Posted on August 21, 2024 by Green Economy Action

Muppets to the Left of me\ Numpties to the Right

Muppets to the Left of me\\ Numpties to the Right

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Green Economy Action

The phenomenology of the new neurolinguistics makes abundantly and powerfully clear that the socio-cultural and the psychosomatic are body-mind belief systems in the complete control of the well healthy person per the vibrant instantaneously co-operational sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. In short the psychological is the socio-cultural and the raison d’etre (the reason for being or being alive) and multifarious raisons d’etat (the individual adult, couple, household, neighborhood, geo-community, region OR nation motifs and causes we all air and display) are psychological – equally and indivisibly the outcomes of socialisation, acculturation, mores, beliefs, tropes, memes, aphorisms, slogans, prayers, wishes, aspirations and ‘upbringing.’

Plato’s Race-memory, environs and genetic predisposition form an authentic mental trinity (or ‘triad’) in contrast to the sacramental or supposed (classical monist AND dualist) metaphysical.

The person depicted above’s name is pronounced Kah-mahla, with equal accent or emphasis on the leading and trailing syllables -as indicated by the – conjunctor or classical hyphen above- and used in contemporary Greek speech – there can be no snappy if not terse or grunty or perhaps nasal emphasis on the first syllable and the use of the notorious Mary-Anne Fahey’s – not herself but her The Comedy Company character of 1989 Kylie Mole’s – Rising-debbie is frowned upon or at least frightens old ladies and gentlemen

(1) By way of a critical wierdshow corporate lawyers’ preamble go ‘here..’

“Previously, the site was hosted on the servers of Bomis, a company mostly owned by Jimmy Wales. With the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation on June 20, 2003, the ownership of all domain names was transferred to the Foundation. The site is run by the community of Wikipedians guided by the five pillars.

“Wikipedia is a non-commercial website run by the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in San Francisco.

“Who owns Wikipedia?

“Wikipedia’s tech framework is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also supports Wikipedia’s sister projects, including Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and others, and owns all of their domain names.

“Who governs Wikipedia?

“The Wikimedia Foundation is controlled by its Board of Trustees, which is required according to its Bylaws to have several members chosen from the Wikimedia community. The Board and Wikimedia Foundation staff do not usually take a role in editorial issues, and projects are self-governing and consensus-driven.

“Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization funded mainly by donations from readers. Initially only available in English, editions of Wikipedia in more than 300 other languages have been developed.

“The text contained in Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia contributors and licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The full text of this license is at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License.”

What are the Four Trauma Responses Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are a broader collection of natural bodily reactions to stressful, frightening, or dangerous events. This sympathetic nervous system response dates back to our ancestors coming face-to-face with dangerous animals. Jun 24, 2024

(2) For the hard and hurty for mental 11 year-olds facts, go ‘here..’

I, John Blundell, independent scholar and the man who is bringing to a dead end the notional Five hundred +15 Year \\ Five Hundred Fifteen year Romance Era and equally, necessarily and comprehensively ALL patronising and ‘matronising faux feminist’ micro-behavioural Raison-d’etat Warrior-prince Explorer-scientist depersonalising sexualising psychiatric Object-relations anodyne conversational patter³ passed off as intelligent human discourse since the Church pitted the pietistic¹ sacramental against Dante Alighieri’s² vernacular pronounce the Nineteenth-century neoclassical academic Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn ‘dead in the roiling global heating water’ and demand the immediate retirement of all peddlers-for-business-profit of evolutionary biology against the James Lovelock thesis Gaia (originally published in 1979, reissued in 2000 with a new preface, and reissued again in 2016 with a second preface as part of the Oxford Landmark Science series blah-didly-bitly-blah-diddly-blah-bla).

The Italian Peninsula

– Elegantly transition your heads team to Fight Feed Fuck Freeze Flee. Forget the FFF Flee Flummox read-out on greeneconomyact on @X I put out say three months ago. I am overjoyed if not triumphant to directly ideationally connect the animal, though mammalian animal in particular⁵ and human at moments of terror for some (ALL rape victims for example) as the individual’s (in new micro- -meso- -macro economic theory Centre Circle One’s of 9’s under a weather-systems smashed, roiling, now literally deoxygenating and sulfurising sky C10) Freudian parapraxes moments, mental crossovers – naming synonym as antonym, misnaming in general, malicious-aforethought hyperbole and dumbed-down or ‘de-skilled’ essentially diseducated “Bullshit-baffles-the-brain” SCIENTIFIC False-equivalence – the individial human Edward Bernays-esque Manhattan Rand, Greenspan and Branden (pop psychology hack)1960s polemical public relations human cultural mental ‘catastrophe’ – meditative-state, short-term recall failure, clinical shock, trance.. “being paralysed by fear..” Alzheimers,’ loss of brain-sympathetic executive (expressive) responses, dementia and catatonia..

‘Freeze,’ billions of us said, muttered or thought, repeatedly, habitually, unselfconsciouisly, reflexively like we were burping, poop-ing or gaily [\ not] kicking the “word” down some road, its dust invisibly suffused with depleted uranium we couldn’t see, hear, taste, smell, touch or come-on-down and put on a show about besides the FBI, CIA, Joe Rogan, Australian politician Dan Tehan, Marine le Pen, the Vatican Treasury office and the editor of Readers Digest would be onto us in a ‘flash’ if we so much as opened our mouths about the Matter.

Kerlahnck that’s me done for this morning.. and the next day.

..except my virtual greetings and salutations to all who want to expunge malfeasant fake science from their blessed households, neighborhoods and geographical communities around the world

..and the people of Baghdad

We sure know it’s been hellish hot for many weeks

كيف حالك؟

BLUNDELL

21,2 Aug 2024

³ famously, powerfully resoundingly condemned by Thunberg as Blah 28/9/2021^3A

¹ fanciful-fatuous-fictive in the letter (or de jure qua demonstrable legal intent) and judgmental, condescending, mentally-calculated to cause harm to another or others & interpersonally violating in spirit

²Italian Peninsula regional story-teller/ fabulist poet late 13th C to 14/9/1321

^3AFascinatingly enough indeed the date of the fourth “anniversary” of what socially metastastasised into a now evidently permanent ‘rolling’ entropic Australian political class & ‘cognoscenti’ “Seniors-moment” – the^3AA diagnostic and indeed prognostic certainly pro Gnostic psychological regression to RG Menzies era Reverse Class-warfare – psychological “downward” envy pitted manfully against “Pearl-clutching” or “Bed-wetting” – and some phenomenon the “hard core” ideological activists among the “crackers” public menaces call Being-awake(?). I think therefore I’ve probably made a Dog’s-breakfast of these Looney-tunes’ tightly-argued if not epistemologically fraught principal premises https://aje.io/5n3kq damn

^3AA Grammatic definite object as dialecticised with the indefinite object culturally emergent in southern Europe particularly c’est/ say after Athenian city-state at the time of ‘heroic’ comedy acts Play-dough, Sock-crates & Harris Tottle (?)

⁴ “The Freudian slip is named after Sigmund Freud, who, in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, described and analyzed a large number of seemingly trivial, even bizarre, or nonsensical errors and slips, most notably the Signorelli parapraxis.”

⁵In a dementing world where hundreds of thousands of people are ‘earning’ the equivalent of $100k per annum (triple the lowest liveable income in Australian contemporary urban and suburban society including large regional centres, those ‘fed’ by huge supermarket chains) by & large children’s heads are pumped full of paleo-biology and all young people and adults 20 to110 know ten times as much about the reptilian brain – that human culturally-dominant foment of immediate gratification of wants and lusts, for example nowadays on display as random knife attacks on groups which idiots in public relations, security agencies and parliaments attribute to what they call terrorism and fiercely assert & aver have no connection with mental illness – while their opponents babble about empathy with the “neuro-divergent” as fundamental to a supposedly ideologically sound shared vision of lberal democratic society (for affluent white people like themselves, those with feet-on-ground & eyes not on screens wonder) – in the 21st century that is so plainly the psycho-social and diseducational precursor of ALL Autism-spectrum and ‘Attention Deficit Disorder’ (pharmaceutical corporation 45 year ‘Ritalin’ bonanza) neurocognitive (50% of causation) disorders – as about their own.

You Know I Believe and How

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Green Economy Action

People of voting age cry out for representation in councils and parliaments and for regional through national leadership by government.

So they get together, do social activities and raise money – both of which pursuits are hugely aided by taxation exemption, concession, deduction and direct public (ex taxation revenues, largely overseas ‘growth-fund’ exports investment profits and immigrant, student or affluent tourist spending) subsidies.. a tartly named Activity Trap (the title of a short paper or magazine article by a business “man-age-meant” guy, a pom called I think George Robertson from my social psychology & social work studies days (the 1970s) i cldnt successfully search unsurprisingly enough because it was critical operant mature adult thinking discourse or peroration of the sort every pavlovian ‘Hit or Give’ ghoul in the billionaires’ e-comms de-skill Cabal hates and simply censors out of his or her or indeed – classically in grammatically off though it may be – their, increasingly ‘putrefying’ product in really and truly an apocalyptic runaround for innocent kids, working people and vain neurocognitively impaired old men..

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Sarah Hanson-Young Campaign Kickoff – with Adam Bandt

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Chateau Apollo, 74 Frome St, Adelaide

Join us as we kick off the Greens SA campaign to re-elect Sarah Hanson-Young to the Senate and win Sturt!

Greens Leader Adam Bandt will be heading to town, straight from his press club address.

So grab a friend, get your tickets, enjoy a snack from the platters, and hear from Sarah and Adam about the plan for re-electing Sarah!MORE INFO

What’s On in August?

The Greens | Branch | Action Group | Community

TODAY: Volunteer Welcome Night

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Hear from Greens organisers and volunteers about how a strong people powered campaign can win elections and how you can be a part of it!

Learn about the different ways you can get involved. From letterboxing to phone banking, doorknocking and market stalls. There is something for everyone.

Vegan dinner provided. REGISTER

Stirling Knock-off drinks with Robert Simms MLC

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Miss Perez Kitchen & Bar, 2 Druid Avenue, Stirling

Join Greens MLC, Robert Simms for a drink and casual conversation on the big issues impacting our day-to-day lives: cost of living and the housing crisis, rising inequality, the climate crisis, the ramping crisis, and more! Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar. MORE INFO

Food waste lecture by Dr Stephen Lapidge CEO of End Food Waste Australia

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building, State Library of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide

If food waste was a country it would be ranked the third highest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the USA. EFWA is committed to creating a more productive, sustainable, and resilient Australian food system by ending food waste and food insecurity.
Cost $10MORE INFO

Doorknock Prep Working Bee

Friday, August 16, 2024, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Help prepare the doorknocking lists for the weekend sessions.

Drop in to state office during the day on Friday to prep the doorknocking lists.

A lot of work has to be done to ensure our events are successful and our campaigns productive so come along and share the load. REGISTER

Silent Vigil for Palestine

Friday, August 16, 2024, from 06:30 PM at The Malls Balls, Rundle Mall, Adelaide

Join Health Workers for Palestine in memory of, and solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza and the West Bank. Wear your scrubs/uniform if you can. Non HCW folk, families and children are all welcome.MORE INFO

Sturt – Renters’ Rights Doorknock with Rob

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Rose Reserve, 1A Kingsley Avenue, Glenunga

Did you know almost a third of South Australians are renters? Rents are increasing 5x faster than wages and both major parties refuse to support a rent freeze or rent caps.

Join Rob Simms for a doorknock and connect with renters in Sturt.REGISTER

Adelaide & Sturt All-In Doorknock

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Howard Florey Reserve, Campbell Road, Parkside

Adelaide and Sturt are joining forces once more for an ALL IN doorknock on the border of the two electorates.

We will hit the streets to talk to the good people of Parkside and Fullarton before heading to the Parkside Hotel for a social catch up and celebration.REGISTER

Anti Nuclear Power SA – Campaign meeting

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at The Joinery, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide

Join Anti Nuclear campaigners in SA to talk about and plan how to stop the Nuclear power plant proposals in SA and nationwide.

If you missed the previous online briefing you can watch it here.MORE INFO

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You have received this ‘Billionaire 🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒🐒s Olivetti Research Group’ – at Noam Chomsky’s (but not the startling funtionalist University of California Berkeley’s Erving Goffman’s) old place of sitting-in-your-office typing shit and also talking a lot the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (known to old rich people as the alma mater) compendious big-data frogshit newsletter because we’ve got your profile and your consumer transactions totally typed and thought you’d like to read ‘something’ divergent, macro-scaled and opposite not apposite to the endless falling-to-vortical-infinity and it’s dark down there in that hole – goodness me children now y’all look the other way – of the lunatic neoclassical anodyne Right-thinking (traditional, original and at least 10k year-old human societies’ Right-side value, belief and cultural praxis that is exactly to say their law) academic cultural hegemons of late nineteenth century England (particularly the northern industrial indigenous and exogenous slave economies of one of my own four great-grandfathers) and those who sucked to and fiscally nurtured it among the ‘Ivy League’ colonial aristocrats of the East Coast USA including of course the slavers of the USA South and the Caribbean – right down 400.5 decades (officially) of retrograde pre-civil society brutalisation ‘reducing’ employee wages and maximising not optimising business profit without regard to any law, to a plainly ecocidal and tberefore within another decade genocidal result or end, or as we address the orgiastically ignorant Christian Old Testament fundamentalist halfwits my scholarly liberal socialist educated grandfather ACL Sanders so deplored and fought exercising political power absent of scrutiny by any court or legislative or administrative authority – or horrific man-made End of Times end as in the officially ‘expanded’ Northern Territory Top End economic circle 6 global region of Australia this day.

That “endless falling-to-vortical-infinity:” tell me the above image is not flat, dumb, two-dimensional and in terms of the Paris 1968 upper middle-income liesure-time chatter (all day & half the night, right) **not** Art

Sturt & Adelaide Social Drinks

Saturday, August 17, 2024, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM at Parkside Hotel, 142 Glen Osmond Road, Parkside

After our afternoon doorknocking session the Adelaide & Sturt volunteers will head to the Parkside Hotel for a social catch up.REGISTER

Sturt Doorknock in Campbelltown

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Charlesworth Park, 6/16 Park Street, Campbelltown

Great-grandchildren

Join the Sturt Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Greens at Save the Cranker Rally – Sarah & Rob both speaking

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square, Adelaide

The grassroots campaign to save the “Cranker” – Crown & Anchor Hotel continues with a massive rally followed by live music on two stages at Adelaide’s most loved pub. Join Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Greens MLC Robert Simms to show your support for saving this iconic Adelaide place.

It is not just a heritage listed façade. It is not just a historical pub. It is not just a live music venue. It is alive, and we cannot lose it.REGISTER

Campaign Working Bee

Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Drop in to state office for an evening of volunteer recruitment, data entry and all the behind the scenes tasks that make our campaigns run.

Please bring a laptop and a phone, or let us know if you need them to be provided. REGISTER

Recruitment Systems Training

Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at The Greens SA State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Learn how to use ListManager, our platform for creating calling lists and recruiting volunteers. This will be a crucial tool for your campaign team. The training will cover how to use the systems, log your calls and contact notes, how to create a phone calling list and some best practice tips and tricks when on the phone!REGISTER

Sturt Market Stall at Fullarton

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 8:15 AM to 2:00 PM at Fullarton Market, Fullarton Road

Join the Sturt Greens team at the Fullarton Market to chat to locals about Greens policies and campaigns.

You can help out for the whole morning, or just pop by for a quick stint. Any and all help is appreciated! REGISTER

Sturt Weekend Doorknocks

Saturday, August 24 & Sunday, August 25, 2024

Join the Sturt Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

Saturday, August 24, 10am-1pm:Tusmore

Saturday, August 24, 2pm-5pm:Hazelwood Park

Sunday, August 25, 10am-1pm:Toorak Gardens

Sunday, August 25, 2pm-5pm:Heathpool

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.

SA Young Greens – NT Election Watch Party

Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 6:00 PM at State Office, 7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide

Join the SA Young Greens to watch the NT election results unfold at State Office!

For more info, please email SAYG Co-Convenors on young.greens.convenor@sa.greens.org.au

Australia West Papua Association SA Quiz Night

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Unley Community Centre, 18 Arthur Street, Unley

The Australia West Papua Association SA invites you to join our Quiz Night. Support the cause for the respect and empowerment of West Papuans’ human rights!

Doors open 6.30 for 7pm start. BYO food and drink. Admission $20 waged / $10 concession. Tables of up to 8-10 are welcome, as are individuals or small groups. Please bring some gold coins for games between the main quiz rounds.

Book with Dave on 0408 345 593 or dave-arkins@bigpond.com.MORE INFO

Adelaide Doorknock in Gilberton

Sunday, August 25, 2024, 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM at Park 8, Adelaide Parklands, Melbourne Street/Princes Hwy, Adelaide

Join the Adelaide Greens team as we chat with voters and listen to what issues matter to them.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Sturt Week of Action

Monday, August 26 to Sunday, September 1, 2024

If you’ve been meaning to get involved in the campaign to win Sturt, then this is the week to do it!

Monday 26th August to Sunday 1st September: Sturt Letterboxing Blitz – help us deliver leaflets in your own time throughout this whole week.

Tuesday 27th August, 5.30-7.30pm: Campaign Working Bee – drop in to State Office to help out with volunteer recruitment, data entry, and all the behind the scenes tasks that make our campaigns run.

Calling all experienced doorknockers for our midweek POWER DOORKNOCKS:

Wednesday 28th August, 4-6pm: Power Doorknock in Rose Park

Thursday 29th August, 4-6pm: Power Doorknock in Glen Osmond

Join us for one or more of our weekend doorknocks as we chat with voters and find out about the issues they care about. No experience necessary, training will be provided:

Saturday 31st August, 10am-1pm: Linden Park Doorknock

Saturday 31st August, 2pm-5pm: Magill Doorknock

Sunday 1st September, 10am-1pm: Hillcrest Doorknock

Sunday 1st September, 2pm-5pm: Burnside Doorknock

What’s On in September?

The Greens | Branch | Action Group | Community

Greens at Walk for Respect

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Tarntanyangga/Victoria Square, Adelaide

Walk for Respect – A peaceful, non-confrontational walk to raise awareness of the key signs of Domestic Violence & Coercive Control against women, men children!MORE INFO

AFOPA Quiz Night 2024

Saturday, September 14, 2024, 06:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Goodwood Community Centre, 32 Rosa Street, Goodwood

Young AFOPA invites you our annual night of fun and friendly competition, with all proceeds to support the work of AFOPA. BYO nibbles or supper. Tea, coffee, drinks available. Great prizes to be won!MORE INFO

Heysen Doorknock in Aldgate

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM opposite FRED Eatery, 220 Mount Barker Road, Aldgate

Get involved in the campaign to win Heysen! We’re knocking on doors in Aldgate to hear from our community about the issues they care about.

At the start of the session you’ll meet your team and have a quick training before heading out to talk to voters. No experience is necessary – if you’re new, we can pair you up with an experienced doorknocker.REGISTER

Boothby / Kingston Quiz Night

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM at Cove Civic Centre, 1 Ragamuffin Drive, Hallett Cove

Six fun rounds including political, local, environmental, music/movies, geography/history.

Tables of 8 – or come as a single, couple or other combination and we’ll match you to a table.REGISTER

The Koalas – A movie about survival

Sunday, September 29, 2024, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Palace Nova East End Cinema, 3 Cinema Place, Adelaide

Join us for the ADELAIDE PREMIERE THE KOALAS – a movie about survival that tells stories of resilience of this iconic species in the face of threatened extinction in the wild.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young.

“Action comes out of brilliant movies like The Koalas” – Bob Brown

“You’ll be charmed. You’ll be dismayed. And then i bet you’ll be as angry as hell” – Tim Winton AOMORE INFO

Big Ride for Palestine SA – bike jerseys

The Big Ride for Palestine SA jerseys are ready!

The Jerseys have been professionally designed and feature the logos of key sponsors. For a limited time, there is an introductory price reduction for the first 50 sold. Get in early, buy a jersey, and fly the flag of support for Palestinian resistance on the streets of Adelaide.

Join us on our regular rides and also for the major AFOPA Run Walk and Ride for Palestine at Glenelg to be held on Sunday 13th October. ORDER ONLINE

ANMF Union Members Open Letter for Gaza

To all ANMF union members, retired members, nursing/midwifery students- let’s tell our union to speak up for human rights and healthcare in Gaza.

Please support us and share the link with nurses, midwives and personal care assistants. The open letter is national.

Civil society and businesses that want to stand with us and endorse the letter, as The Greens SA have done, please email anmfsamembers4peace@gmail.com.SIGN THE LETTER

Letterbox Robert Simms’ Adelaide Hills Community Survey

Can you help us deliver our Community Survey flyer into Adelaide Hills letterboxes?

We’re looking for letterboxers for Aldgate, Bridgewater, Crafers, Crafers West, Hahndorf, Heathfield, Mount George, Mylor, Norton Summit, Piccadilly, Stirling, Summertown, Upper Sturt, and Uraidla.

Email michael.donato@parliament.sa.gov.au to lend a hand.

Old Greens Tshirts

Do you have any old Greens (or just green) tshirts lying around that are really no longer fit to be worn? Here is the perfect recycling pathway for them!

Jacqui Hunter of Hunter Gatherings is organising a Nature Festival event celebrating the Adelaide Parklands, and is collecting old green tshirts to be cut up and transformed into scarves. If you have something suitable, they can be dropped to the Adelaide Sustainability Centre at The Joinery (111 Franklin Street, Adelaide) or to The Greens SA State Office (7/291 Angas Street, Adelaide) by Friday 6th September.

For more info, please contact Jacqui on huntergatherings1@gmail.com.

Greens SA Fundraising Working Group

Interested in helping to raise campaign funds? Please contact Peta-Anne Louth on hello@peta-anne.com to find out more about the Fundraising Working Group.

DONATE TO THE HEYSEN CAMPAIGN

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If you are under 30, come along to our monthly meeting on the second Sunday of every month, newcomers welcome! Link below to check out our socials for more info on the next meeting and other activities.

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Borrow our Home Energy Toolkit

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I’d as a new-century political theorist & public educator **eradicate** Carrot & stick/ Hit or Give barbarism – the Dialectics of the Damned Green Economist 1994

The following song excerpt – 4 paragraphs ahead – and of course the title of this wistful document about how we really make successful liberal democracies out of bourgeois consumer society pluralism when the lower middle class on five continentas is being hollowed out, devoured, extinguished no-bones-spat-out by the billionaire’ mil-ind-sci-financier cabal – is not for my part anything much to do with the inspiration of Ray Charles, boy-girl stories or “other lovers (goodness-me),”Harrison dcd 2002’s first wife PH, marijuana, cocaine, Crystal(🥳) methamphetamine, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1969, Ritalin, MDMA mescaline, ‘Bipolar,’ “affective” disorder, other depressive mental illness originating in overstimulation shock or psychological/ physiological trauma, the scores of recording ‘industry’ covers or the millions of utterly useless human vanity-project words and tributes a lá the disappointed preacher Ecclesiastes* some fools expect to zip & flash & whoosh up & down & about bits of quartz with teeny-weeny welds & circuits, pins, plugs & wires on them for decades, even hundreds of years for Christ’s sake, in huge sheds or factories, energy profligate, and within two or three years impossible to cool with fresh water because there’ll be entire cities that can no longer get enough of that stuff), in Semiconductor fabrication plants, email account-fleecing captive labour camps, gulags and USA prisons – is what i offer at this time as kind of cry of the common man or woman.

* Ἐκκλησιαστής, romanized: Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim (“Writings”) of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament

‘You’re asking me will my love grow
I don’t know, I don’t know
You stick around, now it may show
I don’t know, I don’t know..’

So yes we need to talk about what works. That’s me done for today.

Lake Eyre South 1953: stick around: we’re all here to learn

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And John will maybe look up what a ‘fab’ is.

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Green Economy Action

Chartbook 306 Nodes, rebar and private equity- How Intel, the weak link in the chip strategy of Bidenomics, is resorting to financial engineering to raise billions for fabs.

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Amidst the market focus on AI, Nvidia and the fab 7, and the political cycle which is directing attention towards VP-picks and rallies, I worry that a big story of last week may get swept under the rug: the catastrophic news out of Intel.

Last week Intel, announced 15,000 job cuts, and suspended a dividend that has been in place since 1992. As Bloomberg reported, Wall Street is “losing patience”. “Investors are pulling the kill switch.”

The stock has plunged to levels not seen in a decade.

Why does this matter?

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Not because the world is short of the kind of chips that intel is struggling to make. On the contrary, we are just slowly exiting a cyclical glut. If Intel does manage to establish itself as a chip designer and a significant maker of chips (fab operator) that will offer more choice to buyers. But this is not why Intel really matters.

Why Intel matters is geopolitics and the new political economy of industrial policy.

In a world of geoeconomics, decoupling, derisking and disentangling from China, Intel is claiming the role as a national champion. As Susannah Glickman explains in this excellent piece for Phenomenal World Intel has since the late 1960s been at heart of the state-business nexus that defines chip manufacturing and the political economy of high-tech everywhere around the world.

In the last few years under the sign of the new industrial policy, Intel has attracted giant subsidies both from the US, via the CHIPS act, and in Germany. All told, the subsidies committed to Intel around the world, at least on paper, run to more than $20 billion, for one, private company, not in lguarantees, but in hard cash.

Back in 2023 when the industrial policy hype was at its max, I was a sceptic. I did a bunch of TV and other interviews in Germany questioning the logic of Berlin’s public subsidy for Intel. What I was worried about was:

The staggering capital intensity of the industry. This is a sector where private companies will spend over $10 billion per quarter in capex. Source: Semiconductor IntelligenceIn an industry operating on this scale and at this pace, is the public balance sheet big enough to play? I know that sounds like a crazy question, but the CHIPS act allocates .. drumroll … $39 billion in subsidies for creating or expanding U.S.-based semiconductor fabs and an additional $11 billion in research and development. And the money takes many, many months to disburse. In the world of semiconductors that is the spending of one player for one year. For Germany, hobbled by the debt brake, this is very deep water to be playing in.
The semiconductor industry, an ultra high-tech commodity sector with long lead times, is dominated by the vicious swings of a classic commodity cycle (think “hog cycle”). In 2023 policy-makers were harking back to the post-COVID chip shortage, whereas at that very moment we were heading into an industry wide downturn and glut. Again, the industry moves far faster than politics. Source: WSTS
Furthermore, industrial policy makes most sense at an early stage where it can hope to exercise something like a formative influence, or in industries with many players and plenty of opportunity for benchmarking and competition. The global semi-conductor industry, by contrast, is a vast oligopoly in which the winning and losing hands were already distributed. Taxpayer-funded industrial policy has virtually no chance to creatively reshape the industry. Anyone wanting to play the chip game on a substantial scale has to get in bed with the big players. And amongst those, intel is the big loser.
Intel was once a world leader. It formed a combination with Microsoft and IBM in the 1980s which shaped the early stages of desktop IT. But in the 2000s it missed the boat on chips for cellphones. Then on the fab side it made fundamental missteps in manufacturing. And then it missed the boat on AI. So now it is playing catchup on all fronts. On chip design, as the Economist notes, Intel is miles behind:This year it expects to sell $500m of its Gaudi ai chips. Nvidia sells $20bn of its ai chips each quarter. What is more, success in the market for ai chips is about more than the chips themselves. Nvidia sells networking gear that ties together hundreds or thousands of its processors. It also has cuda, a software platform, which allows customers to fine-tune the chips.
Finally, more superficially, Intel’s leadership are no doubt highly skilled engineers, but the current CEO is perhaps best described as “weird”. Back in 2022 in seeking to goad Congress into acting faster on the CHIPS act, he remarked about the EU: “This complex 27-member socialist union . . . is now ahead of the US by a solid six months.” Unless this was intended tongue in cheek, and that does not seem like Pat Gelsinger’s style, this is someone who does not understand that he does not understand the people he is dealing with.

Amidst the hoopla of securing the Intel commitment to Germany, I though a fragile coalition in Berlin was underestimating the risks of getting into bed with this firm. I thought the same was probably true for Bidenomics too Washington, but Washington, at least potentially, has resources to play in the big leagues. Intel is an American company. Added to which, Intel was promising to build the “silicon heartland” in Ohio and, you know, when it came to the heartland there was no arguing with the Bidenomics people.

Online in press releases from a few months back, Intel pitches a story of global expansion and its range of partners.

In the US, we are expanding our existing operations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oregon, and investing in two new leading-edge chip factories in Ohio. We have submitted all four of our major project proposals in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon to the US Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Program Office. These projects are estimated to represent over $100 billion of US manufacturing and research investments over the next f ive years. In the EU and Israel, we have announced a series of investments spanning our existing operations in Ireland and Israel, as well as a planned investment of more than $33 billion in Germany to build a leading-edge wafer fabrication mega-site. We have also announced our plans to invest up to $4.6 billion in an assembly and test facility in Poland, and the start of high-volume manufacturing using Intel 4 technology and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology in Ireland. … Intel teams across the globe are installing new tools, delivering new clean rooms, and completing construction of new buildings. To give an idea of the sheer scale of operations, in 2023, about 145,000 tons of steel—roughly the weight of 20,743 African elephants—was used in our construction and expansion projects, Our construction teams also poured over 2 million cubic yards of concrete—enough to build the Empire State Building 32 times over.

Source: Intel

But, all this talk about factories and machinery and steel and concrete, cannot hide the fact that twelve months on from the German announcement and two years on from the CHIPS act, in terms of actually mass-producing ultra high-end chips that are competitive at the global level and able to generate profit, Intel is way behind its competitors and the gap will not close anytime soon.

CEO Gelsinger tells a story to analysts of building two world-class companies: the Fab side and the product-development side. The product designer will be able to choose not just intel production facilities, but fabs anywhere in the world. The fabs will make not just intel chips, but will be open for business from all comers, which makes them particularly attractive from a US strategy point of view.

But as one Timothy Prickett Morganremarks, this may be a good patter but, “that is a lot calmer than the situation really is. This is going to be hard to watch over the next couple of years, and even harder to do.”.

The results that caused the stock value to crash tell the story.

Here ends the Chartbook item

Dubbya & Pope Discuss Fabs & the extraordinary inside-out man Colon Powell

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I did set out to pull down a paragraph for that magnanimous pusillanimous awesome short essay + photo-essays Little🚀🧨🚀🧨🚀🧨🚀Man @X account – mine doesn’t get stuck up Concentric Economic ⭕️ 10 – Blundell 1995 Australia 🦘🌏 – GEA.

But several times a day industrious professional writers everywhere are irritated if not annoyed – some of us even mentally fit to ‘kill’ – about the time-wasting – as much 2 or 5 minutes an hour – overlaid, or to use a mechanical metaphor (hydraulics) fancy-arsed but data-jumble incident ridden monumentally useless ‘5G’ information ‘servo systems’ whose only known or ever demonstable purposes are to sell deskilled kids crap product and even more execrable deracinated – unrooted in lived experience or regional socio-economic-cultural or political transactions. So to end the long macro story for some micro WHAMMO the machine wouldn’t let me neatly excise a carefully selected say 220 Character paragraph easily so i copied the whole ‘shooting match’ and published it here AS A GREAT PROMO FOR THE AUTHENTIC HISTORIAN GUY❗️

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Ask Why We’ve Blown It All Away

Posted on August 4, 2024 by Green Economy Action

Here’s the front page of the esteemed @LeonSimons8’s ‘X’ account

For a year now Mr Simons has courageously, indefatigably and in the face of commonly foolish complaint advanced the public facts about sulphide aerosols IN RELATION TO pre-apocalyptic heat forcings from the North Atlantic ocean.

Searching for some intelligent human speech or text on Gaia and the magnificent and inspirational NON rhetorician and non nonscience fraud James Lovelock deceased 2022 I basically find a rant about some ancient committee calling itself Scientists for Nuclear Energy and am left bereft with the 1970s private schoolboy assertion that the earth was not at all a multi-systems virtual or quasi living entity but a mega bigly bunch of politically correctly (not to frighten ailing folk, the neurocognitively-challenged rich people, deter overseas tourism or upset the billionaire cabal gentlemen) HYPOTHESISED electromechanical shitbox crying out as it were for boiling up in cauldrons, pickling, dessicating, placing in glass cases and supposedly – remember, young people, in your anthropoverse, literary, musical & generally artistic flair are the money (automatically regenerating – just like toxic sythetic chemicals free organic food production so-o-o good 4 plan it end peeple – ‘AI’ and Dalle 3 whizzo with vast galaxy-gulping stored electrical energy aka ‘data’ for example) Charging the People a Dollar & a Half Just to See ’em.y

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I also find the following per courtesia @Wikipedia..

CLAW hypothesis

The CLAW hypothesis proposes a negative feedback loop that operates between ocean ecosystemsand the Earth’s climate.^[1] The hypothesis specifically proposes that particular phytoplankton that produce dimethyl sulfide are responsive to variations in climate forcing, and that these responses act to stabilise the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. The CLAW hypothesis was originally proposed by Robert Jay Charlson, James Lovelock, Meinrat Andreae and Stephen G. Warren, and takes its acronym from the first letter of their surnames.^[2]

Anti-CLAW hypothesis

In his 2006 book The Revenge of Gaia, Lovelock proposed that instead of providing negative feedback in the climate system, the components of the CLAW hypothesis may act to create a positive feedback loop.^[3]

Under future global warming, increasing temperature may stratify the world ocean, decreasing the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean to its productive euphotic zone. Consequently, phytoplankton activity will decline with a concomitant fall in the production of DMS. In a reverse of the CLAW hypothesis, this decline in DMS production will lead to a decrease in cloud condensation nuclei and a fall in cloud albedo. The consequence of this will be further climate warming which may lead to even less DMS production (and further climate warming). The figure to the right shows a summarising schematic diagram.

Evidence for the anti-CLAW hypothesis is constrained by similar uncertainties as those of the sulfur cycle feedback loop of the CLAW hypothesis.

However, researchers simulating future oceanic primary production have found evidence of declining production with increasing ocean stratification,^[9][10] leaving open the possibility that such a mechanism may exist.

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• Adelaide Hills of Sth Australia 4th August 2024

Gates-Musk-Bezos Shitshow is Literally Shutting Down Your World For You ?

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Green Economy Action

So toughen up Flossy/ Fozzy Bear !

You will alway be able to rely on me and my C6 to C9 real economy publishing entities delivered free-of-charge daily and i dearly hope also participate actively in our work to s-m-a-s-h the mediaeval robber-barons and post Civil War USA carpetbaggers BUT YOU HAVE TO DO THE READING & TEACHING.. as i do.

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The Wresting of the Social Sciences in their entirety from Patriarchic Nutters & Genocidists

THURSDAY 11 July 2024

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Horse-trading Inflation Reduction Macroeconomic Theory Collapses

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Green Economy Action

¹Gotham City, or simply Gotham, is a fictional city in the Eastern United States that serves as the primary city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It is best known as the home of the superhero, Batman, and his allies and foes. Wikipedia

²Definitions of onomatomania. obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness. type of: compulsion, obsession. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will.

³ The young affluent who are of course [linguistically represented by that utter headful of 20th ‘Sent 2 re’ neoclassical objectivist squeamish euphemistic Episcopalian, Church of England, Wesleyan, Methodist, Uniting Church academic tosh & psychobabble, namely Upwardly-socio-economically-mobile ‘STEM’ Science (Look Mum No Society No Environment.. NOSE?) and virtually confined to paleolithic reptilian brain-stem F, F, F, F, F (or simply paranoid fear assuaged by Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Dame Edna Everage adjurations to be strong & proud, growing your Individual-consumer adaptabilty, resilience, capacity and ‘heart-warming’ respect for the values of your overseas warrior brothers, dads & grandfathers – also the female overseas basically racist venturers – their geopolitical nation’s increasingly raddled, faltering and neurocognitively challenged elders and the federal Department of Immigration fear-lessly uphold and sedulously promulgate to the people per government advertising campaigns costing them – the people – how does that work? – $100s of millions each financial-year -what even is that?] our aspiring political class, tragic though youthful, enthusiastic and dare-we-c’est-it reproductively-primed figures that they cut – but don’t give a rat’s and will behave very nastlly when challenged because the wages they’re on are approximately three-times what i bump along on masha’Allah ! \ ماشاء الله

⁴ ..the utter despicable Permanet-warfare Lords’ and electronic communications mafia chieftains’ waste on what is blindingly obvious to serious scholars as fake, phoney catastrophically 1) deflecting public scrutiny thereby TERMINALLY perverting & corrupting democratic or electoral liberalism, and 2) almost in its entirety USELESS in the short term and catastrophically counter-productive in the medium term and FLATLY apocalyptic in the 5 – 10 year frame advertising & public relations industry nonscience

⁵ – it’s ‘hardcore, mainstream (not ANY fucking Man’s-dream’) twenty-first century sociology established on the basis or Formal Operations or Critical tripartite+-thinking Over 12 year-olds’ ‘mental foundation’ of post Socrates & post Popper philosophy of science

⁶ ectoplasm, in occultism, a mysterious, usually light-coloured, viscous substance that is said to exude from the body of a spiritualist medium in trance and may then take the shape of a face, a hand, or a complete body. It is normally visible only in the darkened atmosphere of a séance (q.v.)

⁷COMPLEX? Who might you be trying to kid other than your good and earnest self? Ex 19th century ideologically liberal English ruling caste neoclassical academic terminology its own most fervent adherents, proselytisers & promulgators would have to admit to me now in the case of Eisenhower’s (see also Oliver Sacks’ – a junkie sure but funny – The President’s..) 1951 speech was as sophisticated as a 10 – 11 year-old with normal healthy care & upbringing two-step ideational Concrete-operations-stage of maturation or development’s statement – a complex as a bunch of objects not an economic- or social-relations phenomenon. Please don’t talk about Yanks in public life with their ‘calm-plexs’ – these people are the scourge of the earth presently and this calamity will only compound itself unless they basically STFU. – Don’t ever either put aside compassion and ignore the socio-cultural context of anyone’s speech – that’s ever a schoolboy’s helpless or adult’s dog act – almost every survivor of WWII including my own mum and dad suffered loss, grief and psychological trauma, and the last of these three does not make you much of a flaneur, wordsmith or orator; or even reader ! Old impaired people commonly never start healing themselves mentally from the loss of 15 million of their fellows. The temper of the times affects the quality of conversation and dialogue – as in a country where 100,000 households are in poverty, for example – and referring to contextuality as I was you’ll see that all insights of a sympathtic not angry nature generate ever more insights – that’s my now highly-developed Neurolinguistics: after Aristotle the Athenian’s one-word learning theory (Association) mental stimulation, healing, learning & growth

In a Sociologically-, Environmentally- AND ECONOMICALLY-blind Public Square Driving ‘Western’ Teenagers Crackers We MUST URGENTLY Examine the Science Bonanza

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Green Economy Action

Science cannot be only a remunerative recreation or adult lifelong medium-high income for Turning -up ‘at work’ but must be purposed at the outset and reviewed all the way through to serve human and environmental health and wellbeing. As a neurolinguistics, communications, 2 – 5 Set Logic and philosophy of science student and ‘notable’ (let me put it this way: it would not reward any old-era authority in those fields or atmospheric science to ignore my work now) scholar I came across ‘Livescience’ in pursuit of the nano scale enhanced representation of neurons/ axons/ dendrites/ (telomeres, and yes?) article which appears in full below. – And terrific thanks to Sneha Khedkar for that and I’m sure retrospective permission to use your photograph.

So why run this obviously very large cash turnover organisation’s entire webpage including sketches of other articles?

..because we need a big picture to even begin to get to grips with the political culture of VAST global science funding the outsider might be completely forgiven (by me certainly) for thinking was only for counting and monitoring stuff then videoing it in optical terms no human naked eye may ever draw meaningful inferences or conclusions from but will be ‘fun’ or amusing to look at.

So here is a new beginning on the greatest and most important debate since the European nobleman and bloodthirsty racist young white-skinned warrior princeling out to prove himself Hernan Cortes stood (nobly of course) upon a peak in Darien and peered forth.

Of course it will be useful and contributory – i dont write chat or splatt

..as we address not only the multi-trillion dollar public relations and purportedly educational investment in fields of study found to be congenial to vast corporate financiers, supposedly charitable and religious NON TAX PAYING foundations and now, outrageously in my opinion, the governments of peak neoliberal free (but wildly oversubsidised) marketism managed for maximum, not optimal, corporate profit essentially by the frankly bastardised Keynesianism of manipulating inflation and interest rates for large investors and attendant suppression of real net wages with fewer & fewer hours of work over two or even three jobs exactly because those corporations – and criminal cartels, derivatives (futures) and cryptocurrency markets traders – hold, out of some now bizarre 1900s, 1920s or 1950s ideological slant that it is the right and duty of political parties of capital owners ever to combat and defeat the parties supported by people who earn their livings by the work of their hands & backs (labour) (not screens or playing markets white, grey or black) don’t want public controversy let alone public protest and disruption of their VAST carbon costly, emissions costly Alpha-profits infrastructure projects – including as ONLY ONE example in the array of fiscally profligate or largely non-productive costly, belated and lethally inefficient nuclear power as against the now unavoidable new era of micro- or community-scale electricity generation, STORAGE – production, distribution & exchange – how’s that you philosophical Marxists: nah, they go, we want great big centralised power stations hundreds of kilometres from the cities just like LB Johnson’s rural Alabama, Sir Thomas Playford’s South Australia and Iusuf Dzhugashvili’s Electrogorsk in the USSR – distribution and buyback within that vibrant and no doubt also economically reviving 100 square km geo-community. Nah, they go, we will milk all the fossil fuels markets onto 2060 now. – Oil, coal-seam gas AND coal. And the #Science backs us. Look what we can do when we got the most prestigious Australian science professor of the last 30 years to endorse our fraudulently managed AND technically nonsciencical carbon dioxide derivatives market credits scheme for us. You hippie clowns. We’ll lock you up..

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New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals ‘mysterious but beautiful’ slice of human brain

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By Sneha Khedkar

published 10 hours ago

Harvard and Google researchers have collaborated to map a tiny fragment of an adult human brain in unprecedented detail.

Colorful, rainbow colored rendering of thousands of neurons from a brain sample that have been assembled in a map

Researchers built a 3D image of nearly every neuron and its connections within a small piece of human brain tissue. This version shows excitatory neurons colored by their depth from the surface of the brain. Blue neurons are those closest to the surface, and fuschia marks the innermost layer. The sample is approximately 3 millimeters wide. (Image credit: Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University))

Researchers have mapped a tiny sliver of the human brain on an unprecedented scale, vividly detailing each brain cell, or neuron, and the intricate networks they form with other cells.

The groundbreaking brain map, which was constructed by Harvard and Google researchers, reveals roughly 57,000 neurons, 9 inches (230 millimeters) of blood vessels and 150 million synapses, or the connection points between neurons.

Dr. Jeff Lichtman, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University who co-led the 10-year-long project, said he couldn’t believe the detailed map when he first saw it. “I had never seen anything like this before,” he told Live Science.

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The human brain is a vastly complex organ with about 170 billion cells, including 86 billion neurons. Researchers have previously peeked into the brain at the scale of millimeters using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). And more recently, advanced microscopy techniques have revealed details at a much smaller scale, improving our understanding of the brain’s inner workings.

Now, using these microscopy methods and an artificial intelligence (AI) system called machine learning, Lichtman and his colleagues have created a 3D map from a piece of brain at the scale of a nanometer, or 1-millionth of a millimeter. This presents a picture of the organ at the highest resolution scientists have ever achieved.

The resulting cell atlas, described in the journal Science on May 9, is also available for scientists to peruse online.

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This map charts a tiny piece of brain with a volume of about 1 cubic millimeter — smaller than a grain of rice. A whole adult brain is a million times larger.

The brain fragment was sampled from a 45-year-old woman who had undergone brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Doctors removed the piece from the cerebral cortex, the outermost portion of her brain. After fixing the sample in preservatives, the researchers stained it with heavy metals to help them see the cells. They then embedded the tissue in resin and cut it into more than 5,000 slices, each measuring about 30 nanometers in thickness.

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Digital image of a neuron shown in white connected to many greena and blue synapses surrounding it — A single neuron (white) depicted with all of the axons from other neurons that connect to it. The green axons are excitatory, meaning they send signals that encourage the next neuron to fire; the blue axons are inhibitory and do the opposite.(Image credit: Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University))

Colorful digital image of neurons connecting in a dense network — This rendering drawn from the new brain map shows all of the excitatory neurons in part of the analyzed brain sample. They are colored by size.(Image credit: Google Research & Lichtman Lab (Harvard University). Renderings by D. Berger (Harvard University))

“That’s about a thousandth the thickness of a hair strand,” Lichtman said.The team scanned each of the slices with a high-speed electron microscope, which uses multiple beams of electrons to illuminate cells in the sample. They then sent the microscopy data to Google for further analysis using AI.

Google’s researchers used machine-learning models to identify the same object in different microscopic images and then create a 3D rendering of every object in all the images. They then electronically stitched the renderings together to reconstruct the whole sample in three dimensions. The final 3D map contains a mammoth 1.4 petabytes, or 1 million gigabytes, of data.

“The amount and complexity of the data generated in this project required Google’s ability to develop state of the art machine learning and AI algorithms to reconstruct the 3D connectome,” Viren Jain, a senior staff scientist at Google who co-led the project, told Live Science in an email.

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~ Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan (1936-2002)

^{Dedicated to the Poet}^{Agostinho Neto}^{, President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976}

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I will no longer lightly walk behind
a one of you who fear me:
                                     Be afraid.
I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits
and facial tics
I will not walk politely on the pavements anymore
and this is dedicated in particular
to those who hear my footsteps
or the insubstantial rattling of my grocery
cart
then turn around
see me
and hurry on
away from this impressive terror I must be:
I plan to blossom bloody on an afternoon
surrounded by my comrades singing
terrible revenge in merciless
accelerating
rhythms
But
I have watched a blind man studying his face.
I have set the table in the evening and sat down
to eat the news.
Regularly
I have gone to sleep.
There is no one to forgive me.
The dead do not give a damn.
I live like a lover
who drops her dime into the phone
just as the subway shakes into the station
wasting her message
canceling the question of her call:
fulminating or forgetful but late
and always after the fact that could save or 
condemn me

I must become the action of my fate.

AT: ... there is far more to come here !

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Liminal Time

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Green Economy Action

Álvaro García Linera

Apr, 2024

Álvaro García Linera is a Bolivian politician and intellectual, Vice President of Bolivia during the tenure of Evo Morales. A Marxist theorist, prolific essayist and columnist, he was a member of the Ayllus Rojos guerrilla and the Tupak Katari Guerrilla Army during the 1990s. He was incarcerated for five years as a political prisoner, and since his release he has been a member of the MAS-IPSP, serving in the popular government that transformed Bolivia.

Liminal time signifies an abrupt disruption in the continuity of social experience, leaving societies without a conceivable alternative or any plausible foresight. (…) It marks the end of one era and the onset of another, not through a gradual shift or a gentle, “amphibious” blend but as a profound emptiness.
A liminal event represents both a subjective and collective experience of social time during the transitional phases of accumulation-domination cycles. It marks the end of one era and the onset of another, not through a gradual shift or a gentle, “amphibious” blend but as a profound emptiness—a desperate, intimate absence. Liminal time signifies an abrupt disruption in the continuity of social experience, leaving societies without a conceivable alternative or any plausible foresight for several years, perhaps even decades. It is during such times, amid social upheavals, that a new historical epoch gradually begins to emerge, offering a renewed sense of hope to communities. However, until this new dawn materialises, the liminal epoch exists as a profound interim—a void filled with anguish, a palpable emptiness, a suspension of time itself.
The Paralysis of the Predictive Horizon. Societies traditionally orient their notion of the future—whether real or imagined—around a predictive horizon. As the neoliberal predictive horizon dissipates, the concept of a future itself vanishes; there is no destination to anchor mobilising hopes sustainably. Emerging expectations, if not globally consolidated, prove ephemeral, quickly foundering back into uncertainty and disaffection.With no envisioned tomorrow that improves upon the present, there also ceases to be a path—whether straight, winding, fragmented or uninterrupted—by which to navigate the present dilemmas about imagined well-being. Social time evaporates. It is inherently a flow—turbulent and discontinuous but aimed towards a horizon, a goal, a destination. Faced with a future rendered empty, society finds itself mired in the tangible experience of a suspended historical time, devoid of progression towards any ends, adrift in a meaningless present extended to infinity, as if time itself had lost its way … The suspension of time does not eliminate the experience of “lack of time,” which is characteristic of modernity and involves not having enough physical time to fulfil routines, duties and daily inertial commitments. Frozen time pertains to the envisioned progression of collective history; it is the time measured in relation to a desired future, and now, that time is interrupted. This situation is distinct from the religious concept of “end times”, which, despite being catastrophic, represents a defined destiny. …
With the future extinguished and the present unhinged, the very trajectory of social life seems to have been derailed. … According to thinkers like Hartmut Rosa [33] or Mark Fisher [34], the acceleration of events is no longer an actual acceleration of time, as the arrow of historical time has gone astray. Events accumulate without a metric to “measure” them, with nothing to compare them against. They occur without a hopeful future, merely as avalanches of events with no societal direction or destination. Physical time is compressed within a whirlwind of events and demands, yet historical time remains stagnant, lacking a horizon to provide it with vitality and movement. Ultimately, the existence and recognition of historical time are both symptomatic and indicative of the major political hegemonies and their declines.We are not merely confronting a fragmented and discontinuous time, as Byung-Chul Han suggests. [35] Since its emergence 40 years ago, the structure of neoliberal time has been characterised by both atomisation and acceleration. This condition is mirrored in the new labour environment, which has fragmented workplaces into myriad small, outsourced factories. Similarly, the life trajectories of wage earners have become fragmented, with individuals submerged in perpetual labour nomadism. … However, over these four decades, this fragmented experience of social elements unfolded within an imagined historical trajectory, centred around the gratification of individual effort, the global market, competitiveness and economic accumulation. Despite the chaos and discontinuity in personal events, there was a shared belief in a satisfying destination—an epochal certainty that provided a sense of purpose and coherence, helping to piece together the polychrome fragments of life. However, today, that sense of destination, which once gave meaning to life’s trajectories, has vanished.

Immediately republished, on account of international urgency on macroeconomic management, in connection with this week’s commentary on both economy and philosophy of science (including the maths and ‘thematics’ of quantum physics, how its popularised terminology has skewed debate on Time discussed usefully and evocatively here at this moment of global polycrisis by Alvaro Garcia Linera), and in my view the gravely misdirected enthusiasm for the quantum computing proposition on my @X account, from Chartbook with enormous thanks to @Adam_Tooze

John
17/5/2024

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