could never be truly \u201cfrom\u201d them. I may have also gained some insight into wickedness and free will and the value of a good literary allusion. But those were side effects. The primary effect was codifying the way love of place interacts with the related tasks of caring for those places and the people who live (and may one day live) in those places.\nLots of influences in my young life reinforced this relationship between landscape and people. My mother taught a class, \u201cMan in the Natural Environment,\u201d every summer when I was small. It was a field school co-taught with a biologist and geologist, and ranged all over California, Nevada, Arizona, and northern Mexico. I was a three year old who knew what a glacial cirque was, that there were shell middens, and a few hypotheses about why people made shell middens.\nBut a scientific and humanist curiosity for the details of people and landscapes doesn\u2019t capture a fraction of how I feel now. When the inestimable Lawrence Wilkinson posted this Atlas Obscura tidbit yesterday in his (Roughly) Daily feed, a piece clicked into place.\nAcedia comes from Greek, and means \u201ca lack of care.\u201d It sounds a little like today\u2019s sloth, and acedia is indeed considered a precursor to today\u2019s sin of laziness. To Christian monks in the fourth century, however, acedia was more than just laziness or apathy. It was more like dejection that made it difficult to be spiritual, avoiding ascetic practices, boredom that led to falling asleep while reading, and frustration with life in a monastery\u2014but the meaning is nuanced and has changed over time.\nPolar opposite to those early Christian hermits, observing and reflecting on that interplay between people and landscapes is the antidote to acedia. It\u2019s how to give a shit in a spiritually significant way. Steinbeck got that in a profound way. With that, I\u2019m going to stop writing and go read My Travels with Charlie. Duly warned, I\u2019m reading it as fiction."
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Walking the Right-Of-Way

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    "url": "https://miriamlueckavery.com/2017/06/09/walking-the-right-of-way/",
    "published": "2017-06-09T12:00:18-07:00",
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        "html": "This is a post about trains. Also about innovation. But mostly about trains.\n<p><a href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/San_Francisco-J_Church_right_of_way.jpg\"><img src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/San_Francisco-J_Church_right_of_way.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia: Right-Of-Way\" /></a></p>\n<h2>I. A Victory Celebrated</h2>\n<p>I\u2019m celebrating a victory for public transit. Yes, of course I\u2019m consumed by rage about the <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/pittsburgh-not-paris-rally?utm_term=.voarOydg1#.dq8pe7M15\">U.S. pulling out </a>of the Paris Climate Agreement (<a href=\"http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-paris-agreement-on-climate-change\">maybe</a>). But I\u2019ve been acting locally to promote public transit in one way or another since I was 16, in the face of NIMBY assholes. Victory on local actions is what gives us the wherewithal to keep pressure on the global struggle.</p>\n<p>So the Feds <a href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/03/good-news-for-caltrain-federal-budget-includes-100-million-for-electrification/\">finally approved funds for the grand Caltrain electrification project</a> after many months of struggle. This will allow the system to upgrade from awful diesel trains that are roughly my age. We\u2019ll get new electric trains, in a window when I will still plausibly be living and working here in the Bay Area. This is despite <a href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/17/feds-delay-caltrain-electrification-money/\">the lobbying</a> of California\u2019s embittered Republican Congress people to the Trump Administration to block funds for California\u2019s high-speed rail project. \u201cBut that\u2019s a different rail project, why should that matter?\u201d you ask. Well, the funds are part of the same block grant. Our cynical representatives declined to disambiguate the two. It was a not-so-subtle spite to the Bay Area liberals.</p>\n<p>Thank you to the 15,670 other folks who signed <a href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-9600-american-jobs-tell-fta-approve-funding-caltrain-electrification\">the petition</a> to save our air, sanity, and jobs. Thank you to my fellow subset of those who printed out <a href=\"http://www.greencaltrain.com/about/\">Green Caltrain</a> flyers. To those who evangelized to our fellow riders when our ancient trains broke down (like they do). We won, this time.</p>\n<h2>II. The Right-Of-Way in Innovation Practice</h2>\n<p>As most of you, dear readers, know I\u2019ve recently begun work at the <a href=\"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/\">Mozilla Corporation</a>. Specifically, I\u2019m a foresight strategist in the group tasked with R&amp;D.</p>\n<p>As such, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about innovation process. I\u2019ve also been thinking about how to be a generalist among skilled and valued specialists, and other weirder things about the future of the Internet.</p>\n<p>These meditations and trains intersect at the concept of right-of-way. One of my great IFTF mentors Bob Johansen applied this concept to innovation in the book he wrote with P&amp;G innovation ninja and R&amp;D leader-at-large Karl Ronn.</p>\n<p>They write:</p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Historic Right-of-Way Story</strong></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41sDdyAYeIL.jpg?resize=331%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"41sDdyAYeIL.jpg?resize=331%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" />The idea of right-of-way goes way back. The history of</p>\n<p>Silicon Valley, where both Bob and Karl live, is inextricably linked to railroads. Stanford University\u2019s full name is the Leland Stanford Junior University, named after the son of the founder of the Union Pacific Railroad. You can see a golden spike in the university\u2019s museum. The transcontinental railroad was cutting-edge technology for its day when finished in 1869. Suddenly it became possible to travel or send goods across the continent in what, at the time, was amazing speed.</p>\n<p>The railroad developed into the major growth industry of the late nineteenth century. But how often do you ride a long-di</p>\n<p>stance train today? In dense urban areas we still use commuter trains, but planes, trucks, and cars have now replaced the bulk of the transportation-and disrupted the trains business.</p>\n<p>As much as the railroad companies missed the transition from trains to modes of transportation that did not require rails, the big miss was not foreseeing the potential that arose from thinking differently about the land that was under and above the rails. The land under the tracks is the classic right-of-way. But above those tracks, invisible in plain view, was a right-of-way that the railroads owned but completely missed: communications.</p>\n<p>The railroads already had the land underneath their trains when the telegraph developers approached them and wanted to string wires above the tracks. To the railroads, this new telegraph technology offered the promise of reducing their old cost structure. With the telegraph, the railroads could know where all their trains were, for free.</p>\n<p>All that the trains got from the telegraph, however, was an incremental cost reduction in their old business that was about to be disrupted. They did use the telegraph to make the trains run better. [\u2026] If they ha</p>\n<p>d seen the potential of telegraphs and railways as complimentary, we might all be talking on phones with Union Pacific plans, rather than AT&amp;T or Verizon.</p></blockquote>\n<h2>III. The Right-Of-Way, Gone to Seed</h2>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/\"><img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUzNDgyMzg3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzIxNTAwMQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg?resize=182%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"MV5BMTUzNDgyMzg3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzIxNTAwMQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg?resize=182%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" /></a>Back to trains, as promised. While the right-of-way is finding new life as a metaphor for justifying corporate actors extending their dominion over everyday life (for fun and profit!), we celebrate it\u2019s old life in weird film.</p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t watched The Station Agent, it is a delightfully strange, Which-Way-Is-Up kind of movie. It stars Peter Dinklage as a neck bearded nerd working in a model train store, who inherits a defunct railway station at the bequest of his boss. He then spends his days \u201cwalking the right-of-way,\u201d and getting into confusing pseudo-sexual entanglements. Watch it.</p>\n\n<img src=\"https://i1.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTI5NzM0NjI0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDczOTU3._V1_.jpg?resize=485%2C324&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"MV5BMTI5NzM0NjI0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDczOTU3._V1_.jpg?resize=485%2C324&amp;ssl=1\" /><p>Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Dinklage in The Station Agent (2003)</p>",
        "text": "This is a post about trains. Also about innovation. But mostly about trains.\n\nI. A Victory Celebrated\nI\u2019m celebrating a victory for public transit. Yes, of course I\u2019m consumed by rage about the U.S. pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement (maybe). But I\u2019ve been acting locally to promote public transit in one way or another since I was 16, in the face of NIMBY assholes. Victory on local actions is what gives us the wherewithal to keep pressure on the global struggle.\nSo the Feds finally approved funds for the grand Caltrain electrification project after many months of struggle. This will allow the system to upgrade from awful diesel trains that are roughly my age. We\u2019ll get new electric trains, in a window when I will still plausibly be living and working here in the Bay Area. This is despite the lobbying of California\u2019s embittered Republican Congress people to the Trump Administration to block funds for California\u2019s high-speed rail project. \u201cBut that\u2019s a different rail project, why should that matter?\u201d you ask. Well, the funds are part of the same block grant. Our cynical representatives declined to disambiguate the two. It was a not-so-subtle spite to the Bay Area liberals.\nThank you to the 15,670 other folks who signed the petition to save our air, sanity, and jobs. Thank you to my fellow subset of those who printed out Green Caltrain flyers. To those who evangelized to our fellow riders when our ancient trains broke down (like they do). We won, this time.\nII. The Right-Of-Way in Innovation Practice\nAs most of you, dear readers, know I\u2019ve recently begun work at the Mozilla Corporation. Specifically, I\u2019m a foresight strategist in the group tasked with R&D.\nAs such, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about innovation process. I\u2019ve also been thinking about how to be a generalist among skilled and valued specialists, and other weirder things about the future of the Internet.\nThese meditations and trains intersect at the concept of right-of-way. One of my great IFTF mentors Bob Johansen applied this concept to innovation in the book he wrote with P&G innovation ninja and R&D leader-at-large Karl Ronn.\nThey write:\nThe Historic Right-of-Way Story\nThe idea of right-of-way goes way back. The history of\nSilicon Valley, where both Bob and Karl live, is inextricably linked to railroads. Stanford University\u2019s full name is the Leland Stanford Junior University, named after the son of the founder of the Union Pacific Railroad. You can see a golden spike in the university\u2019s museum. The transcontinental railroad was cutting-edge technology for its day when finished in 1869. Suddenly it became possible to travel or send goods across the continent in what, at the time, was amazing speed.\nThe railroad developed into the major growth industry of the late nineteenth century. But how often do you ride a long-di\nstance train today? In dense urban areas we still use commuter trains, but planes, trucks, and cars have now replaced the bulk of the transportation-and disrupted the trains business.\nAs much as the railroad companies missed the transition from trains to modes of transportation that did not require rails, the big miss was not foreseeing the potential that arose from thinking differently about the land that was under and above the rails. The land under the tracks is the classic right-of-way. But above those tracks, invisible in plain view, was a right-of-way that the railroads owned but completely missed: communications.\nThe railroads already had the land underneath their trains when the telegraph developers approached them and wanted to string wires above the tracks. To the railroads, this new telegraph technology offered the promise of reducing their old cost structure. With the telegraph, the railroads could know where all their trains were, for free.\nAll that the trains got from the telegraph, however, was an incremental cost reduction in their old business that was about to be disrupted. They did use the telegraph to make the trains run better. [\u2026] If they ha\nd seen the potential of telegraphs and railways as complimentary, we might all be talking on phones with Union Pacific plans, rather than AT&T or Verizon.\nIII. The Right-Of-Way, Gone to Seed\nBack to trains, as promised. While the right-of-way is finding new life as a metaphor for justifying corporate actors extending their dominion over everyday life (for fun and profit!), we celebrate it\u2019s old life in weird film.\nIf you haven\u2019t watched The Station Agent, it is a delightfully strange, Which-Way-Is-Up kind of movie. It stars Peter Dinklage as a neck bearded nerd working in a model train store, who inherits a defunct railway station at the bequest of his boss. He then spends his days \u201cwalking the right-of-way,\u201d and getting into confusing pseudo-sexual entanglements. Watch it.\n\nBobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson, and Peter Dinklage in The Station Agent (2003)"
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Published! ‘Incorporating Care in Silicon Valley’…

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        "name": "<span class='p-author h-card'>Miriam Avery</span>",
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        "html": "My esteemed colleague (and mother) Jan English-Lueck and I have officially been published in the most recent issue of the <a href=\"http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1417/\">Anthropology of Work Review</a>. There you can find our article, sadly behind a pay wall.\n<p>We ask: is the vaguely California-Buddhist (but mostly utilitarian) \u201ccaring\u201d of Silicon Valley corporations a good thing? We answer, very academically: maybe, sometimes, someday. But today, it mostly stands in agonizing juxtaposition with horrendous inequality.  If some by long-shot thoughtful stars align\u2026yes someday it could be some definition of good. We are trying to force some alignment from our humble positions. Join us?</p>\n<p>If you think that seems interesting, this article is worth a read.</p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the abstract:</p>\n<blockquote><p>The struggle for labor rights is often one of asserting embodied care. Workers negotiate for rest and safe physical conditions. In the United States, further embodied care is translated into health care and family leave benefits. In Silicon Valley, while labor still struggles in the service and manufacturing sectors, professional high-tech work constitutes another set of challenges and expectations. Startup culture draws on the university-student lifestyle\u2014where institutionalized care includes a broad palette of wellness care, cafeterias, and structured recreation. So it is not surprising that yoga, massage, food, and managed fun made their way into high-tech workplaces of the late twentieth century. Increasingly, however, that corporate care is a requirement, not a perquisite, of progressive companies recruiting elite workers.</p>\n<p>Effective care requires personal awareness and corporate surveillance in order to be effective. Corporate responsibility in Silicon Valley workplaces embraces discourses in which worker productivity and care intertwine. This care is not evenly distributed or available to all workers, but still points to an emerging set of corporate care practices. Knowledge workers are expected to work more intensively, and employers sustain them by providing care. That logic of care shaped the social experience of both care providers, such as chefs and concierges, and workers, who learn to be the subjects of such care. Based on two decades of fieldwork in companies from Apple to Yahoo, this article outlines the uneven evolution of Silicon Valley\u2019s corporate care.</p></blockquote>\n<p>And here\u2019s an excerpt, which I <em>think</em> is within the limits of what I\u2019m allowed to post here. Specifically, the prologue, which I wrote based on field notes from one of the more surreal experiences of my entire life.</p>\n<blockquote><p>A deep bell sounds at the hands of a brown-robed monk as hundreds of people bow their heads over trays carefully balanced on their laps. It is the fall of 2013 and the corporate dining room of an iconic Silicon Valley company is transformed as rows of workers, vendors, and guests sit in silent contemplation. Thich Nhat Hanh, renowned mindfulness teacher, leads the room in a guided meditation over the vegan lunch of subtly spiced Southeast Asian vegetables and rice. We are participants attending a workshop designed to cultivate a wonder of food in the larger ecosystem and an awareness of the act of eating.</p>\n<p>The teacher asks us to savor each bite. He asks us to contemplate how dietary choices like these can heal a climate-disturbed planet. He asks us to consider the life of these plants, and all the human hands\u2014farmers, cooks, and workers\u2014who made it possible for us to eat the plants in that moment. Thousands more watch this performance through cameras placed around the room, possibly eating on their own, in homes and offices around the world. The organizers, chefs, and workers convinced that technology and compassion could do more together than apart, invited the monks to give their peers a transformative experience and to enlist allies.</p>\n<p>Four months later, presenters from that same corporation, while reporting on that experience and the larger effort around mindfulness at the Wisdom 2.0 conference, were interrupted by an onstage protest. Local San Francisco activists waved signs reading, \u201cWisdom Means Stop Displacement\u201d and \u201cWisdom Means Stop Surveillance.\u201d The company\u2019s efforts to care for its own workers and the planet, though literally fashioned on \u201cnoble intentions\u201d drawn from Buddhist and secular compassionate practice, are mired in an inescapable context of a system that produces economic inequality and unequal access to physical resources. Diverse stakeholders contest the values around information flows and privacy. The ubiquitous computing that fuels the Silicon Valley economy also produces a panopticon of available information, which changes the lives of its workers and the communities in which they live. Those care practices also require a degree of self-disclosure and behavioral observation to be effective. If an employer wants its workers to be at \u201cpeak performance,\u201d it needs to know how to promote that productivity year after year, and how to help its workers attain it for themselves.</p></blockquote>",
        "text": "My esteemed colleague (and mother) Jan English-Lueck and I have officially been published in the most recent issue of the Anthropology of Work Review. There you can find our article, sadly behind a pay wall.\nWe ask: is the vaguely California-Buddhist (but mostly utilitarian) \u201ccaring\u201d of Silicon Valley corporations a good thing? We answer, very academically: maybe, sometimes, someday. But today, it mostly stands in agonizing juxtaposition with horrendous inequality.  If some by long-shot thoughtful stars align\u2026yes someday it could be some definition of good. We are trying to force some alignment from our humble positions. Join us?\nIf you think that seems interesting, this article is worth a read.\nHere\u2019s the abstract:\nThe struggle for labor rights is often one of asserting embodied care. Workers negotiate for rest and safe physical conditions. In the United States, further embodied care is translated into health care and family leave benefits. In Silicon Valley, while labor still struggles in the service and manufacturing sectors, professional high-tech work constitutes another set of challenges and expectations. Startup culture draws on the university-student lifestyle\u2014where institutionalized care includes a broad palette of wellness care, cafeterias, and structured recreation. So it is not surprising that yoga, massage, food, and managed fun made their way into high-tech workplaces of the late twentieth century. Increasingly, however, that corporate care is a requirement, not a perquisite, of progressive companies recruiting elite workers.\nEffective care requires personal awareness and corporate surveillance in order to be effective. Corporate responsibility in Silicon Valley workplaces embraces discourses in which worker productivity and care intertwine. This care is not evenly distributed or available to all workers, but still points to an emerging set of corporate care practices. Knowledge workers are expected to work more intensively, and employers sustain them by providing care. That logic of care shaped the social experience of both care providers, such as chefs and concierges, and workers, who learn to be the subjects of such care. Based on two decades of fieldwork in companies from Apple to Yahoo, this article outlines the uneven evolution of Silicon Valley\u2019s corporate care.\nAnd here\u2019s an excerpt, which I think is within the limits of what I\u2019m allowed to post here. Specifically, the prologue, which I wrote based on field notes from one of the more surreal experiences of my entire life.\nA deep bell sounds at the hands of a brown-robed monk as hundreds of people bow their heads over trays carefully balanced on their laps. It is the fall of 2013 and the corporate dining room of an iconic Silicon Valley company is transformed as rows of workers, vendors, and guests sit in silent contemplation. Thich Nhat Hanh, renowned mindfulness teacher, leads the room in a guided meditation over the vegan lunch of subtly spiced Southeast Asian vegetables and rice. We are participants attending a workshop designed to cultivate a wonder of food in the larger ecosystem and an awareness of the act of eating.\nThe teacher asks us to savor each bite. He asks us to contemplate how dietary choices like these can heal a climate-disturbed planet. He asks us to consider the life of these plants, and all the human hands\u2014farmers, cooks, and workers\u2014who made it possible for us to eat the plants in that moment. Thousands more watch this performance through cameras placed around the room, possibly eating on their own, in homes and offices around the world. The organizers, chefs, and workers convinced that technology and compassion could do more together than apart, invited the monks to give their peers a transformative experience and to enlist allies.\nFour months later, presenters from that same corporation, while reporting on that experience and the larger effort around mindfulness at the Wisdom 2.0 conference, were interrupted by an onstage protest. Local San Francisco activists waved signs reading, \u201cWisdom Means Stop Displacement\u201d and \u201cWisdom Means Stop Surveillance.\u201d The company\u2019s efforts to care for its own workers and the planet, though literally fashioned on \u201cnoble intentions\u201d drawn from Buddhist and secular compassionate practice, are mired in an inescapable context of a system that produces economic inequality and unequal access to physical resources. Diverse stakeholders contest the values around information flows and privacy. The ubiquitous computing that fuels the Silicon Valley economy also produces a panopticon of available information, which changes the lives of its workers and the communities in which they live. Those care practices also require a degree of self-disclosure and behavioral observation to be effective. If an employer wants its workers to be at \u201cpeak performance,\u201d it needs to know how to promote that productivity year after year, and how to help its workers attain it for themselves."
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