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"Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause.
The bestselling romance novelists helped raise half a million dollars for
Georgia voting rights in 2020. Now, their cause is whistles, because whistles
let neighbors alert each other when they see ICE agents abducting people.
They’ve helped create a group that’s shipped a half million free 3D-printed
whistles to 49 US states — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone.
Even I print whistles now. It’s the first thing I do each morning after
dropping kids at school, and the very last before bed. Usually, I squeeze in a
hundred more after dinner.
I print whistles because reality still matters; whistles get neighbors to come
running, make sure enough people are recording, so when the regime pretends
there’s only one camera angle of Renee Good’s death, we know the truth.
I also make whistles because it’s easy. You can literally do it in your sleep.
I’ve made over 12,000 whistles since January 15th with three printers and
almost zero optimization. I’ll harvest 300 of them tomorrow morning, 300 in the
late afternoon, and another 100 in the evening before I do it all again.
Printing whistles is more cost-effective than drop-shipping them from China.
Even if I bought filament at retail prices and paid PG&E’s full exorbitant
California electricity rates, I’d be spending around 5 cents per whistle — and
the unit economics only get better from there.
Across the country, people are realizing these printers can serve a bigger
purpose than building toys and trinkets. Whether someone is looking for 100
whistles to protect friends and family, 200 for a church or school, or 1,000
for a whole neighborhood, requests are flooding in, each one vetted and added
to a spreadsheet by volunteers.
No one is told what to do, which whistle to print, or which request to fulfill.
These Signal chats feel like a community, building and innovating everything as
we go."
Via
Garbage Day: A singular theory for the Epstein network
https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular-theory-for-the-epstein-network
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
