Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
@freemo Thanks for all all your recent scuba posts - much enjoyed!
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I remembered this epic quote from Good Will Hunting and now I need to watch it again:
You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart.
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A quick little clip from this weekends cave diving session. Went down about 100 feet into this cave system. #SCUBA
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"The things we fear the most have already happened to us" -- Robin Williams
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Good Will Hunting was an **amazing** movie and this analysis of the first therapy scene was really insightful. Really appreciated this:
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Someone needs to make a movie called "Bad Won't escaping" about a troubled psychiatrist who finds help from his well adjusted client struggling with the loss of his wife.
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#Covid-19 virus does not infect #human #BrainCells, study suggests | #MedicalResearch | The Guardian
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#Meat #carcasses sent to #EU for #butchering amid #UK #WorkerShortage | #Food & drink #industry | The Guardian
#Brexit going as well as can be expected, I see.
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#QAnon is just astrology for meth heads.
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What does #tech take from us? Meet the writer who has counted 100 big losses | #Internet | The Guardian
Some advantages of eschewing #StreamingServices.
My apologies for not responding earlier.
There are many points I would like to make here, so I shall just make a few.
First, I'm not sure that any national government can be described as capitalist. It may however arise within a capitalist economic milieu or order and can promote and/or facilitate the same. (There is of course the slightly tricky question of how governments establish legitimacy in the first place within nation states and the legitimacy of nation states themselves!)
Secondly, while I believe in free markets myself, they are not in my view synonymous with capitalism, but simply a sine qua non for its emergence and continuation. The other factors that characterise it include share-holding, capital accumulation, pricing systems, private property (with associated recognised rights), voluntary exchange and wage labour. In addition, of course, capitalism is essentially predicated on usury.
Here's a starting point (and there others)
Marxian critiques of capitalism are well known, if not always well understood. However, the critiques arising from the current climate crisis are based on the central recognition that capitalism is essentially predicated on indefinite growth, is ideologically resistant to external constraints that limit profitability to shareholders, and ultimately puts consumerism before sustainability in the use of the finite resources of the earth. In short capitalism always has been and always will be rapacious and exploitative.
To be perfectly honest, I think that the problems with capitalism are simply legion and these will become more and more evident in the years ahead. There are many alternative economic and social models.
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"I have a vague plan..."
"I have a cunning plan..."
Not much difference really guvnor!
https://yewtu.be/watch?time_continue=7&v=nBABl0luEgo&feature=emb_logo
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Top climate scientists are sceptical that nations will rein in global warming
Nature conducted an anonymous survey of the 233 living #IPCC authors last month and received responses from 92 scientists — about 40% of the group. Their answers suggest strong scepticism that governments will markedly slow the pace of #GlobalWarming, despite political promises made by international leaders as part of the 2015 #ParisClimateAgreement.
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Nearly 300 dead today and over 1000 admitted to hospital with Covid-19. Great job by the Tories.
#COP26 #climate_change #planet #earth #choice #binary #capitalism #catastrophe #uk #global #future #death
As posted on Diaspora Europe on 27th October 2021.
#COP26 #climate_change #planet #earth #choice #binary #capitalism #catastrophe #uk #global #future #death
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction
#phidoc #books #literature #music #greece #symi
The Book of the Month for October is The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and the Track of the Month is 'I'm a Mineralist' by Nick Mason, Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt.
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#MartinRowson on #RishiSunak’s ‘age of optimism’ #budget – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
Marking as #NSFW on grounds of taste.
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World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian
A stark reminder of how far we have yet to go.
#Enviornment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #Industry #Infrastructure
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re: LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
@freemo @oddtail @stux
As mentioned earlier, this is mostly covered by Polish-language sites, but I've found this article about it:
https://polishnews.co.uk/the-kaja-godek-foundation-submitted-to-the-sejm-a-bill-stop-lgbt/
As mentioned earlier, this is mostly covered by Polish-language sites, but I've found this article about it:
https://polishnews.co.uk/the-kaja-godek-foundation-submitted-to-the-sejm-a-bill-stop-lgbt/
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
