alzymologist

So far, every country in the world has had one of two responses to the Trump tariffs. The first one is: "Give Trump everything he asks for (except Greenland) and hope he stops being mad at you." This has been an absolute failure. Give Trump an inch, he'll take a mile. He'll take fucking Greenland. Capitulation is a failure.

But so is the other tactic: retaliatory tariffs. That's what we've done in Canada (like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian). Our top move has been to levy tariffs on the stuff we import from America, making the things we buy more expensive. That's a weird way to punish America! It's like punching yourself in the face as hard as you can, and hoping the downstairs neighbor says "Ouch!"

And it's indiscriminate. Why whack some poor farmer from a state that begins and ends with a vowel with tariffs on his soybeans. That guy never did anything bad to Canada.

But there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?

If you're a technologist or an investor based in a country that's repealed its anticircumvention law, you can go into business making disenshittificatory products that plug into America's defective tech exports, allowing the people who own and use those products to use them in ways that are good for them, even if those uses make the company's shareholders mad.

5 yo rosemary tree, grown from seed, barely survived brutal frostbite (below -30) couple years ago resulting in much, much more asymmetry. We should probably transplant it soon, just no container of suitable size to be found now. I should probably start making those.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/34631928

Just came across this croudfunded cooperative publishing house.

https://bio.site/egalite_publishing_house

Apparently, they translate books into Russian, but also reach out to prominent authors with original material writing proposals (learned about them from one of the philosophers they commissioned), just like regular publishing institutions. The quality of publications looks impressive, something for general public, not just us punks. And all within one of the most oppressive and totalitarian societies.

I suppose this is an example of an activist success to learn from?

Just came across this croudfunded cooperative publishing house.

https://bio.site/egalite_publishing_house

Apparently, they translate books into Russian, but also reach out to prominent authors with original material writing proposals (learned about them from one of the philosophers they commissioned), just like regular publishing institutions. The quality of publications looks impressive, something for general public, not just us punks. And all within one of the most oppressive and totalitarian societies.

I suppose this is an example of an activist success to learn from?

Regular infusion mash, light belgian style witbier bill. Perle, IBU about 15. Wild forest raspberries in secondary, 200g/L. Yeast BLG201, our own.

OG 1057, final does not make much sense because with berries, but it's 1008.

Very pronounced spices, hops, and raspberries, balanced! Apparently, berries accentuated the hops. Slightly tart, dangerously drinkable. Well carbonated naturally under a month.

Brewed a year ago and lagered. Time is coming to brew it again!

Just an old birch stump surrounded by raspberries and blackcurrants. Everyone is free to take whatever they like. I'm after Armillaria mellea.

I'm designing a self-governance system for these guys that might generally be useful for any kind of large-scale self-organized societies.

Before you ask, yes, this is crypto bullshit, but as I think about it (and the customer team that asked me to do this holds this opinion as well), crypto tokens are not supposed to be some capital. They are just computational infrastructure usage quota really, their scarcity is totally artificial and made into money just because capitalism. The idea here is to make a system where any community might be able to deploy a private network (and keep minting enough usage tokens for everyone while protecting the net from malware attacking community members electronics or brains), and use it in self-organization. And I'm mostly using capitalist vocabulary for obvious reasons.

So in short, the concept here is, first, to separate the community into some kind of small "core" (elders, technical experts, ecologists, immediate activist organization core, or nobody - why not? One chamber is fine too, but sometimes you just need more; maybe you are gently ramping up from little power to no power?) and large "everyone else", and then rotate a small random group of "general public" for their community decisions duty.

Please let me know what you think.

It's not like this is really new concept, but I'm going to implement it as a working self-governance tool in a particular way I've outlined in the linked document (after easy-to-read media text there is a link to actual document I made, also here it is: https://uncertain-aqua-crawdad.myfilebase.com/ipfs/QmaMxWHoDvwc8YpxHvQju9um2AySkejG5yfYF94vdBCwZX).

Just a heavy mash with some chocolate malt and crystal, brittish yeast BRT101 (RIP Alzymologist Oy, but I still have the Library). Takes time to mature, couple weeks after bottling it still asks for more bottle aging (hopefully few years) but already nice and mellow. Dangerously drinkable, for its ABV.

Acer tataricum that randomly decided to grow in one of outdoor pots, transplanted, cut, 5 y.o., meets a sudden cold air mass.