BeaverNov 21
Proudhon's #Mutualism is the best form of anarchism because you can pick and choose what works, rather it be markets, commons or mutual aid. Try all three at once and see what builds a better world As long as its voluntary and based on occupancy and use (not bullshit ancap rent/absentee landlords/patents) its allowed in a free society. Mutualism is compatible with both egoist thinking and natural rights framework.
pocpaperNov 20

Exemple de mutualisme clàssic: l'abella s'alimenta del poŀlen i nèctar i alhora poŀlinitza. Entomofília o entomogàmia, concretament melitofília.

#pocpaper #tintachina #ploma #ilustracionnaturalista #natureillustration #natureillustrationart #catalunya_natura #catalunya_natura #catalunyanatura #pinturaanimal #faunaillustration #simbiosi #mutualisme #abella #bee #simbiosis #mutualism #mastoart #mastoartist #creativetoots #penandinkart #inkart #inkdrawing #entomology #entomologie #entomologia

American NaturalistNov 12

ASN Address: The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future by Bronstein

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738330

#Mutualism #EEB #Innovation

Jon SullivanNov 8

I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.

A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside plant-feeding insects. The healthier the insect the more plants it will feed on.

So, what do the microbes do? They manufacture chemicals that make their insect hosts stronger. Several ways that they do this have been discovered "from balancing a nutritionally deficient diet" to "upgrading its defensive biochemistry against natural enemies."

Wild!

"Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts" by
Aileen Berasategui and Hassan Salem

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ento-121423-013411

#entomology #SpeciesInteractions #mutualism #ecology #PlantPathogens #Herbivory #insects

Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts

Herbivorous insects can shape the epidemiology of disease in plants by vectoring numerous phytopathogens. While the consequences of infection are often well-characterized in the host plant, the extent to which phytopathogens alter the physiology and development of their insect vectors remains poorly understood. In this review, we highlight how insect-borne phytopathogens can promote vector fitness, consistent with theoretical predictions that selection should favor a mutualistic or commensal phenotype. In doing so, we define the metabolic features predisposing plant pathogens to engage in beneficial partnerships with herbivorous insects and how these mutualisms promote the microbe's propagation to uninfected plants. For the vector, the benefits of co-opting microbial pathways and metabolites can be immense: from balancing a nutritionally deficient diet and unlocking a novel ecological niche to upgrading its defensive biochemistry against natural enemies. Given the independent origins of these tripartite interactions and a number of convergent features, we also discuss the evolutionary and genomic signatures underlying microbial adaptation to its dual lifestyle as both a plant pathogen and an insect mutualist. Finally, as host association can constrain the metabolic potential of microbes over evolutionary time, we outline the stability of these interactions and how they impact the virulence and transmission of plant pathogens.

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Khen OfekNov 6

The future of the internet depends on who owns it.
What if platforms like Uber or YouTube were digital cooperatives, run by their users and encoded with transparency?

My latest essay explores how DAOs can provide the architecture for platform cooperatives, turning automation and AI into tools for shared governance.

“The architecture of cooperation becomes a design space.”

Read: https://mutualhorizons.manifoldclub.com/posts/building-platform-cooperative-on-dao-infrastructure

#PostLabor #Mutualism #DAO #Cooperation #Solarpunk

Laura ScrimshawOct 27
All Zebras Here! Certainly no small and succulent impalas to be found. Predators who don't want to fight a big tough herd can just move along.
#Hwange #Hwangenationalpark #nature #natur #naturephotography #wildlifeprotection #wildlife #wildlifephotography #africa #zimbabwe #wildlifeconservation #nationalgeographic #natgeo #natgeonature #mammals #ethicalwildlifephotography #zebras #impala #herdanimals #mutualism #symbiosis
Arnaud TabarlyOct 25

Trio is a Quartet
Cycle 1

4th movement / 4

The call is launched.
But if you are here, you know it and you already don’t sleep anymore.

https://youtu.be/zTnY_N2xqS0

#andor #starwars #swft #trio #quartet #politics #people #cinema #series #causecommune #sociology #mutualism #nomorehashtag

Andor: Maarva's Speech

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Show threadKhen OfekOct 20
@tankdigital @urwumpe @corpsmoderne @jdb @tinker @valkyrie
I didn't choose those topics.
I wrote about #mutualism in a #PostLabor world.
The crowd here was oversensitive to the fact that I lightly mentioned "the AI era" and gave as example the phenomena of DAO (which is based on #blockchain )
And again, I don't understand why they think I am a monster if I don't agree with their axioms that #AI and #blockchain contradicts #Solarpunk
Show threadKhen OfekOct 20
@urwumpe @jdb @tinker @valkyrie
I didn't want to talk at all about AI and blockchain. In my blog post I just mentioned it as examples of systems that people currently build.
My whole intention was to discuss #mutualism as a kind of #anarchism as a replacement for #capitalism, #neoliberalism and nation states.
Show threadKhen OfekOct 20
@OliviaVespera @amici @tinker
Totally agree!
The main issue is not with #AI as a technology but with the #capitalist system.
This is why I think we are already late in designing a better more equitable system which will replace the current one.
IMO, #capitalism won in the industrial age, but now in the AI age we can build #mutualism to replace #capitalism