Visions are always checked by reality over time; and I take some comfort from that the more wild the difference, the more likely the error correction.
The worst is where nasty traits encroach on the natural mandate for Government; corporations can just fail but Government institutions persist in a fake way… and their visions can be way off target too. People have a right to private communications without interference; propaganda and censorship are toxic for a society; the list is long and change is slow.
Idiocracy is not what we want but it seems to be what we get.
The only route out is individual autonomy and for that the tools… so, yes, avoiding the exploitation and selfish behaviour from corporations; and governments; and other individuals, is a lot of what attracted me to the Safe Network…
Anticipation of will be is half the joy… was just noting that about the turkey I’ve ordered!
Tony Seba, from RethinkX, has had a lot to say about precision fermentation over the last few years.
"RethinkX is quite confident that all animal-based agriculture around the world will be in trouble by 2030 and more trouble by 2035, when PF and other technologies like growing real animal cells without the animals. The primary cause of the disruption is price. RethinkX predicts by 2035 modern foods produced by PF and other emerging technologies will reduce costs by 80%. The first to be disrupted will be dairy milk and other dairy products, then ground beef and lastly, beef steaks, pork bacon, chicken and fish. "
Interesting insights and thoughts from Jaron Lanier on how human discourse is changing in dangerous ways. He talks about the behavioural conditioning and the use of power to corrupt human discourse online, but even more interestingly he suggests that the conditioning isn’t just of the masses but also of those with power:
“As we enter an era where nothing means anything because it’s all just about power, intermediation and influence, it’s very hard to put ideas out and very easy for them to come across not as intended,” he said.
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Lanier wrote that he’d “observed a change, or really a narrowing, in the public behavior of people who use Twitter or other social media a lot”. He singled out people who have recently been in the news: Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ye (Kanye West).
Once distinct personalities, he wrote, each had “veered into being bratty little boys” in their public behavior – a result perhaps of being “Twitter poisoned”, a more contemporary term for operant conditioning.
Those with power suffer dogma more than they know.
It’s the excesses that need controlling and I wonder that can only come from a fragmentation of power. Whether that is a multi-polar world for politics or a fragmented federation of services and tools for individuals… one thought; one interest; one politik, is not good for the majority… and those with power should be acknowledging the interests of the majority, not indulging lazy answers to complex problems in the way all too common atm - those corrupting privacy; security; and freedom.
I was never a big fan of Star Wars, but I have really enjoyed Andor – The difference for me is how this series is written. It’s a level of detail that hasn’t been done before in SW (script-wise) and the writing is actually decent quality and not high-school level.
Anyway, the speech of Maarva Andor in the final episode was very nice. Not something I expected from Disney.
Here’s the clip with the speech (about 3 minutes) - what do you think?
Isn’t it funny how the banker-tribe owned propaganda mouthpiece can find time to “report” on protests in China but manages to miss the mass demonstrations closer to home about the consequences of the Western war in Ukraine? Strange…
I don’t have the numbers and I don’t know if anyone does, but I suspect that very few of the total types of viruses that exist presently even infect mammals let alone humans.
It looks very clear to me that this story is just more fear porn for the climate change crowd. They’ll do anything to get you to sacrifice your energy for the oligarchy.
Never forget that all fossil fuels will eventually be used within the next 500 years - only a question of who gets to use them … that’s what all this CO2 nonsense is about and why they ignore science to preach their climate change religion.
