I am all for empathy. But it really hurts the cause to keep reposting false clickbate. Arendt, Einstein -- never said this. Plato said the opposite: that your subjective impressions are the lowest form of knowlege. Empathy is good, but so is responsible use of communication.

Great paper! Would love to see how localized currencies might be used to assist the artisanal fishing and transitional aquaculture cases. See for example www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

We also need mutual aid orgs that are self-sustaining, not charities. Examples like Mondragon work because they are financially self-sustaining. Even wikipedia creates an excellent, high value product. Our GJ platforms take this approach: generativejustice.org/af/ and generativejustice.org/uai/

Tehila we appreciate your critique of the "charity industry", microfinancing, and other failures. But @naticonrazon.bsky.social‬ and myself are wondering if you classify radical interventions like Barcelona's Can Batillo under the same umbrella. undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/07/09/t...

The problem with the model you are describing is that it is quite linear. Yes, convergent morphologies show evolution stablizing niches. But evolution simultaneously destabilizes niches. If convergence was king, we would not see one continent 99% marsupials, another 99% placentals.

That's the great thing about networks, they are 100% tangents

I took Peitgen's class at UCSC, cool dude. Pg9 "Nested patterns where there is a set of generalist species that interact with other generalist species, and then a subset of specialized species whose interactions are nested within the generalist interactions" -- Peitgen would have loved that.