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There's something alien about pages like this. Seems like ramblings of an artistic that is vaguely tech themed but it's of course possible it contains deep insights. I just rarely get through one of these enough to learn what those are.

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They're an interesting set of people. I highly recommend reading some of the rest of their pages - you may not agree with everything they put forth, but they are clearly thoughtful people with a coherent if alien ideology.

I think about collapse more after encountering their writing. What it means for us, what it means for the people after us, what we owe them.

Permaculture is the art of picking words that sounds logical and smart, make studies with n=1 to determine what is better, erect rules to follow based on that, and the communities that group around that. This is the same thing for computers.

No, it's not. It's Permanent Agriculture. Designing and growing sustainable food producing ecosystems.

Permaculture is a contraction of permanent culture.

No, it's not. It's Permanent Agriculture. It's a farming methodology.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/permaculture

> Blend of permanent +‎ agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978.

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