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2026:
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…This is not surprising. The web is a patchwork of veneers of nice ideas on top of a vast tectonic system of extraction.
What lies underneath was bound to erupt.
But that extraction is itself just a thicker crust of strata atop a 4 billion year old gift https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111844096545504756
…Ain’t no human-fashioned machinery without the machinery of life…
which human-fashioned machinery regards as unfashionable
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113266291886504412
…And all that unregenerative, unfashioning machinery is a heat engine https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117166407928820266
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