Rosin, Live Resin, Shatter

Rosin
~ Ryan Boren ~ Leave a comment

Here are some state-of-the-art cannabis extracts I enjoyed on my last trip to Colorado. Live resin is a butane hash oil (BHO) made from flash frozen fresh plants instead of dried plants. Live resin has the terpene profile and pungency of a plant fresh from the garden. It’s a lovely hit redolent of living green.

The shatter is BHO made from dried plants. Dried plant BHO is lovely, but the fresh plant taste isn’t as forward as in live resin.

Rosin is made with a solventless technique that uses heat and pressure to turn flowers, hash, and kief into full melt hash oil. Rosin is a fast and easy technique that can make use of tools as simple as a hair straightener. Rosin extraction is simple, requiring no knowledge of chemistry or botanical extraction. Since no flammable solvents are used, rosin techniques are safer than BHO for home extraction of your medicine. The rosins I’ve tried offered a very clean hit. Rosin is a promising trend. Medicine sans solvents appeals.

Rosin
Live Resin
Shatter

 

Law Enforcement Imagery on Social Media

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Here’s a brief survey of how law enforcement in my area of central Texas represent themselves on social media.

Hays County Sheriff

I live in Hays county. The Sheriff’s department portrays itself with a police car in pursuit and a lineup of armed, unhappy white men standing next to an armored vehicle. The us vs. them thin blue lineup.

https://twitter.com/HaysSheriff

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https://www.facebook.com/hayscountysheriffsoffice/

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Comal County Sheriff

Comal goes for the vehicle lineup and features a totally unmarked car. These unmarked cars are illegal in some states, though that doesn’t stop police departments from using them. Some citizens pull cops in these cars over and challenge them on the safety and legality of patrolling in unmarked vehicles.

https://www.facebook.com/Comal-County-Sheriffs-Office-262901413722765/

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Austin Police Department

Austin goes for a civic landmark, wildflowers, and smiling, diverse faces.

https://twitter.com/Austin_Police

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https://www.facebook.com/AustinPolice/

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Travis County Sheriff

Blandly innocuous.

https://twitter.com/TravisCoSheriff

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https://www.facebook.com/TravisCOSheriff/

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Round Rock Police

A vehicle lineup including a SWAT van.

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https://www.facebook.com/RoundRockPoliceDepartment/police

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Williamson County Sheriff

Unsmiling good ole boys.

https://www.facebook.com/SORecruitment/

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San Marcos Police

Blandly innocuous.

https://www.facebook.com/smcpa/

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San Antonio Police

Diverse, smiling faces.

https://www.facebook.com/SanAntonioPD/

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https://twitter.com/SAPDCareers

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Georgetown Police

Civic landmark.

https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetownTXPolice/

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Bee Cave Police

A lone cruiser.

https://www.facebook.com/Bee-Cave-Police-Department-406748709376530/

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Lakeway Police

 

The white guy blue line, but with a possible smile or two and no armored vehicles or exposed weapons.

https://www.facebook.com/lakewaypolice/

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Bastrop County Sheriff

Cruiser lineups in non-confrontational poses. I’m glad they didn’t feature their $658,000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle.

https://www.facebook.com/BastropCountySO/

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https://twitter.com/BastropCountySO

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Legal Weed

CBD patches, high CBD flower and oil, and a pure sativa landrace
~ Ryan Boren ~ 3 Comments

Back again in Colorado, because medicine and freedom. Freedom to medicate, freedom to speak.

Brown bag of goodness
CBD patches, high CBD flower and oil, and a pure sativa landrace
10mm dab rig and high CBD wax
Enjoying a hike with Durban Poison

Make, Tinker, Learn, Geek, Nerd Channels

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What we watch on the regular. Suggestions?

  • Applied Science Science and technology, applied. How an electron microscope was built in a home shop, how an X-ray backscatter system works, how to make aerogel, electromechanical systems, chemistry, and electronics. Support
  • Aquarium Co-op Building and running a fish room, fish room tours.
  • AvE Arduino vs. Evil. Err and err and err again but less and less and less. Machine shop geekery, tear downs. Support
  • AWE Me Blacksmithing and prop making. Forging fantasy weapons, fan builds.
  • The Ben Heck Show Electronics projects, 3D printing, microcontrollers, circuitry, modeling, design.
  • Big Think Muse on big ideas with experts, thought leaders. Bill Nye. #tuesdayswithbill
  • The Brain Scoop Behind the scenes of the Field Museum in Chicago. Dissection, taxidermy, clearing and staining, natural history. Science in the field and in the museum. “There’s still brains on it.”
  • Bulk Reef Supply A retailer that gets it. Reef geekery, instructional and educational videos, data informed product comparisons.
  • Clickspring Home machine shop project videos with a focus on clock making. Support
  • CrashCourse 10 – 15 minute crash courses on World History, Biology, Literature, Ecology, Chemistry, Psychology, US History, Physiology, Anatomy, Economics,… lots. Support
  • CrashCourse Kids Grade school science. Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology, Geography, Engineering, and Astronomy. Support
  • Crazy Russian Hacker Cool science experiments.
  • Dustin’s Fish Tanks Fishkeeping, aquascaping, and planted tanks. Support
  • Flitetest Build and fly RC planes and helicopters.
  • Geek & Sundry Indie geek culture. Retro-gaming, Space Janitors, table top gaming, live action role play, Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton.
  • iFixit Teardowns and repairs.
  • It’s Okay to be Smart “We live in the future, and everyone should know that it’s okay to be smart!”
  • jimmydiresta Hypnotic time lapse making.
  • King of DIY Making aquariums and aquarium equipment.
  • King of Random Experiments, life-hacks, random weekend projects.
  • Make: Celebrating your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.
  • Minute Physics Physics in a couple minutes presented in whiteboard animation. Support
  • Mr. Saltwater Tank Setting up and owning a saltwater tank.
  • Nerdist Nerd culture.
  • NurdRage Science experiments for all levels, from kitchen chemistry to advanced synthesis.
  • The Post Apocalyptic Inventor Projects, repairs, electrical and mechanical engineering. Support
  • Primitive Technology Making and surviving with stone age tools.
  • Scishow Stoking curiosity with expectation defying scientific subjects. Science news, talk shows, quiz shows. Support
  • Scishow Kids Asking how and why and running with it. Support
  • Scishow Space Exploring the universe a few minutes at a time. Support
  • The Slo Mo Guys Slowing time with high-speed cinema cameras.
  • Smithsonian Channel History of our planet, life and culture.
  • Smarter Every Day Exploring the world using science.
  • TED-Ed Educators and animators create lessons.
  • Tested Test, make. Prop making, one day builds, deep product reviews, geek culture. Adam Savage’s cave.
  • Vihart Beautiful, wonderful math.
  • What’s Inside? Random things laid open.
  • Wired Science, making, gaming, geek culture.
  • Woodworking for Mere Mortals Accessible woodworking.

Default to Open

~ Ryan Boren

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The quality of our code and our product depend on the amount of feedback we get and on the amount of people who use them. If we’re developing behind closed doors, we are putting artificial limits to both.

We have done our best work in the open, let’s continue working this way.

A fine way to kick off.

On cannabis and neurodiversity

~ Ryan Boren

How does cannabis fit with neurodiversity, in your opinion, if at all?

Cannabis is the least harmful way for we humans to cope with the burdens of sentience, senescence, and mortality. Cannabis is popular in STEM cultures, at least the ones I’ve inhabited. It is part of the process of living, creating, and coping. I think the neurodivergent have long used it to regulate and cope in a world that does not accommodate. If your neurodivergence is accompanied by tics, seizures, paresthesia, fasciculations, panic, anxiety, or self-harming stimming, as but a few examples, then cannabis is a tool and ally. There are as many human operating systems as there are humans. The endocannabinoid system is a useful interface to our operating systems for which we have a natural, easy-to-grow key. All humans and their mammalian kin share this interface and this plant. We plucky prometheans figured out how to decarboxylate with fire.

Because, the drug war. The drug war preys on and abuses the different and the powerless. It puts neurodivergent kids in pipelines to prisons and foster systems where the incentives are to drug minds into compliance so that bodies can be more conveniently warehoused and souls more conveniently iced. The great many of us using cannabis to medicate and regulate are under constant threat of violence, humiliation, and confinement  in inhumane jails and prisons. The drug war’s perverse notions of addiction, addicts, and coping limit our vocabulary, stifle our empathy, and harm us all. The drug war, zero tolerance, and obedience culture are enemies of neurodiversity. Cannabis is a friend and a lever for change.

Software and the Middle-Class Life Script

~ Ryan Boren

Software-driven transformations directly disrupt the middle-class life script, upon which the entire industrial social order is based. In its typical aspirational form, the traditional script is based on 12 years of regimented industrial schooling, an additional 4 years devoted to economic specialization, lifetime employment with predictable seniority-based promotions, and middle-class lifestyles. Though this script began to unravel as early as the 1970s, even for the minority (white, male, straight, abled, native-born) who actually enjoyed it, the social order of our world is still based on it.

Source: Getting Reoriented