Guy James

The Big Four banks are raking in the cash - a windfall tax on these profits could bring in £14 billion!💰

Check out the @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social video and email your MP to #TaxTheBanks! 👇 bit.ly/TaxTheBanksMPEmail

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coming to the WSL and NWSL any time soon!

no, I haven't seen that, will check it out, thanks

Dry Up The Supply! We can have our own 'Shock Doctrine for good'.

It's not a Black Swan if you know it's coming...!

On tech bros, currency, and what comes next.

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The latest post on my personal Substack, part two of the Dark Forces series: Why we can't have nice things, and why I'm obsessed with finding out why we can't. Hint: Moloch.

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Found myself reading Nora Bateson's 'Communication is Sacred' ( beiner.substack.com/p/communicat... ) yesterday, learning about 'schismogenesis' and ultimately the need to tend to relationships.

Worth a full read along with the essay by The Elevator which references it below.

Toward a Commons culture Table of Contents for the longest ever posting to my blog Toward a Commons culture An Anthem for the Commons Announcing the Third Edition of Shifting/Seeing Nature Snippets: Andromeda Galaxy unit T…

Paul Krafel's latest essay, Toward a Commons Culture
is exceptional.
I listened to it three times using 11th reader.
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two men in a car with one saying " i don 't procrastinate " ALT: two men in a car with one saying " i don 't procrastinate "

Amazing how quickly we turn our heart’s desire into a duty that we have to start procrastinating away from.

a man is holding his finger to his chin and thinking while looking up . ALT: a man is holding his finger to his chin and thinking while looking up .

Human beings: You do realise you can appreciate your own culture, heritage and myth without becoming a fascist or a religious fundamentalist, right?

tbh from a UK perspective, most male Americans have two surnames and no first name

which tells you the Lionesses fans are more knowledgeable than one might think

Alan Watts on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Our Existential Loneliness “If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

Alan Watts on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness

Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.

Issue 26: Focus On The Authoritarian Mindset “The trap of trying to confront fascism is that it grows stronger with polarity, and the problem with not confronting fascism is that it grows stronger when it is not met with resistance”-Nora Bateson

Was Orwell right? Is the future a boot stamping on a human face forever? Or was he in a bad mood when he wrote that? ;)
Maybe by understanding how authoritarianism is formed within our psyches, we get to create systems which don't allow it to flourish.
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Sure, you can train AI to write like you. But even you shouldn't write like you. You should write like the next version of you who doesn't exist yet. AI can't do that.

I 'ate you Butler!

top 10 albums of 2024

Things only get easy once you resign yourself to the fact that they're always going to be difficult.

anyone else feel depressed simply by looking at Elon Musk?

you know how we watch ‘funny animals’ videos? do you think the aliens are watching us like that and pissing themselves with laughter? ‘omg they voted for him again hahahah I can’t believe it’ ‘they’re just ignoring climate change, fuck that’s hilarious, where’s the popcorn?’

so... what if it's simulations all the way down...?

#metaphysics #AI #consciousness

Elvis has them by '68 but he probably was following rather than leading duckduckgo.com?q=elvis+1968...

I'd like to disagree but I don't

I can be more provocative.
Let’s see….

I think indefinite economic growth is delusional and building a policy platform on it amounts to complicity in collapse.

I think the political spectrum makes no sense and that it’s intellectually lazy to speak of it.

Maybe I am not built to be controversial?

Stormcock is a beautiful album to listen to on an autumn night

I once tried to explain to an American why the UK is in the state it's in. After a while of trying to boil it down, I came up with the answer: "Thatcher".

Captura de terminal Bash personalizada con oh-my-posh

¿Quieres una forma sencilla de personalizar tu terminal de Linux Bash / WSL?

1️⃣ Instala tipografía de NerdFonts (ej: Agave Nerd)
2️⃣ `sudo apt install curl unzip fonts-powerline nano -y`
3️⃣ `curl -s ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s`
4️⃣ Añade unas lineas al `~/.bashrc`

¡Listo!

I'm totally in favour of goal line technology and the semi-automated offside thing if it works properly. But when they send the ref to the monitor and they ALWAYS overturn the decision, even when it was correct in the first place, steam starts coming out of my ears.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt

I knew I had gotten this from her first; I finally saw the quote on one of my feeds