AI uses a massive amount of electricity, and like Bitcoin is a crazy thing for humans to be doing when we are battling climate change. There are only two reasons for AI that I know of – health and prosperity. I an of course okay with the health angle. Using…
Month: August 2024
Solar Roofs and a Self-Reliant Future
Solar panels on the roofs of homes is a game-changed. It will cause a great number of people to consider that they can detach from the infrastructure of society and become self-reliant. Once your mind becomes open to possibilities, anything can happen. Step 1 – you imagine that your house…
Everything Loses (except us)
Humans love progress, and are proud of the progress we make. But for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. What that means in terms of our progress is that literally every animal, vegetable and mineral on Earth suffers in reaction. The hubris we have is undeniable, although…
Human Evolution and the Biosphere
In a general sense, biospheres are any closed, self-regulating systems containing ecosystems. Planet Earth’s biosphere is considered closed, although it does receive energy from the Sun, and some space dust enters our atmosphere, as well as the odd meteorite. Those externalities apply to all biospheres, and life cannot live without…
Excrement
Fun topic!When you ask AI about cavemen, it said: Archaeological evidence, such as fossilized feces (coprolites), has been found in ancient hearths and other sites, suggesting that waste was sometimes left in or near places where they lived and cooked12. This indicates that while they might have had some basic…
Helps The Cause
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MPox is Killing Children
I find it highly weird that reporting around MPox and Ebola skirts around the most relevant information. People in Congo have a culture of hugging the dead and dying, and so those diseases spread. Children are now dying. That’s it, that’s the whole story. And the reason why it doesn’t…
Living Underground Long Term
Stewart Brand in an article about the Ten Thousand Year Clock Many of the best preserved artefacts probably spent most of their time underground. The subterranean environment protects them from sunlight and generally keeps a very stable temperature. The rise and fall of temperature accelerates oxidation and aging. In fact,…
WikiBrag, or a better name
WikiLeaks serves a very specific purpose, and a similar site would be useful to catalog all the actions taken during a three-generation effort to rewild humans. It would be a bit like when terror groups claim responsibility for something, except often the actions would be too small for the mainstream…
Sabotage
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Unpalatable, Smaller, Easier, Safer
Anarchists, rioters and the like have a severe lack of imagination, which stems from most actions being unplanned riots responding to outside stimuli. Within the rioting can be a feeling of camaraderie, adrenaline and opportunism. I’m suggesting a focus on long-term, planned, more targeted, lesser assaults on capitalism. For example,…
Inspiration
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Inspiration, not Organization
A movement with no leaders, and no organizational structure, is of course much harder to stop. Consider the fans of a football team. They might have season tickets or some form or membership, but ultimately, they are a collective of individuals who have a shared goal – turn up at…