avantgeared

@avantgeared@universeodon.com

Main interests: pencil drawing, art through the ages, writing supernatural tales, food gardening and landscaping, desktop computing, books and collections building, classical and modern music, making things of wood and metal in the shop, digital music players, DACs, audio gear, shortwave radio, rural homesteading, natural foods, health and longevity, Permaculture, woodworking and metalworking, freethinking, Xinjiang, Tibet, Ukraine and Democracy.

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nbcnews, to random

No charges will be filed against Cardi B after the rapper threw her microphone into a Las Vegas crowd during a performance after someone threw a drink on stage, police say. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/cardi-b-wont-charged-las-vegas-microphone-throwing-incident-police-say-rcna98076

avantgeared,

@nbcnews
Did she get the microphone back in one piece? It was probably worth a lot of money, maybe up to $5000 or even more. Good mics are very expensive.

w7voa, to random
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"Gov. DeSantis’ threat to ‘start slitting throats’ of federal employees is dangerous, disgusting, disgraceful, and disqualifying,” says AFGE President Everett Kelly. “No federal employee should face death threats from anyone, least of all from someone seeking to lead the U.S. government.” https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/08/desantis-vows-start-slitting-throats-federal-workers-day-one-presidency/389093/

avantgeared,

@w7voa
Link doesn't work:
Internal Server Error

He didn't really say that or did he?

ignorant yard ape
nazi fruitcake
incompetent fool

avantgeared, to random

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
By Francisco Pires
A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/superconductor-breakthrough-replicated-twice
LK-99, as it's been named, is a new compound that researchers believe will enable the fabrication of room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductors. Initially published by a Korean team last Friday,
Superconductors, a wild category of compounds that can conduct electricity without any losses,Imagine if your 16-core mainstream CPU (which likely requires a competent watercooling solution to avoid incinerating itself) operated without power losses — no current leakage, no electricity waste in the form of heat. Superconductors mean almost perfectly efficient computing.
Scale that to the world's supercomputers, trillions of transistors based on superconducting materials work in tandem across GPU and CPU tiles to accelerate things like Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

compost, to climate
@compost@regenerate.social avatar

Men are becoming a foe for biodiversity. We are disrupting their environment and barely care about it.

It is essential to change our approach to the way we grow food.

We should feed the soil first. By doing this we feed the biodiversity of the soil and in exchange, they provide us with the nutrients to grow our food.

Doing compost and always covering the soil will achieve a reliant soil.

Be kind to the soil.

avantgeared,

@compost
I was thinking about ways to provide plant available nutrients by recycling raw materials. Consider the need to conserve Earth's phosphate reserves and reduce waste. Phosphoric acid is in Coke. Phosphorous (the P in NPK) is in a lot of food and it stays there through sewage treatment. If we save all our pee, year round and then apply it in rotation to gardens and landscapes we will have recycled a lot of phosphorous. This way there woould be less need to buy fertilizer with phosphorous as a component which would come from natural rock phosphate or from phosphoric acid which would be in the form of superphosphate. If we compost all body waste materials then we broaden recycling of nutrients required by plants. Composting toilets, either commercial ones of owner-builder ones made from approved designs or just buckets for liquid waste is a perfect solution to recycle phosphorous, a non renewable resource.

avantgeared,

@compost
I don't dilute it ever. I put it outside in a 5 gal bucket and add kitchen waste to it. When it is full I pout it around a huge persimmon tree to fertilize it and the weeds and grasses around it are becoming a primeval weedforest. Just beautiful. Cheap way to fertilize the lawn and landscape. For the vegetable garden I pout it on new beds that have not yet been dug up. It fertilizes weeds which I cut and mulch with or dig under. I don;t put it near gardens with crops but I can see how that might work if done carefully and with dilution.

avantgeared, to random

Anarcho-Communists, Nestor Makhno and Ukraine
Nestor Makhno: Anarchist, Revolutionary, Legendary Ukrainian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IKd8mn7kQI

558 views Jul 19, 2023
The aftermath of the Russian Revolution was a chaotic and bloody time – from 1917 until 1922, civil war consumed the former Russian Empire, as competing factions vied for power. One of the lesser known participants was a movement of Anarcho-communists who came to exert control over vast areas of southern Ukraine, led by a man named Nestor Makhno. This Ukrainian revolutionary, born into a family of peasants, earned himself a legendary reputation - fighting against the Central Powers, the Bolsheviks and the White Army in a bid to create an anarchist society in Southern Ukraine. Interestingly Makhno is also credited with inventing the Tachanka, the horse drawn gun carriage used extensively on the plains of the Eurasian steppe.

avantgeared,

Conversation with a friend about Makhno:
Him: "They were fighting over the same territory the Russians & Ukrainians are fighting over now. And Makhno's Blacks had to fight the Reds on one hand and the Whites on the other. Makhno managed to survive. "
Me: "Very interesting. I think that anarchism for them then, no government, was the closest thing they could get to a democracy. There were no existing governments in neighboring countries they could safely align with to gain any kind of autonomy or sovereignty, i.e. all were enemies.
So anarchism was it and they could then roll their own governing system according to their needs. That is too cool for words but one hell of a lot of work if they wanted to be able to have relations with other countries and any kind of worthwhile infrastructure. Does this make sense?
Ⓐ Beautiful AnarKitty Ⓐ
@Radical_EgoCom

aral, (edited ) to SmallWeb
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Just got an email saying Kitten’s been rejected for funding by Sovereign Tech Fund. No reason given.

I don’t even know why I try anymore, really.

We’ve never received a single penny of public funding for our work even though everything we make is free and open source and all our work is for the common good.

We do have a group of folks who support us via patronage – thank you all so much. It doesn’t pay the rent but it means a lot.

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

avantgeared,

@aral
Yours is just the kind of project I have been interested in since 1990, an online system of communications between like minded people and special interest groups and of course the public at large.

I and a local group were interested in putting online a public kiosk, a system that would provide information about cities and counties that citizens needed to know about, local infrastructure, municipal and county. This was before the Internet was available to the public. We hope that some corporation that did have Internet connectivity would share rack space for our server, running software our programmer volunteers would create. We never got any funding or service donations. Then the Internet came along with email, gopher, http, ftp and computers with GUI's.

w7voa, to Texas
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DoJ sues Gov. Abbott over a floating barrier the state has placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants crossing from . https://apnews.com/article/83bcb38e7f5ab613117634d0c439d6b6

avantgeared,

@w7voa
Thanks for posting this amazing piece of news. It is very enlightening. It speaks volumes for the quality of the Democrat's Biden Administration.

ben, to random
@ben@werd.social avatar

I buy the take that a goal of buying Twitter was to stop progressive movements that were organizing there.

These movements were and are changing the world for the better.

The fediverse needs to be built to be their forever home: a place to join together across borders to make the world better for everyone, with equal opportunities for all.

I still, despite everything, after all this time, believe this is the promise of the internet.

avantgeared,

@ben except when they try to end the conflict in Ukraine by ending military support for Ukraine

then they are just the standard grade asshat

avantgeared,

@ben
I agree completely; it needs to happen and we need to make sure we do not miss this opportunity to reach out to like minded people, learn from them, exchange our best ideas and stay current on important news. It needs to be a level playing field and civil with spice. Freethinking and Freewheeling.

DarthPutinKGB, to random
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Russia is fighting a “satanic West that has turned away from traditional religious values” by bombing a UNESCO cathedral in Odessa

avantgeared,

@DarthPutinKGB
Putin, Lukaschenko, Orban, Trump, DeSantis say things their fellow citizens that seem as though they were cherrypicked out of some B grade movie. They actually think people take them seriously.

avantgeared,

@DarthPutinKGB
putin is a self obsessed psycho whack job living in the past harboring a dream of imperialist power

his cornered rat story shows how old hat and shallow minded his modus operandi it.

Of course it is a world of intelligence operators playing ultimate mind games now adorned with AI. The future is now.

putin did say that the country that has the best AI systems will dominate the world. Of course russia is no longer in the running having invaded unprovoked a neighboring country, committed atrocities there and announced that they will carry out genocide on them. This puts them in the class of common criminals, second class citizens and looked down on by nearly everyone in the world.

timkmak, (edited ) to random
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Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant/active?

I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.

We’re trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.

If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? http://Counteroffensive.substack.com

I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.

avantgeared,

@timkmak
I will subscribe if I can read your news about Ukraine at your substack site and/or here at Mastodon.
Mastodon is not very vibrant or active but gets interesting in a random kind of way, you never know what you will find but convcersations are unpredictable and rare. I read it like I read Time magazine. At least it isn't reddit, facebook or twitter so its already miles ahead. Why don;t you try to build a readership here at Mastodon and encourage conversations about the articles? I can not do any email because it loads up my Google Gmail space limit and I do not want to pay them money. So, no substack email but Mastodon and/or your substack site for reading online is OK.

avantgeared,

@timkmak Is there a free version?

alternativeto, to random
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The team is transforming K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android, enhancing its UI, features, and security. A security audit by OSTIF and 7ASecurity found no high-risk vulnerabilities, with most low-to-medium risks already addressed.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/7/k-9-mail-passes-security-audit-as-its-ongoing-transformation-to-thunderbird-for-android-progresses/

avantgeared,

@alternativeto
Big thumbs up for Thunderbird even though it complies with Google's demands for app security and logins which is a big new issue, letting Google dominate a large part of Web software. I use TBird and am grateful for it.

georgetakei, to random

It’s been so fun chatting with everyone on Mastodon; I plan on sticking around here for a long time. However, for my longer form, rich content, I like Post – where we can continue to build a community that actually cares about each other. I’m really looking forward to seeing you all over there as well. You can sign up for free here: https://post.news/@/georgehtakei?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=georgehtakei&utm_content=followme

avantgeared,

@georgetakei
I went to sign up then it reminded me that I already had an account. I had completely forgotten about Post but will now spend some time there.

Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

Just vibing

avantgeared,

@Gargron
Romania.

Radical_EgoCom, (edited ) to random

"What is Communist Anarchism?", by Alexander Berkman
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism

avantgeared,

@Radical_EgoCom
Why all the anti capitalism, pro commie, cutesy anarchism buzzwords when you know none of that helps people survive and carry on normal lives. Why drive well-intentioned people to such ideological extremes. Look at what the Chinese and Russians have done to good people in the name of socialism and communism with the ccp forcing such things as "Party as God and Xi Jinping his messenger" on all Chinese. Don;t forget what they have done to the Tibetans and the Uighurs. Replace you anti capitalism, anarchism and communism with PERMACULTURE. Take a look at that.

avantgeared,

@Radical_EgoCom
Have a debate between "anarcho-communism" and Permaculture. You are years too late pushing anarcho communism. Decades ago when the permaculture movement was beginning to evolve it would have been interesting to consider. Communism is communism.
Anyway, I am a product of the freewheeling, freethinking Sixtiesand you have got my interest about your politics. All I can do is go with what I think anarcho communism is. There are connections to Permaculture. For me anarchism or communism is not the system I would want a government to be run by. I like the idea of elements of socialist system to be integrated into Permaculture design and the resulting systems it produces. I have lots of ideas about this. I will take a closer look at your resources. Meanwhile why don;t you do some research on Permaculture. For an anarcho communist to exclude Permaculture would render their ideas and proposals null and void. Stay tuned.
LL

avantgeared,

@Radical_EgoCom
1)
Do you support Ukraine and Ukrainians and providing them with weapons to drive Russian out of all Ukrainian territory. Do you believe that the Russians carried out an illegal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine during which they caused considerable destruction, loss of life and committed atrocities. They have stated that they want to eliminate all Ukrainians.
2)
Have you ever heard of Nestor Makhno? He was an anarchist who lived in Ukraine and Russia and defended the people there from Stalin's Red Army, particularly the peasants and kulak farmers, whom Stalin hated. Which side were the Bolsheviks on? 🙂 Makhno was a true hero.

avantgeared,

@Radical_EgoCom @OliverNoble
Well said. I am with you 100%.
For me elements of anarchism and communism are just a pleasant intellectual exercise but have no meaning in today's world unless you create intentional communities that are autonomous and use them there. The subject matter is very large.

avantgeared,

@OliverNoble @Radical_EgoCom
Did you say that "narrative around china is increasingly one of hostility? Maybe this is why:
Chinese police vandalize venue, canceling yet another major Tibetan Buddhist teaching event
https://www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-police-vandalize-venue-canceling-yet-another-major-tibetan-buddhist-teaching-event/
(TibetanReview.net, Jul21’23) – Chinese authorities have on Jul 19 used violence to disrupt yet another major Buddhist teaching event in eastern Tibet for which preparations had been completed, with devotees from far and wide already having gathered, waiting for the teaching lama’s arrival.

Tearing down tents and destroying a colorful sand mandala art for the planned Kalachakra teachings, the authorities broke up the gathering at Athi Monastery in Mangra (Chinese: Guinan) county of Qinghai Province, saying the event had been cancelled, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Jul 20.

The much-sought teaching among Tibetan Buddhists was to be given by the monastery’s abbot, Lama Kalsang Tashi Gyatso.

See also Larung Gar
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Larun+Gar&at

avantgeared,

@precariousmind @Radical_EgoCom
I am not interested in communism other than by using elements of it and socialism in Permaculture designs and in the systems created using those design. There is a lot to say about that and a lot of value. I oppose any pure communist or socialist government.

avantgeared,

@detritus @precariousmind @Radical_EgoCom
Permaculture is not just a gardening system. Learn what it actually is. Volumes online to browse through. It adds considerably to any political agenda. Since it is about how prople feed, take care of themselves and survive it is important that it be included in any political platform. I would like to see a presedential cabinet with a position filled by a permaculture expert just as you have farmers and environmentalists on the board of the USDA organic certification board. Important to do this because the government already represents the interests of a broad range of communities, all vital to the functioning of a healthy nation.

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