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AthamanathaAlright folks, we are on $1032 out of $1000 and we have several hours to go this week, GOAL EXCEEDED AND TIME UP, NEW GOAL NEW POST. You are all awesome people and I say we CAN <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/stabilise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stabilise</a> our <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/financial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#financial</a> situation with your help!The phone bill, the car <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/loan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#loan</a>, the <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurance</a>, the bureaucracy expenses, the food, and the things we need to make the <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/Vulpibus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vulpibus</a> happen are all coming together thanks to you! Let's gooooo!<a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/crowdfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crowdfund</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/mutualaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mutualaid</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/financialhelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#financialhelp</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/transinneed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transinneed</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/survive2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#survive2025</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#help</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/helpfolkslive2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#helpfolkslive2025</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/moneyrequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moneyrequest</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/moneyhelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moneyhelp</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/homeless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homeless</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/transinUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transinUSA</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/helprequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#helprequest</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/assistancerequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#assistancerequest</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#survival</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/loanpayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#loanpayments</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/dmv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dmv</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#community</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/transcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transcommunity</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/buildacommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buildacommune</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarpunk</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqia</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/lgbt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbt</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA2S</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/lgbtqiaplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqiaplus</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinary</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/buslife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#buslife</a> <a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/skoolie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skoolie</a>

Bytes EuropeFinland to devise new subsidy to encourage nuclear power build-up <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/656435/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/656435/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/balance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#balance</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/batteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#batteries</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consumption</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/double" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#double</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electricity</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/environement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environement</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/facility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facility</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Finnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finnish</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Finns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finns</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/flexibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flexibility</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Government</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Grid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grid</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/guarantee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#guarantee</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InPrinciple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InPrinciple</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/KaiMykk%C3%A4nen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KaiMykkänen</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/large" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#large</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Loan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Loan</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/mechanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mechanism</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Minister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minister</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/permit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#permit</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plant</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Policy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/price" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#price</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/regulating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulating</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Solutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solutions</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/stabilise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stabilise</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Subsidy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Subsidy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#support</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wind</a>

Chuck DarwinIt all started with a dream. One night Tansley had an unsettling nightmare that involved him shooting his wife. So he did the natural thing and started reading the works of Sigmund <a href="https://c.im/tags/Freud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Freud</a>, and even went to be analysed by Freud himself. Then Tansley came up with an extraordinary theory. He took Freud's idea that the human brain is like an electrical machine – a network around which energy flowed – and argued that the same thing was true in nature. That underneath the bewildering complexity of the natural world were interconnected systems around which energy also flowed. He coined a name for them. He called them <a href="https://c.im/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a>.But Tansley went further. He said that the world was composed at every level of systems, and what's more, all these systems had a natural desire to stabilise themselves. He grandly called it "the great universal law of equilibrium". Everything, he wrote, from the human mind to nature to even human societies – all are tending towards a natural state of equilibrium.Tansley admitted he had no real evidence for this. And what he was really doing was taking an engineering concept of systems and networks and projecting it on to the natural world, turning nature into a machine. But the idea, and the term "ecosystem", stuck.But then Field Marshal Smuts came up with an even grander idea of nature. And Tansley hated it.Field Marshal Smuts was one of the most powerful men in the British empire. He ruled South Africa for the British empire and he exercised power ruthlessly. When the Hottentots refused to pay their dog licences Smuts sent in planes to bomb them. As a result the black people hated him. But Smuts also saw himself as a philosopher – and he had a habit of walking up to the tops of mountains, taking off all his clothes, and dreaming up new theories about how nature and the world worked.This culminated in 1926 when Smuts created his own philosophy. He called it <a href="https://c.im/tags/Holism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holism</a>. It said that the world was composed of lots of "wholes" – the small wholes all evolving and fitting together into larger wholes until they all came together into one big whole – a giant natural system that would find its own stability if all the wholes were in the right places. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Einstein</a> liked the theory, and it became one of the big ideas that lots of right-thinking intellectuals wrote about in the 1930s. Even the <a href="https://c.im/tags/King" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#King</a> became fascinated by it.But Tansley attacked. He publicly accused Smuts of what he called "the abuse of vegetational concepts" – which at the time was considered very rude. He said that Smuts had created a mystical philosophy of nature and its self-organisation in order to oppress black people. Or what Tansley maliciously called the "less exalted wholes".And Tansley wasn't alone. Others, including HG <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wells</a>, pointed out that really what Smuts was doing was using a scientific theory about order in nature to justify a particular order in society – in this case the British empire. Because it was clear that the global self-regulating system that Smuts described looked exactly like the empire. And at the same time Smuts made a notorious speech saying that blacks should be segregated from whites in South Africa. The implication was clear: that blacks should stay in their natural "whole" and not disturb the system. It clearly prefigured the arguments for apartheid. <a href="https://c.im/tags/hierarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hierarchy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/leaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leaders</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#control</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feedback</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/stabilise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stabilise</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arthur</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tansley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tansley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smuts</a>

Chuck DarwinThe brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network". It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no <a href="https://c.im/tags/hierarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hierarchy</a>, no <a href="https://c.im/tags/leaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leaders</a> and no <a href="https://c.im/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#control</a>. It is not the old form of collective action that the left once believed in, where people subsumed themselves into the greater force of the movement. Instead all the individuals in the self-organising network can do whatever they want as creative, autonomous, self-expressive entities, yet somehow, through <a href="https://c.im/tags/feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feedback</a> between all the individuals in the system, a kind of order emerges.At its heart it says that you can organise human beings without the exercise of power by leaders. As a political position it is obviously very irritating for TV interviewers, which may or may not be a good thing. And it doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a valid way for organising protests – and possibly even human society. Of course some of the ideas come out of anarchist thought. But the idea is also deeply rooted in a strange fantasy vision of nature that emerged in the 1920s and 30s as the British Empire began to decline. It was a vision of nature and – ultimately – the whole world as a giant system that could <a href="https://c.im/tags/stabilise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stabilise</a> itself. And it rose up to grip the imagination of those in power – and is still central in our culture. But we have long forgotten where it came from. To discover this you have to go back to a ferocious battle between two driven men in the 1920s. One was a botanist and Fabian socialist called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arthur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arthur</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tansley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tansley</a>. The other was one of the most powerful and ruthless rulers of the British Empire, Field Marshal <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smuts</a>...<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/29/adam-curtis-ecosystems-tansley-smuts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

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