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Semaphore & Cairn

Semaphore & Cairn

—–message systems and citizenship—–

  • Semaphore Modern
  • Cairn Everlasting

Author: Ken Smith

These pieces were not written by the late British poet, Ken Smith (1938-2003), nor the other Ken Smiths who make bass guitars, study marine biology, sell cars, teach card counting, paint war scenes in oils, guide bear hunters in Idaho, teach forest management, study immunology, do war reporting, sell real estate, photograph nature, teach cryptology, provide legal counsel to the gay and lesbian community, realign the spines of athletes, listen for seismic faults in the Sierra Nevadas, operate a 4-axis milling machine, work for sustainable development in Alberta, play blackjack, or criticize Junk English. Nor were the pieces written by the Ken Smith who is “the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture” nor the one who serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives nor the one who hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1983. I only wish.

“The press is us who write it and you who read it. Defending press freedom is defending yourself.”

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Ken Smith Uncategorized January 9, 2015January 9, 2015

How gender plays out in the comment section of a website.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-the-debate/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 8, 2015January 8, 2015

“The hashtag #RealLiveTransAdult…leads to…stories of people who survived and thrived.” #LittleMessagesThatMatter

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 8, 2015

I wonder if my city’s police and other civil servants have received this kind of anti-bias training. @PeteButtigieg

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

Complex, instantaneous, prejudicial judgments about the appearance of others that differ from obvious ugly racism.

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

I’m assigning @herdyshepherd1’s essay in praise of Twitter in two university classes next week.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/why-this-shepherd-loves-twitter/281702/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

“One can remain vital and present, engaged and curious, indeed continue to grow, until one’s dying breath.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

“New and young companies are the primary source of job creation in the American economy.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/10/29/the-surprising-truth-about-where-new-jobs-come-from/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

“The most important and reliable way that we can understand what people’s priorities are..is to simply ask.”

https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/humane-endeavor/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

“These clinicians..at their best..were recognizing that people had priorities besides merely living longer.”

https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/humane-endeavor/

Ken Smith Uncategorized January 3, 2015

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