When I started the business lots of people joked I would change my tune about Capitalism. Instead, I just found a whole new list of reasons to hate capitalists, who are nearly all short-sighted cowards unwilling to invest in anything that is not immediately profitable.
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By saying white and not wealthy you are explicitly saying that their race os the determining factor and not their wealth. This puts the blame on all white people, where it does nota belong, instead of on wealthy people, where it does belong.
Class is what matters most in America.
Manzanita Cooperative, has shut down after the Trump Administration defunded the National Science Foundation (which was funding us previously) & the State of California declined to fund our research. Our work could have saved billions of lives as climate collapse wipes out existing crops.
Change that "W" to wealthy and you'd have something. Working class white folks don't deserve to be constantly blamed for the actions of billionaires and their puppets.
Another weird modern media thing I've been thinking about is, like, why DIDN'T the web open up better discourse? Why didn't a vast forum, with ready access to information produce more truth? Lots of reasons, I suppose, but I think part of what's going on is actually fairly pre-Internet.
Reminder that the Lorax took the same approach of speaking out and bearing witness that Democrats are taking and it didn't work out so well. Resistance must be active or it's meaningless.
California is in a salmon extinction crisis. Three years of closed fisheries, weak water protections, and delays on Tribal water rights have pushed salmon—and the communities that depend on them—to the brink. It’s time to act on science, Tribal leadership, and real water solutions. #savecasalmon
Big fan of your work. Can't wait for the second book! My kids get sad every time we get to the end and ask me when the next book will be ready. :)
I am sorry, I haven't been on Bluesky much. The frogs are good! the pond has now dried out and all the tadpoles have turned into frogs and gone hopping away into the woods. Smaller batch than on wetter years, but still several hundred happy little new froggos. :)
Worker owned Cooperatives are the best antidote yet invented to pay inequality. www.commondreams.org/news/average...
Read the incredible Bea Wolf ( by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social) to my kids for bedtime again and am seriously considering making it my default gift to parents of children under 10 for holidays and birthdays from now until forever. Just so so good.
Save California Salmon is calling for immediate and long-term solutions to protect and restore salmon habitats, prioritize sustainable water management, and support the communities that rely on healthy rivers and fisheries.
Read Our Full Press Statement at: californiasalmon.org/press-releases
The NSF’s list of keywords that trigger staff review of science research projects that violate Trump-issued executive orders:
“Female” and “woman” are on it, “male” and “man” are not.
Men, we Need YOU as allies in this War on Women. Act, speak out, educate.
#misogyny
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Howard Zinn, with some words many of us need to read today.
Strong Agree. Pete knew what's up. #Sustainability
In a sane economy, banks would react to the threat of apocalyptic #climatechange by defunding the companies responsible and lending to / investing in people working in solutions instead. www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-...
Worker cooperatives are businesses that are collectively owned and democratically controlled by their workers. Worker Co-op Impact by the Numbers: People of color make up 56.8% of worker-owners, and people identifying as female make up 62.5% of the workforce at worker co-ops. Worker-owned co-ops are two-thirds more likely to succeed than the average U.S. company. Worker-owned co-ops enjoy 5% higher productivity levels than traditional businesses. Worker co-ops employ happier workers with a higher level of job satisfaction than traditional companies. Worker co-ops maintain a 2:1 pay ratio compared to the average ceo-to-worker pay ratio of 303:1. Annual employee turnover for worker co-ops is 15% compared with industry norms of 40-60%. https://ncbaclusa.coop/resources/abcs-of-cooperative-impact/abcs-of-worker-co-op-impact/
Worker cooperatives are the democratic alternative to plutocratic companies.
Here is a US worker co-op directory: www.usworker.coop/directory/
Follow and support @usworker.coop, they're working to create more worker co-ops!
We're often asked why we’re working with wild plants instead of already domesticated plants, like every other agricultural research company in the world is. Answer: genetic diversity can help save our failing food system: www.manzanitacooperative.com/musings/nati...
Fresh off the steamer: Acorn Honey Steam Buns! YUM eatacorn.com/recipes/acor...
NEW: In 2003, France faced the first catastrophic heat wave of the 21st century, with >15,000 deaths. 22 years later, we show that anthropogenic climate change caused 6,000 of those deaths. That, & more insights into heat mortality and adaptation, in our new preprint: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Well, the big thing I couldn't reconcile is how people in that fictional future had avoided the collapse of civilization from climate change long enough to let the other dystopian elements fully develop.
Don't know that I'll ever finish it.
This is how privatization always works in every country. It is nothing more or less than the looting of public infrastructure.
Silence is consent.
If you call yourself a leader, now is the time to lead and use your voice to speak up for your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and employees who are being silenced and erased.
Happy Presidents day.
#BlackHistory is American history, and the people erasing it from government websites in a modern equivalent of book burning are on the wrong side of history.
Someday everyone will have been against what is happening in America right now. But in the meantime, the silence is deafening.
A nation that cannot acknowledge such crimes can never atone for them.
Sally Hemming's history is every bit as important as Thomas Jefferson's to understanding what America is and what it means - and making sense of our current moment in history and how we got here.
The painting is Behind the Myth of Benevolence by Titus Kaphar
US schools have long taught that Thomas Jefferson was a hero, a visionary, and a champion of human liberty. And they did that while erasing Sally Hemmings, whom he enslaved, raped, and impregnated.
States that want to protect their technology industries are going to need to set up state-level equivalents of the cut federal grant programs. Doing so will pay for itself by attracting knowledge based industries to those States.
I wrote most of a dystopian science fiction novel in 2008-2009 but never finished it because it was too depressing. I found it in my files and was re-reading it the other day and half of what's in it has already happened.
Octavia Butler was truly a visionary.
