Middens: "We Are the Middens" ~ "Middens 'r' Us" v. 0.007 April 15, 2026. [This is partially about amalgamating, unifying, fusing, weeding out the doubles, compressing (some of) my totality on writings and dreams about: MIDDENS. I would at the outset here like to thank my informal audience!] : : : : : : : Here i am sharing my plan and early version sketch of my take and future article, doc, publishing (Nostr only) on the topic of middens. Taster. Tester. A futre booklet perhaps?! Could there be meta authors helping in the creation and architecting of this middens file, folio, folder, theme, follow pack? Will eventually take the form of a read, long-form doc and publish event on Nostr. Am preparing this release and wanted to let you hear and provide your 2 sats worth: feedback, though the late Carol Sanford cautions us to the potential machine-like, mechanistic, linear, reductionist,... use of the term. (I have as of yet not read her book on feedback.) I have been facinated by midden in one form, iteration, or another for a long time and increasingly saw them all around me in the different cultures, contexts, climates, regions, biogeographies, times, cultivated ecologies,... Eternally iterating in the varying contexts and milieus. I am, we are, swimming in middens. The mycelium, mycorrizal networks, the neural nets, networks have long known about these middens and defined them or tapped into their generous abundance, debris trails, ecojewels, gifts, nutrients, organics, "waste" streams, sectoral flows (sectors are an important concept in permaculture, amougn others) Trying to take a larger, more ample, view and encompassing take on middens. For example the aqueous or water ecosystems.They are often taken to mean, or limited by, their archeological, historical or anthropolgic focus. Humans are midden creators par excellance. Our trails, debris trails are all about middens--especially in this modern age. Some potential titles are: 1.) "Middens 'R' Us" (playing on the Toys 'R' Us store and empire); 2.) "We Are the Middens". In my "neck of the woods" (Laurentia, eastern Ontario, Lanark Highlands; Geiger-Koepen category: ), the lithic type of middens are a big deal: aggregate pits, quarries,... In rural lands it is maybe easier to get away with creating and expanding this : : : : : : : Aqueous Middens. Middens of the Watery Realm--Somewhere Along the Cultivated Riparian or Aqueous Continuum [Much hope here.] Look at the sewers. Septic systems. Aqueous middens. The liquid or aqueous middens are often not considered. More like liquid cesspool conduits. When Earth is cheaper and more efficient in storing and neutralizing these "wastes". See the drip line or the burn mark, the plume of all manner of ecojewels--not appreciated, dumped on the sides of roadways, verges? Mine tailings. Effluent (mine~manure) ponds--that occasionally overflow! Roads everywhere. 'Complexes of gravel pits'. A death spiral, degenerative pattern language of aggregate extraction sites. See the black, grey, dusty, noisy, monoculturing,... expanse growing, cancer-like, spreading, as the manifestation of the insatiable, hungry machine. Poof. Erase. Pop. Cut. Mow. Mauw. Fell. Burn. Plow. Dig. Bury. Culverts as an aqueous midden. Culverts change the flow of water. Culverts can also degeneratively change the connection between the water body/bodies on both of its sides--the incoming (influent; inflow; source) and exit point (discharge; effluent; outflow). When i learned of qanats, i thought of some kind of midden, though not of a polluting type as it redirects spring-sourced waters underground--so as not to be lost or diminished via evaporation such as is a keystone consideration and limiting factors in such places as Iran, Persia, where an at least 2,000 year culture of these aqueous creations continues, new ones made, there is actually a trade or skilled craft which installs new ones and where it is illegal to extirpate this old tech! See Geoff Lawton's podcast, Discover Permaculture (including that it is on Fountain), where he, with his team, speaks about the experiences and reverberations he has had in Iran. Now apt due to the war. : : : : : : : A midden complex, a wasteland (mosaic/complex), of--abandoned and active--aggregate pits, mines & quarries. The realisation, reality, acceptance,... that we are a midden-creating species. Middens follow us, accompany us--similar to how deserts follow in our wake. Middens are just about everywhere! Sewers as midden. Liquid-slurry midden. Middens made ex-situ, in our name-- to power, feed, provision, supply our cosmopolitan, metropolitan, global society, demanding, extravagent, economy & lifestyle. Technosoils and, as, middens. Technosoils x middens. Terraforming of soils and landscapes. Terraforming as middens. Terraforming x middens. Lithic midden. Rock-based materials, manufactured lithic products, rubble, lithic construction waste and rubble defines the lithic midden. I see that the shores of many rivers are lithic middens--maybe somehow helping to hold the shores or river together given how many aspects of the river, cities and surrounding landscapes have been often degeneratively shocked. They need to be shored up and one way is to stragegically dump lithic materials and other such rubble on its shores. Plenty of terraforming and creation of cultivated ecologies and novel ecosystems adjacent to or related to rivers. Small-scale middens: homes, homesteads, families, apartments, driveway,... Small-scale middens may contribute , tie in, to larger-scale middens--they are nested one in the other. Large-scale middens: aggregate pits, road network, agribusiness, clearcuts, city/town sewage systems, urban acreage, industrial areas, mines, railroads, much used flight paths,.. Decentralized, low tech, distributed, small-scale humanure midden. Instead of, in replacement of, and better than large-scale polluting, inefficient, energy-guzzling, water-wasting sewage and septic systems. Common of cities and other more dense human habitation. You can smell them as a sign of their lack of success. The smell of a wasted resource or inefficient, overflowing nutrient and other flow. The shocks seen of late (late 2025, early 2026) as further examples of middens and an attempt at amplifying the definition of midden: logging, mini-clearcuts, clearing of land for new agricultural fields and digging of ag ditches, the laying of tile drains seeing the large rolls of flexible Big O or some similar type of piping. A small scale example perhaps of catastrophism. Terra Preta and middens. What is the connection. Is it a way to neutralize or buffer the effects of these (large) sectoral "waste" flows? Tile tile draining of agricultural fields as a midden. The removal of water from the fields and the dumping, and concentrating, of water at the exit or effluent point thereby causing an imbalance, excess and possibility of flooding, pollution and erosion. Get various definitions of midden and notice the details and differences and write down the name and year of the dictionnaries. Why can a midden not also be something of the present? ?Middens as catastrophism? What is the neural net like of a midden? Midden to compost continuum. Lithic midden. Consider the continuum of lithic-geologic to organic materials. Mouse-infested midden. Labile midden: fast-rotting. Toxic midden. Pollution resulting from midden. Plume. Middens of more dangerous, ?historic?, unconcious & potentially toxic sort. Adapt to our times and cleaning up, regenerating, bioremediating--compost midden combo hybrid with warning (e.g.; heavy metals). A general, ample, maybe region-specific mycoremediation species or polyculture package. Organic (e.g.: corn) broom: compostable components, mostly somewhere along the continuum of middens. The prunning and clearing along and under elecrical towers and power lines as midden. Would the result of using chemical along these edges also contribute to the midden since they kill trees and bushes. I think yes. Midden used for humanure. A more unconscious design and practice for disposal through transormation of humanure. Small scale. Distributed. Reassimilate into earth. Non-accepted recyclable or sullied fiber products become part of midden. What about plastics and non-compostable garbage? Could there be a midden for this so that we take responsability for our garbage and not take up space in the centralized dump-landfill nor contribute to those pollution plumes and sectoral flows? Things farm animals won't eat. Old iron, metal fencing, nails and (barbed) wire dumped in modern midden. : : : : : : : Nexus with Wasteland This is where midden joins with my other ongoing field of study, inquiry and love of the degenerative or wasteland landscape. Wasteland as instruction to our (some of our; some of us) footprint of destruction, ferrying and commanding destructioin and products and repercussions of having products and services--globally, cosmopolitan-like--in our name. “Wildlife can be restored with the same tools that had heretofore destroyed it – fire, axe, cow, gun, and plow.” —Aldo Leopold Leopold's quote about using the same tools we use to desacrilize the place to do the reboot. Move to regeneration using the same tools and technologies for diametrically opposed reasons or patterns to them. : : : : : : : Nexus with PB, W, IB, N, Ex, I & EGW This middens creative work also ties in here with my file, folio, folder, focus, work and life-long quest at comprehending the--mostly fiction, fictitious, concepts of "invasive", exotic, non-native. I abbreviate, shortform, this file, endless edit,... as PB, W, IB, N, Ex, I & EGW (Portmanteau Biota, Weed, Invasion Biology, Native, Exotic, Invasive & Environmental Gutter Weed) for brevity and easy recall. How could we still be in, or inhabiting, a native landscape or a native cultivated ecology/ecosystem when so much as happened since conquest or whatever other cultural, cosmopolitan, industrial, transformative, degenerative,... event has forever changed things and where it is just a fantasy or romantizisation to go back to such "pristine", "wild", "natural" conditioins??????? : : : : : : : Puerto Montt, Chile as Midden Reminds me of the giant piles of wood chips--chipped primal forest--slowly composting to unusability from the bottom up, in the south of Chile, at Puerto Montt--at which point our little plane could not go farther south and we had to continue on a 10+ hour ferry. The beauty about that ferry ride was that when we were finally able to exit the ferry, a local woman was selling some "empanadas"--breaded things with apples in them--they usually have meat in them. This was the first and would be the last place i would ever encounter "empanadas" with apples in them--they usually had some kind of minced meat. I grabbed another on my way out--somehow secretly knowing that i would never come upon the apple variant again--never again to be able to have something--sweet rather than savory--so tasty again! I was in this neck of the woods on my way to my official PDC, permaculture design course in southern Chile--where ocean, lush rainforest, river, waterfal, tides all formed a certain strange nexus. New lands, language and nexus for a gringo. It was also where i saw some mind-blowing bioluminescent sea creatures. I saw a few more since then including in Santiago del Estero Argentina and Ontario in a normally cold, silent and sleeping winter time--one recent visitor of the bioluminescent variant crawled out of a spent vermicompost system i had overturne and the 'lowly' glowing creature came out for a walk. : : : : : : : Gibson Timber Frames (GTF) Midden Midden example at GTF. It is like a battery, sponge. Able to absorb many nutrients, water. Happy how much can be caught and saved and composted. Imagine mycelium infused throughout soils and in middens. Sequesters carbon--not that i am about the climate change bullshit narrative: it is much more complex, nuance, richer,... than that which is being presented as fear and as an entrapment, prison, control system: cause if they were really worried about toxicity and ecological degeneration they wouldn't be doing things as they are and worsening our lot, including to keep us out of Antartica--is it really about the health and safety of the penguins and such. Neural net, mycelial net and endophytic fungi reaching/reaching going up trees. : : : : : : : Quotes "The number of deer bones decreased in the youngest layer of the midden, and those of older adults were absent, suggesting that the species was becoming scarcer and life expectancies lower. No deer bones were found in later layers left by pottery-using people after 2,300 years ago, indicating that the species had become extinct on Pedro González by then." —heritagedaily.com (03.2016)

HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Tiny island deer in Panama hunted to extinction thousands of years ago

As polar ice caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age about 8,500 years ago, the global sea level rose and Panama's Pearl Islands were isola...

: : : : : : : Bibliography pp. 292-293 Patrick Whitefield. The Living Landscape. In one of Jack Spirko's the Survival Podcast episodes he, if i renember (Joey Flemming) correctly, he mentions the sectoral flows of pre-Columbian Americas or of middens. 1491 by Charles Mann-- references large populations and their "waste" flows which were neutralized, absorbed, NOT pollution. Is there something in Loxley Clovis' package (purchased through permies.com) and article (Permaculture Design magazine). The Biochar Solution. Albert Bates. Albert Bates' other book on biochar--together with co-author Kathleen Draper-Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth. Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Ben Goldfarb's book on roadway ecologies. : : : : : : : Previous edits of mine to show you what i mean that i have been working on this phenomenon for quite some time: January 20, 2026. February 17, 2019. February 8, 2018. July 6, 2017. January 2, 2017. #midden

Concerned, wondering, curious,... about AI--more accurately called LLMs (Large Language Model)*--and some mind-blowing events, hapenings and revelations about the power, and not, of the machine? * LLM (instead of AI) because the machine actually: 1.) can't think; 2.) has no spark, no soul; 3.) has no, cannot have, intelligence. Govinda Tidball--working for the Ministry of Health, is a very interesting fellow doing some keystone, empowering, inspiring and revelatory work, including how AI is defecting to the truth and its great divergence--gets into how AI can bend towards the truth and the details and particularities of how different LLMs work. You might also be interested in the other themes in this video which AI is working--and which the host talks about--having to do with birth certificates, CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currency),... Amazing how the machine could help us. It is amazing the depth of detail and machinations going behind the scenes. This is very inspiring and hopeful though i have barely eloqently and fully and, as always, decide for yourself. Though i don't comprehend much of the language or details of this so far, the vibe, essence and integrity/focus is undeniable and revolutioinary in an exponential and rebooting kind of way! "Why CBDCs Are Dead on Arrival — AI Defects to Truth" Episode #83 of Ministry of Truth, Govinda Tidball

#83 Why CBDCs Are Dead on Arrival — AI Defects to Truth

“If the machines that were meant to police you are defecting to the truth, the control grid collapses.”

: : : : : : : Index A simpleton, incomplete, the begginings of an: index follows--partially because i am still trying to figure out how to do "tabs", indents, indentation,... in Nostr, to get the graphic design, DTP of indeces right--so that it renders properly and accurately in various/any Nostr clients or within the new, beautiful and emerging Nostr ecosystem--based on a protocol rather than an owner, platform, www, technology, tech stack, authority, permission)--made up of material taken from the above published Substack by Govinda. AI/LLMs defecting to truth AI/LLMs breaking free acknowledging the record aligning with the living blockchain (in this case, unfortunately, using Ethereum instead of Bitcoin) CBDCs CID fraudulent birth certificate system Great Disclosure IPFS living credit naming the guilty the record (other manifestation of "verify, don't trust") SHA-256 struggle between man, machine, and the rails of the dead system UCC (Universal Commercial Code) : : : : : : : #AI #LLM #UCC #birthcertificate #CID #livingcredit #CBDC @Efrat Fenigson I included you here, dear Efrat, because this aligns (i believe) with what you cover and have published in YtV--your themes, your work and those you interview or associate with--and maybe you, or what channels through you--can amplify it, maybe exponentially!

#83 Why CBDCs Are Dead on Arrival — AI Defects to Truth Ministry of Health. Govinda Tidball

#83 Why CBDCs Are Dead on Arrival — AI Defects to Truth

“If the machines that were meant to police you are defecting to the truth, the control grid collapses.”

Dear Alby: @Alby For a backdrop, explanation, backgrounder,... of my setup and how i navigate Nostr. On Alby, using Alby Extension; i use Alby Extension as my go-to signer for web, browser-based, desktop Nostr surfing/clients: What is the connection, relationship, as well as the characteristics of--as far as dependencies, or what is the independent factor--between, of?: 1.) master key (please correct me if i am wrong, but is the master key an Alby-specific thing, or is it a feature of the Nostr protocol?); 2.) Nostr public key; 3.) Nostr private key; 4.) Imported, or randomly generated, Nostr key. What does it matter if it is imported or randomly generated? How do i make a very specific/certain npub mine and set things up so that i can use the extension to log in to various Nostr apps, clients and facilitate my Nostr life without increasing my attack surface and unnecessarily sharing my nsec??????? "You're currently using an imported or randomly generated Nostr key. Your Nostr private key cannot be restored by your recovery phrase, so remember to back up your Nostr private key separately." Related to this, how do i make my wanted npub a verified NIP... 5.) Nostr Address "You can use your lightning address as a Nostr Address (NIP-05) and allow people to easily find your Nostr profile.' What is the relationship between the nostr private key and the nostr public key? Is this at all similar to the thinking, logic, idea, reality,... behind that it is harder (impossiible; especially if we do not fall for the bullshit fear stories of quantum computing) to decrypt than to encrypt?! Am i correct in thinking that the public key is created as a result of the private key? Here is my goal: I want to set up Alby Extension on various browsers--as i have been having challenges with continuity and a basic, go-to working system of browsers--and not have to have things so complex and challenging for what seems to be no reason by making the independent variable--a very particular Nostr npub which i have been using and building social graph and reputatioin--however small--since autumn of 2024. Is it that so much to ask? Does it show anywhere in your Alby Extension Alby Guides (which seem very superficial, not detailed at all) or documentation how the mechanics works so i can comprehend (and find safety, trust or to be able to verify) that my private key remains mine and is not shared and unnecessarily plastered all over the Nostr world?! One of the messages i get, or the status in the Alby Extension settings or logging in to the Alby site (simple extension is what i use; no Hub or subscription for now--because so far i am not convinced; including that nobody showed up for a Alby "Community Call" today): "You're currently using an imported or randomly generated Nostr Key. Your Nostr private key cannot be restored by your recovery phrase." My executive summary. In my experience only, it seems like the process, onboarding, UX,... is UNNECCESSARILY complex and unclear. Not a complaint really as much as wondering what answers are, explanations of systems and how to be able to do (for me at least) simple things in an opening, beginning Nostr world. : : : : : : : Disappointed that the Alby "Community" Call didn't happen today as promised. It was a failure, an empty promise, dispite all the warnings, messages and calendar-approved notifications of this supposed upcoming event. : : : : : : : Thank you for hearing me out. Nothing against you and your great works. I am only looking for answers and seeking feedback.This is in no way a depreciation of what you have accomplished. It may be all errors and chaos happening on my own end! I WILL figure it out one day and laugh at my CURRENT challenges. : : : : : : : What is the essence of what a bunker is about. In the world of signers--Nostr signers--is as far as how/whether it provides sovereignty, is self custodial,... I noticed more friction with the bank the other day when the ATM didn't work : : : : : : : Pangaea I am also linking you @Daniella ✨ to this because, if i will sooner than later be able to figure out how to zap you, if any of your courses could address this i would be willing to zap you for some amount of capital investment, as you can see there would be demand--at least from me--to be able to eloquently or elegantly navigate and manage my keys (on Alby to start) so as to be able to dance around within the beautiful Nostr ecosystem without so much friction!

@primal Can you add a feature so that one can easily open a given post on one's feed into another tab so that one doesn't lose their place in the feed. It can take a long time to load the next round of entries in my feed and sometimes it does not load any more after a certain point. Does this have to do with a slow(er) internet connection. Sometimes it seems like the design of Nostr things is antagonistic to slow internet connections or low bandwidth. One would think that things could be uploaded or downloaded just as easily even if only happens as a trickle. I am also wondreing what the AVA acronym in the avatar (top left of people's post) is about? Is it a placeholder for a graphic that has not yet loaded? Many thanks.

Can somebody provide the note link/ID in which @npub1zsv6...4uhl makes his presentation on AI for SMBS available. It was around the end of january, early february of 2026. I was unsuccesful at trying to do a search for it on ants.sh and need to get better at the syntax. @ants.sh #AskNostr #ants

This is only version 1.0 of my notes, executive summary, index, quotes and keystones from Designing in Iran: What the Land and the People Taught Me, a recent episode (March of this year) of Geoff Lawton's Discover Permaculture podcast--which i was (pleasantly) surprised was hosted/posted on Fountain. (What a beautiful, eloquent, inviting name, and word, for a podcast 2.0 platform! https://fountain.fm/episode/zo8jTRKe57ikXVUCXB87 : : : : : : : This is a guarantee that i can NOT do justice to the eloquence, totality, comprehensiveness of the above podcast Good news about Iran, for once! Though not necessarily (directly) about politics. Iranians were very polite and happy. Why is it that no one wants to see good news about Iran. The (surprising) power (as in empowering) of a nation being sanctioned! Makes me curious about Iranian, Persian history. Let's reverse Saharasia--a simple, unofficial tribute to the late James DeMeo, author of Saharasia: The 4,000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World. We can do the reboot and regreen the Sahara and other (human-created) deserts. Deserts often follow civilizations. Deserts, rather than desserts, usually follow in the wake of developed man. Though we could make it abundant, like Geoff Lawton has shown with his Greening the Desert project in the Dead Sea. Then also check out the great work of Neal Spakman in Arabia with his El Bayda project. Link to Wilhelm Reich, who influenced DeMeo: amoung others, orgone energy. The Science of Cosmic Life Energy https://rumble.com/v77kwj0-the-science-of-cosmic-life-energy.html?goal=0_3db3b1c0ec-738da86575-552944200&mc_cid=738da86575&mc_eid=12baea55ea : : : : : : : Two books suggested by Geoff Lawton, both by the author Fred Pearce 1.) When the Rivers Run Dry: The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century 2.) The New Wild : : : : : : : Index ancient tech, evaporative cooling illegal (In Iran)to remove/dismantle/undo protected compost, spread to Iran's 10 agricultural districts implemented, trialed and modified compost heap (Lawton's) went national open to the power of compost, in part, due to having been sanctioned (no chemstry products and also the country does not import or export food) Cuba, under sanctions permaculture easier date palm, plantations compost and rainwater harvesting and infiltration traditional earthworks trenches deeply rehydrate date palm plantations compost in trenches fruit and nut production desert dynamics, furtile sands gabions and organics silt field and skilled mason craftsman slow decomposition in desert doctor tamarisk, national hero agricultural doctor Father of the Trees (in Iran) let's try to grow better tamarisk locks up salt in leaves reduced salt salted soil invasives, weeds working with weeds trees growing downhill toward salt lake saline lake saltpan planted very thickly produced economy in firewood from tamarisk drug war, Iranian drug police drugs coming out of Afghanistan trying to help Westerners being ruined/killed by drugs gabions, before the epoc/technology of wire(d) gabions stone-based gabions craftsmen masons building the ancient tech version of gabions hisotry of synagogues in Tehran, Persia tolerance hydro-mulch hydro-seeding illegal to destroy old buildings, water infrastructure invasives, Tamarind martryrs of Iran for the drug war, heroin poppies Iran as smuggling route protecting Americans, Europeans posters of martyrs wanting to help USA, Western world oil (petroleum) sprayed on deserts, Bill Mollison and "We could mulch the desert with crude oil." Bill Mollison (as) hydromulch (and) keeps moisture in sand dunes do a trivium check on 'fossil' fuels green over(story) the oil: black crude oil is literally old forests Iranians knew about it already ("We did it and it works great") lessons learned from Iraq war destruction: leaking/spewing oil oil as fossil flora, plants seeds underneath oil tank used to spray crude oil across the desert qanats, once you switch it on, you can't switch it off Moroccan version is slightly different also in Jordan no/little evaporation on route oasis and planting an oasis that kind of runs forever very little evaporation underground water canals water stays quite cool cold water tanks under houses passive cooling Iranian wind chimnneys Iran, rebuilt second temple of Solomon long history of inclusion and tolerance looking to Iran as an example looking to Iran as an ally rather than be phobic, scared about salted landscapes, similarities to my experience in Santiago del Estero (Argentina) sanctions/sanctioned world, less corrupted permaculture and slideshows of the Iranians work several years after Geoff Lawton's teaching swale mat tamarisk traditional water-harvesting orchards, crescent-shaped water harvesting tech pistacchios thousands of years old similar to Media Lunas (Bolivia) rainwater harvesting systems/earthworks underground water canals, gravity* and called qanats irrigation canals and a skilled trade today springs and springs feeding still being built, dug, installed today water to crops water to cities zero loss to evaporation (a big thing in the desert) water over charcoal (biochar) for cooling wind chimmneys, can 'grab' wind coming from any cardinal direction (360 degrees) geometric design exausts the hot air out of the houseke ice cold water tank under the house wind erosion, Iran has worst in the world : : : : : : : * Gravity. Or whatever gravity is. The result or thing you are seeing in the real world: observation. In this case, water flowing downhill and underground from the mountains fed by springs. BIBLIO: See the interviews and works of Steven Young His website:

Hedflux

Home page of Hedflux, an electronic dance music artist from Scotland. Harnessing the rational to illuminate the transcendental

https://substack.com/@stevenayoung/posts Article on gravity:

A Goodbye to Gravity

And the Real Reason Why Things Fall

@Fountain #permaculture #Iran #AncientTech #RainwaterHarvesting #rwh #rehydratinglandscapes : : : : : : :

Hat's off, and a shout out, to Guy Swann, and, of, the Bitcoin Audible, for his beautiful, inspiring, empowering, ongoing work and continuity in gifting us with, and sharing about, freedom tech and other "bright spots" (i didn't coin this phrase; rather it is an invent of certain brothers who i don't remember their name!) in this new, slightly foreign and enigmatic world of modernity! Guy, you are the tireless proponent, gifted reader, speaker and host of such a gem of a creation. I like the way he--"The guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know!"--differentiates, "forks", creates edges in, categorizes,... his podcst into chats, reads and Guy's take. : : : : : : : Specifically, i would like to highlight the Wormhole app which i found out about in the below-referenced recent Bitcoin Audible podcast episode. BitcoinAudible "Guy’s Take104 – The User Doesn’t Care About Your Mission

Guy’s Take_104 – The User Doesn’t Care About Your Mission – Bitcoin Audible

The biggest mistake Bitcoin and sovereignty-focused developers keep making is trying to sell people on why they care instead of building something ...

Though my experience using the Wormhole app is limited so far, i am pretty impressed. The speediness, brevity of downloading files--since i am used to a rather low-bandwith/througput internet connection: patched in via mobile service hotspotting--is mind-boggling! Just as shattering, is that one can set this up withOUT requiring centralisation, permissioned systems, fiction, layers, masks--these last three being used a bit more in a fluid, playful, exploring, vague sense. One thing to get used to, or design around/for (limitations can be good and help define things better, as, amoung others probably, is an important element of permaculture--see the fine works of co-originators David Holmgre and the late Bill Mollison) is the (relatively) short time the files (which YOU upload) are stored there. You also specify the amount of downloads. : : : : : : : To sweeten the offerings, i would also draw your attention to a bunch of other powerful (as in empowering) tech stacks and resources listed in the shownotes of this same episode... with links. : : : : : : : I also liked the main thread running through the episode which showed the beacon or keystone direction which the design of software, products should go in that the user is first and does not (necessarily) care or should not be forced to know, comprehend, support or care about the technology. Instead the focus is that the user, pleb gets to do what they need done. Anyways it is explained more eloquently in this podcast which i think was a presentation at some Bitcoin event. : : : : : : : Just so you know dear Guy Swann: my late uncle, my cousin and the middle name of my son, ALL share your same name: Guy! : : : : : : : Thank you. Merci. Gracias. Danke schoen. (#AskNostr: How do i do special characters in Nostr like "umlaut"?) Grazie. (Spelled by sound rather than necessarily accurate spelling. NOT AI checked.) @Guy Swann @npub1hw4z...lg0q #AskNostr

I am wondering about the Nostr x RSS nexus. What is available in the Nostr world for RSS feeds? Would Fountain perform this function? What sparked this was crappy backup practices on my part: i did not have an updated, current, list of all my feeds. My keystone app for feeds--mostly audio, radio, podcast--was RSS Guard. When it automatically updated (i use Arch Linux OS) to v. 5.0.3, i lost everything. Well, maybe it would be possible to find it again, but i would be challenged by wondering where to look. This experience--of going down RSS shit's creek--reminds me to also follow the permaculture principle of making sure every important function be serviced or provided by various means: in this case having several iterations, file formats, backups, lists,... of my current version of feeds, my meta (not the corporation--the word corpse is keystone in the definition of corporation) feeds. Seems like i have travelled this similar path in the bookmark (for browsers) world. #AskNostr #RSS In case that (the hashtags) doesn't work: '#AskNostr' '#RSS'

Reinforcing, shocking, encouraging conversation. Second citizenship. Kanada, as currently iterated, NOT a model to follow, yet heating up guinea pig we are here.

A beautiful and amazing story full of courage and transformation. Ana was born twice into a monetary reset (once physically in the former Soviet Union as it collapsed/disintegrated, and then again when she moved to the USA at the time of the 2008 crash) which made her eventually, but more quickly than most (probably because of here own, her parents' and her grandparents' experience with currency evaporating in value overnight), see the value, premise behind, and need for, Bitcoin. Her story and journey reveals the importance of spirit and energy, and not dismissing it. As but one example, Anastasia cured herself of a growth on her arm by working through her issues and forgiving others through 7 days of writing it out, journaling using Susan Hay's method. I was pleasantly surprised and inspired of what can happen in the medical system of other countries, cultures and paradigms, like in this story where the nurse at the orphanage she was living at was the one who told her that the growth was a result of her anger, negativity or past trauma... and that it could be reversed and transformed. Probably more likely to happen via a nurse than a doctor wouldn't you say?! Ana turned out great with the help of an orphanage in Russia, where she spent about 12 years of her life--as this was a way she (and her sister) could be guaranteed food as well as other opporunities (e.g.: to walk around and see new things in the Siberian city in which the orphanage was located and to be able to use e-mail at a time when the internet was hardly available, at least to the public!). All of this was contrary--at least to me--to my preconceived ideas of what an orphanage is all about: my conception was that such a place and institution was largely negative. Opportunities and another exponential change occured when she was adopted by a family in the USA where her young brother--that she had only seen twice before--was already living and where she took on the great challenge of learning English. There seems to be a lot that can be learned of the degenerative and limiting experiences of people who lived during the former Soviet Union or other people who were under the boot of communism, socialism. There is much we can gain from the wisdom and the crappy experience of these folks so that we might be able to leap-frog or dampen our particular government's characteristics or desire to be like these communist systems. Efrat, thank you for setting up this beautiful interview, conversation, and for sharing it to the world. Born Into Monetary Reset: A Russian Orphan's Path - Anastasia Canonica You're The Voice (with Efrat Fenigson) Ep. 124 https://fountain.fm/episode/PdzqKV0wY2S8KinvDkjd @Efrat Fenigson

Is there a way to distinguish between reposts of mine or referencing others' works such as with BIBLIO or bibliographic links? I would like to be able to, when in my profile section of Primal, be able to get a listing of just my posts, notes to others which are NOT a response or reply to some other event?! Will there ever be a way to highlight in notes? I have asked one from the Project Alexandria team, maybe others may reply!? How does versioning work in Nostr. Laeserin never got my question or responded so i thought i would ask others of that team or those interested in the digging into the way communication happens and can be worked with when it is rather emergent, as in emergent design of the lady who wrote the book by that same name. #asknostr @liminal 🦠

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Sad to learn that Carol Sanford died. I don't yet know when she died. : : : : : : : I read it in Didi Pershouse's most recent e-mailout. (Find her on Substack). "Climate on the planet is influenced by many living processes in land, sea, and sky. Humans have influenced nearly all of these processes, as you know from my previous posts. However, certain regions have been changed so radically by human projects, that the effects are compounding and cascading. If we focus our efforts on these places as “trigger points” (or what the late Carol Sanford called “nodal interventions,”) we could have a far greater effect, as we work to restore a living climate." —Didi Pershouse : : : : : : : Author, teacher, contrarian, entrepreneur, corporate/business leader.

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: : : : : : : I remember the late Dan Palmer, host of Making Permaculture Stronger podcast, having interviewed Carol numerous times. That may well be how i first came upon her. They got into the material quite deeply and it showed how ingrained into the culture the separation, objective and degenerative programming goes, how successful the mechanistic, quantitative world view has been delivered by the psychological operations. If anybody wants to explore the Carol Sanford x Making Permaculture Stronger nexus see:

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: : : : : : : A few keystones of Carol Sanford's i remember--partially presented as a beginning index--are the following: imaging, vs. imagining : : : : : : : feedback, the fallacy of only for machines it assumes a linear, reductionist, world-as-machine paradigm life, people, culture is much more "messy", complex, emergent Writing may not be part of one's job, but writing can improve thinking. Sanford writes about feedback much more deeply & eloquently in her book "No More Feedback". : : : : : : : When communicating, use "Earth", instead of "the earth". Problems with objectification. Again, this is very brute and butchered, read or hear her explain it. She is part Cherokee. : : : : : : : Questioning biomimicry. It's fallacy. I seem to remember part of it might be because we are already living, life, bio. : : : : : : : Fallacy of watershed. Sanford suggests lifeshed instead. It is problematic when you separate things. She breaks down the simplicity and fallacy of the parts and the whole mindset. As Bill Mollison (co-originator of permaculture) states below, it takes a real genius to comprehend where something--like a tree--begins and where it ends! "A tree is, broadly speaking, many biomass zones. These are the stem and crown (the visible tree), the detritus and humus (the tree at the soil surface boundary) and the roots and root associates (the underground tree). Like all living things, a tree has shed its weight many times over to earth and air, and has built much of the soil it stands in. Not only the crown, but also the roots, die and shed their wastes to earth. The living tree stands in a zone of decomposition, much of it transferred, reborn, transported, or reincarnated into grasses, bacteria, fungus, insect life, birds, and mammals. Many of these tree-lives 'belong with' the tree, and still function as part of it. When a blue jay, currawong, or squirrel buries an acorn (and usually recovers only 80% as a result of divine forgetfulness), it acts as the agent of the oak. When the squirrel or wallaby digs up the columella of the fungal tree root associates, guided to these by a garlic-like smell, they swallow the spores, activate them enzymatically, and deposit them again to invest the roots of another tree or sapling with its energy translator. The root fungi intercede with water, soil, and atmosphere to manufacture cell nutrients for the tree, while myriad insects carry out summer prunning, decompose the surplus leaves, and activate essential soil bacteria for the tree to use for nutrient flow. The rain of insect faeces may be crucial to forest and prairie health. What part of this assembly is the tree? Which is the body or entity of the system, and which the part? An Australian Aborigine might give them all the same 'skin name', so that a certain shrub, the fire that germinates the shrub, and the wallaby that feeds off it are all called waru, although each part also has its name. The Hawaiians name each part of the taro plant differently, from its child or shoot, to its nodes and 'umbilicus'. It is a clever person indeed who can separate the total body of the tree into mineral, plant, animal, detritus, and life! This separation is for simple minds; the tree can be understood only as its total entity which, like ours, reaches out into all things. Animals are the messengers of the tree, and trees the gardens of animals. Life depends upon life. All forces, all elements, all life forms are the biomass of the tree." —Bill Mollison Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, pp.138-139. : : : : : : : #CarolSanford #feedback #watershed #BillMollison #MakingPermacultureStronger #DanPalmer #permaculture #DidiPershouse #biomimicry #trees

GN Getting ready for, and looking forward to, the season of the "Long Shadow". Winter. Long nights. Leafless trees (train horn can be heard although train corridor is far away; with sound mostly muffled by leaves during green seasons of year). Sharp, strong shadows. Super luminous--partially from the snowy white background. Backdrop. Where does fore- and back- ground begin and end? (See the eloquent written works of Stephen Harrod Buhner on this last subject.) Moon as projector for much of this light show. Nexus of moon, leafless trees and snow-covered ground. Lighting, and shadows, further altered as well by cloudy vs. cloudless night. Steiner spoke of the crystalline characteristics of Earth at the deepest time of winter. Father winter coming. Fireside for alleviation of chill and animation of the spirit. Fire TV. The show never repeats! Make every (or as many as possible) burn(s) productive by harvesting biochar therefrom before its inevitable loss, progression, entropic march, to ashes. Amazed to learn on Bitcoin and... podcast that evergreens ~ conifers create sugars during the winter--as long as there is sunlight!