Don Blair

:::food:::water:::science:::spectacle:::
- research & pedagogy: open science: on mastadon:

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@DonEford @jp30567 Thank you for this! Alas, I'd been harboring some hope that fibrinolytics like nattokinase might help to mitigate long covid symptoms ... would this analysis tend to suggest that they're unlikely to be effective?

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@CrisisReports Oooh, yes please! if you happen to have any left

[Don Blair @_donblair]

‘Dunbar autonomy’: having a meaningful relationship with all of the people who produce your life support systems - food, water, fiber, shelter, energy

[Ariel Greenwood @greenwoodae]

Testing our 1st water level sensor prototype built by @_donblair in various spots across the ranch. Next step is install it securely over storage. By end of year we'll have a free guide published to help you build/maintain your own. These run off satellite, no cell data required.

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@greenwoodae @ChiNurse Yes, great points! We’re monitoring the amount of water in storage tanks, but the sensor we are using is also often used for flood warning systems / tide measurements. The satellite data plan ends up being comparable in price to a cellular plan for this application

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@cognazor @csmaje - Step 1: read everything that Chris has written
- Step 2: read everything that Chris has read
- Step 3: [TBD]

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@cognazor @csmaje Excellent - eager to hear what you think of it, Jason! And thanks to @csmaje for having suggested it here: https://t.co/3SxXDGizKD

[Ariel Greenwood @greenwoodae]

For anyone curious about how our @LORfoundation funded open source remote water sensor development with @_donblair is going, you can follow along here. At the end we'll have a formal guide for building and troubleshooting them yourselves.

https://t.co/BElE1eEebb

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@RizomaSchool @greenwoodae @DoomerOptimism Oh, neat! Yes, looking forward to it!

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@greenwoodae Hooray! What a gift and privilege to be working with y'all on this. The process has been so fun, & so full of useful insights already, and it's going to be a blast to start testing out our ideas in the field. Looking forward to sharing out what we learn, as we go along. Whee!

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@cognazor Indeed! (Also: highly highly recommend MacKay’s text as accessible (fun?) intro to energy arithmetic — avail as free PDF download https://t.co/4fZNej0cSx)

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@DoomerOptimism After my last MP3 player dies, I'll pass on the episodes orally to my children. By the time my great-grandchildren inherit the stories, various of the podcast guests and topics will have been conflated & recombined into new characters and epic adventures

[Don Blair @_donblair]

Anticipating a lower-energy future, I'm buying several back-up MP3 players so I can continue to enjoy @DoomerOptimism episodes while gardening. I figure I can re-listen to the 100 extant episodes for a few years at least, even if global supply chains & internet both crumble

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@cognazor Fair points! Side note on AI: after listening your (great!) DO conversation w/ R. Heinberg, I wondered whether the anticipated global stumble into a lower-energy future might end up limiting the development & implementation of AI -- as data & number crunching won't be as cheap?

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@Luke2315yee @BillHanage Interesting hypothesis! And perhaps it’d be easy to attempt to compare / correlate local rainfall levels to fluctuations in the wastewater data … (Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if some relevant correction was already being applied in the original wastewater analysis …)

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@csmaje @TheLastFarm @Mar_Musa @zgilbertsonart @RizomaSchool Huzzah! Such a Congress is bound to be deeply interesting & generative, as well as a great way to connect like-minded folks. Would a group-editable document -- to which interested folks might contribute possible Congress discussion topics -- be of potential use at this stage?

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@csmaje @TheLastFarm @tradistae @RizomaSchool (Thanks for your writings!) I wonder how #distributism might best accommodate large flows of people onto & through the land (refugees of various crises)? Perhaps: drawing upon peasant / other traditions of hospitality towards strangers? Inclusion in convivial work (& governance)?

[Don Blair @_donblair]

Hallo teachers! If you use an Aranet4 CO2 monitor in your classroom, you can estimate 'air changes per hour' (ACH) using this (open source) web page: https://t.co/r2sDFpxobe (video explanation here: https://t.co/HeylgkgZsD). Would love to hear whether it works for you! Cheers!

[Don Blair @_donblair]

@GorblogTweets @healthyheating @CMOH_Alberta @JasonCoppingAB @AdrianaLaGrange @Denrite_Mech @YourAlberta Hi all! If any of you are easily able to export Aranet4 CO2 monitor CSV data, we're making a free & open source tool for analyzing the data in terms of "air changes per hour" (ACH): https://t.co/r2sDFpxobe ... would love to know if data upload works smoothly for you? Cheers!