Permaculture stands for the promotion, protection, and perpetuation of all life.
You are relevant
The universe is knowable but favours secrecy.
What secrets will you take to the grave?
Who will you share the graveyard with?
Sex is an ancient ritual and a site where ancestors and descendants come together.
It's both a dance and a conflict, but more and more we erect barriers, be they pharmacological or latex, or just going our own way and growing old with cats.
Oh but the economic squeeze on household formation and the vampiric gerontocracy.
Outrage and ego-boosting validation are the twin levers that most reliably crank up online dwell time.
Why does digital dwell time soar in the social media paddock while a physical dwelling becomes harder to obtain?
The engineer might try to free himself from the professional hatred and drama of politics but soon realises that if he's good enough at his job his decisions cease to be technical and very quickly become political.
Welcome to the infrapolitical sphere.
We are always homeless. Now the trick is to stop running away. Technology has been becoming the mechanism of escape.
“More is different.” P. W. Anderson
I dunno. I’m bearish on the Y chromosome. This is what ChatGPT told me about a speculative science fiction story I was procrastinating with last year.
You see this in sharp relief in many villages across the global south.
Why are we driven to escape reality? Perhaps T.S. Eliot had it right:
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Constant connectivity distracts us, perpetual movement uproots us- anything to avoid confronting the stillness where reality awaits.
Hypermobility and hyperconnectivity are mechanisms of escape - ways we flee reality.
Pascal once observed that humanity’s problems come from our inability to sit quietly in a room.
Today, we travel everywhere, always seeking elsewhere, yet never truly arriving and never belonging anywhere.
The age of Dematerialisation can be understood as a sudden reaction to materialism’s brute facts of reality.
Hyperconnectivity, rather than fostering community, deepens social division and superficiality.
Hypermobility, rather than bringing genuine proximity, displaces us and leaves longing for a deeper belonging.
There aren’t many opportunities left to live honestly.
Today authentic living feels increasingly out of reach.
Mere survival requires complicity in systems of injustice - housing markets, exploitative supply chains, corporate roles.
Perhaps real honesty now exists closest to the land, the village, and local accountability.
What should I download first, my old gmail account or a local copy of Wikipedia?
Guys, can we halt trading?
Our children matter. Everything we bring into being, biological or technological, emerges shaped by our own hands, our dreams, our fears. We are all midwives to ideas - guiding them into the world, gently or forcefully, knowingly or blindly.
https://x.com/isjuustadream/status/1909324657582362933?s=46
Ideologies breathe, grow, and live among us; we nourish them, sometimes unaware of the power we grant. What truths or illusions are we nurturing now, and what will they become in the lives that follow ours?
Our children matter. Everything we bring into being, biological or technological, emerges shaped by our own hands, our dreams, our fears. We are all midwives to ideas - guiding them into the world, gently or forcefully, knowingly or blindly.
https://x.com/isjuustadream/status/1909324657582362933?s=46
We can’t afford the parasites anymore
What on Earth are we giving birth to
Can you use the new Deepseek on GPT4All or LM Studio using high end laptop yet?