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That #gibberlink protocol demo, two AI bots chatting with each other...
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Maybe this already happens? But from Austrians' politicians point of view it's probably more important that neutrality is very popular in #Austria
I just wish we had a honest discussion about it. Basically, because neutral Austria became surrounded by #NATO countries over the last decades, many assume that we will be fine anyway.I think it's clear that the selfish way Austria (and also #Switzerland) currently defines its neutrality is bad for PR in other countries. If Austria wants to take part in something, neutrality is not a problem, but if the government does not want to take part in an initiative, it's "Oh no, we're neutral".
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@therightarticle @Andii Would that #TheOrangeOne would flee as well. I hear TelAviv is lovely this time of year.
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@DrALJONES @AndiiB
I agree that our language should be plain.• Nation-states do not reimburse debt. (They restructure it.)
• Nation-states can obtain funding by issuing they own money (or credit).
• Nation-states invest or spend as much as they want by issuing they own money (or credit).#slogans #debt #deficit #sovereignty #money #centralBanks #currency #MMT #power #wealth #settlements #transactions #policy #government #politics #economy #policies #climatePolicies #economics #economy
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@KimSJ @Andii maximising, true, within legal limits. Preserving human lives is also something ( international law) requires. There is even precedent on that. #shellknew #exxonknew
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This is where #Mastodon and #fediverse show their importance - we cannot have one #monopolized social network. But we can have an interoperable #federated network of social networks that talk to each other. So that we all have a choice without nuking the whole idea and convenience of #socialnetworks. https://mas.to/@Andii/110689864409113183
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RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116458067539411201
@therightarticle
I think that this may be proof that
a) MMT is right and
b) those government know it.And it implicitly suggests that they don't want us to join the dots to realise we could use money creation powers for good and not just killing people and wreaking bullysome havoc on the world.
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I muse: how conservative Christians don't seem to argue, on the basis of #Psalm 90:10, that human lives should be terminated at age 80.
Now I'm not arguing they should be, but the text does make a basis for it which is stronger than for many of the positions they hold and claim are biblical.
#fundamentalism #Christian #ethics -
I muse: how conservative Christians don't seem to argue, on the basis of #Psalm 90:10, that human lives should be terminated at age 80.
Now I'm not arguing they should be, but the text does make a basis for it which is stronger than for many of the positions they hold and claim are biblical.
#fundamentalism #Christian #ethics -
I muse: how conservative Christians don't seem to argue, on the basis of #Psalm 90:10, that human lives should be terminated at age 80.
Now I'm not arguing they should be, but the text does make a basis for it which is stronger than for many of the positions they hold and claim are biblical.
#fundamentalism #Christian #ethics -
Reading this
https://archive.ph/6Xi5M#selection-755.19-767.293
Got me thinking ... The apparent lack of action on what appear to be credible concerns .... It's enough to make one think it must be a conspiracy theory... And yet .... What if it does indeed delineate a treasonous operation? ... What keeps the dam from bursting?
#Trump #EpsteinClass #Putin #Kompromat -
@Jon6705
The issue seems to be ... "dentists were being left with no choice because the current contract, which is now 20 years old, meant dentists were struggling to make money working for the health service.
The union said the sums that could be earned in the private sector for things like new patient exams, fillings and extractions were twice what the NHS paid."
#NHS #dentistry -
''Medicine... the perfect market. Patients cannot judge treatment quality... qualified to do so. Decisions are made urgently... often emotional. Illness cannot be delayed... it's there right in front of us, affecting us, or our loved ones. And doctors hold trusted authority, but they and the services that they can deliver are in restricted supply. That combination creates enormous pricing power for Big Pharma, even within the NHS"
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/22/is-big-pharma-capturing-the-nhs/
#NHS #BigPharma #inequality #UKpolitics -
"markets apparently realised that AI might be able to eliminate most financial services advisors because all that will be required to determine optimal investment portfolio holdings will be a person's tax return, portfolio details and a database of tax legislation and out will come a report in seconds, shattering the myth that there is very much expertise involved in supposed investment optimisation routines."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/13/teetering/
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Watching daytime TV with an elder the other day. Struck by how many ads for charities (intereting reflection on demography) . Matters arising ...
why is RLNI a charity rather than something like fire and rescue?
Why is the state that sends people to harms way in war zones, not taking responsibility for their aftercare? -
''Should AI, for example, face energy rationing? Why not? It's creating the energy shortage. Why should they have a right to energy when real-life human beings may not get it?Should data centres pay the additional costs that they will be imposing upon energy systems? Why not? They want the profits; they should pay the costs. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/09/ai-is-draining-our-energy/
#AI #environmentalEconomics #economics -
''North Sea oil and gas revenues surged just as what looked like a government-generated recession hit. Rather than being used to modernise British manufacturing, rebuild infrastructure, or create sovereign wealth for future generations, oil and gas revenues were channelled into funding mass unemployment, cutting taxes for the wealthy, .... Britain burned its future to fund the anti-socialist neoliberal project. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/23/britains-oil-gas-and-finance-curses/
#monetarism #UKpolitics #neoliberalism -
NHS dentistry could do with a back to the future makover. Proper funding like wheN I was a kid.
Petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fund-nhs-dentistry-now?source=rawlink&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=rawlink&share=1ebabe7c-4a4f-48f0-af84-1263c2b21a92
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''as with tech enshittification, labor enshittification "is a political choice, not an economic inevitability." Labor enshittification is the foreseeable outcome of specific policies undertaken in living memory by named individuals. As with tech enshittification, we are under no obligation to preserve those enshittificatory policies. We can replace them with better ones."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/
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@pluralistic
#PostAmericanInternet is a hashtag worth circulating.
"A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
#FOSS #politics -
@ChrisMayLA6
As a further reflection on this topic, I commend this "From Cradle to Grav
#wealthExtraction #PublicServices #Privatisation #rentierism #PPI #UKpolitics -
CW: Christian prayer-related
The season of Creation gets underway today (going on till 4 October). If you find liturgical frameworks for daily prayer helpful (or would like to investigate that) head over to https://ourcommonprayer.edublogs.org/creationtide/
#Creationtide #prayer #Christian #liturgy #dailyPrayer #GreenChristian -
''...when businesses fire a bunch of workers and replace them with AI, they don't get the promised savings. Instead, they end up with a system that's so broken that all the wage savings are incinerated by the cost of making good on the AI's failures. "
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics
#AI. #ReverseCentaurs #FalseEconomy -
"...We must become the kinds of people who resist the seductive power of dehumanization. We must walk in proximity to and in presence with those we’ve been trained to fear. We must tell the truth about how power has been hoarded and whom it has hurt. We must become ambassadors of peace, not just in word, but in body.
And we must pray. Because what we’re facing is not just a political divide. It is the stuff of powers and principalities that require deliverance."
#peacemaking -
"Foxcroft has listened to ...the disabled community and learned from it. Other Labour MPs must take her resignation as a sign of the principled path to take in confronting the disability cuts for the devastation that they will cause. Increasingly, it’s MPs who revolt and resign that are fighting for the heart and soul of the Labour party. Starmer and his ilk should be disgraced by Foxcroft’s principled resignation."
-Maryam Jameela
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/06/20/labour-mp-vicky-foxcroft-resigns-over-disability-benefit-cuts/
#labourMPs #disability #inequality -
''within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. Protest has been surging since, with large boosts coming from major, multi-location actions in April and May"
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/american-spring-nonviolent-protest-accelerating/
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Michael Rosen captures what many trained linguists think: https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/this-years-grammar-test-for-10-and-11.html
I loved that things I've been saying down the years find their place in this: that much school 'grammar' is soft class warfare and much of it is misleading or just erroneous.
#linguistics #schooling #grammar #classWar -
Whatever happened to the 'British values' I was brought up on?
Things like playing fair (a metaphor for public and private life); rooting for and helping the underdog (especially by making things fair, mitigating unfair advantages etc); levelling down the proud and contemptuous mighty.
It seems like those British values have been insidiously sidelined since ... oh, .... the 1980s?
#BritishValues have been made into #brutishValues
