Author: cjtrowbridge
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Current Camping Gear List
My Favorite Tent (~$55) This tent is amazing. It packs down small and then all you have to do is unzip the bag and it pops up in literally two seconds. It’s unbelievably easy and it does great in heavy wind and rain. I have never staked it down or even used the guy lines;…
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OurSpace Examples: OurTube, OurTok, etc
Building on my ongoing work on Ourspace, I think it’s important to consider a whole range of alternative apps formatted just like major products on the market. Ourspace itself would be format agnostic. It’s a general purpose content distribution and sharing platform and protocol. But you could easily build a version of it which looks…
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Why and How to Build a Fiber Foamie
During covid, I built a fully solar-powered off-grid micro-camper called a squaredrop. I designed it to tow behind my Honda Civic. I traveled over 22,000 miles to 35 national parks in 28 states. You can see the whole adventure at movingcabin.com. What’s a Squaredrop? A squaredrop is sort of like a teardrop trailer but more…
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round robin ipfs over http
a web gateway protocol that automatically fetches the DNSLink for any c-name pointed at the server and then locally replicates that site and serves it when requested these could easily be round robined by adding redundant c-names to different gateways for your domain. The protocol could be limited to file types like html, css, js,…
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Collective Ownership is Key
CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-03 USP 560 – Urban Poverty Final I have spent a lot of time this year traveling to radically sustainable experimental communities across the country and asking countless questions about infrastructure, ownership models, and governance models and now I’d like to propose a solution to urban poverty. The Community Development Corporation model…
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Seize Housing Now
CJ Trowbridge 2021-07-02 USP 580 Housing Policy & Planning Term Paper The solution to the housing problem in San Francisco (And beyond) is the Community Development Corporation model, and the newly created arts districts are the perfect lever to make that happen. I spent much of the pandemic meeting with the boards of the arts…
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Urban poverty is Not an Accident
CJ Trowbridge 2021-06-30 USP 560 Urban Poverty Term Paper It’s no mistake that there has never been a capitalist city without poverty. In his essay, “The Urban Process Under Capitalism,” David Harvey explains that cities are a process, not a place. Cities under capitalism – by definition – serve to extract labor and resources from…
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Fake News?
I think in many cases there are fundamental epistemic differences between people of different ideologies, and we need to learn to distinguish those kinds of claims from bad faith claims. Like if a trump supporter says he’s coming back in August, they really believe that to be true. And that’s different from Putin’s fake newspapers…
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Morality of Agency and Objectification
CJ Trowbridge 2021-06-28 PHIL 455 Sex and the Law Term Paper Everybody thinks pedophilia is bad, right? There is widespread consensus about that, right? Maybe not. I think this popular misunderstanding of the nature of ongoing support for pedophilia is one of the main reasons it has not been meaningfully addressed, particularly in contemporary…