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Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider  · 14 Aug 2017  · 237pp  · 67,154 words

fundraising and cross-subsidization from commercially viable products. We have thirty members, an elected board of five representatives, a user-friendly search-and-display codebase (Stone Soup), and the beginnings of a technical solution to the directory-updates challenge (daff). We’ve been featured in Grassroots Economic Organizing, Shareable, and Community-Wealth

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay  · 5 Mar 2020  · 807pp  · 154,435 words

Transferable Belief Model’, Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 66, No. 2 (1994), 191–234 Keren, G., ‘A Tale of Two Systems: A Scientific Advance or a Theoretical Stone Soup? Commentary on Evans and Stanovich (2013)’, Perspectives on Psychological Science , Vol. 8, No. 3 (2013), 257–62 Keren, G. and Schul, Y., ‘Two Is Not

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky  · 28 Feb 2008  · 313pp  · 95,077 words

the attraction of such photos required an audience, and the logical place to get that audience was from among other Flickr users. Like the proverbial stone soup, the promise would be achieved only if everyone participated, and like the soldiers who convince the townspeople to make the

stone soup, the only way to hold the site together before it reached critical mass was through personal charisma. Caterina Fake, one of the founders of Flickr,

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

by Sasha Abramsky  · 15 Mar 2013  · 406pp  · 113,841 words

moved up here from the Bay Area, we had some really hard times raising our family. I remember, we got to say “we lived on stone soup.” Pancakes sometimes—with syrup on ’em as long as we had syrup, sometimes pancakes without anything. We struggled simply just to feed our family. So

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

by Tracy Kidder  · 17 Jan 2023  · 270pp  · 88,213 words

the surprise wore off. The lyrics came from “A Song for Barbara,” by a folksinger named Ben Tousley. He had volunteered with Barbara at the Stone Soup Mobile Food Service, which brought soup and bread and pastries to poor and homeless people in the South End. Ben remembered her bear hug, as

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 2002  · 901pp  · 234,905 words

! We would be talking about a complex system innately tailored to compute a task that people are good at. In the children’s story called “Stone Soup,” a hobo borrows the use of a woman’s kitchen ostensibly to make soup from a stone. But he gradually asks for more and more

statistical learning is not true. Simple, generic networks are not up to the demands of ordinary human thinking and speaking; complex, specialized networks are a stone soup in which much of the interesting work has been done in setting up the innate wiring of the network. Once this is recognized, neural network

Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 14 Jun 2007

high-rise urban senior co-ops, which cost less than similar local housing, out of economic necessity). “Stone Soup is an urban intentional community of three co-op houses dedicated to joy and justice,”says Stone Soup Co-operative in Chicago. “Our members are organizers, teachers, social workers, students, artists, and others doing creative

.C. • Tryon Life Community Farm, Portland, Oregon, tryonfarm.org • N Street Cohousing, Davis, California, nstreetcohousing.org • Walnut Street Co-op, Eugene, Oregon, icetree.com/walnut • Stone Soup Co-op, Chicago, Illinois, stonesoupcoop.org • Hei Wa House, Ann Arbor, Michigan, ic.org/heiwa U R B A N C O M M U

sustainability, 33 Steiner, Rudolf, 64–65 Steinman, Jan, 229–230, 230–234 Sterling,Ted, 54 Stone, Geoff, 141–146, 209 Stone, Sue, 141–146, 209 Stone Soup Co-operative, 51 student housing co-ops, 53–54 suŠ community, 64 Sunward Cohousing, 39 support and connection, 10–11 “supporting member,”196 sustainability of

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson  · 284pp  · 96,087 words

conference on AI fairness coming up, and they could just meet the deadline for submissions. They started throwing together ideas and called their project the stone soup paper, named after the story of a town of people who make a meal by donating the ingredients. In this case, they weren’t making

Eastern USA

by Lonely Planet

serves upscale northern Italian cuisine such as squash-blossom fritters with truffle oil, and swordfish with saffron-encrusted risotto. Perfect for a memorable night out. Stone Soup CAFE $ (www.stonesoupvt.com; 211 College St; mains $5-10; 7am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm Sat; ) Don’t let the bargain prices fool you

sports venues. Spa services, 42-inch plasma screen TVs and bath telephones are part of the package. Wi-fi costs $14, and parking is $33. Stone Soup B&B $$ ( 866-639-9550; www.stonesoupinn.com; 1304 N Central Ave; r incl breakfast $85-145; ) The nine rooms sprawl throughout a rambling house

Central Europe Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

; 24hr) , near Oktogon, is an around-the-clock supermarket. Köleves HUNGARIAN/JEWISH €€ ( 322 1011; Kazinczy utca 35 & Dob utca 26; mains 1600-3200Ft) Always buzzing, ‘Stone Soup’ attracts a young crowd with its delicious Hungarian- and Jewish-inspired dishes like catfish stew and noodles. The lively decor and reasonable prices draws a

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas  · 19 Oct 1999  · 509pp  · 92,141 words

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

by J. Kenji López-Alt  · 20 Sep 2015

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss  · 6 Dec 2016  · 669pp  · 210,153 words

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

by Michael Pollan  · 22 Apr 2013  · 476pp  · 148,895 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

by Bee Wilson  · 14 Sep 2012  · 376pp  · 110,321 words

USA Travel Guide

by Lonely, Planet

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois  · 23 Jun 2009  · 1,263pp  · 371,402 words

Moon Portugal

by Carrie-Marie Bratley  · 15 Mar 2021  · 743pp  · 193,663 words

Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest: Palaces & Castles, Art & Music, Coffeehouses & Beer Gardens

by Jennifer D Walker, Auburn Scallon and Moon Travel Guides  · 15 Oct 2024  · 806pp  · 221,571 words