Bookmarks - llm, music, writing, synth

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Ancient Trees and Fossil Capitalism - KPFA For as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees. We’ve also destroyed them, especially since the advent of colonialism and fossil fuel capitalism. Environmental historian Jared Farmer reflects on what trees illuminate about our past and potential future. books interview trees 🔖 Against commune-ism in cooperatives Having a clearly defined, narrow focus means that a co-op’s members don’t have to agree on everything. They don’t have to be all alike. They just have to be able to benefit from a common activity. The cooperative commonwealth can develop among these many overlapping needs, not an all-promising, all-delivering monolith that tries to make everyone happy all at once. Really, I think that’s the only way it’s going to happen, and the only way we should want it to. coop management 🔖 There’s no such thing as Just a Tool The human-tool gestalt that forms with a…