Mackenzie Andersen

Will Lockett writes very informatively about technology with a focus on climate change. Lockett recently published Climate Change Is Causing The Upper Atmosphere To Cool, And The Side Effects Are Terrifying. In short, the cooling upper atmosphere is punching holes in the ozone layer that makes earth inhabitable for humans and other life forms. This was only recently discovered using data that goes back only to 2000, making it inconclusive and yet conclusive enough to be concerned about.

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Friedman’s paymasters had their limits, though. To keep the money flowing, they demanded a theory of change that explained how the gains of working people could be stripped away. Same goes for Friedman’s most promising acolytes, whose belief in their cult leader’s vision required some reassurance that it wasn’t all a pipe-dream.

Friedman had a tried-and-true answer to these skeptical queries: someday, there will come a crisis. When the crisis comes, people will look for answers. The answers they choose will be those “ideas lying around” that have been promoted by the status quo’s loudest critics. In that moment, ideas can move from the fringe to the center.

Science fiction writers of the twentieth century imagined where we are today. So here we are, in the twentieth century science fiction future. Overall, they got it right. Now twenty-first science fiction writers must imagine what comes next
........The workforce is at the forefront of accepting the first rule of innovation- willingness to take risk. The remote workforce, side hustlers, gig economy and small business owners are willing to let go of the security that held them fast to the old system until the old system made their dreams so inaccessible that the price of security was no longer worth it.
...FUD. Inc tells it like it is, without the need for psychological illusions. Those who can overcome fear, insecurity and doubt with strong faith in their own abilities, are the innovators who own themselves, and define their own goals...They can potentially create the new middle class, a class that strives not for super stardom and world dominance but for balanced fulfillment.

This charter is handing our local power over to the state, which seems to be the purpose in redoing our school charter at this time. Instead, our local charter should retain local power, reclaim authority for the inhabitants of the community and mandate teaching the Maine Constitution in public schools beginning in secondary school.

A New Model of the Universe, by PD Ouspensky.I read it many years ago and decided it was time for a re-read. Preface starts out a discussion of the many levels of the human mind, very relevant as we enter upon the Age of AI.