Life is energy, movement, change, time. An implication of infinite space and time is that only the here and now exists forever. Thermodynamics. Energy moves: hot to cold. Movement is time. Movement is relative: this moves towards/away-from that; faster/slower, more/less. Movement is change: here to there. Change is time. Change is relative. Time is relative. … Continue reading Time, perception and the infinite
Author: George Roberts
Zombie Apocalypse
It occurs to me that a zombie apocalypse may be the outcome of AI development. You could say that AI IS the zombie apocalypse. Since Dawn of the Dead, zombies have eaten brains. This seems an apt metaphor for what generative AI using large language models is doing. Machine reading as much of the world's … Continue reading Zombie Apocalypse
Tragedy of the commons
I feel terrible about the state of the USA. It is hard to be gracious in defeat. Bless you, Kamala, you fought well. Magnanimaty from the victor is not relevant. But, I am well fed - for now - and live a privileged life outside the USA. Many less well-fed than I, and living precariously … Continue reading Tragedy of the commons
Dreamtime poetry
Art, as I have come to understand, is the means by which the dreamtime is carried across generations. The dreamtime is that from which "we" emerge/d, became something like what passes for self-aware, individually and as a species, some time ago; and, that to which we return, the same. Animals live mostly in the dreamtime. I debate … Continue reading Dreamtime poetry
Brum Radio Poets
Sunday 27 October 2024, 1000 GMT The monthly Brum Radio Poets are Leah Atherton and me, in conversation with Rick Sanders, aka Willis the Poet. We each read five poems. Listen on Sunday, and there will be a link in the Brum Radio Archive. Here https://www.mixcloud.com/BrumRadio/brum-radio-poets-with-rick-sanders-october-2024-27102024/ Friends! The studio session was energising and fun. I … Continue reading Brum Radio Poets
Biden trying to trump Trump
I suggest Joe Biden is trying to challenge Trump by appealing directly to his own base. I think this is the right move, but he will need a metaphorical - or actual - shovel-full of ees and whiz to make it work. He could actually pick off some of Trump's base with the truth. Kamala … Continue reading Biden trying to trump Trump
Dear BBC
There are 90 or so MPs in the Actually-Principled-Opposition. The Greens overperformed, Laughing Boy, Edddie the-Lib-Dem-Davey has more MPs than Rum Tum Tugger has cats and Farrage hugely underperformed against the Exit Poll. I know - plenty of caveats, but the Greens have as many MPs. Leave the rats fighting in their respective sacks? No, … Continue reading Dear BBC
Forgetting reasons
Writing is always an act of recovery. Truths cannot be told. What was I about to say? Tinnitus of the edge closing in: call it a demented pleasure-seeker's journal, the slip into or off something more or less comfortable. Sell a million. Measure the benefit. That way more utility? Identity and tradition, culture and place, … Continue reading Forgetting reasons
Project-ing Spoken Folk
Tobias has expanded my horizons a bit further. And this post notes the inception of a project. We can still call it Spoken Folk. So, carry on. Music enhances voice and words enhance music; together they help sustain and enhance life. This is the hypothesis, the big theme. There are two aims and an emerging … Continue reading Project-ing Spoken Folk
Rebel, Rebel… but how?
Richard Murphy calls for rebellion: ... we need to rebel against the system of financial capitalism that is constraining the well-being of well over 90 per cent of the people in the world. (https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/30/we-are-now-being-exploited/) And, I agree, Richard. But how? I have long thought a rent/mortgage-strike would rattle the powers that be. But easy for me … Continue reading Rebel, Rebel… but how?
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