sunbeam-invitation

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+            case 'note':
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static/content/misc/biodiversity.md

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+---
+path: "/posts/biodiversity"
+date: "2022-07-29T23:19:51.246Z"
+title: "Biodiversity"
+author: ""
+type: "note"
+image: ""
+description: ""
+note: "Max Fowler"
+---
+
+On August 21st of 2021, a friend told me, “Indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population, and are stewards of 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity.”
+
+The next day, I decided to look up where this came from, before sharing it, and it sent me down a long research rabbit hole, of not quite finding where the 80% figure came from.
+
+I found lots of research supporting that indigenous peoples have been and continue to be stewards of amazing amounts amounts of biodiversity, such as [this paper](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190731102157.htm), from the University of British Columbia from 2019, showing that the indigenous-managed lands they looked at had even greater biodiversity than "protected lands".<br/>
+<br/>
+I also see the 80% figure often quoted, but I haven't been able to pinpoint where the 80% figure *originally* comes from.<br/>
+<br/>
+
+Here is a summary of where I got to in the rabbit hole:<br/>
+<br/>
+1. National Geographic article from November 2018: <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/can-indigenous-land-stewardship-protect-biodiversity-">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/can-indigenous-land-stewardship-protect-biodiversity-</a><br/>
+   has the subtitle "Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week."<br/>
+   <br/>
+   In the article, if you look at where it says this, there is a broken link. I looked up the broken link in the wayback machine internet archive, and found it goes to a report from Sobrevilla, 2008 [2]<br/>
+   <br/>
+2. If you look at <a href="https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/995271468177530126/pdf/443000WP0BOX321onservation01PUBLIC1.pdf">Sobrevilla, 2008</a>, The World Bank, The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Biodiversity Conservation, The Natural but Often Forgotten Partners, and you look at where it states this 80% fact, it cites WRI 2005:<br/>
+
+<br/>
+"Many areas inhabited by Indigenous Peoples coincide with some of the world’s remaining major concentrations of biodiversity. Traditional indigenous territories encompass up to 22 percent of the world’s land surface and they coincide with areas that hold 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity (WRI 2005)"<br/>
+<br/>
+If you look at the bibliography of the report, you find, WRI 2005 is:<br/> 
+World Resources Institute (WRI) in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and World Bank. 2005. Securing Property and Resource Rights through Tenure Reform, pp.83–87 in World Resources Report 2005: The Wealth of the Poor – Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty. Washington, D.C.: WRI.<br/>
+<br/>
+3. If you look into that report (WRI 2005), <a href="https://www.wri.org/research/world-resources-2005-wealth-poor">https://www.wri.org/research/world-resources-2005-wealth-poor</a><br/>
+<br/>
+It’s not clear to me, where it says,<br/>
+“Indigenous people live in lands that coincide with areas that hold 80 percent of the planet’s biodiversity"<br/>
+<br/>
+The phrase “80 percent” appears six times, not in connection with this quote.<br/>
+<br/>
+Could Sobrevilla be making an original intepretation of [3] without explaining it, or mis-citing [3] or am I missing something?<br/>
+<br/>
+When I texted my family signal group chat about this, my Mom responded that she had also by chance just seen this same quote in print, in a book she was reading titled “All We Can Save”.<br/>
+<br/>
+<br/>
+

static/content/misc/sunbeam-invitation.md

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+---
+path: "/posts/sunbeam-invitation"
+date: "2022-07-29T23:19:51.246Z"
+title: "Sunbeam Invitation"
+author: ""
+type: "note"
+image: ""
+description: "on Alén Diviš (1900 – 1956)"
+note: "Max Fowler"
+---
+
+![img/moon.jpg](assetts/moon.jpg)
+
+if you are reading this page, 
+it is most likely because we met and I gave you this link, 
+as a way to connect outside of instagram (and the corporate surveillance capitalism attention poisoning machine)
+
+for the past two years, I've been actively engaged with alternative networks
+— [here](https://tinyletter.com/notplants/letters/canal-swans-7-p2p) is a newsletter I wrote in March of 2020, 
+with a few paragraphs about the p2p movement, which since then I prefer referring to as the p4p (peer for peer) movement. 
+
+notably, this was before the latest boom (and more recent crash) in crypto excitement, 
+and my interest in p4p has always been a bit outside of crypto
+(I'm not necessarily always crypto-negative, but I've had more interest so far in projects and networks that don't have tokens or blockchains)
+
+the networks I'm most active on are the fediverse, scuttlebutt and email (the original decentralized network). 
+
+*the fediverse*
+
+the fediverse is another name for the network of networks which mastodon is a part of. 
+
+[Here](https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/) is an article about it someone else wrote. In short, its a federated social network, where there are many instances (servers) and each server has its own admin(s) who decide which other instances to federate with. Users of a particular instance can see posts from their own instance, as well as other instances which their instance federates with. You can imagine it as a network of connected communities. A federation.
+
+If you don't like your admin's federation choices (too strict, or not strict enough), or for any reason, you can also migrate your account to another server.
+
+In a sense, federation combines "free speech" with "free listening". Anyone can create their own server and say whatever they want into the void, and at the same time no one has to listen to them (federate with them). 
+
+I'm a member of a collective that is collectively administering a solarpunk fediverse instance called http://sunbeam.city. 
+
+Its not as fast-paced as twitter, and has its strange eccentricities, but this also is sometimes nice. 
+A lot of people would say its a place with its own culture, and not intended as an exact replacement for twitter. 
+
+If you'd like to try it out, here is an invitation to join [https://sunbeam.city/invite/YmTacrCx](https://sunbeam.city/invite/YmTacrCx)
+(also feel free to share this with friends, but please don't post it publicly)
+
+if you just want to read about it without joining, here are two related articles I wrote:
+- [Degrading Fabric, Degrading Networks](/posts/degrading-fabric-degrading-networks)
+- [Anthropology Of Blocking](/posts/anthropology-of-blocking)
+
+![sunbeam](assetts/sunbeamcity3.png)
+
+
+*scuttlebutt*
+
+in my opinion, scuttlebutt has an even more interesting structure than the fediverse, but its less far along and doesn't have as many people using it. 
+
+scuttlebutt is fully peer-to-peer, your posts and secret key live on your device, and there is no server admin who could ever delete your account, 
+or make decisions for you. 
+
+scuttlebutt also abides by "free speech" and "free listening". 
+
+there are a lot of strange things about scuttlebutt, and I often sometimes think of it as a sort of religious community. 
+
+it also has a long history of people living on boats, growing mushrooms and interested in alternative and ecological ways of livings. 
+
+I'm not sure if I can fully describe it. however, its also still currently missing a lot of important features such as private groups and the ability to delete posts. 
+people are working on adding these things, but until they are added I can't really recommend the network, unless you have a specific interest in this kind of thing
+or just want to explore it. in its current form, I believe in part due to these limitations, its very nerdy and a lot of the conversation there is about p4p. 
+
+it currently feels to me a bit like a network for p4p activists, with the hope that it might someday also reach a point that it was truly useful to people who aren't actively working on p4p themselves. 
+
+but with those caveats, if you are interested to check it out, here is how you join:
+
+download manyverse onto your phone or desktop from this [link](https://www.manyver.se/download/)
+
+and then use the invite code below to connect with a pub that I maintain 
+> pub.commoninternet.net:8008:@ZTgbLrufYmP6oZ4MdD4NL8fAOQ9pciUb2cF8dQ8GZwk=.ed25519~n+uWK9IoNH5bZMkZ5zChxsoZdyqO+PfLvq+ZC817sMg=
+
+after the initial sync, you should be able to find my profile via searching for my public key: @5Pt3dKy2HTJ0mWuS78oIiklIX0gBz6BTfEnXsbvke9c=.ed25519
+
+there are also other clients, but manyverse is the most feature-complete client that is actively maintained right now 
+
+
+*email*
+
+email is the original old-school decentralized network, and despite what people say, its still running strong 
+
+here is a poem I wrote in tribute to email — [electronic mail](/posts/electronic-mail)
+
+you can also subscribe to my occasional (seems to be a few times per year, but sometimes in bursts) email newsletter [here](https://mfowler.info/mail/)
+
+the newsletter software I use is also hosted by a friend which I think is really cool (community infra through and through)
+
+
+
+*ps* 
+
+if you have an email newsletter or rss feed, feel free me to email me a link at max@mfowler.info 
+
+and also if its better for you, feel free to follow me on instagram at [@maxpicks](instagram.com/maxpicks), I post their occasionally too, a foot in both doors
+— don't feel any pressure to join any of these networks unless it resonates with you 
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static/content/notes/reishivan.md

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+---
+path: "/posts/reishivan"
+date: "2022-07-19T23:19:51.246Z"
+title: "Reishi Van"
+type: "note"
+level: "3"
+style: "prose"
+image: ""
+description: ""
+note: "Max Fowler"
+---
+
+ideas for reishi van 
+
+travel between different farms and communities sharing some type of workshop
+
+- sovereign memory archive (raspberry pi network talking together)
+- solar web ring, of raspberry pis talking together
+
+- make your own fruiting chamber
+
+
+staying in spiritual and dance communities 
+
+sharing an invitation of how to connect on the alternative networks 

static/content/wiki/alternative-epistemologies.md

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-*Alternative Medicine*
-
-This one is more meaningful to me, because I have more personal experience of how "alternative" medicine has cured
-ailments in myself and my friends, and how many people I know are suffering from chronic illness and injury, 
-some of who I imagine might also be like me, whose conditions might not be inherent but actually caused by the illness-causing conditions of modern society.
-Here is a tweet from 2017 back when I was still questioning if it was even possible to find the healing I was looking for,
-and before I had first-hand experience. 
-
-Many people would consider me a covid-truther or conspiracy theorist,
-&mdash; labels are not so important to me, but I do think the industrial medical paradigm is trash for a number of reasons. 
-
-Here is something I wrote about western medicine, vaccination, misinformation and non-holistic public health: <br/><br/>
-[Misinformation](/posts/misinformation)
-
-<br/><br/>
-
 a general are.na channel of resources <br/><br/>
 [no liberation without curiosity towards many epistemologies](https://www.are.na/new-name/no-liberation-without-curiosity-towards-many-epistemologies)
 

static/content/wiki/herbalism.md

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 fire cider recipe 
 
-ayurveda 
+ayurveda 
+
+
+*Alternative Medicine*
+
+I have personal experience of how "alternative" medicine has cured
+ailments in myself and my friends, and how many people I know are suffering from chronic illness and injury,
+some of who I imagine might also be like me, whose conditions might not be inherent but actually caused by the illness-causing conditions of modern society.
+Here is a tweet from 2017 back when I was still questioning if it was even possible to find the healing I was looking for,
+and before I had first-hand experience.
+
+Many people would consider me a covid-truther or conspiracy theorist,
+— labels are not so important to me, but I do think the industrial medical paradigm is trash for a number of reasons.
+
+Here is something I wrote about western medicine, vaccination, misinformation and non-holistic public health: <br/><br/>
+[Misinformation](/posts/misinformation)