@longstoryfarms Dad can’t understand how “ChatCat” can be any use.
Then it tells us in 5 minutes how to get the 4x4 running that’s sat for 3 years.
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This is the exact opposite. I do so much in the real world outside of my day job that AI is not yet freeing up time for me in any meaningful sense. I use it daily in the day job and it is helpful in saving time there.
Last night when I was processing turkeys, AI was no help.
Tiago Forte@fortelabs
I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom
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@vividvoid I’d love to hear about your milkweed planting.
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Almost all my free time of late has been dedicated to land stewardship: planting milkweed for the upcoming monarch migration, feeding the birds, attracting a barn owl to control the mice population, losing the war on prairie dogs, etc
Do you guys want me to tweet about this or
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@RealTalk8386 It’s like a trance at times. As long as the sun isn’t cooking me, I enjoy it.
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I genuinely enjoy weeding.
It slows things down and brings you up close with all the little thing!
Tiny flowers, busy insects, new growth, and all the details that are easy to miss from a distance. 🌼
Healthy-ish@RealTalk8386
Spending some time out in the herb field today with the chamomile 🌼 Weeding and preparing another 100ft for more chamomile planting, while giving some attention to the already established bed that is beginning to flower!! 😍
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@MichaelTG09 Food waste > chickens > eggs > compost > more food > repeat
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There should be a coordination across civic institutions to convert food waste into egg production. Layer hens are a very efficient, low investment project. Anyone who keeps the backyard chicken flock understands this.
The prioritizations of our current social order are incredibly wasteful, arguably to the point of criminal negligence. Replace every hundredth bureaucrat with a chicken coop.
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@VTFlatlander They smell great, but we have too many. They’re easy to pull tho!
I wish the native honeysuckle vine smelled as nice as these do.
Do you use them for anything?
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@_wordmachine @erikmschneider I’ve been all around the west of the Puget sound, but have always tried to imagine what the Seattle side looked like before industry and western expansion took over. Not necessarily untouched by humans.
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@HeyNeighborCoop @erikmschneider You can go literally anywhere in the rural Puget Sound. We have miles of virtually untouched forests and beaches.
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Some of the greatest majesty of the known universe eliminated in just 150 years
mao_wow@realwow_mao
seeing bland suburbab sprawl over puget sound’s natural beauty makes me so fucking mad
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@moetkacik @mattyglesias This is the true question, not “should we build i?”
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@mattyglesias Please name a moment in history when the question of "who owns the tech" was not absolutely foundational to the effect of said tech on humanity
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I think we have really lost sight of the roots of socialist thought when people find it baffling that (some) socialists would be excited about the prospect of big technological advances that unsettle the established modes of production and want to focus on who owns the tech.
moe tkacik@moetkacik
Jacobin opposes a data center moratorium????????
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@grain99806254 @elidourado @mattyglesias We’ve used it to connect with neighbors, learn skills we didn’t know existed, identify invasice (and native) plants, and much more.
The technology itself is truly helpful in many peoples lives. I think the problem is who’s making the decisions, not that ai bad.
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@elidourado @mattyglesias What are the means of production going to be in 10 years?
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@mattyglesias In order to seize the means of production there have to be means of production.
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Grow more native plants. The bees, butterflies, and your grandbabies will thank you.
Mother Jones@MotherJones
Native plants were once dismissed as weeds. Now a Chicago park sale that usually draws 1,100 people drew 2,300—and sold every single plant. One Wisconsin nursery has gone from $13,000 in sales in 1982 to, as its founder puts it, "add a few zeros on there." motherjones.com/environment/20…
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@jasonmauck1 REGEN agriculture + AI = Recipe for GROWTH 💹🌱
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I don’t know if Agriculture is going to change someday where we can basically farm autonomously / robotically in regenerative fashion. Adding layers of crops / forage / livestock grazing
But I have a lot of fun in old equipment imagining what would be possible by doing it with what we’ve got to work with now.
Cultipacking a 12 way cc mix with Sunflowers, cowpeas, oats, millets, sorghum, sun hemp, and mung beans into wheat and clover. We don’t want to kill it…I’m trying something here that I thought would work. That’s living. Being not sure but confident it may work and just FAFO
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This kid is awesome.
I like plants and clever systems the way some people like birds.
There’s beauty in the world around us, if we take a minute to pay attention.
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@sovernTranch @ATEOutdoors We’re actively seeding and propagating most of these for our chickens too! Great list.
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@ATEOutdoors Vetch, plantain, clover, doc, lespedeza, comfrey (if you’re going to graze it get the reseeding kind) hemp, amaranth
I would also add fodder trees. Mulberry and willow are great. Tulip poplar would be another. You can pollard them and keep them small
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Question for those who graze livestock. I'm looking at adding lots of different things to my field where I plan on grazing sheep in the future. What are good flowering plants I can spread out there that will simultaneously provide forage for the sheep, forage for bees, and not end up being toxic.
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@gnostic_bf @martianwyrdlord Let every fence become a trellis
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The Australian parliament was designed with a lawn rooftop that is accessible to the public, this was intentional symbolism that placed the people above the government of the day...
Anyway they fenced it off in 2017 lol
Momo@KaiserKat04
Why did the Australians design their Parliament building like this? They could have taken their inspiration from their Canadian brethren
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