Art Carpenter

GenX humanist, technologist, preservationist, idealistic realist, husband, father, adoptee, in recovery since June 2022. Skeptical optimist. Hopefully crazed.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

I'm a bottom-up guy. I don't follow anyone with more than a thousand followers - they don't need my attention. I like to build stuff, make things work.

Now 50+ I'm more focused on learning "how to people."

Even with biases and arguing, we can band together for good. We must.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

VELOCITAC - A Pact to Act in Defense of Life https://t.co/ByF5N2GNxt
#polycrisis #activism #Environment #life

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@JordanPerry The leash pulls both ways.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

This was fun. Give it a spin!

Tracking reality is, after all, an essential survival skill.

I'm not perfect. A tad too skeptical. I'll take it.

Test your misinformation susceptibility now! What is #YourMIST? 🧐 https://t.co/BkjFiCtPsY #misinformation #fakenews

[Fiona @pondsntrees]

Balloons do not float off into infinity.
They end up tangled in branches, fields, verges, shorelines or out at sea where whales & turtles mistake them for jellyfish.
I have often picked up the horrible muddy remains of balloons 😫
Please don't buy them!

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@LGSpace @KeepBritainTidy Yes, just picked one out of the forest today. Cursed things.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@EconNature @violin4all Planning, yes, refer to M. Andreesen's 2023 manifesto stating "we hate central planning."

More a matter of private planning vs. public planning. Private interests are driving public planning.

We need caucuses of faith in life to counter the caucuses of faith in commerce.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

Way of Life https://t.co/4GblyoGK4L

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@NBPTROCKS @MelodyLeeLacy @Doc_Valerie @IEyeOfTheStorm @25_cycle @DanCady @aquatixwitch @NicholasDiehl8 @zerothworld @rhosking252 @violin4all @sustainablist1 @zane_webb @JonJonAnimation @256Solomon @Tav1Amanda @AronAoja @ahengst @ksrinfo @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Teleconnections:
https://t.co/Vb0pifgqbv

Phases of matter (Earth, Water, Air, Stardust) and energy (Sun's heat) interacting, jostling, flowing.

Teleconnection is a mysterious resonance, an oscillation across domains.

The Earth speaks to us. Many are listening.
Can we learn?

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@sustainablist1 @NBPTROCKS @IEyeOfTheStorm @Doc_Valerie @MelodyLeeLacy @25_cycle @aquatixwitch @DanCady @NicholasDiehl8 @zerothworld @rhosking252 @violin4all @zane_webb @JonJonAnimation @256Solomon @Tav1Amanda @AronAoja @ahengst @ksrinfo @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband @SierraClub @audubonsociety @WWF @Greenpeace Conversation is social intelligence, best way to reach larger concepts driving our world.
Public collaboration is the antidote to private corruption.
The light of reason, the fresh air of humor, the sustaining gift of each person's perspective shared in good faith.
Here for it.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@erinn27157 Thank you. Working on that wonderfulness!
It is tough some times, especially this time of year, for me anyway.
Constantly marveling at the overlapping cycles of growth, action, decline, renewal.
Spring will come, and life will try again for the 4,501 millionth time.
Emergence

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

I'm a bottom-up guy. I don't follow anyone with more than a thousand followers - they don't need my attention. I like to build stuff, make things work.

Now 50+ I'm more focused on learning "how to people."

Even with biases and arguing, we can band together for good. We must.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@erinn27157 This is most excellent and actionable information. Thank you for the shampoo recipe!

What if I took each thing I bought labeled "disposable" and shipped it back to the maker? They should pay the disposal cost.

Each must own our "externalities" - the only way to rebalance.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@NBPTROCKS @Doc_Valerie @25_cycle @IEyeOfTheStorm @MelodyLeeLacy @sustainablist1 @aquatixwitch @DanCady @NicholasDiehl8 @zerothworld @rhosking252 @violin4all @zane_webb @JonJonAnimation @256Solomon @Tav1Amanda @AronAoja @ahengst @ksrinfo @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Before the Word was the Deed.
Words only remind us of what we already know.
Hard to access deep knowledge. We use words to divvy up concepts endlessly, all derivative.
Larger truth requires shared context.
(why ppl resort to scripture.)
Thanks 4 creating the shared space, Alex.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@NBPTROCKS @Doc_Valerie @25_cycle @IEyeOfTheStorm @MelodyLeeLacy @sustainablist1 @aquatixwitch @DanCady @NicholasDiehl8 @zerothworld @rhosking252 @violin4all @zane_webb @JonJonAnimation @256Solomon @Tav1Amanda @AronAoja @ahengst @ksrinfo @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Hyper-objectivism, mysticism...
both are extremes, and carry distortions.
Specialists, experts, zealots, carry their domain's biases, just like we carry our cultural biases.
I have to acknowledge my bias, admit my blind spots, step up my game, and consider the "other" viewpoint.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

Per B. Kahn, Brock Linker planted the first batch on 6,000 Montana acres.
“Farmers don’t tend to like regulations,” Brock said. “But if there’s a clear, open path to heal soil and make money, that levels the playing field.”

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

King Arthur's Baking Co. offers a Regenerative Ag Organic Flour, perennial Red Winter Wheat that does not require seasonal re-planting, needs little or no fertilizer. Rather than preparing the field for the grain, this is propagating grain that improves the field.

[Jim @zerothworld]

@Doc_Valerie @NBPTROCKS @rhosking252 @MelodyLeeLacy @violin4all @sustainablist1 @FredHikes @zane_webb @artcarpenter @25_cycle @JonJonAnimation @IEyeOfTheStorm @NicholasDiehl8 @256Solomon @Tav1Amanda @AronAoja @ahengst @ksrinfo @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Great list!
One specific Biden Climate Smart Ag & Forestry practice (code #386) is “Field Borders”. I think there are monetary incentives. Opportunity to rewild 4% of US Midwest grain region with vast mesh of 30 ft wide field borders. https://t.co/1eAEfdcYsN

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

Curtailing commodity wheat
By Brian Kahn
Bloomberg Businessweek - via email

https://t.co/A0XVGXqlS7

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@ClimateDad77 Technology, to date, has been uniformly hostile to life and damaging to the biosphere. Narrow-minded and short-sighted.

Ecological Technology would be the opposite, engineered in alignment with long-term natural systems. Intentionally improving life's viability.

Its possible.

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

What's happening?

"Verification"

The process whereby "Social Media" platforms attempt to tamp down bots and improve confidence in their veracity by /borrowing authority/ from governments and businesses.

Might this displace any role of government in regulating online commerce?

[Art Carpenter @artcarpenter]

@MarkTrewick1 Sure. I rely more on physical reasoning than mathematical tautology.
There are constraints, practical upper limits to Earth's heat-energy system.
Witness the emerging debate about the natural ambient temperature range.
Anticipating future local 2m temperature "records."