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Eceni

@Eceni@mastodon.scot

#Novelist - Boudica: Dreaming and A Treachery of Spies. Shortlisted: #Orange and #Saltire. Winner: #McIlvanney. Co-founder #HWA. Now #Thrutopia writer
#Podcast host - Accidental Gods
#Politics: Green/Red, #Indy #Remain. Total #systemic change
#RegenAg #Smallholder, #Economics, #MMT, Exiled #Scot. #LGBT+ #WoW #PVP Gamer.
Sharing life w wife, spaniel, cats, chickens, ponies… (yearning for a #microdairy)

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simon_brooke, to random
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@Eceni as a self-confessed tech bro, I'm loving the idea of larping in decision making, and I think the #QuadraticVoting proposal is really interesting. But please, what value does #Blockchain add, to offset its disproportionate energy and consequently environmental cost?

Surely, we want to burn less carbon, not more?

https://pca.st/episode/69ae9284-64bd-4599-8da4-1ffa59fcedea

Eceni,
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@petealexharris @simon_brooke OK, so we've moved in an arc

We started w @ruthcatlow of Furtherfield who has created an app w quadratic voting on the blockchain - it's gathering her useful data and teaching people about more flexible voting systems they can trust.

I am considering folding something like this into a novel - so it's a fictional version of our world - but I want to explore more flexible voting systems that ppl can trust.

I'm still not clear if there's a problem w blockchain?

Eceni,
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@adamgreenfield @simon_brooke

We have general elections. We need to trust the result.

Either we completely change our democratic system (and while I think that is essential, I think we do it through the existing system and with more trust, not less)

OR

We find a way to trust the result.

This is not a category error. To say it is, is just avoiding the problem.

We need ways to trust what happens in our institutions. If you know one, tell me.

Eceni,
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@adamgreenfield @simon_brooke What’s the cost? Who has to pay it? Where does the money go? What happens if we don’t achieve some kind of trust-based human alignment?
NB. I’m writing this just now so theses re not rhetorical questions!

Eceni,
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@adamgreenfield @simon_brooke And in the book, I'm building an entire parallel polis because I think the current system is wholly broken. Though there is a faction in the movement that's working inside the system - so we get to see both running together. Or at least, will in book 2. Book 1 just gets us to the night after the General Election. :)

simon_brooke, to random
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Lesley Riddoch here arguing, essentially, that we all have to bite our tongues, haud oor whischt, and vote , because "they're the only parliamentary route to . I count Lesley as a friend and as someone I greatly respect, but I think she's wrong here: there is no longer a parliamentary path to independence.

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast: Campaign Pains

Episode webpage: https://share.transistor.fm/s/981581dc

Media file: https://media.transistor.fm/981581dc/601cf266.mp3

Eceni,
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@simon_brooke Thank you...

simon_brooke, to random
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My feeling, @Eceni, is that we have to stop burning any fossil hydrocarbon AT ALL this decade, and the trick is to work out how to build the good society with just the materials we already have (and how to make that a vision that a democratic electorate will vote for).

I believe that this is possible. I'm not going to pretend I think it is either easy or likely.

https://pca.st/episode/d0e2ad85-ee50-4b9c-ac63-c05af1f28aec

Eceni,
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@jackdweeb @simon_brooke

It's as likely as we make it be. And if we don't work for it - for sure it won't happen.

But if we work for it, we have no idea what emergent properties may yet arise.

simon_brooke, to Futurology
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Why, @Eceni? Why would an intelligent device have any motivation to reproduce itself? The difference between us an an artificial intelligence is we have instinct and emotion, but not rationality; and it would have rationality, but not instinct (and possibly not emotion). Why would the one instinct an artificial intelligence had be to reproduce? This is utterly impausible.

#AGI

https://accidentalgods.life/giving-birth-to-an-alien-intelligence-with-daniel-thorson/

Eceni,
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@piglet @simon_brooke

What would stop capitalism deleting itself? It's a pseudo-intelligent super-organism whose only/necessary impulse is to grow and it is destroying people and planet.

And shows no signs of switching off.

so... 'intelligent' doesn't mean that it's got any kind of moral compass. Just that it has the capacity infinitely to grow regardless of the consequences.

Eceni, to Podcast
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#ElectionSpecial with @Neal_Compass of @CompassOffice

#AccidentalGods #Podcast - where we explore how we can change the system to bring power to those with wisdom and wisdom to those with power.

https://accidentalgods.life/breaking-the-doom-loop-of-uk-politics-with-neal-lawson-of-compass/

#GE24
#WednesdayMorning
#generalelectionuk2024

Eceni,
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@mxtthxw has to be peaceful. And I have some really good friends in the heart of our governance system trying to do their best.

We need a whole new system, for sure, but it needs to be born out of decency, integrity and connection, I'd say...

Eceni,
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@mxtthxw Peaceful action based on not-repeating the old paradigm - which is manifestly broken.

simon_brooke, to random
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On @Eceni's podcast this week, someone (I think it was @Eceni herself) described 's cabal as 'Stalinist'. I don't think this is right, but I think it's pretty close. I think they're more Leninist.The unprincipled pursuit of power at any price, the ruthless factionalism, the bad-faith negotiation, the mean-spirited opportunism are all very Bolshevik.

Their enemies may fear them, but their friends should fear them more.

https://accidentalgods.life/breaking-the-doom-loop-of-uk-politics-with-neal-lawson-of-compass/

Eceni,
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@simon_brooke They have friends?

Eceni, to books
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Reading this and it's blowing my mind:

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/civilized-to-death-the-price-of-progress-christopher-ryan/3048411?ean=9781451659115

#amreading #BooksofMastodon #books #WritersSupportingWriters

Eceni, to Writers
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Out now - ANY HUMAN POWER

a 'seismic' Mytho-Political Thriller

"Instantly Immersive" Lee Child

"A Clarion Call for our Times" Nathalie Nahai

https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower

#Writers #Writing #ChangeIsComing

Eceni, to writing
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Beautiful, thoughtful review from
Jamedi

  • thank you

@septemberbooks

https://jamreads.com/reviews/any-human-power-by-manda-scott

#Amreading
#SummerReading
#ChangeIsComing
#GE24
#Thrutopia
#Writing #Writers

Eceni, to Podcast
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How do we build a peaceful, progressive world in ways that work—at an individual, national & international level?

https://accidentalgods.life/answers-to-the-questions-of-life-biomimicry-complexity-and-peacebuilding-with-dr-deborah-benham

#AccidentalGods #Podcast with Dr Deborah Benham, #Biomimicry educator, #TransitionNetwork co-ordinator and #NatureConnection facilitator

Eceni, to random
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Read an extract from
Manda Scott’s visionary, myth-political eco-thriller #AnyHumanPower - outlaw! https://culturefly.co.uk/read-an-extract-from-manda-scotts-any-human-power/

Eceni, to Writers
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It's publication day!

We're in a time of transition and we need radical change based on integrity, compassion and connection

ANY HUMAN POWER is a new, visionary thriller which shapes a route from the old world to the new.

Read it - and let's make the changes the world needs.

https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower

#writers #writing #ChangeIsComing #AnyHumanPower

Eceni, to random
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Really interesting paper on the intersection between capitalism, poverty and the crushing of technological development - and how we get out of it:

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/capitalism-global-poverty-and-the-case-for-democratic-socialism/

Eceni, to Podcast
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How do we build a peaceful, progressive world in ways that work - at an individual, national and international level?
https://accidentalgods.life/answers-to-the-questions-of-life-biomimicry-complexity-and-peacebuilding-with-dr-deborah-benham/

#AccidentalGods #Podcast with Dr Deborah Benham, #Biomimicry educator, #TransitionNetwork co-ordinator and #NatureConnection facilitator

Eceni, to Podcast
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Had a really fun #podcast conversation with @HumanRiskLtd

https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/manda-scott-on-human-power/

Exploring the need for #Thrutopias, total systemic change and how we could reshape our governance systems.

https://www.humanriskpodcast.com/manda-scott-on-human-power/

#ChangeIsComing

Eceni, to Writers
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Out now - ANY HUMAN POWER

a 'seismic' Mytho-Political Thriller

"Instantly Immersive" Lee Child

"A Clarion Call for our Times" Nathalie Nahai

https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower

#Writers #Fiction #Thrillers #Politics

Eceni, to Writers
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We are not being offered useful options at #GeneralElection2024

So what do we do if we want to bring Power to those with Wisdom & Wisdom to those with Power?

ANY HUMAN POWER - out May 30th - the political Thriller of the moment

https://linktr.ee/anyhumanpower

@septemberbooks

#Amreading
#writers #GeneralElectionUK

Eceni, to writing
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This is one of the best reviews of any book I've ever read - deep, thoughtful and informative in its own right.

and the fact that it's for Any Human Power is both humbling and inspiring.

@fantasyHive

https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2024/05/any-human-power-by-manda-scott-book-review/

Eceni, to Podcast
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This week's #AccidentalGods #Podcast explores how we nurture the #FieldsOfChange with Jessica Buckler of the
@Alef_Trust

https://accidentalgods.life/wild-shamanic-theatre-and-becoming-embodied-with-jessica-bockler-of-the-alef-trust/

#WednesdayMorning
#amlistening
#Transformation

Eceni, to Writers
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Supremely good, thoughtful, insightful - and humbling - review of #AnyHumanPower from @TOMunro - who knows tipping points can happen...

https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2024/05/any-human-power-by-manda-scott-book-review/

#amreading
#amwriting
#ChangeIsComing
#PowerToWisdom
#writers #writing
#Thrillers

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