@zeroinputag The small village surveillance sounds more mutual than the tech-overlord scenario.
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Tim Booth
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Tim Booth
@TimBoot55820513
Family man, planting trees, playing music, born-again drinker of fine pale ales
New Zealand Katılım Şubat 2022
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If urban/suburban places become perpetually surveilled (by gov/corporations/individuals) will that simply recreate the oppressive feeling of tiny rural communities where everyone knows everyone else's business?
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City Liberals who hate flyover country and want to be Europe cannot comprehend the European mind that loves flyover country.
Coming soon: rewriting of the narrative to hate both rural America and the Europeans that love it.
Freddy🇩🇪@FreddyLA7
Driving through Ohio. Towns like this are why we’re trying to avoid the interstates and take the slower roads instead. These are the kinds of places we want to see. This feels like peak America.🇺🇸
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@zeroinputag I like this. It flips the ecomodernist's thrown-away epigram "today's poor have better health care than the kings and queens of old." We're awash in waste - ecological, cultural, financial - it's good to be reminded what real wealth looks like
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Maybe today's billionaires are less wealthy in real terms than the millionaires of yesteryear...
Muse@xmuse_
I get it... the ultra‑rich today chase different ambitions. Science, tech, innovation, and whatnot. But damn, it would be amazing to have eccentric billionaires building like this again. Imagine the legacy.
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@KevinEspiritu You've got a good voice bro! Keep at it - no fear, no failure
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I'm freakin' out on the interstate - quick Sunday evening cover. I'm trying to self-teach singing and I think making a bit of progress...
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@TornadoNate Pick your poison i guess. It's certainly false, however, that the baseline option is the more "natural" of the two - pollution comes in a plethora of forms
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I just gotta be honest the whole "dont cover our valuable cropland with solar panels" crowd doesnt impress me, when baseline is to ship topsoil & nitrogen down the Mississippi river to grow shitty gasoline, corn syrup & cattle feed on land that also fallows 6 months of the year
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@AgroNationalism @Komodoom Very interesting take. Permaculture is too complex for most suburbanites, but woody crops could work on a wider scale. Please, though, everyone can learn to grow their own herbs and greens!
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@Komodoom Bradford pears are high btu and make good charcoal or firewood
Woody crops in suburbs are the way to go, leave the food growing to the professionals
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suburbs should grow coppice crops like this
flexible annual rotation and nice aesthetics
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People say some really silly things. Other people actually believe them. I mean, didn't anyone want to ask, who will be the private chef to the maid who is already maiding? Like if everyone lives in a Penthouse, will all home be single family homes on stilts?
For real, help me.
The Iced Coffee Hour@TheICHpodcast
Jason Oppenheim reveals EVERYONE will be able to afford private chefs, maids, the best healthcare in 10 years due to AI👀 “Everyone within 10 to 15 years will have a Michelin star chef, a maid, babysitter, a dentist, and the best physician in the world”
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@NJHagens While I essentially agree with every one of Tom and DJ's arguments, I nevertheless find their criticisms rather dull. Space travel can inspire real generative new thinking. See @encaustum/p-166903552" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@encaustum/p-1… as recently mentioned by Dougald Hine, on resource flows rather than stocks.
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Techno-optimists dream of a future where we mine, travel to, and colonize other planets – all in the hopes of bypassing the problems we now face on Earth. But from the perspective of physics and ecology, how feasible is space colonization?
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I'm no fan of space travel, terraforming Mars, etc, but whenever I hear clever people poo poo such efforts, I can't help seeing them as spoilsports
A spoilsport is not just a critic of a particular project or game, they also want to deny the player any pleasure in their play.
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Started on next week’s article “Five Bold Theories of Human Evolution”.
Any guess what my five topics about human origins will be?
GIF
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@TornadoNate As a keen home veggie gardener, I've developed a bit of a love-hate relationship with lawns over the years. My most prepper-oriented justification is to treat them as "standing reserve." However, i won't deny that a nice lawn is still the ultimate middle class status symbol
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Grass lawns get a bad rap with a certain crowd. In the midwest, it is just what happens. Plant some grass seed, mow it regularly. Now, you can get all fussy and perfectionistic about it, and you should not do that, but a basic grass lawn is very low maintenance and nice.
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@zeroinputag Sorry, that's confusing. What I meant was perhaps AI needn't be "durable" (the next tech benchmark from here on out) to be a net gain. Even if it's transient - and treated as such with future non-AI goals in mind - it can still be useful, even across the board socially
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@zeroinputag Agreed, if we recalibrate what counts as durable vs transient, LLM-AI might end up being more useful - rather than a perceived transcendence of human capacity
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Will society retreat into defensive clans as life gets harder?
I sketch out the path to an ultra high trust society as an alternative in this week's substack post.
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@JasonHanson2028 I expect this latest jolt in the energy system will prompt a lot more people to take up the opportunity to integrate the raising of these animals into their everyday lives!
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We should create more fertilizer and food producing machines like these to alleviate our high prices here in the U.S.
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Carl Jung's idea of individuation involved an amalgamation of one's many psychic realities - the reconciliation of an unsettled inner world. I can't help thinking that we'll need to accept our deeply mechanistic capacity to then move safely ad humanely through an AI paradigm
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@zeroinputag I wonder whether the permaculture people will lean into AI as a way to distribute their own kind technological potential
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@TimBoot55820513 Glad you get it. On the surface it can seem dystopian but if individuals don't use these new tools themselves then you can bet governments and corporations will anyway. The devil is in the detail, in aligning incentives and shortening feedback loops.
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@mbauwens @allenanalysis @johnthackara Another striking philosophical statement. I'm not yet familiar with your deep thinking around the commons but my intellectual orientation is anthropological, so I'm inclined to understand it within cultural frameworks for now. Human reflexivity can be expanded in many ways
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We are in a thermo-dynamic crisis, and the solution must be thermo-dynamic (as well as social, cultural, etc.. but without matter-energy, none of the latter can be done). The commons, and its mutualization capacity (factor 20 reduction a la @johnthackara ) is the bridge between the entropic push of the contemporary cultural-ecological-identitarian left, and the real-entropy ignoring solutions of the transhuman right .
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Neo-Marxism 2.02:
bringing back the power of the working class ... (listen to Karp below)
Wondering what @allenanalysis proposed counter-strategy will be. Learning more critical theory is not going to cut it.
I told my 2 European children 15 years ago, that the time of the educated 'critical' elite was over, and that they should study the classics on their own, but learn real material skills to survive the transition period. They did listen to the first part .
The intelligent, socially-sensitive right wing, (as distinguished from the predatory warlord types that are now in power), i.e. those who combine cultural conservatism with a real social justice orientation, like @newpolity for example, is doing just that, sending their children to St. Joseph the Worker type schools, where practical skills are married to high-level wisdom literature. (check out the 50 jobs that survived 400 years of capitalism, and are still supporting working class families).
This is the time for constructive elites. Post-modern becomes trans-modern (just skip metamodernism).
We need a curriculum for the emerging network nations, the Archipelago of Regenerative Projects. The communism of consumption, the Eastern Way of the Buddhists, won't do, it leaves intact the one-sided classs extraction; we need to go back to the strategies of the Benedictines and the Cistercensiers, and their communism of production. Keep the surplus value, and invest it in the great extropic (neguentropic) duty of the human race, fully embodied in the interdependent natural cycles and in solidarity with all beings and the life that is inherent in evolving matter.
Learn from the St. Benedicts of our time: Austin Wade Smith (making the non-human visible to human decision-making), Will Ruddick (post-extractive exchange systems), Benjamin Life; the theorization of network.nations by Primavera and crew. Underneath all of this, check out the PhD thesis of Ben Suriano. And check those that already exited: The Commons Hub in Vienna, the Traditional Dream Factory in Portugal.
Next priority: we need a curriculum, a mix of the Appropedia and the P2P Foundation wiki, embedded in a story of our civilizational arc. (that has been my recent work)
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud. Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters. He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will. So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.
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@zeroinputag Times like these I think we're more likely to realise why "tending the garden" has often been such a potent symbol in the religious traditions of this world
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Tim Booth retweetledi
I first started reading about peak oil and the risk of Hormuz being shut down 20 years ago.
I reorganised my life around this unavoidable predicament.
Now it is here, I am too busy tending my garden to follow much of the news.
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