⭐ Prepping

He was missing a large portion of his right hand, and he’d had the presence of mind to try to loop his belt around the injury to control the blood loss, pulling it tight.
from Worm by wildbow

• also drill it. maybe there are anki cards for that?
  

we need a new word as an alternative to "prepper" --- which is associated with a flavor of extreme independence and often paired with
conspiracy theory (ie hoarding silver)
owning more guns than you can carry
and (frequently) lack of actual practice (ie stashing 500 lbs of flour without understanding it goes bad, or knowing how to really bake)

huh, something like that could be cool!

and maybe hedge in some simple ways (like trying to record general knowledge in a resilient way for people to access in the future)

http://longnow.org

well I mean he makes good points that software and hardware are too complicated and present an easy target for failure/civilisational collapse/whatever. but what's the alternative?

For the past several decades the complexity of technology has continuously outpaced our ability to understand and replicate it from a first principles understanding.
Not only does this leave humanity itself vulnerable to an outage of the internet or the global supply chain, it also harms our ability to understand the core technology of our civilization and violates the philosophical principle that civilization itself should have ownership of the building blocks which form it.
Civboot gives humanity a place to start over -- to rethink how technology should be built from first principles as well as a place which can be improved for the benefit of all.

A Civboot is a civilizational bootstrapper, meaning it contains all essential components necessary to build and improve itself using only knowledge and tools contained within itself. In other words, it is the set of tools and knowledge necessary to design, modify and build all components that modern civilization depends on such as computers, motors, machinery, metals, electronic displays, buildings, air conditioners, energy generation, energy storage, etc. It must be able to achieve this using only raw materials, human involvement and the tools and knowledge contained within itself.

Forth is the ideal language for bootstrapping a cobbled-together computer from whatever scraps you can find.
Forth gives you a shell, an assembler, a disassembler, and a rich, extensible programming language in a few kilobytes.
You can peek or poke hardware interactively, or use the REPL as a calculator.
Forth-style assemblers also make cross-compilation very practical.

Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps is a Creative Commons licenced mapping and analysis tool for evaluating personal and social resilience.

• Iodine-131: one of the products of the radioactive Uranium and Plutonium decay. Half-life: 8 days.
  
• The thyroid gland basically stores Iodine in the human body.
  
• If we "overfill" our thyroid with Iodine, blocks the uptake of radioiodine. The gland won't store any more of it, including Iodine-131
  
• Obviously, won't save us from nuclear junk of other kinds or dirty bomb. Definitely don't save us from gamma rays.
  
• Potassium iodide protects from thyroid cancer.
  
• TODO: Cesium: half-life of 30 years.
  
• TODO: shower against radiation exposure?
  

Prepper commandment 8: Write down a response plan