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THE BEADY EYE ASKS IS THIS YOUR LIFE.

01 Sunday Dec 2024

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( Four minute read)

From a distance so many of our lives look the same. Survival, Procreation, Death.

But in our lives everything depends on others and there is no life without feeling part of something bigger than oneself.

Life demands an horizon bigger than the four walls of your living space.

The narrow ruts of immediacy is not life.

The din of humanity has to be shaken off to experience life.

A super market, a shopping centre, a consumer market mall, what ever you want to a call it is not life

Is your life to focus on convenience and consumption?

Are you walking around in fear of loosing your phone, having never read a book or visited an art gallery or museum or being to a play or concert. Climb a mountain, gone scuba diving, sniff a flower, cooked a meal, crack a joke, live in nature.

Life is not a football team, a culture, a race, a language, a country, or the cadaverous light of the computer, the laptop, the iPhone, the iPad, the smart TV.

Or is it rituals we continually reenact that-have long ago emptied of their meaning and do nothing to regather the sense of self.

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Modern day life is turning into a multifaceted compendium of evolving technology and social media affecting our physical and mental health.

It’s is not a life.

Unplug your phone and take notice of your surroundings.

Standing in front of a panoramic vista, or horizon less night sky, is a bit like waving ammonia underneath one’s nose. It reminds you that you are part of a bigger scheme of things than just life.

Change is inevitable.

There are it seems no rules to modern day life, other than overindulgence and living beyond one’s means.

There are nearly 8 billion of us destroying what’s left of our planet’s beauty.

Life on a credit card and the never never of a pay check, bragging on social media is not living, its existence at the pleasure of others.

With the interdependence on each other to reverse climate change becoming more and more urgent, before living becomes not worth while, other than it being harvested by an algorithm. It’s time we understand what an algorithm is.

A set of commands that must be followed for a computer to perform calculations or other problem solving operations actions.

Life is an algorithmic process that does not function as a set of commands that cannot be self imposed or enforced or implemented or taught.

It (like an algorithm) never sleeps but we as organic entities must take a rest or die.

Despite many advances the world is still facing many challenges that have plagued life since it began- poverty- wars- hunger etc.

It’s a no brainier that with all of our achievements we have been unable to achieve equality.

Society is no longer a few people you know.

Non organic technology life is out pacing out ability to live a life and given the pace of change it is essential that we stand up for our rights and avoid assumptions that AI is going to benefit one and all.

The question is who is going to adapt to whom?

Us, to the AI bureaucrats or them to us?

The answer is obvious to life, but not to us as we are loosing the ability to think, talk, or tell each other what is at stake.

You are not a person on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or the internet you’re a product to be bought, exploited for profit by self learning algorithms.

This is why all education should be freed, why all health care must free, why a basic living income is essential.

So we all can become spellbound, transfixed, entrenched, arrested, riveted, mesmerised call it what ever, by the beauty of life that set our selves free to come somewhere near living a full life.

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THE BEADY ASK’S NEW ZEALAND WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DOES IT WANT TO BE?

28 Thursday Nov 2024

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( Fifteen minute read)

With Artificial Intelligence this is a question that all countries are going to have to address within the next ten to twenty years.

For New Zealand this question is arriving in more ways than one simply question.

Grappling to this day with an agreement that dates back to 1840 (which was ment to be a partnership between the British crown and the indigenous Maori, not the other way around) New Zealand find itself politically in no man’s land.

The Maori signed a treaty written in both English and the Maori language called the Waitangi.

The current Treaty Principles Bill debate reveals a fundamental constitutional reality:

NEW ZEALAND existence is based on an imperial treaty and this treaty predates the emergence of its parliamentary democracy.

The treaty needs to be understood in the context of the age of revolution and an emerging imperial era in which European empires negotiated many treaties with each other and indigenous peoples.

So the treaty to day needs to be read in its immediate New Zealand context and British constitution history, which is based on the Magna Carta dated 1215. ( The English constitution has never been written in a single document.)

The Waitangi treaty like all British treaties points to the English notions of empire, with imbedded privilege in a graduated social hierarchy of mutual obligations- noblesse obliged.

Therefore it cannot be squashed into a later democratic paradigm of individuals with equal citizenship as the Act Party’s Bill might prefer it was.

The truth if faced, is that the treaty arose in a completely different context from the present, but still is the foundation to New Zealand constitutional arrangements with the crown. This is the position and will remain so till New Zealand stand on its own two feet and its people are no longer surf to an unelected monarchy.

This means that the treaty principles are tied to their historical foundations.

You could say that treaty settlement have done much to re-establish tribal collective identities but they do not have the right to exhaust the ongoing treaty based rights of the indigenous people- Maori who were a free people.

(Democracy itself is a Johnny come lately on the global stage, not more than a few centuries back old.) It remains the best way to co- ordinate a multi- ethnic society, but it must reflect local agreement and histories.

While New Zealand retains King Charles as head of state the British government has ongoing obligations to the indigenous peoples on which its authority is based.

Edmund Burke’s 1790 conservative policies sum up the position New Zealand finds itself in.

Society is indeed a contract… it becomes a partnership not only between those who are alive, but between those who are living and those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Of course New Zealand has moved on since 1840. However we all know forget the past and the present makes on sense.

We all know that stupidity is more dangerous than malice treaties. They cause civil wars, apartheid, and genocides.

Because of the very nature of treaties they lead to race politics.

Millions have died because of treaties, millions have lived because of treaties.

New Zealand problem is not who owns what land, rather race politics is and continues to divide the country.

This is also the problem with North Ireland.

A land that was taken forcibly by the English in return for a peace treaty that caused a civil war, the establishment of a apartheid state with years of killings and a new recent treaty call Good Friday. (Written in English and not Gaelic the language of the original inhabitants.)

If there’s no written constitution that enshrined equality, every decade that passes the meaning of treaties change.

This is why the need for a written constitution is paramount to interpreting any agreement/treaty.

We have and are entering a new era of digital information and Laws and the way we use them with Artificial Intelligence are developing a style of their own.

People have to be with in hearing range of each other firstly to have any agreements.

In order to unify any people/nation in the world of artificial intelligence’s there will have to be a citizen equal act against any platform, digital citizenship, algorithms greed/ profit and climate change mitigation taking precedence over the vote.

The only way to have a large-scale political conversation among diverse groups of people is to set out the terms and conditions in an agreed constitution.

The key misconception here is that we equate elections to democratic outcomes but a liberal democratic citizenship with Artificial Intelligence can only be achieved with an Equal Citizenship Act that is enshrined in a written constitution.

It could be said that Democracy is at a tipping points. Yes democracy governments are messy. They have so many demands on them that their elected members are not in touch with reality.

Whether his is true or not social media is distracting and distancing us from the real problems, giving rise to populism.

History is full of examples as to what happens when the Democratic process brakes down.

New Zealand with all its faults / beauty / expenses remains one of the best countries to settle in, and it must do everything possible to remain so by not becoming another Hong Kong abandon by the British Empire it must establish its independence internationally.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS. WE ARE LOSING THE SENSE OF MEANING.

26 Tuesday Nov 2024

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(Four minute read)

We think and allocate so much time to our smartphones that we are losing the ability to be of any meaningful revlance in the real world or for that matter in the digital world.

We all becoming born of our engagements.

With new technologies we are no longer connected to each other but strangers.

The art of a hand shake, a smile, generosity have all but disappeared.

The greatest question is what to do next.

Do we ban mobile phones?

Do we pass laws in respect to transparency, accountability?

Do we have a stake in a global civilisation or not?

We beginning to see societies closing to these questions and as a result to each other.

Are we going to allow profit seeking algorithms destroy our world for short term gains?

No matter what Yuval Noah Harari says.

We live in perpetual choice between good and evil and there is only persuasion or cohesion to get people in the service of goals that are non negotiable like Climate change for example.

Unfortunately to represent the nature of the world we have to be in contact with reality.

We have to communicate good ideas like sustainability not consumption for short term profit or pleasure. Not populism Trump dribbling or Putin dictatorial monologue or Nato squeezing.

None of these can be replaced until Inequality has to come to end with a basic living wage.

There is no problem with enginutie that we cannot fix.

It’s our belief that dictates what we do next.

So it’s what we say when we listen that counts. How we understand is going to be crucial. There is only one direction worth persuading and that requires conversation not wars to have any hope of survival.

The sky is the limit as how good we can make human life worthwhile.

Is it not time we got our priorities right.

Your mind is all that you have. Don’t give it away to algorithms.

Train to understand it, use it before it becomes worthless.

The problem is that the intelligent people don’t want the non intelligent people to become intelligent.

The killer of meaning is amongst us uncontrollable, indiscriminate and unfocused it is twittering its way to dummying democracy.

After Trumps re election the biggest question ask by Americans on google was what is a tariff. After Brexit in the Uk it was what is the EU.

After Tripe you get more tripe with additional sauce in the form of social media.

These are serious problems. A lack of education/ knowledge/ understanding/leadership call it what you want, it is ignorance.

One could not be blamed for disparity when it comes to politics.

The truth is nature does not give a tinker’s nicker what we do or think.

It reacts without any artificial intelligence, beliefs, ideology, information, elections, wars, or human desires.

Ideology is a set of ideas.

Whether there are in capitalism or socialism with or without high demential thinking are worthless in the face of stopping natural disasters, as is disaster capitalism in resolving the not so distant problems climate change is going to plunge the planet into.

Climate drives everything. Not just the weather, but everything you see, hear, and think.

This is not an Elon Musk world.

We are on the verge of designing our selves till then all that exists on and in it, till the day that we in the form of some biological unification with AI stand on and make another planet our home.

We are already blurring the lines between natural selection and genetic variations with animals.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS, MILITARY AI SHOULD BE A GLOBAL URGENT PRIORITY. RATHER THAN MIGRATING IT IS WITH THE CURRENT WARS SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL.

25 Monday Nov 2024

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( Three minute read)

Vast numbers of AI with their development advancing to the point of no return are being deployed in the current wars with AI in control.

This military race to equip drones on swarm footing is going to cause a war.

Instead of wars conducting a wars it will be AI decided where it goes, who to targets and who to kill, a recipe for disasters.

If you give a self learning algorithm a target it will automatically complete its missions with a preemptive strike.

However just like acknowledging the reality of climate change the threat of a global war does not tell us what to do about it.

There are always options, unfortunately with a future developing subject to artificial intelligence, these options are dissipating at a faster rate than we can imagine.

There is no option when it comes to either the Climate or AI both must be brought under control.

Not tomorrow not in twenty years, it’s now or never.

Never is winning the race as the truth is being hidden or distorted. We can choose what we want but on the other hand we should not deny the true consequences and meaning of our choice.

Only the representative of the people should be able to declare wars.

You might think that people power is expressed in populism. Far from it. Populism strips democracy of any authority with AI self learning algorithms are doing the work as you read this.

It’s not the Putin’s the Donal Trump’s the Xi-Jin Ping’s or Kim Jong Un’s that will decided who win’s, it is the visual power of the truth that holds this power whether you like it or not.

One only has to look at the pathetic support the USA is giving Israel to relinquish all hope of a peaceful world.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS. DEMOCRACY WITH ALGORITHMIC SOCIAL MEDIA INFORMATION FLOW IS GOING TO BE WHATEVER WE ARE GOING TO CALL IT. BUT NOT DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT.

24 Sunday Nov 2024

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(Three minute read)

Within the technology world Information flows differently than in the real world.

The real world is subjective to outside forces that shape information.

The tech world which is being sculpted more and more by algorithms is moving information into a world of services to be payed for.

Filtered by algorithms to fit individual tastes and preferences, arriving at exponential speed it is no longer possible to determine whether it’s true or false.

This is why the like clicks with minimal thought process behind them, will become little more than rubber algorithms stamping with preordained results.

Up to now in a democracy any intervention in people’s lives required an explanation.

This explanation was achieved by non tampering, transparent accountability elections, allowing Joe soap to challenge and make their own choices.

This is why we have elections, freedom of speech and press and separation of government from judiciary.

This is why we must insure that all artificial intelligence conforms to human values and the sustainability of the planet we live on.

This is why as no human in its present organic form is going to leave this planet of ours there is no reason, no room or other motivation for a democracy worth thinking about to tackle the inequalities.

In the meantime let’s continue killing each other’s in the name of Nexus. We have a whole industry dedicated to hunting and fishing.

Why not an individual industry for dummy us all down so we can all afford to consume AL – Khwarizmi the father of Algebra and Algorithm.

Who gives a F… we all love a decoy.

Preparation and practice are the key to non-toxic ammo in meeting Nexus

The one thing about speaking the truth is you don’t have to remember what you have said.

The problem with information is do we with technology decentralised information is the opposite happing with algorithms data collection.

Will wars be declared by Algorithms?

Where does the right to life end?

Answer me that.

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The right to life is the belief that a human(or other animal) has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another entity. The concept of a right to life arises in debates on issues including: capital punishment, with some people seeing it as immoral; abortion, with some considering the killing of a human embryoor fetus immoral; euthanasia, in which the decision to end one’s life outside of natural means is seen as incorrect; meat production and consumption, in which the breeding and killing of animals for their meat is seen by some people as an infringement on their rights; and in killings by law enforcement, which are seen by some as an infringement on those persons’ right to live. However, individuals may disagree in which of these areas the principle of a right to life might.

THE BEADY EYE SAYS, THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE INFALLIBILITY.

17 Sunday Nov 2024

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This is and has always been a fantasy, even with Artificial Intelligence it will remain so.

Why?

Because truth is always believed by fallible humans and Ai no matter what form it takes will never be sentient to become infallible. The world will be gone apeshit long before that will happen.

However caution had been throw to the wind when it comes to AI. All that is now need is infinite more computing power and infinite more data and hold and below we have a self learning Algorithm that will be Pope.

This is where we become unhinged.

As we are all taking the AI advancements for granted why not take this fantastic fantasise at face value.

Because when a rapid downfall in the use of Artificial Intelligence starts to bit the profit of profit seeking algorithms, governments and us will begin to see the environmental disaster ( that predictive algorithms economic manipulation is doing for short term gain)

Nothing grows exponentially for ever.

The planet cannot be paved with datacenter.

Is the Pope a Catholic.

It’s now or never we take back control and stuff all unsustainable Ai back in its box.

Before we are ruled by megalomaniacs that are unaccountable to any democratic transparency other than wealth.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S: WHEN WE REFLECT UPON OUR ORIGINS IT IS DIFFICULT TO AVOID THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUESTION OF THEM ALL – WHAT MAKES US HUMANS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ANIMALS?

01 Monday Apr 2024

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( Twelve minute read)

Our brain have difficulties in accepting that we actually are animals and thus highly dependent on nature where nothing exists alone.

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Science has organized human evolution into six levels.

We share the first five with other creatures, while the sixth level makes us unique –  language.

Our use of language and given rise to the sciences and philosophical thoughts that now are transforming the entire biosphere, while abusing it to such a degree that we are currently on the verge of destroying it completely.

It is difficult to understanding that extinctions are not features of this civilization, but virtually all past civilizations have faced this fate. We might be more advanced technologically now, but this gives little comfort as we are not immune to the threats that undid our ancestors.

MAYBE THIS IS THE MAIN REASON THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS, WHICH IS NOW AN INDUSTRY RATHER THAN A THREATH TO OUR VERY EXISTENCE, to the biodiversity, to food security, access to fresh water, the lack of which will result in wars.

Unfortunately we are still animals living in a world that is changing the atmosphere’s chemistry, which is becoming a reality, not tomorrow, but right now and that’s with the number of people we already have.

Indeed the very technology we now rely on bring new unprecedented challenges.

From the emergence of Homo sapiens, it took roughly 300,000 years before one billion of us populated the Earth, with people evolving into their current form some 200,000 years ago.

(Huts, 2 million years ago. Boats, 900,000 years ago. Cooking, 500,000 years ago. Javelins, 400,000 years ago, Glue, 200,000 years ago. Clothing possibly 170,000 years ago.)

“Behavioural modernity,” evolved 50,000-65,000 years ago.  It took 15,000 to 10,000 years to start growing stable foods.

The planet most likely will surpass eight billion people sometime around mid-November. (The world population is to exceed 10 billion this century.)

Climate change – the world population – technologies inequality – you name it, will determine how many of us will be living on Earth as we approach 2100.

There can be no mistaking the import of this, as it belies the dangers of the next several decades which will see migration on a massive scale, due wars because of runaway climate change.A photograph of a person facing away from the camera, standing with their arms raised, in front of factories with smokestacks emitting smoke

Unprecedented droughts or city-destroying floods would prompt mass migrations, destabilizing the rich world or giving rise to far-right nationalism. Or a global famine could send food prices surging, triggering old-fashioned resource wars.

Survival and success do not depend on brutal force. There is an empirical connection between violence and climate change that’s persists across 12,000 years of human history.

The long chain of evolutionary development has taught us with technology and political trends conflict will continue and even intensify.

“Whether we like it or not changes will be happening, and the situation will not improve by itself.

The future well-being and actual life on earth depends on us all and our ability to express compassion and work together as the eusocial creatures we de facto are.

“No one is doing this in the right way at the moment,”

World hunger, ecological and environmental disaster, global warming, massive shifts in weather systems, the re-emergence of diseases long thought controlled, with political turmoil, in a world where a barrel of water is more expensive than a barrel of oil.

Empathy, compassion and cooperation are now so saturated by Tec that we are becoming a species totally unscrew and desentized to reality, others, and their needs, becoming algorithms predictions.  

Efforts so far to incorporate climate change into future population projections have been inadequate.

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Where is it leading us?

To answer that, we have to think about how we got here in the first place – Greed

Currently it is estimated for that 50 million people are living on less than the $3.65 a day, with half of the global population lives on less than US$6.85.

You could add another few billons who are not poor enough to feature.

The world is divided into the very rich, and the very poor. And since everybody knows there aren’t a whole lot of very rich people, they assume the majority of the world’s population is living in extreme poverty. But that’s completely wrong; the overwhelming majority of people live somewhere in the middle.

Our problem is inequality, attached to Greed, which is now plundering the world in the form of profit seeking algorithms that are generating profits for the few, using the latest technology Algorithmic trading designed to capitalize on market inefficiencies, trades can be completed at speeds and frequencies impossible for mere mortals. 

Algorithm’s are creating a new social contract between a sovereign and citizens, in which the people collectively who were sovereign are becoming digitalised citizens.

Power now resides with those best able to organize knowledge.

The knowledge revolution should bring a shift to direct democracy, but those who benefit from the current structure are fighting this transition. This is the source of much angst around the world, including the current wave of popular protests.

Neither, physical military strength, nor access to capital are now sufficient for economic success.

If we are to have any chance, we have to change to direct democracy which is easier to achieve than big, sprawling governments.

I’m not sure we can, but I know it will happen because capitalism or any other systems will no longer generate sufficient income to sustain social welfair states.

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The problem is how do we reconcile that with democracy in countries composed of millions of citizens?

Talk of artificial intelligence destroying humanity plays into the tech companies’ agenda, and hinders effective regulation of the societal harms AI is causing right now.

Barely a week seems to go by without a tech industry insider trumpeting the existential risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Fearmongering narratives about existential risks are not constructive.

Serious discussion about actual risks, and action to contain them, are.

The sooner humanity establishes its rules of engagement with AI, the sooner we can learn to live in harmony with the technology.

Algos require an uninterrupted power supply and reliable internet access. Even a brief failure in these conditions can prove cataclysmic.

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What is needed are direct opportunities for all to invest in the future.

One of our fundamental challenges in the years ahead will be to mobilize the substantial sums needed for investment in everything from green infrastructure to the cutting-edge technologies that we will need to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and slow the course of climate change.

At the moment we have Green bonds/Climate change bonds are issued exclusively to finance projects that positively impact the environment. Today, more than 50 countries have issued green bonds. However, the appeal of this market and the fact that there is no binding regulatory framework for green bonds may lead to suspicions of ‘greenwashing’ (false green claims).

There’s nothing new or specifically European about green bonds.

They’ve been around since the beginning of the 21st century. Although they weren’t yet called green bonds, the first of them are thought to have been issued in 2001 by the City of San Francisco to finance a solar power project.

Any organization – such as governments, corporations, and financial institutions – can issue a green bond.

The green bond market is a portion of the larger debt market. Historically, over US$2 trillion of green bonds have been issued globally to date, with the potential to grow to US$5 trillion by 2025.

Industry bodies and investor action groups such as Climate Action 100+, as well as large
market investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, are in a strong position to drive development of this market. However there is no universally accepted legal and commercial definition of a green bond.

Green bonds are proven to be an effective means to secure the resources required to meet the national climate change goals, so why not issue green bonds that any joe soap could invest in.

Lotteries exist in 46.67% of countries worldwide. In many countries, with the adoption of digitalization the Lottery is a lifestyle and a massive contribution to their revenues. The Lottery industry continues to grow worldwide, with an expected increase of 4.1% CAGR by 2031. The spread of online lotteries associated with the increase in smartphone and internet usage is one of many factors that can drive growth in the global market. The Lottery market is projected to grow to $405.20 billion by 2028.

US POWERBALL 59 tickets were sold every second of the year.

MEGA MILLIONS 2,817 tickets every minute or about 47 tickets every second—of the whole year!

EUROMILLIONS 342 EuroMillions tickets were sold every single second of 2019—or 20,566 tickets a minute!

UK LOTTO 122 lottery tickets for every one of the 31,536,000 seconds in 2019

They allows us all the chance to change our lives.

A staggering amount of money that goes into lotteries on a daily basis. In fact, just about every second of every day.

By making 1% OF ANY LOTTO TICKETS purchase eligible to acquire a climate Bond (with a gurantee interest return in twenty years from now..) RATHER THAN BIN THE TICKET ON LOOSING ONE COLLECTS THEM IN ORDER TO FUND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

 It would be everyone’s collective interest to identify with the physical manifestations of climate change.

Climate change is a defining issue of our time.

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THE BEADY SAYS: HAVE WE ALL GONE SENILE OR IS IT THAT WE JUST DON’T GIVE A BOLLOCKS.

29 Monday Jan 2024

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2024, Global climate trends are cause for both deep alarm, and our continuing denial of the absurdity of the verbal discussions on the subject, a task which is now monumental.

“We have built a civilization based on a world that doesn’t exist anymore.”

“We are conducting an unprecedented experiment with our planet,”

We have now unmoored ourselves from our past, as if we have transplanted ourselves onto another planet.

Without immediate action, we are at grave risk of crossing irreversible tipping points in the Earth’s climate system. +2.0C+3.6F with our current policies is the reality by around 2050s.

The world has already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since the preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical boundaries,

AND WE STILL CANNOT EXCEPT THE INEVITABLE.

The enormous, unprecedented pain and turmoil caused by the climate crisis is often discussed alongside what can seem like surprisingly small temperature increases – 1.5C or 2C. 

“The difference between 1.5C and 2C is a death sentence”.  No amount of global warming can be considered safe and people are already dying from climate change.

A severe heatwave historically expected once a decade will happen every other year at 2C.

The fingerprint of climate change on recent extreme weather is quite clear, In fact, extraordinary, with the oceans alone absorbing the heat equivalent of five Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into the water every second.  The oceans have heated up at a rate not seen in at least 11,000 years.

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These temperature thresholds will again be the focus of upcoming UN climate talks and Climate Summits

Thirty years of climate summits:  Where have they got us?

All have proved that its nearly impossible to achieve any coordination, with the whole process becoming too business-friendly, to the detriment of other perspectives and voices.

It is important to look at the bigger picture.

By most standards the world’s governments are currently failing to avert a grim fate.

To COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, was the biggest of its kind. Some 85,000 participants, including more than 150 Heads of State and Government, were among the representatives of national delegations, civil society, business, Indigenous Peoples, youth, philanthropy, and international organizations in attendance at the Conference from 30 November to 13 December 2023.

Given these problems and repeated failures, why continue with the COP meetings?

Because we are arriving at tipping points that represent thresholds which, when crossed, will trigger abrupt and self-perpetuating changes to the world’s climate and oceans.

They are threats of a magnitude never before faced by humanity – one-way doors we do not want to go through.

Governments are more concerned about Energy and food price rises mean that governments face a cost of living and energy security crisis, with some threatening to respond by returning to fossil fuels, including coal.

The climate disaster is here. There is no huge chasm after a 1.49C rise.

Superimposed on top of these long-term warming trends overshadow the real-world hazards they amplify: Heat waves, floods, droughts, wars and mass migration. 

Meaning that people and ecosystems are dying, that people are losing their livelihoods, that agricultural land will be unusable.

For climate scientists, this is the “I told you so” moment they never wanted. 

So what we’re seeing now is only a foretaste of what could happen if efforts to reduce emissions aren’t successful. 

​I hope that maybe more people will realize that this is really happening and put pressure on their representative to put actions on the top of their agendas. Our individual choices can challenge the status quo, and force things to change.

Like cleaning up the Advertising Industry to sustainability rather then consumerism across all their out lets – Main Stream TV, Socially Media, Bill Boards and the like.

To cut out the hypocrisy in Trade deals that are not Green, along with home grown policies to grow the economy above genuine climate demanding Projects.  To push for a consumer chapter to be included in future deals which reflects the issues that are most important to consumers.

So what’s stopping us from getting there?

The rules governing global trade policy mean that powerful countries and corporations escape accountability.

One of the biggest examples of hypocrisy is the EU’s common agricultural policy – or CAP – established over 50 years ago and currently under reform. This policy, thanks also to the support of highly protective tariffs and agro-chemical companies, has allowed destructive intensive practices to become the default way European food is produced. 

Why are French farmers protesting? Their slogan reads “It doesn’t make sense” ~Shat Upon by Regulations, on environmental protection.

They are not being paid enough TO FUCK IT UP.

Perhaps our slogan should be: # ITSALLBOLLOCKS. 

We can challenge the myth that we have to choose between protectionism versus free trade, and end the myth that free trade brings any meaningful benefit to the average consumer.

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THE BEADY ASK’S: ARE WE SCREWED?

28 Sunday Jan 2024

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Man is said to have evolved from monkeys and apes …but we still have monkeys and apes.

We live in a world of verball diarrhoea, another words every Joe saop has an opinion.

However the world today is being expressed as a single unified, interconnected and interdependent global system, and since we wish to remain as our individualistic egoistic selves while the world becomes more and more connected, we experience such tightening connection as suffering.

Characterized by intricate interconnections, rapid advancements in technology, globalization, diverse geopolitical challenges, and a multitude of social, economic, and environmental issues.

Since everyone understands the world from his/her own perspective which may be different from others due to religions beliefs we cannot understand what wholeness is.

Our world is beautiful but screwed.

71% water, average 93,000,000 miles away from a white star, around which it completes an elliptical orbit every 365.25 days with a dominant species are Homo Sapiens, which can live anywhere. It has one large satellite measuring 2,159 miles in diameter which is some 239,000 miles distant and is tidally locked.

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With it’s current greedy drive for more – more this, more that, more me, me, me. causing greater and greater stress to the planet, earth is experiencing its hottest year on record and massive floods, fires and other climate-related disasters have taken root.

And lack of action on climate change threatens billions of lives and livelihoods.

Most of us know this but we don’t know when something amazing or horrible will happen next and it could be the greatest or worst thing for this world.

Like the opening of a massive technological gap between the global rich and the poor.

As our World becomes more disaster prone due to the extreme changes to our Climate, these vestibules of self-interest will be dumped for hardline practical leaders who will do whatever is necessary for the survival of mankind.

In the mean time all we do is fight over utterly meaningless bullshit.

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We carry affordable supercomputers in our pockets, and that is even more powerful than it sounds.

  • It has created multiple civilizations, none of which has been able to achieve a satisfactory minimum level of quality of life; the poorest people still live in inhumane conditions; the very few richest people own more than the all of the rest put together.
  • Most markets are moving online, moving from the physical world into the digital app world, until they’ll be purged there too by oligarchies; which will be the next medium?
  • Right wing politics and populism continue to gain ground through advocating individual freedom to prosper, while left wing politics is failing to establish and administer a necessary minimum of social equality and governmental regulation, which continues to propagate financial deregulation aka greed is good which in turn prevents a normal fluctuation of economy turning it into steep growth and catastrophic chain reaction crashes.
  • The extreme conservatism of certain societies founded on medieval concepts and flawed morals coupled with perpetual poverty and social stagnation certainly help maintaining inequality in the world.
  • Alternatively, we may destroy ourselves in the midst of our seemingly endless growth, and nature will resume its course over the centuries and millenia to come.
  • How can anyone with an active mind, who is aware of all this, neatly summarize his or her POV “of the world today” with A SINGLE WORD???????
  • Pretty nonsensical, if you take a couple of minutes to think about it.

The chances of wholeness happening now are roughly zero.

Why?

Because politicians who were starved of intelligent thinking and ARE BEING ELECTED INTO OFFICE BY DIGITLIZED CITIZENS RUN BY PROFIT SEEKING ALGORITHMS.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence raise a variety of questions about how to control a technology that could improve or threaten civilization in countless ways.

The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years.  The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change. Trends continue to point ominously towards global catastrophe.

Due to ongoing concerns about the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the potential of a nuclear arms race, and the climate crisis, its almost impossible to get people’s attention about existential threats and the required action.

We can reduce them but doing so is not easy, nor has it ever been. It requires serious work and global engagement at all levels of society.

The war in Ukraine poses an ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. And the October 7 attack in Israel and war in Gaza provides further illustration of the horrors of modern war, even without nuclear escalation.

A more realistic endpoint to both wars would be a military ceasefire, in which increasingly exhausted combatants see frontline positions harden around a line of control. That will become clearer by the summer or autumn, and will at some point prompt a question for its western backers: how long should the west continue supplying military aid at current levels to Ukraine/Israel

This requires a collective even harder stance.

A political earthquake. That’s the metaphor that stuck.

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What if science itself is in some way culpable for all this?

We don’t know the real answer yet, and we probably will never know, but this is the moment to anticipate what such a finding might ultimately mean. It could obliterate the faith of millions.

This may be the great scientific meta-experiment of the 21st century. That the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost — there is a moral earthquake on the way.

All of these disasters brought to you by the total, self-assured unanimity of the highly educated people who are supposed to know what they’re doing, plus the total complacency of the highly educated people who are supposed to be supervising them.

A perfect storm, as institutions crumpled and collapsed. with new fault lines targeting up the most powerful country on the planet.

Don’t disengage as digital technology is disrupting international politics in myriad ways.

To start, it is bringing new dimensions to the authoritarian playbook, enabling governments to more easily manipulate information consumed by citizens, to monitor dissent and track political opponents, and to censor communications.

Democracies, meanwhile, are struggling to strike the right balance between rewarding economic innovation and reaping the financial benefits of Big Tech, while protecting user privacy, guarding against surveillance misuses, and countering disinformation and hate speech.

Can democracies strike an appropriate balance between safeguarding their societies from dangerously polarizing online rhetoric while maintaining commitments to protecting free expression?

Can civic activists, independent journalists, and human rights advocates continue to find innovative ways to push back against government repression using new tools, tactics, and technologies?

The answers to these questions are not foretold—all of them represent major areas of contestation.

But one thing is clear. There is an expanding set of countries relying on facial recognition technology, big data analytics, predictive policing techniques, and safe city systems to enhance their security capabilities. There is now a close relationship between authoritarian regimes, constraints on political freedoms, and corresponding government reliance on digital repression techniques.

What technological methods are Gulf states using to enact their political agendas?

What can civil society make of the growth of internet shutdowns and social media blockages around the world?

Government disdain for international human rights principles “is pushing resistance to the breaking point.”

Disinformation has become the tool of choice for many illiberal regimes. From extreme political movements, particularly far-right groups, which harness social media to propagate falsehoods, spread conspiracy theories, and foment polarization and identity politics.

Flooding  social media channels with competing or distracting information that overwhelms legitimate information sources, and deliberately post offensive content on­line to provoke or disrupt conversations

.A bigger question is how much governments should hold platforms responsible for facilitating the spread of bad information .

It is insufficient to blame Facebook or Twitter’s poor leadership for the much more complicated proliferation of politically motivated falsehoods.

These varying global perspectives shed light on emerging areas of contestation and highlight the complexities, urgency, and dangers involved in the advance of digital technologies and their effects on politics globally.

One has only to look at technology usage in the current wars in order to relise that Alogrithms are ruling not just how lives or dies on the battle fields but the direction we all going in our everyday lives.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS: WHAT DOES THE WORD WE (IN TODAY’S WORLD OF AI) MEAN. IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT MEAN IT’S ON ME, IT’S ON YOU, IT’S ON US.

20 Saturday Jan 2024

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Those of us who still want to live lives that we consider human, the word we is becoming a dangerous word.

In a world run by artificial intelligence, a world of disequilibrium and it is equilibrium, the assumption of equilibrium has to be explained. So it is quite wrong to start from we, because first we must understand the processes that lead to the social construction of this ‘we’ and to the constitution of our combined voice, that are now unbalanced, unstable by we who are without faces.

These AI voice, are becoming the crisis of not just capitalism but democracy.

For example:  Donald Trump a refusal to accept the truth of the untrue, a refusal to accept closure now running to take office.

We cannot start by pretending to stand outside the dissonance of our own experience, for to do so would be a lie.

A refusal to accept the inevitability of increasing inequality, misery, exploitation and violence is lacking due to the uses of AI.

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To start in the third person is not a neutral starting point.

The ‘we’ of our starting point is very much a question rather than an answer.

It affirms the social character, but poses the nature of that sociality as a question.

The merit of starting with a ‘we’ rather than with an ‘it’ is that we are then openly confronted with the question that must underlie any theoretical assertion, but which is rarely addressed: who are we that make the assertion?

The fact that ‘we’ and our conception of ‘we’ are product of a whole history of the subjection of the subject changes nothing.

For the moment, this ‘we’ of ours is a confused ‘we”I’ already presupposes an individualisation, a claim to individuality in thoughts and feelings, whereas the act of writing or reading is based on the assumption of some sort of community, however contradictory or confused.

It is just that the negative situation in which we exist leaves us no option: to live, to think, is to negate in whatever way we can the negativeness of our existence.

What we feel is not necessarily correct, but it is a starting point to be respected and criticised, not just to be put aside in favour of objectivity.

The dissonance is not an external ‘us’ against ‘the world, inevitably it is a dissonance that reaches into us as well, that divides us against ourselves.

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Society is, but it exists in an arc of tension towards that which is not, or is not yet.

To look at the web objectively, from the outside – we see all as blurred movement, that are predicting the downfall of the world, while accepting that there is nothing we can do about it.

Our refusal to accept, tells us nothing of the future, nor does it depend for its validity on any particular outcome.

How then do we change the world without taking power?

For example:

The problem with armed struggle, is that it accepts from the beginning that it is necessary to adopt the methods of the enemy in order to defeat the enemy, but even in the unlikely event of military victory, it is capitalist social relations that have triumphed.  #Israel v Palestine.

How many children have died needlessly since I started to write THIS POST?  How many since you began to read it?

We all know that Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel all live under various regimes of organized discrimination and oppression, much of which makes life nearly unlivable. The reflexive identification with Israel, by both US and the UK obscures the fuller picture of what’s happening between Israel and the Palestinians.

What exactly counts as a provocation?

Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed the al-Aqsa mosque compound on 5 October. Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of this year. Not the denial of Palestinian human rights and national aspirations for decades. Not the thousands currently losing their lives.

To be considered a political being you must at the very least be considered a human being.

Who gets to count as human?

We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant said. Human animals?

How can such language and an announced policy of collective punishment against all the residents of Gaza be seen by Israel’s supporters in the United States or elsewhere as defensible?

Let’s be clear: Gallant’s language is not the rhetoric of deterrence. It’s the language of genocide which WE are condoning.

WHAT ATTEMPTS HAVE THERE BEEN TO MAKE PEACE?

Two-state solution:

An agreement that would create a state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip alongside Israel. Israel has said a Palestinian state must be demilitarised so as not to threaten its security. Now inconceivable. 

Today about 5.6 million Palestinian refugees – mainly descendants of those who fled in 1948 – live in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. About half of registered refugees remain stateless, according to the Palestinian foreign ministry, many living in crowded camps.

What continues to be astounding is that a regime recognised under international law as the occupying power, and as one that many human rights groups agree is imposing a system of apartheid, is trusted to relay information about its own atrocities.

The Israeli regime continues to dehumanise Palestinians as part of its tactic to sow seeds of doubt on their testimonies and to justify the atrocities it is committing.

The only solution ( put forward by the BEADY EYE is one Federal state with a written constitution. See previous post) 

I have seen images and videos that will haunt me forever.

The reality is that Palestinians have been dehumanised to such an extent, that even when they hold up their murdered children in front of cameras and display them to the world, there are those who will still say they are responsible for their own children’s deaths. But make no mistake, what we are seeing in Gaza is an unfolding genocide and Palestinians are showing the world what it looks like in real time.

Yet despite the plethora of pictures, videos and testimonies we the International Community have not thrown Israel our of the United Nations.

With a US presidential election looming, and with few signs that the Israeli conflict will ebb away any time soon, evangelicals could find themselves in a position of significant power in the near future.

This is what they are saying.

“To the terrorists who have chosen this fight, hear this, what you do to Israel, god will do to you. Despite today’s weeping, joy will come because he [god] who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps,”

In keeping with Christian Just War tradition, we also affirm the legitimacy of Israel’s right to respond against those who have initiated these attacks as Romans 13 grants governments the power to bear the sword against those who commit such evil acts against innocent life.”

“What will come soon [is] the antichrist and his seven year empire that will be destroyed in the battle of armageddon. Then Jesus Christ will set up his throne in the city of Jerusalem. He will establish a kingdom that will never end,” Hagee said.

Hagee, despite having a long history of antisemitism – he has suggested Jews brought persecution upon themselves by upsetting God and called Hitler a “half-breed Jew” – founded Christians United for Israel in 2006.

CUFI, (Christians United for Israel,) whose founder believes the presence of Jews in Israel is a precursor to Jesus Christ returning to Earth, God forbid he does because we the International Community are condemned to hell if he and it exists.

Finally:

Those who survive will grow up sad, fearful, guilty, angry, alienated and looking for vengeance – or at least, judging by past experience, many of them will. They will ask who killed their brothers and sisters, their parents, their friends, and why they did it. They will ask what the world did to stop the killing.

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