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Last Notes npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Mobilizon "A tool that helps you find, create and organize events. You can also create a page for your group where the members will be able to get organized together. An ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages." Federated. https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ #Mobilizon npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Bluesky is a kettle. I told my friends and they went there anyway -- well, a minority of my friends. Most stayed firmly glued onto Facebook's game board. "Y'know, there's Mas..." "Nope. Not 'picking a server, whatever th'heck that is." npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei UK unprepared for increasingly frequent wildfires, framework warns https://wildfiretoday.com/2025/01/16/uk-wildfires-resilience-framework-increasingly-frequent/ #wildfires npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Same same https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/831/255/373/324/058/original/fdcb36595b289a6e.png npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Thirty Years on a Homestead. Food hyperlocalism. No-dig after the first year. A somewhat random slide show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QgsIaMacLk #homesteading #gardening npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei How the plastic industry undermines democracy by blocking bans https://www.dailyclimate.org/plastic-industry-undermines-democracy-2670324941.html #pollution npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Updated: A Way to Live: Shonin's link list https://risashome.blogspot.com/p/sources-and-citations.html npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei "All these increasing Φm values....were and are related to evolutionary events in which energy flow and cultural selection played significant roles. However, all of this progress, which has decidedly bettered the quality of human life as measured by health, education, and welfare,inevitably came—and continues to come—at the expense of greatly increased demand for more and enriched energy—to what end humanity on Earth cannot be certain." http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Chaisson%202010%3b%20Energy%20Rate%20Density%20as%20a%20Measure%20of%20Complexity.pdf #entropy #MEPP 8/12 npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei "Utility, that essential but elusive concept, is herein identified with the rate of #entropy production; the ultimate but invisible incentive is to disperse energy. Economies evolve by diminishing free energy, equivalent ultimately to increasing entropy, toward more probable distributions of matter under an influx of energy. " #MEPP http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Annila&Salthe%3b%20Economies%20Evolve%20by%20Energy%20Dispersal.pdf 7/12 npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei EROI of subsistence lifestyle sufficient to maintain successful reproduction and empowerment of a succeeding generation to the same level is said to be "1.2 to 1." It wasn't clear to me whether that included imported (hand-carried) soil fertility, for example from nearby forest, or relocation and slash-and-burn. Use of #TerraPreta" might improve the ratio. http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Odum&Kylstra%201980%3b%20EnergyTransformation&EconomyofUS.pdf All technological energy harvesting, use has increasing sunk costs and ultimately falls below 1 to 1. #MEPP 6/12 https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/539/765/794/797/083/original/7d7309250f12a0f1.png npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei "According to the generalized formulation of #MEPP: at each hierarchical level, the system will choose the state with the maximum #entropy production density (specific heat production)." http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Martyushev%202013%3b%20Entropy%20Production.pdf 5/12 npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei "Dissipative structures are required by the equilibrating universe to enhance local energy gradient dissipation." #MEPP http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Salthe%3b%20MPP%20and%20MEPP%20-%20Finalities%20in%20Nature.pdf 3/12 npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei "If the world selects those dynamics that minimize potentials at the fastest rate given the constraints [#MEPP], and if ordered flow is more efficient at reducing potentials than disordered flow (derivation from the balance equation of the second law), then the world can be expected to produce order whenever it gets the chance ‹the world is in the order-production business because ordered flow produces #entropy faster than disordered flow." http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Thermo%20Reading%20List/Swenson%201997%3b%20Evolution%20and%20the%20Law%20of%20Maximum%20Entropy%20Production.pdf 2/12 npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Biden administration requesting roughly $100 billion for #DisasterRelief | CNN Politics https://lite.cnn.com/2024/11/18/politics/biden-administration-request-disaster-relief/index.html npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei #Signal >> Download Signal https://signal.org/download/ npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Some of these solutions are clearly for the very rich, but I'd keep looking -- the young couple running this site and YouTube channel are very smart, and they give equal respect to extreme voluntary-poverty interviewees, such as the gentleman who runs a flock of sheep from his home-on-a-bicycle. >> *faircompanies – videos & articles for the beginning of infinity https://faircompanies.com/ npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Charles Dowding: Home https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/ #NoDig #Gardening npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Article by my friend about our quasi- #AnarchoSyndicalist labor contracting #cooperative in the 1970s-80s. Bonus: I'm the Smitty whose poem somehow got included. Hoedads_article_1979.pdf http://www.hoedadsonline.com/stories/Hoedads_article_1979.pdf npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei True. A point of the info is that not enough people know what happened, so they go there and "Th'heck is this??" Quite a bit of South Florida was knocked on its fanny by Katrina but New Orleans got most of the press, impacting service to visitors and extending the long shadow of the damage. npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei Seeing images of Korean gardeners with right-angled trowels (ho-mi) inspired me. I used to make my own by bending cheap hardware dept. trowels but discovered (during the brief time that they made them) Oxo's idea of a ho-mi and bought one to last. It did. I'll be handing it down. https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/037/045/293/217/444/original/0ca3a52e6732965e.png npub19afarp39gzgj8ptxwhp0k2fxrjvwuf9krg05gaxfu3u2gfnqxeyqh4pq9e tosei This couple as well, in the next country over from her -- they live as I (we) did in the 70s and 80s, no hope of gardening on that scale any more! I admire them. >> https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QlSNNvEs6eM