I was recently contacted by Critical Mass, asking for my opinions about a few things. They're contacting all their readers, I'm not special. I wrote a reply to their questions, so here it is: * What would you say have been the political highlights of the past
But it won't be that cold For those few of you who aren't Game of Thrones aficionados winter is coming is the motto of House Stark. In that universe winter also means that various creatures that don't want humans to live start to wake,
Birkenhead Blues have just released a new single Leave it in the ground, clown. This is a Green Plenty side project and we hope you like it. Lyrics Chorus Emergency, emergency, emergency Leave it in the ground, clown Leave it in the ground, clown Leave it in the ground, clown
Some points to note: 1. Trump got less votes than last time 2. In places where Harris said "I'm speaking" over people protesting genocide she comprehensively lost, despite Biden getting 80% there last time. Folks didn't turn up to vote for people who speak
Dear readers, I watched the excellent documentary For Land by my friends at Prolekult a couple of months ago and it knocked me for six. It explains how modern industrial capitalism's use of fossil fuels made it possible to draw together the people who became the modern working
I recently wrote an email to my MP, Alison McGovern, asking that she vote against the government's proposed plans to remove the winter fuel payments from pensioners. She sent me back a copy of Rachel Reeves' press release. This is my reply: Dear Alison, First, let me
Simple but not easy Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening. Chico Mendes Contents Capitalism bad Markets, profits & other delusions The big con The ecocide Accountability Green nationalism Socialism Why "eco"? The choice What you can do right now Capitalism bad There are a couple of really
Here I republish a slightly edited book review I did of David Whyte's Ecocide. There is a book called The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that I have never read. It was made into a film, and that I have seen. If you have never seen the
Harder than it looks. Keep your hands off my cow Many years ago I got into a conversation with a silly person on Facebook. This isn't hard to do, so I will give a bit more information. He was talking about how he would have his own cow
No, really! Many moons ago when I was a young lad, I remember reading of comments made by a Soviet dissident exile who arrived in Rome to see striking workers marching and using public transport at the prices set before the government tried to raise them. If I recall correctly
I got into an interesting discussion about capitalism on Mastodon where I ended saying: Things are in a constant state of change, and the only way to fix it permanently is to take the capitalists’ toys away. I was challenged on this, and how we would take their toys away
Let's cut through the hype I've been professionally writing software for nearly 40 years. Here's my thoughts: 1. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are basically very large predictive text boxes. Instead of just guessing the next word, they can guess whole documents while