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Over the last 4 years who have slowly built a movement of widespread community actions to improve the foundation of food systems and climate resilience.
As Twitter dies, we lose a LARGE source of outreach and our primary way to involve people and fundraise.
Exciting things are happening this year.
Please connect so that we can do so together as we continue.
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This is a world of webs built up from sunlight, and the energy of nuclear decay and mineral cycling of the deep earth, and the cycling tug of lunar gravitation. But those energies cycle in eddies and concentrate in autocatalytic patterns of whirling complexity - often meaningful turbulence.
So many things are just out of scale for us... whole landscapes, the atmosphere, the whole society. It's easy to ONLY focus on the large and imagine preparing and suddenly fixing it all at once.
The alternative seems like atomization, especially at time where the systems of control work hard to protect the "short circuit" of people interacting together.
[image 1 the classic trophic pyramid. sunlight and cycling from decomposers start at the bottom, 100% is used for primary production, but work needs energy loss the next step requires 90% but retains 10%, and so on up the pyramid to primary consumption, 2ndary consumption, 3iary consumption, and apex predators. A wolf is 10 deer, is 100 shrubs, is an acre-year of sunlight...]
[image 2 an "emergy" wiring diagram of the geobiosphere with earth, tidal, solar energies coming into the environmental systems which are then used by society. society supports people and information, the runs down the pool of slow renewable sources and nonrenewable. the total flow is 50.1 times 10 to the power of 24 Solar joules a year]
[image 3 this is a series of diagrams of the polar jet and subtropical jet and the patterned turbulence that cycles the air is giant cells down around 30 degrees north and up around 60 degrees north, running the jets.]
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[going to be writing out some thoughts. I like to talk with pictures so I'll it as a thread – bite-sized pieces. Please hold questions/comments until I've finished the thread. Think of this as a presentation.]
Every day we go about our lives in a world facing multiple, simultaneous, interconnected breakdowns coming at us from every angle.
They happen at different physical and temporal scales. Imperceptibly slow and enormous, as hard to perceive as the galaxy or the fast tiny humming life of a mayfly or pair of fundamental particles in the vacuum...
A cycling life of experimental newness, rapid growth, building potential through organization, then overconnection and rapid collapse.
When a scale is overconnected, the smaller crises escalate. a young forest might not notice a lighting storm, an old forest but be done by a tiny spark of static electricity.
(first image The Adaptive Cycle from CS Holling and Gunderson et al. Showing an infinty-shaped movement of systems from an exploitive stage of low potential low connections, to a conservation phase of high potential high connectedness, to rapid release dropping in potential and connectedness, to a phase of reorganization. and it starts again)
(2nd Image: now these cycles are shown on a graph of log time and log population, small cycles of moments, of months, years, and decades... crises amplify up, information and wisdom cascades down)
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Question for #math and #tech folks:
In a neural network when you are taking a list of inputs and multiplying it by weights and then running it through a sigmoid function:
Does the _BIAS_ function similar to r in the logistic map OR C in the Mandelbrot set?