Post AZbgWBA8xAMkSTdypU by shashashasha@mastodon.publicinterest.town
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 (DIR) Post #AZbg5P8Iu6YFy414Uq by clive@saturation.social
       2023-09-10T00:01:18Z
       
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       Okay people, it's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"My latest "LINKFEST" newsletter has dropped 📬 Includes:- 🏗 moving a 1930s building while everyone in inside it- 🕹 "Reverse Tetris"- 🎾 the "marshmallow shot" returns- 🧱 Brutalist Italy- 💻 the $2.98 computer library- 🐱 the world's oldest continually-functioning cat doorRead it for free online: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-10/Subscribe here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson
       
 (DIR) Post #AZbgWBA8xAMkSTdypU by shashashasha@mastodon.publicinterest.town
       2023-09-10T00:06:07Z
       
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       @clive this moving building story is how I describe our work deprecating government systems sometimes
       
 (DIR) Post #AZbhEGEZSWoAvdjbfM by clive@saturation.social
       2023-09-10T00:14:09Z
       
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       @shashashasha Yes!!Using hydraulics to lift up a UI and rotate it over a massive COBOL database
       
 (DIR) Post #AZbln5NkCM8VDvt1vs by bopfink@mastodon.nu
       2023-09-10T01:05:13Z
       
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       @clive In link 1 you refer to "their architects" but in the video on YouTube I found by clicking down from your piece, I learned that the method was in fact the brainchild of Kurt Vonnegut's architect father.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZbmoVV8fmNQTVaSMC by clive@saturation.social
       2023-09-10T01:16:41Z
       
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       @bopfink I saw the vonnegut name, and wasn't sure if it was the writer's relation! So cool ...
       
 (DIR) Post #AZboWRbyb0R96hIesi by bopfink@mastodon.nu
       2023-09-10T01:35:50Z
       
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       @clive Talented family. Kurt Junior's brother Bernard was a chemist working for a General Electric research lab – and a literal rainmaker pioneer.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZd0bDCP0AdSSnKzVQ by stiffelman@mstdn.social
       2023-09-10T15:25:51Z
       
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       @clive Man, that rotating building solution is doubleplusgood. If ever the term “genius” was earned in this category, well, here you have it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZd426uOnTRYdSR040 by clive@saturation.social
       2023-09-10T16:03:15Z
       
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       @stiffelman Seriously, eh?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZd602402XY4wC3tyq by stiffelman@mstdn.social
       2023-09-10T16:25:57Z
       
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       @clive Any urban planning or architecture class that doesn’t include this is a disgrace to the species.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZd9BAT5QpiM3HnVvE by taralemmey@sfba.social
       2023-09-10T17:02:00Z
       
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       @clive   And engineers today think it’s hard to port an live system.  Wow - love the ingenuity.