Category: Blog
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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…
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Does post-structuralism merely extend the hegemony of neoclassicalism?
As a queer nonbinary person who is wrestling with whether or not to embrace post-structuralism, it’s been very interesting over the years to hear so many arguments from fans of queer theory against things like hate crimes legislation or even marriage equality. One of the more obvious arguments has been the fact that marriage equality…
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My Kayaking Setup
I’ve been doing a lot of kayaking since age ten, just over two decades now. I’ve tried a lot of different gear and here’s my current setup based on all my lessons learned. (I’m in the back) The kayak is my absolute favorite kayak. The Intex Challenger K1 (Second-Generation). These kayaks are really great for…
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The Gilded Age and Amerika’s Self-Deception
Watching documentaries about the Columbian Exposition for an Urban Studies Class reminded me so much of Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age. Twain argued that America was not in a golden age, but rather a gilded age. That the success and growth and wealth were fake and designed to conceal the rotten core of a country…