Some Beats to Study to www.youtube.com/watch?v=scyC...

So the only way out is to expand to the space of possibilities of can and can not be said- that's where the set of what propagules are possible lives.

the disturbance makes a hole, an opening, a possibility, but it's not clear what that will be, it can be devistating, distructive, terrible, frightening, a war, an attack, a political upheaval

1. As you walk around, patterns of vegetation around us, the plant communities, may seem like something static or set, especially because trees and systems live at different speeds than we do, but what we often thing is set, "natural," "co-evolved," "good", "bad" etc, is a constant pattern of flux

if you KNOW this, you can watch for it, you can put energy towards the other approach- building connection, building resilience, working: - not the level of REACTION - not the level of PREPARATION - but the level of POSSIBILITY FLEXIBILITY ADAPTABILITY and MUTUAL CARE

the THIRD ASPECT OF VEGETATION DYNAMICS is DIFFERENCES IN SPECIES PERFORMANCE this is easy- if you have a niche and there are multiple propegules- they will have a number of different tactics- some will share, some won't, some will grow fast, some will crowed out defensively, some will inhibit

If someone is trying to get a system to have certain characteristics they will: 1, Initiate (or wait for) DISTURBANCE SHOCKS to open NICHES 2. Seed the system with PROPAGULES in readyness for the disturbance 3. be ready to encourage or discourage the PERFORMANCE of the propagules that there there.

it's often a better strategy to work for conviviality, interconnection, sutainability, but not all management/intervention/systems work that way and it's good to know about this unique approach when you are hoping for a world of interconnection and care: there are THREE SHOCKS

the FIRST SHOCK is intentional designed to throw everything into chaos The 2nd SHOCK is designed to get extremely extractive systems in place the 3rd SHOCK is to prevent other systems from counterbalancing or performing.

if there are seeds for shady loving plants already around, they will sprout once the conditions are right. So getting the seeds/PROPAGULES or being aware of the PROPAGULES that are there is essential for understanding what will happen AFTER the disturbance.

After the earthquake, you need your med kit all ready if you want to use it If you do the safety drill, you know what to do when the disaster strikes But it also means that there will be things that show up you didn't notice because they were only seeds before

at the same time, when the niche is open, what IS there is what's going to dominate for a while. And this is done intensionally: in traditional bulb horticulture- you plant the seed at the same time you harvest the root. You plant the start right when you harvest the cabbage

1. As you walk around, patterns of vegetation around us, the plant communities, may seem like something static or set, especially because trees and systems live at different speeds than we do, but what we often thing is set, "natural," "co-evolved," "good", "bad" etc, is a constant pattern of flux

rememeber that ecological farm twitter person who went on how crazy i was because I talked about arctic policy being important?

I'm getting back into the swing of streaming online. One personal goal right now is memorizing the city of Siena, Italy using geoguessr. I'll be on for the next hour playing & talking ecological design issues. www.twitch.tv/buildsoil

Just dropped out of an intro to econometrics course tonight because of the assignments for many of the weeks were “ask Microsoft copilot make an economic model of the worth of x ecological resource”.

maybe i'm old fashioned but i dont enjoy when corporate commodities are associated with identity and product are considered news or discourse

billionaires commonly practice NEGATIVE SUM strategies, destroying valuable goods rather than just capturing them for themselves, in order to prevent anyone from benefitting

They want slavery . They want it. They want the the world slavery made and are trying to break it down to its coding parts and the people “fighting” them want the equivalent of benevolent overseer roles because they accept the premise

The solutions are still the same. In fact, the need to look to common simple cause over symbolic or complicated difference is even more dire. It’s not through intense individualism but through trying something foundational, together, as a practice, that something emerges. And, you can just start

Perfect example of the problems of prescriptivism versus descriptivism. Prescriptivism always pretends that it was always right

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Time for the annual listen to Björks song about the Yule Cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHu...

I went over on Threads for the first time in a couple years and it is completely people defending and talking about how great AI is.

“It’s your last temptation, Charlie Brown” where its him right before kicking the football deciding not to do it having a full life where he grows up marries the little red hair girl and then decides no I’m going to kick the football and get criticized for his tree

Who do I know with connections to @microcosm.bsky.social ? DM me

I miss the community here but the algorithm here hasn’t really keep my attention. Wanting to revivify it. I’m doing so much work in my research and I had this big creative burst where I basically said everything I wanted to say for a while and now I’m thinking about new things and how to say them

Im get serious that we are going to see The Internet expanding to animals within our lifetime www.facebook.com/share/v/178g...

The solutions are going to have to come from Turning 180 degrees AWAY from adding more layers. The house has no foundation: start there.

someone else was pushing sunchokes on here so i guess i'll repost my rewriting of "HOWL" to the topic of Sunchokes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJKE...

Time to get comfortable with streaming again. I'm getting back to my weird project of memorizing Siena, Italy using Geoguessr. I'll play and if anyone is around I'll talk about whatever. This is NOT the main Build Soil stream or podcast, just me getting my tech back up. twitch.tv/buildsoil

did you know that the is a state-less world football association Includes Tamil, Northern Cyprus, Cascadia, Hmong, Yoruba, Isle of Man and many others AND they have male and female matches www.conifa.org

Hope everyone is doing well www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isoq...

When I have a friend or when I notice somebody strongly advocating for generative AI I’ve had to do some strong blocking. And the reason is that even if they mean well, they are compromised. They likely are talking with gen AI, forming opinions with it & also teaching it how to be more undetectable

I’m sure others have written about this, but I’m hardly on social media. Removal of federal student loan eligibility for nursing programs is terrible and it won’t end there. It signals a clear attack on professions dominated by people the administration sees as useless. Arts & Sciences are next.

I’m jumpstarting getting back into the communication side of things and doing a bunch of errands: AMA and I’ll do my best to answer !

“Capitalism is ONLY looms and ledgers y’all”

Imagine a lighting striking a single tree in a forest. What happens next isn’t about the lightening, it’s the conditions. There is always lightening. What makes the difference? Why would COVID have statuses localized before global travel? Why are trends now over in weeks rather than decades? 1/

This is amazing and very cool

So I haven’t talked about this but one of the things I’m doing in my studies right now is studying the morphology of the town of Siena Italy. It’s starting to look like one of my many methods section of my dissertation is going to include using @geoguessr.bsky.social

To get this Mutual Coordinates podcast going im going to have to raise money. I’m in a job that’s absolutely pointless right now. if I can raise $1000/mo towards the project it would be worth it enough for me redirect my energy. It’s draining energy for me that could go towards helping people

I’m looking locally first and professionally but if anybody knows an actual genuine high-quality bookkeeper who knows how to whip a small Non Profit into shape and has some kind of sliding scale. We are looking right now. needs to be easy and something in the wheelhouse of the person or company.

I’m in that mood Ware a project has been finished and completed and the starting is this incubating itchy unknown chaotic mode and I woke up this morning realizing that that is exactly the right place to be the unformed the unnamed the strange the instinctual the preclassified

Thinking about what would happen to any and all sports with two binary dichotomous teams if there were two other “teams” also playing. Along with Team A & Team Z also Team “Both A & B together” & Team “Neither A nor B”

So: - I’d like the opportunity to bridge this and get back to being genuinely useful to you all. This means I’m reaching out during this very difficult time to ask for a push of donations. Buildsoil.net Venmo.com/buildsoil PayPal.me/buildsoiloffice

So it’s been a REALLY rough couple months. - moved 100 miles away - learned that I will never rent from someone who has no experience and doesn’t hire a propert manager to keep them grounded in tenet law - got rid of 70% of my belonging - started back in school -reassembling my studio

So it’s been a REALLY rough couple months. - moved 100 miles away - learned that I will never rent from someone who has no experience and doesn’t hire a propert manager to keep them grounded in tenet law - got rid of 70% of my belonging - started back in school -reassembling my studio

Trying to get more regular about my evening reading.