Spoken word reading the script?
Reading is less cool than reciting from memory. Of course you all know I am in complete denial about my age, but it is weird, recently I have actually started to feel my brain failing to form short-term memories. The short term is about 5 seconds and then it is like fractals dissolving. I saw … Continue reading Spoken word reading the script?
Retro fitting
A blog post to a sequence of events, of interest here are poetry open mics in Oxford, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Southampton, Chipping Norton, and coming up, Coventry soon. Elsewhere further afield, I aspire to Leeds, Southport, Newcastle, somewhere in Scotland (Dundee?), Barrow? But why? I love hearing people speak verse. A heartless (often) artwork setting … Continue reading Retro fitting
Dear Green Party
A consequence of a 5x increase in members for local parties is that no longer does everyone in the Green party know everyone else in the Green Party. New members don't have local tacit knowledge. The local campaign launch I attended, was billed as "meet the candidates." There was a lot of excitement. I understand … Continue reading Dear Green Party
Urgent. Boycott meta?
Boycotts work. But, how can we possibly boycott meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp?) A day without meta? Imagine. But the time to do that was in 2006. And besides, Palantir is now embedded in the apparatus of governance, AWS owns the wires. Elon has the sky-comms (Starlink) and oil-cos keep the fires of progress burning aboriginal … Continue reading Urgent. Boycott meta?
Total Information Awareness (TIA)
Now, says Zack Polanski, is not the time to say I told you so, however...
Automation
There have been phases of automation. An earlier phase (mid 20th c.) saw the elimination of many metal-bashing "male" jobs. AI is set to do the same to "women's work". Receptionists, PAs, Librarians, Admin Staff and HR. These roles were core to the domestic work portfolio of "traditional families" or households with two earning adults … Continue reading Automation
Net Zero Water
OK. I like kicking robber barons when they are down. Water. Critical. Low. Supply. It isn't only polluted rivers, fatbergs in the sewers, and fat cat profits for the bosses. They don't have enough water.
Me me me and me-these-days
Why was doing drugs in semi-public toilets ever liberating? "Me, me, me..." is not what interests, well, me-these-days: reading Max Wallis and Alex Dimitrov.
What were we saying?
"Hamas officials" were petty bureaucrats doing municipal jobs.
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