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Monolithic concrete giants rising above the mallee scrub.
Kyancutta, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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Cooperative by Design: Why Mesh Networks and Community Telcos Are Built for Each Other
A commercial telco and a mesh network are not different ways of solving the same problem. They are built on opposite assumptions about how infrastructure works. Understanding why that matters is the key to understanding why regional Australia keeps getting left behind, and what to do about it. The Economics of Absence In regional and rural Australia, the connectivity gap is not a failure of effort or ambition. It is the predictable output of a particular economic model.https://web.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-08-cooperative-by-design/
Whispers of the rolling hills.
Mannum, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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A solitary sentinel rising from the sun drenched earth.
Kapunda, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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Follow-up to my piece on the Monsanto playbook.
Most common response in the comments: "Nobody forced farmers to use the products. Farmer's choice."
Yes, the contract was signed freely. In the same way, nobody forced anyone to sign a subprime mortgage in 2006. The system that made the alternative impossible was built deliberately.
New piece covers:
The agricultural treadmill (Cochrane, 1958): early adopters gain a temporary cost advantage; commodity prices fall as adoption spreads; the advantage disappears; and survivors consolidate. Rinse, repeat. The consistent winner in this dynamic is the technology vendor.
The risk transfer: when the system fails, the input companies still profit. The banks still collect. The downside concentrates where the power doesn't.
And the third squeeze: the precision ag platform that owns your field data when you leave.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-28-the-treadmill-nobody-chose/
#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #FarmDebt #FoodSovereignty #RuralAustralia #CorporatePower #Tech4Good
I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.
Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.
The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.
Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.
Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-monocultures-dumb-by-design/
#RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood
Longtime local shares lifetime of unique memories from the York Town Hall
Not many people can say they grew up inside a town hall, but 95-year-old Brian Baker can. Mr…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #brianbakeryork #childhood #peoplewholivedinyork #RuralAustralia #WANews #wheatbeltnews #yorkhistory #yorktownhall
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/720300/
The hardest part of building your own community network isn't the technology — it's overcoming the conditioning that tells you telecoms infrastructure is something corporations build, not communities. That conditioning is wrong. New post: a practical guide based on real deployments, covering hardware shopping lists, Australian funding programmes, and how to start with three households and grow from there.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-01-29-from-consumer-to-creator/
#CommunityNetworks #FixedWireless #MeshWiFi #RuralAustralia #DIY
A lone tank amidst the sun bleached plains.
Sheringa, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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Outside the Cemetery Gates.
St Johns Cemetery, Dutton, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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A Lone Sentinel of the Copper Frontier.
Burra, South Australia.
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(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)
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