a good additive is seaweed, and has already been commercialised in Tasmania years ago

https://www.dairynewsaustralia.com.au/news/world-first-low-emission-milk/

Reticulum has aspects that you might like, that solves the problem of dependence on domain names, allowing different types of devices to communicate, but also include TCP/IP options. It’s pretty cool.

was listening to a podcast last year where they talked about the projections the year before of who would be best for carbon emissions, Kamala Harris or Trump, and it was basically a tie. I didn’t realise the benefit to Pakistan (and Australia, where we basically got solar panels for free for the last few years thanks to government incentives too), was largely attributable to his first term policies. I’m sure he’d really hate to know he’s actually an environmental hero at this point 😂

ime is hard to get normies to use Element/Matrix, to the point now I know this about Matrix (I’ve used Element for years and never realised it was closer to Bluesky) I’m going to look into what is functional and under active development in the XMPP space these days.

I also think this is fair comment, but it also kindof misses a bigger point: and that is that the experience of media in our lives before social media kindof conditioned us all to separate ourselves into the categories of performer and audience, with the publisher in the middle with the power: and media has always laid the power in the hands of content publishers vs content consumers.

I loved early social networks pre-Facebook (newsgroups, messageboards, LiveJournal) as power was not yet consolidated in the larger publishers. The clever publishers always saw this potential to consolidate power and control media consumers more than ever before. Which has happened, as we’ve been trained for so long to be passive consumers.

The most important element of Burning Man culture for me was the focus on participation: no spectators. The media world wants the opposite and always has.