This essay and intro together are incredibly good

That’s the same as any gaming. Just people muttering while doing a creative logic task.

When anyone uses the term "Situationship" I have a few seconds where I strongly feel they must be talking about the Situationists before I remember.

information storms are culmination of long processes of acquiring the biospheres energy channeling first through agriculture then industry then information intensification, then they short circuit and form hurricanes of violent information overconnection and collapse (image from HT Odum)

also clarity when i said "left or right' on the post about implicit bias i literally mean left and right buttons. the test has you push one of two buttons back and forth in different combos. I didnt' mean the plitical labels.

The same year that da Vinci started The Annunciation

So this is him younger who would play young Leo?

It’s believed he invented the corkscrew. And from his notes he appears to been annoyed at how people cleaned their hands while eating so he invented the napkin

This is a bit Shelly of me But whenever I see a “No Kings!” sign, I silently add in my head: “…but King Ludd”

One could even do solar pv takes over that high storage. No I have strong concerns of whether that is the best use. I would rather store it as vegetation doing trellis grapes or other crops over those more parallel water features higher in the landscape. Central valley is toast otherwise

The other major storage of energy is the cleanest and quality of water and the temperature times precipitation gives us information about the Rain chemical energy capacity. Given that most life processes require clean water in order to drive environmental labor the graphic shows how that’s made

Then in order to understand how it actually releases the solar energy it needs to be converted into solar energy which is the original solar productivity and you have to multiply it by 10,909 joules per joule (this is the conversion back to our initial solar energy this image shows the results that

To calculate the Geo potential energy, you can map it by multiplying the area in meters squared times the runoff in meters times the gravitational constant 9.81 m/s per second multiplied by the elevation that water at that time for example here’s a calculation I did for the Oregon willamette Valley

the limits to growth happen because of the total dynamics of the system. fuels, renewables, social dyanamics, health, war, wealth accumulation are all interacting

some of it's about reserves, some of it about the cost of extraction, some of it about politics and control but these act together to set limits and when we hit them the house of cards falls, the bouncy cattle deflates

Let's talk. We knew this was coming and there are earlier moments that we can draw from. History has been largely erased around the ways that we can be prepared but it's there. Not analogies; they are earlier expressions of this condition. The way that clouds look similar across the sky 1/

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Anyway it’s not like a full history but it’s got some cool stuff

It’s actually specifically on the botany of Renaissance Tuscany

I just thought this was funny I’m reading a book on the history of Renaissance Tuscany and this was one of the illustrations making a point that we have memed ever since