Selecting our own seeds and plants is most definitely not an option for farmers.

It takes a lot of time, a scientific background and previous knowledge, and is a job on its own.

Someone else has to do it, without selling off to corporate interests, if we as a society want to keep the Commons common.

This asks for specific legislation, and it won't happen without concerted effort.
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RE: https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116126002122086149

There are so many parallels in #farming I don't even know where to start.

The part where SW and HW directly intersect farming is less of a parallel and the actual thing, so it's best to leave that aside.
1/6

Well, not always. Because if we're to invest in resilience, the long term, then being dependent on such a high tech pipeline is quite its opposite, not mentioning being even more squeezed in between middle men, then becoming the middle man, and finally risking being discarded as it.

There are now companies trying to sign up farmers to "orchard as a service" deals that are so egregious (and I think probably illegal) the abyss would ask us to please stop rage screaming.
3/6

Agriculture started off as open source by its very nature. I mean, nature as in Nature.

Take seeds, for example. Seeds are now object of patenting, and a minimum certified seed percentage in sowing is sometimes required. Certified also means trademarked.

This was set in place for food security reasons. Certified seeds have better germination rates, traits, etc. Makes sense, right?
2/6

Depois querem que as pessoas confiem nas notícias.

Quando fui verificar a notícia, o último parágrafo já tinha sido retirado.

#noticias #LLM #fakeNews

Two very important ideas in modern #agriculture (at least in the #EU) are Goodhart's Law and Jevon's Paradox.

If the results of incentives to #sustainability and the #resilience of family #farming are increased consolidation to the detriment of the environment and local economies, we can conclude that #regulation and #subsidies are, in the best case, ineffective, or have been, in the worst, a deliberate tool for corporate capture.

A #spreadsheet mystery.
Let’s say cell A1 has the number 2.

=-1*A1^2 evaluates as -4
=-(A1^2) evaluates as -4
but
=-A1^2 evaluates as 4…

Why? I never noticed this behaviour. Was it always like this? What is wrong here? Am I going crazy?

#LibreOffice #Calc

After weeks of rain, #olive harvest is finally starting.

Unfortunately, some producers are having to deal with a precocious #Arbosana harvest, because of a somewhat widespread #alternaria infection. This is not afecting Arbequina, but logistics is a mess now since contractors are moving to other groves.

#oliveOil

This is a pressure gauge from an old steam harvester that belonged to my great grandfather. Someone saved it and kept it in the warehouse. I like the manufacturer's detail: made in Magdeburg, site of the famous experiments with pressure and vaccum pumps! I love it.
#farming #vintage #gear #harvester

In terms of finding truth, #traceability is to #News what #falsifiability is to Science. It's not everything, but it is a very informative standard.

I believe that peer-curated repositories for professional news sources will incentivize traceability, and are a good way of fostering trust in professional journalism and effectively fight the spread of #fakeNews.

Unless someone shows me that this is a crappy idea.

Some posts of #news articles in social media are just screen captures. :trash:

Some provide actual links. But many #permalinks have 404'd by now. My news archive is 50% useless.

In Wikipedia, there's a list of #URI schemes. Not one is used for news #sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_URI_schemes

Why?