One of my perennial bug-bears is that humans are so often blind to the effort that is required to keep things running smoothly (see households, companies, software) - they only see when things go wrong and complain, not everything that is going right that would go wrong.

RIP Ozzy - that’s the way to go out - 🫡.

Racism based on skin colour is so stupid because it’s “white” humans who are the aberration - we only evolved alleles for better vitamin-D synthesis via reduced melanin 20k years ago in Turkey & we had agriculture before “white” Northern Europeans; Cheddar man was dark skinned.

It’s not as well known in public that artists and musicians are as overweighted in ASD groups as mathematicians and engineers. Two expressions of a similar neural variation?

A good argument against God is that our morality is so imperfect and human-shaped. Surely a morality provided from the heavens would be perfect as a reflection of the divine?.

Rape and sexual abuse perpetrators are overwhelmingly male. The range is 90-99% of all perpetrators, with 93-98% being a reliable global range.

Pension Commission to look at why four-in-ten fail to save enough - BBC News [Ah the glorious future. I’m happy to ditch the triple lock - it was always an unsustainable bribe for older voters.].

Am I doing well or riding the wave of shorter-form works designed for modern attention spans? . (It’s okay I’ve got a 1000+ page Pynchon opus lined up for book 40.)

The Moro, a collection of Muslim ethnic groups in the South Philippines, have an Islamic Liberation Front and associated ex-members. Or MILF and rogue MILF.

I’d never really twigged that it’s the dashing against the rocks with joy that is the siren’s call. We perennially hear the song.

Why do people do such disgusting things to others in the name of what they think is moral righteousness?. Online, in religion, etc. Have opinions, but don’t be a violent, ignorant & sometimes murderous dick. (Yes, it is often men, often late teens/20s).

Funny how tribal “-isms” are so much more attractive to our minds than addressing the real root of many issues, which is the natural tendency of human beings to avoid effort where possible and to exploit other human being to do things.

To fight & argue against something, we need to deeply understand it & its sources. But we often also proscribe those same sources, for fear they have a magical “polluting” power. So we’re left with ineffective arguments, that are easily countered with cries of “ignorance!”.

Epstein splits the right - rich & powerful are tied into original events & parties but have kept out the news BUT elements of the right also love the made-up “paedophiles in Washington” conspiracy (actual story is some powerful men always want to sleep with vulnerable teenagers).

Much of society is trying to design a world that thwarts a constant 5% that for whatever reason are trying to 🤬 it up. Scale invariant percentage.

It does amuse me. Without any knowledge of something we fight, we see it as one thing. But those deep into that other thing are themselves always fighting within themselves, fighting about how to define themselves, ignorant of how from afar they are all seen to be one.

In My Life

Serious water pollution in England up 60% [Its one that doesn’t come up in the pro privatisation arguments - what happens when a government guts the regulator due to ideology diffs & the companies take out huge loans to pay dividends?].

I get a bit annoyed about the whole "this is all AI" thing. "AI generation" is a form of "remembering". It is "real" in the sense that it is built from real observations of the world; it is "false" in the sense that it is not a simple presentation of measured or record data.

BI 213 - Representations in Minds and Brains [Nice to see it’s not only patent attorneys & patent examiners that fight over terminology & clarity…].