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.
Category: Projects
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… Continue reading Cyberpony Express
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… Continue reading A New Paradigm For Web Hosting
Moisture Farming
Arizona, Southern California, and Northern Mexico are about to lose access to their main water source. Wells are drying up as rainfall decreases. Despite occasional deluges, many areas are now seeing half the rainfall they did historically. When I visited the Earthship Biotecture Academy at Taos, they said they are getting about half the annual… Continue reading Moisture Farming
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;… Continue reading Current Camping Gear List
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… Continue reading OurSpace Examples: OurTube, OurTok, etc
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… Continue reading Why and How to Build a Fiber Foamie
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,… Continue reading round robin ipfs over http
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… Continue reading Fake News?
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… Continue reading Does post-structuralism merely extend the hegemony of neoclassicalism?