Category: Blog
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Most Interesting Structures From The Foundation TV Show
I am very interested in fabricating interesting structures. I have done posts in the past about shelters from The Expanse and written extensively on shelters I’ve seen around the country on my travels. So naturally, I want to collect the most interesting shelters and structures I see in the new Foundation series. I will update…
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Meatshrooms
One project proposal I have been developing recently is a business which uses compost and other forms of waste reclamation to produce “meatshrooms” or those mushrooms which serve as meat substitutes. For example, hen of the woods, lobster of the woods, chicken of the woods, beefsteak mushrooms, etc.
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Cyberpony Express
I recently spent several weeks off-grid at communist permaculture farms in Tennessee, dozens of which orbit around places like Short Mountain. I talked at some length with people there about the need for a completely off-grid instant messaging solution which does not rely on the internet or any traditional infrastructure. One of the ideas we…
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On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics
CJ Trowbridge 2021-10-18 AIS 440 Week 8 Literature Review: On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics Choose 2 of the lectures from the first 7 weeks of class and write a minimum 2 page response by answering the following questions: 1. What was the main topic of the lectures? 2. What did you learn from the lectures?…
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Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People 2021-09-28 Prompt: Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are necessary to rewrite this area of colonial and settler analysis. This response needs to be a minimum of…
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AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People
Watch In the Life: The Murder of Fred Martinez Jr Two-Spirits Documentary Read A Boy Remembered Man who murdered LGBTQ teen in Cortez is released from prison Write Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are…
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AIS 440 Week 5: Queer Indigenous Studies
Read I am a Cherokee Woman, Elizabeth Warren is not Open Letter From Indigenous Women Scholars Regarding Discussions of Andrea Smith Watch Kuma Hina Documentary Fa’afafine Documentary
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Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer I was struck by the following quote from the Barbara May Cameron article, “Cameron’s refusal to be queer in one corner of her life, and native in another, is as radical and transformative now, as it was then.…
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AIS 440 Week 4: Gay American Indians
Read Barbara May Cameron Native Americans/LGBTQ+ Americans: 1528-1976 Listen Randy Burns’s Work Starting Gay American Indians Roger Kuhn: Decolonizing and Unsettling Pleasure Write Choose any of the readings, videos, or podcasts from the first four weeks. Papers must include two parts: a review of the readings, videos, or podcasts. A review is not a close reading…
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A New Paradigm For Web Hosting
I host dozens of wordpress sites for lots of different projects I am either actively working on or worked on in the past, or where I’m just helping others have a website for projects they’re working on. The Problems Serving a lot of wordpress installs can take a lot of resources, but most of these…