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simon_brooke, 7 days ago to random

On @Eceni's #AccidentalGods podcast this week, someone (I think it was @Eceni herself) described #Starmer'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.

#GeneralElectionUK

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

Eceni, 6 days ago

@simon_brooke They have friends?

Eceni, 8 days ago to Podcast

#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, 7 days ago

@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, 7 days ago

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

simon_brooke, 14 days ago to random

Lesley Riddoch here arguing, essentially, that we all have to bite our tongues, haud oor whischt, and vote #SNP, because "they're the only parliamentary route to #ScottishIndependence. 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, 14 days ago

@simon_brooke Thank you...

urlyman, 1 month ago to random

In which @ntnsndr, in conversation with David Bollier – https://overcast.fm/+YVzymNQfY – does that thing where someone points out a dynamic that should be obvious, but it needs that someone to point it out to you:

Namely, that the client-server model of online infrastructure is inherently antithetical to democratic governance.

In our online lives, “we are in some sense being trained out of the democratic practices that have been so essential to practices of political democracies”

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simon_brooke, 4 months ago to random

I was listening this morning to one of @Eceni's always thought-provoking podcasts, this time on the Bristol Pound, and it reminded me of an essay I wrote:

"Money grows in society by the process of eroding generosity. It is, then, a necrotising parasite on social relationships, systematically sucking out transactions of kindness and generosity from the economy and replacing them with a winner-takes-all, zero sum game of competitive meanness.

Money is a disease."

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2023-02-08-on-money/

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simon_brooke, 7 months ago to random

Really useful episode of #AccidentalGods from @Eceni which is really helping with my thinking about localising food production. Recommended.

I'm wondering what bean I could most productively grow at field scale here in Scotland?

https://pca.st/episode/ae3b8a9a-2e38-4dfd-8140-94bb002442e8

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josef, 8 months ago to Podcast

👋 @Eceni I love your accidental gods #podcast 🙂 when is your #thrutopia novel due out? can't wait!

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