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He/Him Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 41m

Nature deals with this by “balancing loads”

I don’t have specific advice other than self blaming about being inefficient might actually take you in the wrong direction. We are also in a system actively harvesting power from us so a lot of the inefficiencies what’s being taken from us

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 43m

The diagrams on the far left are pulley systems showing that when efficiency is 100% nothing happens, when efficiency is 0% nothing happens and when efficiency is at 50% the most energy flow happens

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 44m

The way that industrialists and others deal with that is the externalized the cost to us and make us have to be extra efficient so that they can harvest the power from us

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 44m

In actual real life though, Work takes energy and the efficiency actually goes down as the power goes up

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 44m

All work processes take something in and put something out and efficiency is the amount you get out for how much you put in and industrialit’s and other others have made that the model because that’s how you feed profit

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 44m

Good to have the context I am actually dealing with similar and this is what has popped in my head. We can talk about what that actually means on the ground which is that efficiency the way that I’m talking about it has to do with input versus output

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 51m

I’m not trying to be trite also it could come across that way we can talk in private as

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 52m

So maybe your problem is that you’re too efficient and keep trying to be. I’m learning that I definitely have that problem

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 52m

Luckily in nature max power meaning energy per time flows at 50% efficiency. As you get more or less efficient than that you reduce the overall power flow

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 53m

Too much is forced on us and we put too much expectation on ourselves and we have made everything personal problem rather than making life easier

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUm...

Inside the Free Speech Movement Part One

YouTube video by Berkeley Historical Society & Museum

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUm...

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

thank you

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

@adbusters.bsky.social had it right when they warned us about the change: www.filmsforaction.org/articles/hip...
Look at who they are talking about speciicly

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Douglas Haddow

Im sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the citys heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk types, who...

www.filmsforaction.org

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

Learn your history. Puppets have saved lives.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

Before the commodification of p d x, alll that “weird” was continuity of movements from Labor, SNCC, Vietnam, spray wars, etc etc etc. it was demolished in the p ortlsndia tv era.

The weird was movement memory.
Afterward it was kind of just boring

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

Also usually it follows whatever is going on linguistically at the time

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

The best assumption for any weird thing you hear in one of his novels is to check because it’s probably true the stuff that’s not true is usually anytime a character comments about reality

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 3d

So. The opening scene of pynchon’s new novel includes people involved in illegal bowling ball heating in order to change the density and grip of rubberized bowling balls in the 1930s as part of a legal fixing of games. I had no idea

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

Because this has a price attached to it this isn’t free public fountains this isn’t water bubblers so that everybody has something to drink, this isn’t a place to sit, or like Christopher Alexander said a safe society can support people resting and sleeping in public

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

And sure once it’s established and normalize it’ll be fun to be in a park and get a burrito or whatever but it’s a breakdown of a set of values that actually I still adhere to there needs to be some sort of commons of the people not commons of corporations or businesses

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

The “revolution” of the 1970s of citizen participation redirection of highway projects building of urban planning tools development of neighborhood coalitions was designed to stop this kind of thing

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

So many people see this is a win but if you look at who they are they are “green developers” and those adjacent to them who have bought into the idea that we can have a weird marketplace

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

and rather than being a public space they privatize The edges of public space. And it’s so interesting watching this process of food carts in the parks having worked in the parks having understood the long range long-term vision of Parks is non-private non-marketplace non-commercial non-buying

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 4d

Give the example of food cart specifically because while they are very fun and it’s nice to go hang out at the food carts they’re away for people to retain value of empty lots while they’re waiting for the price point for development

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