Science is in trouble on every continent affected by corporation-, investor-, financier-, grey-market (derivatives, cryptocurrency, neighborhood level ‘vice,’ drugs and crime)-, and black market (gangsters, drug importation, captive workers, trafficking, child exploitation, military/ regime death camps) -DRIVEN INFLATION with everyone who is angry about wasted public funds and lavishly publicly subsidised and Internal Revenue or national Taxation Office exempted, rebated and rewarded projects that do nothing for economies but nominally deploy tens of thousands of people on commonly tedious, repetitive, regimented if not INANE tasks (more suited to the fast and clever young) – in essentially counting living things, or in the case illustrated below, poisoned moribund things, and uploading terabytes of frankly junk data of no service to the human project but only to the billionaire cabal whereby it persists with an aspirationally ENDLESS FISCAL GROWTH AND ENRICHMENT TRIUMPHALIST IRRELEVANT SCIENCE¹ VENTURE FOR ITS ACOLYTES AND SUCK-HOLES in its nefarious business of erasing economy, languages, LIVING culture – or faith and society – for the fun and profit of itself while all around it millions are fraught, injured and killed by ‘want, squalor, disease,’ and my final two of William Beveridge’s 1942 socio-economic catastrophes, idleness and ignorance – these being the unmistakable PRIMARILY-INTENDED SOCIALLY ENGINEERED OUTCOMES of what we ALL glibly and erroneously call artificial intelligence – the genocidal assault by ideologically fascist, ‘totalist,’ ‘Aryan,’ unregulated and dysregulated neoliberal regimes against ALL non Anglo Celtic peoples, all non Christian and non Judaic religious practitioners or adherents – or just those like BILLIONS of us WHO ONCE TOOK SOLACE IN ANCIENT SCRIPTURE, OBSERVATION OR CEREMONY – ALL traditional and First Nations peoples, AND, as we come full circle back to the global economic crisis: SYSTEMATIC ATTACK ON THE INCOME, HOUSING and FOOD SECURITY of ALL MIDDLE-INCOME WORKING householders – manifestly and obviously to any skilled and capable economic planner INTENDED to reach right into the UPPER MIDDLE INCOME households and smash their savings each year ahead..

“Here, we present a AI-based model for predicting chemical toxicity. The model uses transformers to capture toxicity-specific features directly from the chemical structures and deep neural networks to predict effect concentrations. The model showed high predictive performance for all tested organism groups—algae, aquatic invertebrates and fish—and has, in comparison to commonly used QSAR methods, a larger applicability domain and a considerably lower error. When the model was trained on data with multiple effect concentrations (EC50/EC10), the performance was further improved. We conclude that deep learning and transformers have the potential to markedly advance computational prediction of chemical toxicity.”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.17.537138v1

John

Energy Neurolinguistics Quantum Relations Health Philosophy of Science Australia🦘🇦🇺

¹ I do not include rockets and satellite telemetry in this discussion – by expenditure alone let alone pollution and the generation of millions more tonnes of carbon and other disastrous global heating gases, it steals from the wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon 1961 French Algeria specifically) AND EVERY YOUNG FAMILY OTHER THAN THE CHILDREN OF THE RICH – who will inevitably as the world stands this day pay a lethal personal price in any case.

J. Blundell 27 February 2024

Sure, man, what is this large lan(d)-guage models dumbing-down, epidemiological, climatological, post-viral neurodegenerative, middle-income household budgeting, eutrophication of waterways & wetlands, million-hectare farmland fail mycorrhizae, looming food shortages, and mass extinctions of insects, animals, birds, fish, micro marine organisms jeopardy thing?

OK, let me first carefully explain to you that a thing or an object is not an event – say a fire, a flood, a superstorm, a drought or failure of seasonal rains that can halve or quarter a rural area’s subsoil moisture or city’s underground water supplies in only six or seven years with lack of seasonal or annual rainfall and the demands put upon that natural water resource by broad-hectare environmentally toxic chemical agriculture and ever-growing city populations or, say, an epidemic or pandemic (‘everywhere’) of life-threatening disease. Second it now catastrophically appears that the whole of consumer society, with it’s now blindingly obvious penchant for consuming itself legs or tails first like that mediaeval beast you may have seen pictured, from the days of European feudal society regulated only by the fear struck into human hearts by imminent termination of your life, Oliver Cromwell style genocidal slaughter – which of course took ‘care’ of everybody in your community, even your entire region – and the morality fables or cautionary tales of the church.

Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms⁰ of Beveridge 1942¹ – if we recall that no-one lives with, or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called ‘History’ of ideas, debates or ludicrous pointless public opinion ‘wars’ but by what they do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn existential threats to itheir fellows – work that is impossible of achievement or successful completion without personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of gender, ethnicity or lifestyle OR a manifestly delusional 3rd Cntry CE Persian division of society into workers & capitalists.’

Up the resolution – Biden should have gone 2 @Specsavers, spouting as he was last night WP EA FER Time utter neoclassical academic ideologically liberal nonsense about the (electoral) power of American women to rebuke even reverse ‘the Republicans” – and every evangelical apostolic apocalytic fool in his own party who’s sat by & allowed or even spoken up for what they tragically called ‘God’s Work’ since January 2021, that is to say over three years – on the trashing of women’s reproductive rights and the turning over of their bodies to the control of the global billionaires’ plutocracy, menta grubby old men like himself essentially, in how many states was that again??

How Britain in its toughest days set out to design a successful society² for itself

The Social Insurance and Allied Services Report of 1942 – two years before Robert Menzies chose to deliver via the Tory Pom Australian Broadcasting Commission Boyer Lectures his plan to win the electoral support of lower income Australians by waging reverse class warfare against people who worked with their hands – to counter a Proletariat – what the hell is that, people spat? Domestically-comfortable White Australians knew, sagely, that the poor would always be with them if they maintained or invented rules which gave them permission to exploit women, the homeless and kids, to systematically suborn them for their fun and profit, frankly – lately, notably in the second half of calendar 2021 introducing economic policy in active partnership with financiers and accountants and fairly clearly on the direct recommendations of the International Monetary Fund to render up to 8 million Australians housing-insecure and thousands more actually homeless. Any talk against this rich old people’s scam or indeed at all contrary to – or even questioning – the country’s runaway norms and fashionable tropes of accelerating family collapse, social mayhem, 11 year-old girls allowing grown men to ‘play’ with them to get some income, ‘fun’ killings and ‘rampant’ epidemic mental illness was clearly seditious trouble-making and, crime-of-invented social crimes, disorderly² – to be subjected to tough love and acts of rape and brutality within the elastic racist misogynist infantophobic “bounds of permissibility..”³ and public shaming by moral philosophers of the calibre of the Reverend Tim Costello, Clive Palmer, Adam Giles, Larry Anthony and Senators Antic and Birmingham from Adelaide.

Non-nonsense, non- deracinated, non-Make-stuff-up & get people to pay ‘through the nose’ for it and absolutely non ‘AI’, creative writing moves aside gangsters and autocrats and I believe grows intelligent nations. Bring it on. Send me ideas not money ok. Or as I wrote some time ago in the early days of Community Economist at a moment of personal calamity, ‘Not draving, waoning:’ just an amusing way of appealing to public actors to in my father Tom’s words Cut the Cackle – and also signposting the emergence of our truly extraordinary and epoch-marking transactional neurolinguistics twenty years on – to forever eradicate the Hernan Cortes Romance Era Strong Man demagogic and pedagogic performative display ethic – Trumpism.

“William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a social economist who in November 1942 published a report titled, ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’ that would provide the blueprint for social policy in post-war Britain. Beveridge had been drawn to the idea of remedying social inequality while working for the Toynbee Hall charitable organisation in East London. He saw that philanthropy was simply not sufficient in such circumstances and a coherent government plan would be the only sufficent action. By the outbreak of war, Beveridge found himself working in Whitehall where he was commissioned to lead an inquiry into social services. His vision was to battle against what he called the five giants; idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. His ‘cradle to the grave’ social programme that amongst other proposals called for a free national health service alienated some politicians but it struck a chord with the public and this would influence Clement Atlee’s Labour Government to implement these ideas.

“The Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, chaired by the economist Sir William Beveridge, was appointed by the coalition government in 1941 to undertake a survey of Britain’s social services. The committee’s report was presented to parliament in November 1942, and proposed a new type of welfare state to banish “want”, provide social insurance “from cradle to grave”, and ensure that the type of social deprivation seen during the pre-Second World War economic depression could not happen again. One of the key assumptions of the Report (‘Assumption B’) was that in the new society there would be a comprehensive national health service available to all. The Beveridge Report received widespread support, and it is seen as the foundation document for the welfare state created by the Labour government of 1945-1951 ..University of Warwick¹

• Beveridge Report: pictorial charts with explanatory notesLink opens in a new window, 1943. Attempt to summarise the proposals of the Beveridge Report in pictures, produced and sold by the Pictorial Charts Service. The charts were intended for display in the workplace and other public areas.
• News for Citizens: What is this “Beveridge Report”?Link opens in a new window, March 1943. Summary of the recommendations of the Report produced for its members by the Young Women’s Christian Association.
• Notes of statement by Sir William Beveridge to the Trades Union Congress General Council at their meeting on 16 December 1942Link opens in a new window. Sir William outlines the similarities and differences between his own scheme and the proposals of the TUC, and answers questions from members of the General Council on aspects of the Beveridge Report.
• Social Security Guide: The White Paper and the Beveridge Report ComparedLink opens in a new window, 1944. This pamphlet, issued by the Social Security League, compares the contents of the Beveridge Report with the proposed reforms set out in the government’s White Paper.¹

“William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), economist who helped shape Britain’s post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.

Beveridge, the son of a British civil servant in India, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. More than any other single figure, he brought the welfare state to Britain. His lifelong interest in the causes and cures of unemployment began in 1903 with his appointment as subwarden of Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house. At one of her famous strategic dinner parties, British socialist Beatrice Webb introduced her young protégé, Beveridge, to Winston Churchill. Churchill then invited Beveridge to serve as an adviser to the Board.

“Beveridge continued to serve in government, next as director of Labour Exchanges (1909–16) and later as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food (1919). He directed the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1919 until 1937, when he was elected master of University College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1919 and was created a baron in 1946
“In Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909), Beveridge argued that unemployment was in large measure caused by the organization of industry. His revised views, set forth in Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), were strongly influenced by Keynesian economics. Beveridge’s most notable achievement came during World War II, when, at the invitation of the government, he helped work out the blueprints of the new British welfare state. His written works include Insurance for All (1924), British Food Control (1928), Planning Under Socialism (1936), Pillars of Security (1948), Power and Influence (1953), and A Defence of Free Learning (1959).”

..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu,,,,, Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.

What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.

John Blundell

Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia

⁰ ..in the absurd young children’s story-telling terms of ecologically and intellectually deracinated (ignorant or unaware) 20th century newspapers and 1790s revolutionary European pamphleteers Giants

¹ ‘The Beveridge Report’ Modern Records Centre University Library University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Email: archives@warwick.ac.uk with many thanks and in celebration of your historical discipline, truly inconceivable in my deeply troubled and confused country where a ludicrous majority, perhaps even 75% of quarter-million dollar a year salaried politicians think welfare, public health & social security are addressed by giving the aspirational middle class young financial & tax ‘carrots’ to buy a house, and later another one, and later.. and the rest of it consists in being firm with refugees and lazy people for they are deserving and Our Lord, they go, stopped to help a grubby Palestinian, they go, and they go and we all wish to that or any passing Christ they would, indeed go, and fast

² Society – 1995 concentric circles economic theory notional & mathematical (by geographical surface area (range) of the domain) C7 nation, nation-state, Country

³ ..a literary credit to Sydney author Zeynab Gamieldien 2023 at this moment

⁴ While I am an extraordinary writer-educator i do hope no readers expect me to explain orderliness in the neuro-cognitively challenged, indeed deranged socially, historically & ecologically alienated minds of all the world’s grandees, pooh-bahs, Indian billionaires, celebrity scientists, ‘stars’ of stage & podcast or the self-aggrandising begin-middle-end kiddie story-tellers cum mishandled chalk screeching on a blackboard tabula rasa child-as-minituarised-adult condescending and patronising to the point of inflicting emotional abuse if not psychological torture rhetorically-flourishing talking heads of mass media – all of them, hello – out there about the non-existent symmetrical ‘universe.’ – Go watch a new-era Brian Cox video or read any of some 5 thousand 280 character messages that appear on my @greeneconomyact formerly 2012 – 21 @wired_we. It’s what i do. I’m a McLuhan, Laing Schumacher Fromm Buber Bohr student who took a lot of encouragement from Yitzhak Rabin before the friends of the US Central Intelligence Agency or FBI (Australia’s AFP) thought differently and hired Yigal Amir to get rid of him, such assassinations running contrary to Rumpole’s ‘golden thread through British justice:’ the presumption of guilt, the Assange Principle. See also the Blundell, Duggan, Boyle, Witness K, McBride, a thousand people across Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan territory, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan sthn & nthn, and many others on every continent (quite likely including Antarctica) perhaps many many more – for George Walker Bush’s democracy – Silkwood and i have suspected after close reading now for 4 or 5 years in the light of this earth’s ‘plague’ of rampant profligate and ecologically devastating directly as well as by default adolescent moronic rich kids’ Chemistry Set un-thought through nonscience the Professor Carl Sagan Principle – going to the ‘rotten’ core of that phenomenon 99% of journalists are terrified to air – scientism, techno-triumphalism and the post 1961 DD Eisenhower Militarist- Industrialist- Scientist- FINANCIER macroeconomic complex

J Blundell Australia February 28 2024

Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want now echoing and reverberating in a billion helplessly confused frankly dazed political-class minds – Yes, Veronica, there is an environment and you”re living in it dear so come why not loosen your clothing a little? – Beveridge 1942^1,2,3,4 – if we recall that no-one lives, with, mentally dwells in or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called History of Ideas, Debates or ludicrous even experientially pointless public opinion ‘Wars,’ but (lives by) what he, she or ‘they’ do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn the array of existential threats to its (micro, citizen, resident) members via a mature, vital operational understanding of the life of human society-in-environs expressly, practically, technically and ever-so elephant-in-the-room obviously economically in the two other domains that ideological neoliberal satanic psychopathic- and head-banging Abrahamic religious fundamentalist and genocidal ecocidal totalitarian-propaganda suppresses, oppresses and destroys, the meso scaled geographical community and macro scale tropospheric WORLD⁵.

.. being a hopefully definitive essay powerfully pitted against 1948 triumphalist (Hey, we survived⁶) post WWII Oxford Union adolescent upper middle class white-skin debating club historicist fabulists’ both-sidesist nonsense of liberalism on HOW personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of your gender, ethnicity or lifestyle would help..

What Happened to Liberalism? Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

Becca Rothfeld: The first question I wanted to ask is how to improve liberalism. Despite some misreadings of Liberalism Against Itself as illiberal, it’s very much not an anti-liberal book. It’s a book that’s disappointed with the direction that postwar liberalism has taken, but it’s also cautiously optimistic about the liberal tradition’s ability to redeem itself. Tallying up your objections to Cold War liberalism in the book, I noticed that it was possible to construct a better ideal of postwar liberalism by imagining a sort of mirror image of the failed liberalism you describe. Could you say a little bit about the positive conception of liberalism glinting in the background of the book?

Samuel Moyn: This book is a series of portraits of liberals in the middle of the twentieth century, and I take a pretty deflationary view of the politics that they wrought. I claim that they introduced a rupture in the history of liberalism. I do imply that they’ve left us, at least in part, in our current situation, intellectually and even practically. I don’t know if I would agree that I’m optimistic about liberalism: I would say that there are resources from the past to draw on before Cold War liberalism that could be used to argue for a new liberalism. But I certainly think that we need to give tough love to liberals, not just for their abuse of their own tradition, but also because they seem recurrently incapable of confronting some nagging criticisms of their platform. You’re right that I do suggest (albeit indirectly) some laudatory features of liberalism before it became transmogrified through the Cold War liberals. I’ll mention a few. The first half of the book is about what liberalism was before Cold War liberals abandoned its core motivation—human emancipation. I start out with a chapter on the Enlightenment that defines the epoch through its promotion of emancipation from the ruins of authority and tradition. But a much bigger component of Liberalism Against Itself is the contrast I draw between the self-perfectionism of the Enlightenment and the tolerationism that surged through the careers of more recent liberals like John Rawls. In the beginning, liberals were total perfectionists. They offered a novel, controversial ideal of the highest life, one premised on personal fulfillment through creativity. That’s because the early liberal thinkers were also romantics, were deeply connected to the Romantic movement in literature and philosophy. Another component of early liberalism that should be resuscitated is an ethos of progress. Liberals before the middle of the twentieth century were connected to a sense that history was a forum to achieve emancipation and to construct interesting lives. Agency doesn’t just materialize—the conditions for it must be built. To the early liberals, those conditions aren’t going to appear overnight. There were a lot of reasons in the middle of the twentieth century to give up on progress—certainly the notion of inevitable progress. What I worry about is an overcorrection: that Cold War liberals lost any sense of an uplifting, radiant future to offer through policy, both locally and globally. A truly emancipatory vision for liberalism would involve reversing some of the damage of that pessimistic thinking.

Source: Boston Review

The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

the perspective of these lectures is left Hegelian. It’s not specifically about the welfare state, which I don’t see as—and I don’t think left Hegelians should think of as—the end of history. That being said, you’re right that American liberals are nostalgic for the New Deal or the welfare state that they understand that they didn’t get, and then idealise Denmark or Sweden. There’s no nostalgia for that in these lectures, except insofar as it shows that there were alternative liberalisms. And there’s absolutely no suggestion that we just surgically extract liberalism before the Cold War came and graft it on to our present. But we should rehabilitate some of its impulses and return to some of its thinkers as ways of extricating ourselves from the Cold War syndrome. The significance of the left Hegelian tradition is about a kind of emancipatory statism through the institutionalisation of a free community of equals who are creative agents. That’s what I think liberalism ought to be trying to bring about, which is not at all bureaucratic or technocratic. There’s a very interesting distinction that some have used, like Svetlana Boym, about different forms of nostalgia. The point is not to luxuriate about what came before, but instead to treat the past as a critical resource for getting what we’ve never had. That’s the kind of spirit of these lectures, and I really want to avoid any complacent nostalgia, where the idea is just to go back. The welfare state was eugenic in Sweden and some other countries, and deeply exclusionary everywhere, especially along lines of gender, but also (where it mattered) race. And so, the New Deal was an incredibly compromised project all the way down. It is not a credible starting point, but we do have to have a theory of emancipation through the state and history. The nineteenth century is a better resource for that approach than our politics, call it liberal or socialist or liberal-socialist, than anything we’ve seen in the last few decades.

Source: Center for Intellectual History Oxford

Does Law and Political Economy Need Theory..

Oh my giddy aunt – DERACINATED ACADEMIC CHATTER & PhD word, glyph & number castles in the sky may only compound upon themselves and degenerate into drivel and sloganising – definitional postmodernism AND post-structuralism are on display here in one 7 word schpiel, a Brain Teaser of the Australians Waleed Aly & Scott Thompson’s arcane esoteric and frankly nonsensical parlour conversation genre this – my auntie Grace’s 1890’s indeed..

So i did have a great aunt by education and upper middle class socialisation straight out of the Suffragist Movement, the Bloomsbury Set haute couture & haute bourgeois ambience or say La Belle Époque 1871-1914 corresponding with the ending of the Franco-Prussian War (1871) and the beginning of World War I (1914) who made one of Australia’s if not Australia’s first ‘co-educational’ (an epistemologically whiffy and phenomenologically crackers good old Dame Enid Lyons, Dame Edna Everage, Macca the Quacker on Sundaze ‘n John Winston Howard euphemism for inclusive of young women and young men, Young People!) secondary school principals, GA Sanders, Unley HS, Adelaide, birthline unknown to me and of no interest either.

As more people know now, Mr Blundell does history not ancestry.

..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu..ing Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.

What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.

John Blundell

Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia

¹ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/10/beveridge-five-evils-welfare-state

² https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/beveridge-report-published-a-british-revolution-1942

³ https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/giants-a-new-beveridge-report/BB34AED06B557F02FA40BE10A6F62209

⁴ https://youtu.be/F8a0TWSWBKA?si=92v0C2QTCz2gSPPH

⁵ NOW, all economic theorists will note the C1 (micro-scale) well functioning adult, the C5 (meso-scale) geocommunity notionaly over10 square kilometres of largely fertile land and the C10 (macro and Σ (sum of all things: there are none else in the real economy) troposphere as per ‘Concentric Circles Economics,’ scholar John Blundell, fruitgrower, wholesaler, food manufacturer and retailer whose businesses Blundell Orchards and Organically Grown were smashed by the neofascist Friedmanite state of South Australia, October 1995 (all documents, business documents and other contents of my office and home in the Adelaide Hills were stolen so no record so ask me a couple of pertinent questions as I am sure you all will now that your own lives depend on learning how ‘stuff’ really works in this broken chemically dissolving Ayn Rand Edward Bernays Joseph Stalin Alan Greenspan world (C9 is terrrestrial and oceanic, OK) of theirs

⁶ António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres 26/2/2024

“The Haldane principle seems widely accepted in many parts of the world, but not so much in Australia. It holds that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers, rather than politicians.

“It’s a simple principle, really. While the government might determine the rules of the game, it leaves the selection of contestants to those in the know. The sports minister doesn’t pick the Olympic beach volleyball team, for example. The tourism minister doesn’t pick the beach.

“But the distinction seemed lost on shadow science minister Paul Fletcher, who resorted to a well-worn tactic – mockery – when explaining why former education minister Stuart Robert had seen fit to kibosh a paltry 1 per cent of the grants presented for his signature.

“So that Australians can draw their own conclusions, let me just mention the titles of three of the projects which were rejected,” Fletcher told parliament on Tuesday. “‘Spectacles, dress and second-wave feminism in the Philippines’ – that was the first. ‘Queer Tokyo: a cultural history’ was the second. ‘Beauty and ugliness as persuasive tools in changing China’s gender norms’ – that was the third.”

“It’s the pub test argument. Salt of the earth Aussies, who – unlike those ivory tower types, have an MA in common sense – recognise value when they see it. The pub test is often deployed against research proposals in the humanities, less so in STEM. What would your average Aussie Joe, halfway through his third schooner of Kosciuszko Pale Ale, make of a project titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Zirconium Oxide-Crystalline Cerium(IV)Hydrogen Phosphate/ Polybenzimidazole, Polyaniline, Polyindole, Polycarbazole, Nanocomposites”?

“The many supporters of the bill to reform the Australian Research Council believe it will prevent ministers from spiking grants because they don’t like projects’ names. But some commentators have warned against unintended consequences.

“The specific worry is that the treatment of ARC schemes’ funding rules – as legislative instruments subject to disallowance motions – opens the door to new types of intervention and delay, as opposition and cross-benchers haggle, filibuster and road-test speculative clauses banning any project containing the word “queer”.

“There are two reasons not to worry too much about this. One is that all known instances of meddling so far have come from the government, not the opposition or cross-benchers. The other is that the funding guidelines apply as soon as they’re registered – not after the time frame for disallowance motions has run its course – so there’s little risk of added delays.

“The bigger risk is that the opposition reverses these reforms after it finds its way back into government. It surely has principles, but Haldane isn’t one of them.

“– John Ross, Asia-Pacific editor
john.ross@timeshighereducation.com”

I could write that if like me you are a person who is utterly riven personally and emotionally by the egregious and frankly monstrous career-ending failure of 21st century science to even TELL the general public what global heating, ecosystem death, pandemics and looming human food shortages are – to even acknowledge the polycrisis but to downplay and lampoon it with the late Prof Carl Sagan’s oil and finance industries’ bamboozle about evolutionary priorities, 3rd century Rome, dinosaurs & ice-cores and in general terabytes on terabytes of historical tosh that can tell us NOTHING even about our own living extant selves let alone any future – AND to be publicly derided in absurd reductionist Piagetian concrete operations (or arrested mental development primary-schooler) terms as being – yourself – though you may well be a world leader in the new operational or cultural branch of neuroscience called neurolinguistics (1), AND the completely innovative integral health, energy, heating & ecology studies, AND the radically overhauled Philosophy of Science fully incorporating religious, cultural, economic and political theory – as ‘anti-science…’

..you would, esteemed reader, just re-print the thing. breathtakingly crackers or was it in Hausfather’s terms gobsmackingly bananas as it may be to give future research funding decisions to either politicians OR Twentieth Century scientists, respecting not harrying hectoring or bullying.. for once as a dogged teacher and explainer leaving the mental task of appraisal-on-the-merits-of-a-presentation entirely in the hands, hearts and heads of your readers..

..ZH was talking heat pumping out of the North Atlantic Ocean 5 – 6 months ago. I include a link here which will help anyone understand a little better what it is the authentic not wildly overpaid Mickey Mouse scientists are doing with their time and your money, team:

https://www.u.arizona.edu/~brunke/modeling/model-components.html#:~:text=Thus%2C%20the%20components%20of%20a,ice%20sheets%20and%20mountain%20glaciers.

John Blundell

South Australia 08022024 🦘🇦🇺🌏

1. no direct connection with the STRUCTURALIST MIT Noam Chomsky psycholinguistics of the early 1980s but exclusively addressed to human consciousness and NOT AT ALL to 1930s Social Darwinism or vile BF Skinner coercive, manipulative or punitive Behaviour Modification

Another Little Internet Gift from The Marginalian

BY MARIA POPOVA

“Our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it,” the great French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil wrote in contemplating the rarest and purest form of human thought. A generation later, Hannah Arendt cautioned that “the basic fallacy … is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.” How to bridge the gap between meaning, which is the human interpretation of truth, and that naked truth itself is perhaps the most abiding challenge in reconciling the human intellect with the human spirit.

That’s what the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher and astronomer Moses Maimonides examined centuries before Weil and Arendt in The Guide for the Perplexed (public library) — a masterwork of philosophy and rhetoric, dedicated to those “lost in perplexity and anxiety,” so enduring and influential that it has inspired works as diverse as E.F. Schumacher’s magnificent 1977 collection of essays on the meaning of culture and Werner Herzog’s compendium of meditations on creativity and life. A conceptual predecessor to Rilke’s indispensable Letters to a Young Poet, the book was written as a three-part letter to one of Maimonides’s students.

In the prefatory remarks to the original edition, Maimonides points out that he “hesitated very much before writing on the subjects contained in this work, since they are profound mysteries,” and considers the three primary ways we see truth:

Ignorant and superficial readers take them in a literal, not in a figurative sense. Even well informed persons are bewildered if they understand these passages in their literal signification, but they are entirely relieved of their perplexity when we explain the figure, or merely suggest that the terms are figurative. For this reason I have called this book Guide for the Perplexed. I do not presume to think that this treatise settles every doubt in the minds of those who understand it, but I maintain that it settles the greater part of their difficulties.

Centuries before Michael Faraday lamented our remarkable capacity for self-deception, Maimonides addresses the “errors which give rise to fear and anxiety, constant grief and great perplexity,” and writes:

At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we return to a darkness almost as dense as before. We are like those who, though beholding frequent flashes of lightning, still find themselves in the thickest darkness of the night. On some the lightning flashes in rapid succession, and they seem to be in continuous light, and their night is as clear as the day… By others only once during the whole night is a flash of lightning perceived… There are some to whom the flashes of lightning appear with varying intervals; others are in the condition of men, whose darkness is illumined not by lightning, but by some kind of crystal or similar stone, or other substances that possess the property of shining during the night; and to them even this small amount of light is not continuous, but now it shines and now it vanishes, as if it were “the flame of the rotating sword.” The degrees in the perfection of men vary according to these distinctions.

Our self-deceptions, Maimonides cautions, can warp what we impart on others — a tendency merely personally tragic in the context of one-to-one human communication but civilizationally menacing in the context of today’s one-to-many media, which didn’t exist in Maimonides’s time and which frame the basic realities of ours. He writes:

You must know that if a person, who has attained a certain degree of perfection, wishes to impart to others, either orally or in writing, any portion of the knowledge which he has acquired of these subjects, he is utterly unable to be as systematic and explicit as he could be in a science of which the method is well known. The same difficulties which he encountered when investigating the subject for himself will attend him when endeavoring to instruct others; viz., at one time the explanation will appear lucid, at another time, obscure; this property of the subject appears to remain the same both to the advanced scholar and to the beginner.

But Maimonides argues that the responsibility to counter untruth lies equally in writer and reader, in media-maker and media-consumer — a sentiment triply timely today. In admonishing his reader against skimming and the unconsidered snap judgments it invariably seeds, he presents a timeless micro-manifesto for the intellectual responsibilities of all information-consumers in any medium:

Do not read superficially, lest you do me an injury, and derive no benefit for yourself. You must study thoroughly and read continually… The reader must, moreover, beware of raising objections to any of my statements, because it is very probable that he may understand my words to mean the exact opposite to what I intended to say… Let the reader make a careful study of this work… Should he notice any opinions with which he does not agree, let him endeavor to find a suitable explanation, even if it seem far-fetched, in order that he may judge me charitably. Such a duty we owe to every one. We owe it especially to our scholars and theologians, who endeavor to teach us what is the truth according to the best of their ability.

With this, he arrives at what should be the credo of every respectable and self-respecting purveyor of information, knowledge, and wisdom — a credo just about diametrically opposed to the one driving today’s media economy of catering to the lowest common denominator. Maimonides reflects:

When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

The Guide for the Perplexed goes on to explore the path to truth, reaching which Maimonides argues is essential for attaining such peace from perplexity. Complement this particular portion with physicist Lisa Randall on the different paths art, science, and religion take to meaning and Hannah Arendt on the crucial distinction between truth and meaning.

donating = loving

“Remember that the Gazan economy is relatively small with a limited capacity to absorb investment.. من المهم أن نذكر ان الاقتصاد الغزي صغير نسبيا وقدرته على امتصاص الاستثمارات محدودة.”

Puzzled by the document title? See the Nineteen twenty-eight (published as the first Pelican paperback in 1937) reference in footnote¹. I might add we should learn modern rhetorical neoclassical history before it hops up and chops all our proverbial heads off. This entails not any English language philosophy tutorial ‘deconstruction’ or fanciful ‘unpacking’ of post 1789 ‘enlightenment’ political-arena terminology – no mechanisms, no navigation and no epic Oxford Union debates as Germaine Greer vs Norman Mailer dec’d.

And alas love was not even the question let alone.. Where’s it at then? It’s the meaning of words in the macro. Do you recall prime minister PJ Keating’s Big Picture? NOT merely the fight-f..k-feed-flee-flummox the young, the cowed & the female 1930s Oswald Mosley Great Britain, Racial Hygiene, later Mothers & Babies Health Association, Social Darwinist or Abrahamic religious faiths’ micro power-over-others ideology.. no Machiavelli, no raison d’etat sociopathy. Perhaps look up explication de text, ratiocination and John Locke’s 1700 argumenta. Sure in a figurative ‘flooding river of human & animal sewage, corpses & chemical sludge as we unmistakably are, then at least the readers, professional journalists and ethical film & television writers, must strive to better understand human culture, society and real economy.

But the mental challenge is great, as we see by the hundreds of terabytes of histrionic turning hysterical if not headbanging hogwash, angriness and frankly pernicious oil-corp Hillary Rodham Clinton You-can-make-adifference greenwash swirling about the planet daily – in a publishing industry which will by a reported estimate amass $1T of expenditure & useless churn in 2025.

Rage, Year 9 #science-denial and violent attack on those who might help us get a better grip (first and foremost on our own lives – psychological anguish is real pain and can make you as dead sick as Oxytocin or alcohol) are evidence of 1) criminal intent to harm others³ and 2) a public mental health concern.

There’s such urgency on human ignorance, folly and businesssman’s knavery at this time as a public educator I’m inclined to say try to forget everything you’ve learned about the supposedly magical qualities of knowledge, reason and rationlism.

There aren’t any and so called civilisational techno-triumphalism, including tosh about digitalised production values in the arts have exploded in our grandchildren’s faces and are catastrophically driving them to depressive mental illness – that’s overwhelminngly not a ‘DNA,’ congenital or organically caused condition but entirely learned, social and ecological in nature: essentially powerful others telling you how to behave but not bothering to ask you..

Now it’s rationality, the words to say it, not c’est, it or in any sense objectify it. This macro “stuff” is ideas not things. Ideation is the physiological process that goes on in the non-executivec culminating in mid 2023 micro -macro dialectics now point our way ahead in political thought, Now this morning i wove our use of the internet these twenty-five or so years into the discussion about world as a vast phantasmagorical social mechanism extending even unto the “Universe.” – This was being looked upon excitedly by our fully manipulable Gutenberg Galaxy people so they apparently disappeared it from my screens. Well, the @Microsoft one. But it was @Google-A’bet I think – as the comprehensive master of the proverbial temporo-spatial Einstinian domain it’s got the skills (not to say the limited view) and in fact only this morning I HAPPILY ENOUGH signed up for their GPC. Self-interest yes: as a journalist it’s important i can see stuff but even greater than that (seriously) I’ve been fighting fiercely for internet apps for grownups who feel and act on an obligation to communicate with each other – if we can’t even acknowledge others let alone answer their questions we’ve signed up for tyranny & demagoguery and WILL get hurt by them.

“The document containing a hyperlink is known as its source document. For example, in content from Wikipedia or Google Search, many words and terms in the text are hyperlinked to definitions of those terms. Hyperlinks are often used to implement reference mechanisms such as tables of contents, footnotes, bibliographies, indexes, letters, and glossaries. ..Wkpd

“The effect of following a hyperlink may vary with the hypertext system and may sometimes depend on the link itself; for instance, on the World Wide Web most hyperlinks cause the target document to replace the document being displayed, but some are marked to cause the target document to open in a new window (or, perhaps, in a new tab).^[2] Another possibility is transclusion, for which the link target is a document fragment that replaces the link anchor within the source document. Not only persons browsing the document may follow hyperlinks. These hyperlinks may also be followed automatically by programs. A program that traverses the hypertext, following each hyperlink and gathering all the retrieved documents is known as a Web spider or crawler. ..Wkpd

And where I am it’s Thursday and twenty-five thousand 700 dead غَزِّيّ – ghazzii people. Oink,

~ ”Liberty, equality, peace, justice & a free enterprise way of life” – in the Latin language, the classical foundational Romance language¹ Way of Life (remember the 1950s Bernays Rand Branden Greenspan mega-trope Peace, Justice and the American?) was modus vivendi, not meaning an economic culture of lightly state-regulated or dysregulated trading and commercial-for-profit) enterprise:

~ three very useful paragraphs from Wkpd on Leon Festinger’s cognitive dissonance – essentially the SOCIAL phenomenon of autosuggestion self decepotion or confirmation bias to reflect faithfully erroneous belief on behalf of coercive pedagogic schooling, cultic ‘programming, ‘brainwashing,’ psychological torture or highly prized and valued personal group or ‘tribe’ membership norms.. were excluded for focus here on the mental construction of macro as against self interested ideation

~ rigorous microeconomic theory Pre-fascist Supply & Demand Rewards Consumerism goes to Societal Collapse

~ Family and Society: Beyond Max Weber and Into Our Futures What’s Left of Them

~ Patriarchic – meaning not of any family’s male ancestors but of all of a society’s political, cultural & legal powers being crafted, shaped, manipulated and perpetuated by rich old men and transferred to rich younger men – is the critical adjective in my Community Economist newsletter terms ACUP, ECUP & HCUP of 1996 precisely germane to the South Australian Police assault on my life and property at that very moment of history. These sociological functions and political operations by men (not to be trite but to be necessarily explicative in a world of men so inured to societal chaos, devastation and killing that they refuse to listen, have “no ears” and will not let up until politically quashed or extirpated) were artificial compartmentalisation, excessive codification and human commodification under patriarchic fiscal elites.

Economy, ecology and viable society are coterminous under the demesne, or rule, of mentally ill old men impelled by hatreds and “inspired by” lust, greed and laziness.

You all knew that. – Peel me a grape. – In Australia it’s Munchkin Day or some national government bullshit. – Love is sent to North Queensland.

Friday 26th Jan 2024

John Blundell

..the new neurolinguistics, the new new maths, health, energy and philosophy of science Australia

¹ TIWG.. written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. The book employs socialist and Marxist thought. It was written in 1928 after his sister-in-law, Mary Stewart Cholmondeley, asked him to write a pamphlet explaining socialism.^[1] The book was later re-released as the first Pelican Book in 1937.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Woman’s_Guide_to_Socialism_and_Capitalism

² ‘The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. They started from Vulgar Latin (in Latin, “vulgar” is the word for “common” and so “Vulgar Latin” means “Common Latin”). The most spoken Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.

‘They are called “Romance languages” because they originate from Latin, the language spoken by the Western Roman Empire. Their grammatical inflection system has been simplified and lost most of the complex case structure of classical Latin.

‘The area that the Romance languages are spoken in Europe is mostly extent of the Western Roman Empire. The Greek language superseded Latin in the Eastern Roman Empire. Latin survived in Romania, whose language, Romanian, is a Romance language. In Moldova it is sometimes called Moldovan.’ PER COURTESY @Wikipedia

³ .resulting in not tens, not hundreds, not thousands but tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings or police-backed murders by gangster-farmers around the world, always directed at the young, the Muslim or both (or the non ethnic Burmese in Myanmar, for example) – but what would the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney – or any of bastions of insular provincial ex British colonial or ex Holy Roman Empire political privilege – know or care about that when so preoccupied with saving Western Civilisation with coal and cotton exports and foreign ‘investor’ cash?

..being a massive contribution to conversation no-one in public life in Australia including parliamentarians allowed to be had for the eighty years since World War II – on pain of brutal punitive extra-judicial reaction in the breach, generated by Thomas Reis, communicating with the world on the e-comms app ‘X’ as ‘at’ peakaustria.

“Dryland salinity in Western Australia’s agricultural areas is now estimated to directly affect up to 2 million hectares and cost over half a billion dollars a year in lost agricultural production. With few exceptions, the south-west’s rivers also suffer from increasing salinity levels and much of the wheatbelt’s remaining biodiversity is being severely damaged by the spreading salt.

“Yet between 1948 and 1969 successive Western Australian governments sold off an average of 400,000 hectares (a million acres) of land for agriculture every year, and the issue continued to be denied and suppressed
“In the mid-1960s Dorothy Hewett wrote in ‘Legend of the Green Country’ about her father’s efforts to tackle salinity on their farm, near Wickepin. At this time, the Minister for Agriculture said it was likely that more than 50 per cent of the native vegetation would have to be retained to prevent water tables from rising. He thought it was illogical to stop clearing, as some salt encroachment would most likely occur anyway.

“But of course it wasn’t his property being affected. In 1974 an Ongerup farming family sought to have the saline country they had been allocated replaced with farmable land. The Under Secretary for Lands, writing to the Minister, said:
it behooves us to be very careful indeed as surveys in 1955 and 1962 show that the used farming land which had become salt affected amounted to 186,000 acres and 305,000 acres respectively. The situation after 12 years will be appreciably worse. Yes, I am most concerned over the precedent, which will be established [if we agree to replace saline with arable land].

“In the river catchments of the wetter south-west, where government had a direct economic interest in protecting its potable water supplies, it still took 25 years of internal pressure from Public Works Department scientists and others before rigid clearing controls were introduced, from 1976 onwards.

“In a reprieve and return to business as usual it would be the mid-1990s before government started fully acknowledging the extent of the problem. By then the science was well accepted and the predictions of ongoing damage frightening. The Decade of Landcare had seen farmers mobilised like never before, and the early 1990s saw a flurry of reports and strategies. In 1996 the Court Government declared ‘War on Salinity’ and agency budgets were increased. A Situation Statement and Action Plan were developed, refined and actioned. When the ALP came to power in 2001 they allocated additional funds to salinity research and remediation. Soon after, the federal government launched its National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. Western Australia was a significant beneficiary.
For a while it appeared that the tables had been turned and there was real political will to tackle the creeping menace. However, the change was short-lived. Under Kevin Rudd’s ‘Caring for our Country’ program, federal funding for salinity declined steeply after 2008, and in Western Australia Colin Barnett’s new coalition government dropped salinity from its list of priorities.

“Departmental hydrologists who had been focused on solutions to salinity were diverted north to search for potable water under pastoral leases, and the state progressively withdraw agency support for local landcare groups. Advisory and consultative bodies, who had driven development of the earlier ‘war on salinity’, were closed down, and the Commissioner for Soil Conservation, who in the early 1990s drew on the work of 24 staff, was left with two. Not surprisingly, the number of landcare groups in farming areas has also declined.

“Despite being left effectively stranded by this wholesale withdrawal of government support, individual farmers, and those landcare groups who survived the cutbacks, have continued to undertake some excellent and innovative work in tackling salinity and other severe degradation problems. There has been widespread adoption of higher water use farming systems, big gains made in development of saltland pasture systems, and many farmers have invested heavily in relatively unproven drainage systems.
But overall, we don’t know what’s working well and what isn’t. The Auditor–General found that ‘The last satellite imagery analysis that mapped salinity was in 2000 [when] severely salt affected land was increasing by 14,000 hectares per year.”

– TR

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Saturday 20th January 2024