It’s a machine my brother built out of old parts and is called the “Wish Fulfilling Machine”. It is installed outside of his house and is a favourite spot for hikers and schoolkids - you can press all sorts of buttons, pull levers and connect cables to make stuff happen, there’s small screens, gauges, a fan and other moving parts and displays. He has now made this online version.

It’s my favourite machine ever and I believe it really works! Here’s a translation of the instructions:

Instructions for use: Congratulations on using this wish-fulfilling machine! Make a wish whilst lovingly operating the machine according to your own ideas. If you treat the machine, the universe and all its creatures with enough love, your wish will come true. You cannot operate the machine incorrectly as long as you treat it and the rest of creation with kindness.

Good bye and thank you for the fish

Now compare with a biodiverse food forest and take the health of whole landscapes, not units of land, into account. Organic farming is mostly just the same as conventional farming without (some) of the chemicals, for the sake of slapping a green label on your produce and selling it for thrice the price.

In true biodiversity you can achieve a very high food density with very little inputs. That’s what is worth studying and supporting imo, but since these techniques have been discredited as uncivilized and ineffective by fossil fuel & big machine peddlers, we instead have organic schmorganic - same machines, same round-the-world-shipping, same forcing small farmers out of business.

When it comes to shopping, local and in season is the easiest way of making a positive and affordable impact. If there’s a farmer’s market, check it out, often more interesting stuff than the supermarket.

Mooooom! I can’t sleep. There’s an evil AI under my bed!

BREAKING NEWS Man hits own head with hammer

Don’t be a Luddite, Kronar, it’s the future and it’s inevitable!

Exactly, the word ‘terrorist’ means nothing. When I read it I immediately assume I’m reading propaganda by someone with an agenda.

'orrible, innit?

That probably means that 1.000.000 AI systems can crack 100 Navier-Stokes problems in 88 hours. ChatGPT, now calculate how many women are needed to generate a baby in 10 seconds.

The japanese knotweed is exciting. I’ve experimented a bit with using local knotweeds and could get a mild turquoise.

The marigold you have, is it the red-yellow leaves? I am harvesting a lot of marigold flowers this year, my variety is light orange. I’ve dyed a not-too-bad yellow with it - what do you do with it to get reds and oranges?

If only I could get my chaotic household and farm on track again to carve out time for dyeing - your posts are a real inspiration to keep working on that. Thanks for sharing! How difficult/expensive would it be to post some seeds to Southern Europe? I’d love to make the amaranth and indigo part of my garden family!

Propaganda is beautiful

automated homes, remote education, and futuristic transportation.

homes spying on us, propaganda screens everywhere, and robotaxis

Guess we tried

Ooh beautiful! I started needlefelting randomly coloured balls, but these are extra neat!

Modern reincarnation of Ea-Nasir: ‘Muahahar, this time I’m going to add a symbol to my copper products and reduce the copper content gradually! And I’ll paint my symbol onto every wall and draw it onto the tablets in people’s homes! Once they notice the shitty quality they will have forgotten that better copper existed.’

In this contribution we analyze the process by which the commodity itself—decorated pottery vessels—was developed into a brand not by added symbols but on the virtue of its visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, centralized production, export circulation, local imitation, intentional commercial scope, and cultural reputation.

not by added symbols

What we have today are fake brands - what we would like to have again are brands that show their identity by being good quality in the first place.

Ainda se fala pouco sobre isso no mundo dos hippies de língua inglêsa - só um vibezinho com cheiro desagradável mas nada em aberto. Estive no trance nos anos 2000 em Alemanha, sempre achei esquisito. Depois no ultimo ano vi o boom e perguntei-me quem tinha interesse em criar uma distração deste tamanho.

Não é surpreendente que o poder vem captar os jovens assim, porque são eles que tem a força e a motivação de mudar as coisas!

Thanks for sharing! This year I seem to be running behind all my harvests. So that’s why some of my garlic looks as it does. I’ll remember to eat the more separated ones first.

I like the idea. I can’t see this being too difficult to implement. I imagine images that show smaller and with less saturation on the first load/print version. But I rarely end up printing websites, it’s mostly PDFs already designed for print - we should be designing these with ink savings in mind, I don’t need a colourful logo, huge pics in colour and big fat titles. Personally I sometimes just copy a text from somewhere too designy, paste in a text file and then print that.

I must have gotten pale when some festival organizer handed me the end of a cable with a male plug. ‘Your electricity supply, here you go!’

Me: ‘… ???’

Organizer, still waving the cable end around: ‘Just use an adapter!’ (he barely managed to omit the ‘stupid woman’ in his answer …)

Yeah, this place exists not far from here. They’ve built a crappy outdoor pool and separated it from the motorway by a screen with a beach and palm trees printed on it. Instead of protecting and maintaining the river beaches full of ash and beautiful hillsides of oak that also exist here. Humans are strange.