“Consider what you’re going to do to meet up with your group or communicate with them if communication systems go down, if cell networks and internet infrastructure go down goes down, gets clamps down, gets censored, goes blackout – how are you going to stay in touch? Without a group, without friends, you are sunk.
So consider getting into HF so that you don’t need a bunch of infrastructure in between to make that contact.
Who do you need to stay in contact with if and when the grid goes down? Let’s practice and figure it out before any emergency.”
PACE Plan Primary: Signal or phone networks, in case of emergency call repeatedly
Alternative: Email, visit
Contingency: HF ham radio, transmitting audio on pre-determined frequency or using digital weak signal communications (JS8Call digital mode based on FT8 and using keyboard-to-keyboard messaging), antenna on 40m-band setup low to ground and radiating signal directly up, bouncing off the atmosphere to reach nearby and potentially a few hundred miles radius range.
Here’s a video showing 3 antenna examples: long horizontal outside is very DIYable, or loop antenna is compact and simpler, or end-fed antenna needs to go high up but can be strung from trees and needs no ground plane.
Meet with transmissions using the 3/3/3 rule: starting at noon and every 3 hours, listen for 3 minutes on “channel 3” (ham radio slang for pre-determined channel, probably something using 40m-band antennas that are simpler and DIY’able, “FT8 Digital Calling Frequency:7.074 MHz is the standard worldwide frequency for FT8 operations.[1]”)
Days can be challenging. Overwhelm and frustration can pile up, grief and despair erode comfort and hope, entropy churns on. At a certain point, as Friday afternoon approaches, there can be a rush to wrap up and a yearning for relief. This is a time-based technology of the work week. There is also the Jewish time-tradition of Shabbat that invites relief. It is a merciful offering – to rest, to put down your burdens. It is also a mighty discernment: the work is over, it cannot proceed.
Is the stock market Which through many calamaty, trends ever upward What is the appreciation appreciating?
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“It feels like the markets are more irrational then ever and driven by tens of trillions in capital moving around, this is money is cash in hand and insulated from real consequences in the world so not reacting as it should.”
“A few years ago I heard an economist talk about “excess money sloshing around in the system, chasing a profit”. The image has stuck with me, seems to fit really well”
“The stock market is unrealistically insulated. We’ll likely never see a true depression again but just a series of recessions propped up by the 1%.”
“Passive investing has taken perhaps too large a share of the market, making flows less reactionary. When you have XX hundred billion(s) flowing in every month on loop not hard to see where appreciation comes from.”
Drink lots of water Drink so much that it flows through you So that you often have to pee – with glee, release your wastes So that you calibrate to thirstiness – yes, thirst, drink deeply of life
Drink so much water that you remember “I am mostly made of water” “I am a water vessel” “I am a flowing being, not a rigid body”
No thing is static Everything flows All vibrates
Water passes through you You are not a rigid body You are a flowing vessel Passing by Passing away This too shall pass
Drink lots of water Flow Grow Go, drink deeply of life
Not to be taken for granted Aspired aspirations, who knows the world to come?
The cats are ready Calm like they’re waiting Careful like they’re knowing Unknowing, Steady, ready for what’s next
What’s one’s life like? Breathing
Something low and guttural Something sharp and high pitched A rough and chaotic trough A flat and orderly sequence of peaks, plateaus An enrichment and spreading (inhale) An exhaustion and discard (exhale)
The discard, one’s life Food for branching trees Forestablishing what’s next
Where will the waves go? Where will the ripples flow? For a brief time one holds then passes or drops the ball The ball passes on to the next Through the next The ball goes and leaves another Lost, rediscovered The ball hits the next, bounces, finds an other Each ball a single note in a grand Song Forming Family, in the greatest sense
Are you ready? For the next breath,
What’s next? Now, Is it savoring? Is it stewarding?
Is tomorrow guaranteed? What will the future bring? What song should we sing?
Interstellar object I3/Atlas is currently at its perihelion, or closest point to our Sun at approximately 1.36AU. Among the anomalies associated with this comet-like object, its approach is unlikely: It has been hidden from Earth’s view by the Sun’s glare throughout October (though some scientific reports in review claim to have observed the object’s emissions despite solar glare). This occulted segment of its long trip is also its most opportune time to make orbital adjustments to its own direction or for any probes it could dispatch, using the gravity of our Sun to assist. All this and other unmentioned anomalies to say: while unlikely, there is some cautious speculation that this is a technologic object, directed by an Alien Intelligence (AI).
And I say that to ask: If an alien vessel were in our backyard today and, perhaps at this moment, sending probes our way – for what purpose, one can only speculate – what would one do? Even if that were a fact, there is still much uncertainty.
Not commenting on likelihood, but hypothetically: If it were the case that alien intelligence was in our backyard this moment, close and unseen, then these moments would feel tenuous. What would one do? Savor, I suppose. It is risky and significant enough that squandering time would be easier to recognize as foolish. But it would be uncertain and inspiring enough to not throw one into despair and defeatism.
If one was known to have only a week to live, unlike in this uncertain scenario, then I imagine ‘savoring time’ would look uniquely scarce and conclusive: skipping chores, saying goodbyes, focusing fully on favorites. In contrast, with uncertainty of what the world two months later looks like, it is wise both to savor and also to steward. Take care of one’s future but also do not expect one’s future is guaranteed. Do the dishes, while remembering the precious ephemerality of it all. Savor, and also steward.
This kind of tenuousness, a liminal existential space, could be healthy. A reminder, a reorientation, that we only ever exist Here Now.
How will one Be when it arrives,
What’s Next
Moment by moment Building momentum What's the best next step? May peace be up on you!
What makes one whole? What does one want to hold? What’s one’s world? Through what whirls does one grow?
I know Some of the things I strive towards (O Sol,) Health Comfort, or how would I explain x Y z etc. tendencies Family fulfillment Self fulfillment, actually, actualization, And what is that?
Now how do I&I’s behaviors favor or farther those goals? Is it comfort that dopamine addictions satisfy, or is it joy I truly pursue, or Does X Y Z even spark joy? A toy can spark joy, sure But all inter-net and no outdoor play makes Jack a dull boy, for shore
(It’s all about the balance)
We must set out to see, what may become Best next steps, mistakes and lessons, and then the next ones
Left right left Forward and backward and the only way back is ahead And up and down and Four elements spinning all around
A Cube of Space
And so I start at the top Based on the bottom I&I see the patterns One zooms in on the particulars Pulsing, ventricular, it’s
