9 #coups in former French colonies in less than 3 years - incl. #Mali #Guinea #Burkina Faso #Chad #Niger and #Gabon. Covid games certainly added to political instability and weakening of the institutions. Probably going to see further increase of radicalization and leftism in many countries based on what has been ongoing during last 4 years.
“in 2024, 4 of the world's largest countries and territories will hold #elections that will shape global affairs during the second half of the decade. In March, #Russia is scheduled to hold a presidential election (to appoint its leader until 2030). Between April and May, #India will hold general elections to appoint the government and parliament that will lead the country until 2029. In June, the #EU will hold bloc-wide elections to appoint members of the European Parliament for the 2024-2029 period, which will also result in a new European Commission. Finally, the United States will hold legislative and presidential elections for the 2025-2028 period. Combined, these elections will cover a #population of roughly 2.3 billion people and a #GDP of approximately $42 trillion, and their results will set the tone for global interactions into the 2030s”
#hashtags #war #news #nostr #change
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fourth-Turning-Is-Here/Neil-Howe/9781982173739
I just finished The Fourth Turning Is Here
What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
By Neil Howe and have to say, I enjoyed it. I admit I found the second half more intriguing, but that is because I had read the first book recently as well.
Worth a read!
#Bookstr
#AI Risk = The same "super intelligences" that already oppress us capture it and keep it to enhance their control. See corporations, governments, ideologues. #Opensource
Episode 2 of AI Unchained with Aleks Svetski
"This is the first time we've interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence... we're imagining that all of a sudden, that's it, we unlocked it, basically we have discovered God. We did it. To me that's such a mix of naivety, ignorance, and arrogance that it's not even funny." — Aleks Svetski
#AI
"Intelligence and consciousness live in totally fucking different places" haha.
"There's always an arms race, so to speak, between state and society. And where the state becomes too powerful, we see the tyranny of the strong Leviathan, the strong state, where interestingly, where society becomes too powerful, or the state becomes too weak, what we tend to see are local tyrannies. So social tyrannies of norms are what the authors call the cage of norms, you know, the kind of village economies where if anybody rises too high, we cut them down, you know, direct enforcement of morality, like the kinds of local oppressions that make life difficult. So the ideal corridor and the narrow corridor of liberty is one in which the power of the state and the power of society are balanced. But that requires that both state and society compete to out-innovate one another. So there has to be this competitive dynamic." The real NSmolenskiihas been spitting fire non stop. If you haven't been listening to her, seek her out.
#plebchain
#grownostr
@NSmolenskiFan
Does anyone know @jleger2023 IRL? He OK?
#nostrgram #nostr #plebchain
@jleger2023Watching The Social Dilemma in 2023 is a little bit different then when it came out.
Select instance - Invidious
Purity tests are not OK. Confession: I do wish I could know how many people have 401k/IRA investment accounts and have taken the 10℅+ hit to withdraw and bought BTC with it. I know it doesn't matter, but sometimes I do wonder. Conviction is an amazing thing. #plebchain #BTC #nostr
If you're buying stuff online with BTC from some place that uses BTC Pay, remember the default is on chain, make sure to change that to lightning....... #plebchain #bitcoin
An increase violence seems inevitable. The code word to avoid violence while on my propertt is "Beethoven".
Have you set up a micro hydro system? This dudes off grid set up is amazing. The value of this small set up in combination with his small solar set up is stunning :
Hydroelectric in WV
“WV Micro Hydro, Specs, Links and Story”
SPECS Micro Hydro West Virginia Buried Penstock 47′ Drop – 515′ of 4″ Sch 40 PVC. STREAM ENGINE is producing 510 Watts @ 15...
#microhydro #hydro #solar #offgrid #growstr #power #electricity
Do you need to adjust your #nostr "algo"? All you have to do is search and follow. That's it. Put in a tiny bit of work #pow doing a little search every once on a while, follow a hashtag and your feed improved instantly. Give it a go, it works!
#grownostr #welcome #art #music #farmlife #homeatead #worldschool #growstr #homestead #prayerchain #plebchain #introductions #travel, #tech #crypto #beauty #foodstr #chefstr #steakchain #coffeechain #vinyalstr #tunestr #nostr literally anything!
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES" published with Bitcoin Magazine. #bookstr #audiobook #IMF #justice #finance #forthekids
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SIvE5gOkPuG6Hv6P8UYMrFor all you living off the land types out there, have you come across a book/manual that you thought was really valuable? Like, you enjoyed it but also refered back to it as a reference multiple times? I would appreciate any recommendations.
When I bought my first 10 acres, I was determined to have an orchard. I ran across a book called The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist by Michael Phillips. At first I thought it was a bit rambling, but it ended up being pretty useful for me as a total newbie.
As a young adult I probably enjoyed these two books (manual's) more than is normal, I still keep copies around:
Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Dentist
#bookstr #grownostr #compost #garden #homestead #homesteading #gardening #nature #farmlife
A variety of reads I have enjoyed:
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, and David Wengrow.
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides by David Rohde
Tower of Basel by Adam Lebor
Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson
#bookstr
Spring mowing safety reminder (the detail here is curious).
So far my favorite finds on #grownostr have been the awesome homesteaders, so much skilled #POW on display here. Makes me long for my land which is currently an ocean away.
Ironically this was not an American airline, it was a Thai (airlines) flight.
