Author: cjtrowbridge
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Big Bend National Park
(You can view the full album here) Big Bend is also basically just normal mountains. There is no cave or anything. Again it’s kind of unusual to have mountains in this area so that’s cool. Also it’s very pretty to look at, but again not really anything unique or special aside from the nice scenery.…
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All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive.
All of California’s agricultural land is fundamentally unsustainable and structurally self-destructive. The entire San Joaquin valley was a lake until very recently; Lake Corcoran was one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. (Wong) It was fed with rainfall from the sea, and its evaporation created a cycle of precipitation which fed both sides of the…
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Expanse 9 – Leviathan Falls
The final book in the Expanse series was everything I hoped it would be. This was a wild ride to an extremely satisfying and well written ending. If you’re a fan of sociological story telling or science fiction, then I can not recommend this series highly enough. Spoilers: Final Thoughts I really liked the way…
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Moisture Farming: Don’t Get Ripped Off
Now that the era of biosphere collapse is rapidly approaching the water wars stage, moisture farming is finally taking off. Just like the Skywalkers of Tatooine, many people today are beginning to explore extracting humidity from the air to provide for their basic water needs. But don’t be ripped off by bad deals. This guide…
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Advanced AI: “The only thing that I can think of that is not bullshit is the idea of living in a cabin in the woods with your family and growing food.”
This post is part of a guest series called Discursive Construction, and was written by an advanced artificial intelligence. The bold at the beginning is the prompt, and the rest was written by the AI. If you’d like to support this project, please buy me a coffee. For this post, AI also created the featured photos based…
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Ask AI To Synthesize: Asimov with a Twist
This post is part of a guest series called Discursive Construction, and was written by an advanced artificial intelligence. The bold at the beginning is the prompt, and the rest was written by the AI. If you’d like to support this project, please buy me a coffee. For this post, AI also created the featured photos…
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Science of Mind and the Potential For Artificial Consciousness
There is a long history of thought about thought. Theories of consciousness abound, some more plausible and some less. Of all the books I’ve read and the classes I’ve taken on the topic, I think my favorite concise explanation of the current state of the art in cognitive science is the book Conscious by Annaka…
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Permaculture and Mutual Aid Will Create a Future Free From Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, and Transphobia
I think it started for me just about the time I was wrapping up my lower division undergrad. I had been spending a great deal of time researching the way the social, environmental, and economic problems of the modern world impact people in marginalized communities. I was just going into a new upper division program…
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Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
CJ Trowbridge 2021-12-08 AIS 440 Jonny Appleseed This book follows several formative moments in the life of a person who would come to identify as two-spirit, indigenous, and with sex work. The central themes of the book is of coming to terms with the many ways he didn’t fit with the norms and expectations…
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Mutual Aid, Abolition, and Transformative Justice
CJ Trowbridge 2021-12-07 ETHS 100 Week 13 Notes Introductions Dean Spade Dean Spade’s book is about the importance of mutual aid for building social movements, and the specific models and approaches for avoiding the common pitfalls that mutual aid organizations run into. Dean has been involved in mutual aid for decades, but felt a strong…