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Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by intrasight » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:07 AM UTC

omegaworks wrote: post #37

derpderpdrep wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference between philosophy you read because you want to be well read in philosophy, and philosophy you understand because you've lived it and perhaps come to similar conclusions yourself, is vast. Philosophy, especially of the modern era (not including the last 20 years or so), is mostly limited to the individual (existentialist sort of stuff). You create technology that links people together in a myriad of co…

I really enjoyed this post. Do you have other works?

I wholeheartedly agree. Please derpderpdrep, do write more often.

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by clockwerx » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 5:30 AM UTC

Opentrees.org ftw

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by proactivesvcs » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 6:37 AM UTC

jschwartzi wrote: post #17

We should do this in Seattle. There are lots of great trees here that I wish I could write to.

Then make yourself the Postmaster General! Who knows, the idea might catch on :-)

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by cbd1984 » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 7:12 AM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #5

From http://twentythree.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-168-do-object... ".. Something strange happens however when objects acquire connectivity, semantic depth, and the powers of computation and memory – they immediately and drastically transgress the ontological borders assigned to them.. .. spimes actively enfold space and time because they have the capacity to carry around their entire existence as a semantic layer..…

Literally none of those quotes make any sense. Can you explain them?

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by Conjoiner » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 9:33 AM UTC

cbd1984 wrote: post #44

walterbell wrote: post #5

From http://twentythree.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-168-do-object... ".. Something strange happens however when objects acquire connectivity, semantic depth, and the powers of computation and memory – they immediately and drastically transgress the ontological borders assigned to them.. .. spimes actively enfold space and time because they have the capacity to carry around their entire existence as a semantic layer..…

Literally none of those quotes make any sense. Can you explain them?

The middle one means "spimes take up space because they exist"

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by mercer » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 10:51 AM UTC

derpderpdrep wrote: post #39

omegaworks wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really enjoyed this post. Do you have other works?

Thank you genuinely for the compliment, but I'm afraid I've never been that organized.

I wouldn't mind reading a blog with your disorganized thoughts :).

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by billpg » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #25

djloche wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it is a warrant canary / dead man's switch. If it posts something other than 'today nothing happened' you know the account has been compromised. if it doesn't post 'today nothing happened' you know the silent switch has been flipped and any further signals cannot be trusted.

It could be, but it's not. It's an example of twitter art.

Maybe that's what they want you to think.

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by shoo » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

There's a lot of positive pro-tree stuff happening in the city of Melbourne, this is one of the more whimsical aspects of it.

On the less whimsical side of things, a lot of Melbourne's trees are in decline / are dying, because the city decided to stop watering them during a drought. But, positively, lessons have been learned from that mistake.

Some further reading : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9411658

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by escherplex » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 6:49 PM UTC

nissehulth wrote: post #2

Dear Mr/Mrs Birch. Please STOP this pollen nonsense immediately.

From Melbourne’s email-a-tree service archive:

My dearest Ulmus

While languishing inebriated 'neath your ample verdant canopy I was inspired to verse:

I think that I shall never hear a poem as lovely as a beer. A beer McSorley's had on tap with golden base and snowy cap.

The golden stuff I drink all day until my memory melts away. Poems are made by fools I fear but only [insert] can make a beer.

But you adjudge me MAD.

Best wishes,

Alfred E. Newman

Re: When you give a tree an email address

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Post by rsuelzer » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 9:41 PM UTC

Washington DC keeps a dataset of all of their trees. I wonder if I should build some sort of application for interacting with the trees, or just learning or posting more information about them.

data set: http://caseytrees.org/resources/maps/dc-street-trees/