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Still wayfinding. Trying to understand paths during these times of planetary change. Open to feedback. Also on @[email protected] Likes ≠ Endorsements
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This a question for all the non agricultural people on here. Should farmers working in the regenerative/sustainable/conservation systems continue to do so if society doesn't value it? At this point it's a net zero increase to profits at best with added risks. Conventional farming systems are easier.

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Another casualty of DOGE -- the world's threatened wildlife. How many species will go extinct due to new funding cuts? The impacts will not be insignificant.

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A great thread on the national treasure that is Forest Service research.

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Adam Greenfield has an interesting post & discussion asking about "value – what it is, how it’s formed, how we account for it" - social.coop/@adamgreenfi... -> www.patreon.com/posts/129252... . (yearning to read more deeply, reminds me of a Value & Values convo on Earth Regenerators back in 2021)

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The @wclivestream.bsky.social is going strong and almost to hour 80! I tuned in to find @lnzhang-climate.bsky.social hosting a solid set of talks about carbon cycling including from @biometlab.bsky.social and Gretchen Keppel-Aleks! Watch here: wclivestream.com

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Keynote tomorrow, "From Turing to Thiel: AI and the 'Noble Lie'“ at Oise. It concludes with a quote from Brooks on the role of the literary humanities "to provide public tools of resistance to bogus and totalizing world explanations." All the papers look interesting--info below.

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I find myself fairly critical of AI, but something interesting happening on Ecohana next week is the book club is alternating weeks of reading from "AI for Humanity" and "Thinking Like a Mountain" - starting June 2nd with the Aldo Leopold essay "Thinking like a Mountain" ecohana.mn.co/posts/85026378

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Elon Musk’s actions have already killed an estimated 300,000 people since January. Read this. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Including land and forest carbon sequestration together with fossil fuels and other emissions in national climate targets will likely allow for greater emissions of fossil fuel carbon, and put the 1.5°C limit further at risk.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I've added another story to the growing collection at Planet Ficus - this one is about a brilliant form of bioengineering developing hundreds of years ago. open.substack.com/pub/planetfi... Subscribe to Planet Ficus for more astounding stories about fig trees, the rock stars of the plant world.

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Something thats interesting to observe is that these critiques felt like they were only happening in green party/deep ecology spaces back in 2020/2021 when the Biden-flavored Green New Deal discourse was happening. Open to feedback, maybe I missed other thoughts then.

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The focus on young men overlooks what's going with 45-64 year olds, a group that is about to start receiving social security checks.

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Haven't posted listens of the week in a while, so here we go.. Varn's read of Kate Willet's article on Abundance (newintermag.com/abundance-bi...) is rambly but has insightful reminders. Reminded me of 2017-2019 when I was disenchanted and mildly got interested in EA: bsky.app/profile/varn...

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What RFK Jr and his gang of raw carnivores don't understand is that you simply cannot have mass animal agriculture without vaccination, biosecurity, and, yes, depopulation to control epizootic disease outbreaks. That's the ugly truth. Allowing animals to suffer is neither humane or scientific.

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Maxine Berg shows how the “nimble fingers” stereotype first arose in the early Industrial Revolution as a way for managers to de-skill the labor of women workers. It was also used to exoticize labor of Navajo semiconductor manufacturers at Shiprock in the 60s. The term has a long sordid history.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The Ants & the Grasshopper is screening this Sunday at 10/9c on PBS Doc World. Watch, for free, on the PBS App/YouTube! worldchannel.org/episode/doc-...

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11:51PM update: The Texas Senate education committee is just now resuming testimony on bills. There are students who've been waiting +12 hours to testify on legislation that directly affects them. Others have had to leave without testifying because they don't have a half-day of "sitting around" time

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