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@louistxiv.bsky.social
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"Don't mind being lonely, so spare me the brimstone
Acting all holy, when you know I'm full of holes
Don't mind being lonely, don't need to be told
Stop acting so holy,
I know I'm full of holes, full of holes" - frightened rabbit
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this Luna Moth was hanging out this morning
Luna Moth
August 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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lol this is the dude who wrote it he was the vp at a PR firm that did PR for tech companies and now he writes "articles" for news companies
July 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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lol indeed 🖕🏾that dude
July 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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especially this one
July 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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we always had a villain
July 3, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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July 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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July 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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speaking of New York this is a good book
June 11, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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ummmmm
Image of a person jumping of a building and defying gravity with a wingsuit
April 20, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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one did give me a hug for sure
April 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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lol previous fellow
March 16, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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March 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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March 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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March 16, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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lmao did a brief deep dive on Kustov, come on give him a break he is a fellow at the "roots of progress institute" which is really a way for jason crawford to collect a pay check for writing to promote his calling to the calling put out by Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collinson lmao
March 16, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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average food item journeys some 1300 miles before becoming part of a meal. Fruits and vegetables are refrigerated, waxed, colored, irradiated, fumigated, packaged, and shipped. None of these processes enhances food quality but merely enables distribution over great distances and helps increase shelf life. Industrial agriculture has created the absurd situation whereby “between production, processing, distribution, and preparation, 10 calories of energy are required to create just one calorie of food energy.” Conversely, it is the ability to combine productivity and ecological sustainability that constitutes a key dimension of superiority of peasant or small-scale agriculture over industrial agriculture. Contrary to assertions that peasant and small-farm agriculture is hostile to technological innovation, partisans of small-scale or peasant-based farming assert that technology is “path dependent,” that is, its development is conditioned by the mode of production in which it is embedded, so that technological innovation under peasant and small-scale farming would take different paths than innovation under capitalist industrial agriculture. But partisans of the peasantry have not only engaged in a defense of the peasant or smallholder agriculture. Vía Campesina and its allies have actually formulated an alternative to industrial capitalist agriculture, and one that looks to the future rather than to the past. This is the paradigm of food sovereignty, the key propositions of which are discussed elsewhere in this collection.
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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The food price crisis, according to proponents of peasant and smallholder agriculture, is not due to the failure of peasant agriculture but to that of corporate agriculture. They say that, despite the claims of its representatives that corporate agriculture is best at feeding the world, the creation of global production chains and global supermarkets, driven by the search for monopoly profits, has been accompanied by greater hunger, worse food, and greater agriculture-related environmental destabilization all around than at any other time in history. Moreover, they assert that the superiority in terms of production of industrial capitalist agriculture is not sustained empirically. Miguel Altieri and Clara Nicholls, for instance, point out, that although the conventional wisdom is that small farms are backward and unproductive, in fact, “research shows that small farms are much more productive than large farms if total output is considered rather than yield from a single crop. Small integrated farming systems that produce grains, fruits, vegetables, fodder, and animal products outproduce yield per unit of single crops such as corn (monocultures) on large-scale farms.” When one factors in the ecological destabilization that has accompanied the generalization of capitalist industrial agriculture, the balance of costs and benefits lurches sharply towards the negative. For instance, in the United States, notes Daniel Imhoff,
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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Once on the path of industrial agriculture, farming costs more. It can be more profitable, of course, but only if the prices farmers get for their crops stay ahead of the costs of petrochemicals and machinery. Green Revolution proponents claim increases in net incomes from farms of all sizes once farmers adopt the more responsive seeds. But recent studies also show another trend: outlays for fertilizers and pesticides may be going up faster than yields, suggesting that Green Revolution farmers are now facing what U.S. farmers have experienced for decades-a cost-price squeeze. In Central Luzon, Philippines, rice yield increased 13 percent during the 1980s, but came at the cost of a 21 percent increase in fertilizer use. In the Central Plains, yields went up only 6.5 percent, while fertilizer use rose 24 percent and pesticides jumped by 53 percent. In West Java, a 23 percent yield increase was virtually canceled by 65 and 69 percent increases in fertilizers and pesticides respectively.
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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ok but Havel?
January 21, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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but he reads books
January 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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we got our own in MD as well
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Literally the pose he is going for
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Why would anyone panic when AI both sides things
September 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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On a similar note lol, I cant’t decide if there is a game or not tonight
September 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM