Category: World

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A new way to read, a new way to write.

I “read” a paper by the DeepMind group from Google about the future, From AGI to ASI. The most important thing is not the content but the message inherent in the medium. Something I’ve never seen before. Right at the start of the document is a section, Summary Instructions, addressed to AI on how to summarise and not summarise the paper and an instruction to human readers: get your AI to summarise this in the light of what you’re interested in and what matters to you.

I followed the suggestion and gave it to Claude to read and give me back how it would relate to the short story I am writing. It did so beautifully. And it had references to the paper all the way through. It was quite dense, and I continued to interrogate the paper in further prompts, getting a good understanding of what the issues were that were being promoted in the paper and how they might relate to the story I’m writing.

More generally, Claude was happy to volunteer how the paper related to other topics that I was interested in. I had a glimpse of future of reading and the future of writing. Personalisation.

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The U.S. Empire: Mass Murder and Cultural Coercion

What follows is created with the assistance of AI. To get to this point of clarity took many iterations with a system that has some of my political knowledge embedded. I have edited heavily as I post it here. The outcome is what I want to say.  I’d like to verify every fact, but the overall picture would remain despite of possible errors.

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AI – a force of production.

We’ve had many forces of production, think of the steam engine, changed everything. Think of digitalisation, changed a lot in the world. Phones. Now AI, maybe pushing capitalism to its limits. Its under pressure, turning fascist.

There’s no need for Luddite-ism. There’s people who say don’t use AI. That misses the point.

AI can be used and misused. The problem  is who owns the means of production. They’re going to screw up AI tools more than they can a spade or even a television.

Sovereignty over the creation of our world! Social ownership of our culture and relationships. Take it back!

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Marxism 101

A one page summary of Marxism as I understand it.  Maybe expand with a link to a page on each point?  With reading & references!  Nice project.

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Marxism 101

  1. The basic idea

Marxism starts with the question: who does the work, and who gets the benefit?

In most societies, a small group own and control the means to extract wealth: land, factories, companies and banks.  Most people have to work to survive.

  1. Class struggle

Owners and workers have conflicting interests and different forms of power. That tension is everywhere: money, education, health, media, culture. Differences in race, gender, age etc. are used to divide the working class. Class conflict shapes our unconscious and our relationships.

  1. Capitalism

Workers are paid less than the value of what they produce. Marx saw this as built into the system. It’s systemic, not psychological, not about greed or human nature

  1. The State

The State exists to maintain class power for capitalists. It disguises its nature to make it look like it is there for everyone. It is active in law, education, enforcement and military.

  1. Revolution

Workers become conscious of their shared situation. Then as a class conscious force they organise to transform society. The prime directives of society change.

  1. Socialism

The stage where workers have their own State and use it to ensure ownership of the means of production is social and not private. There is no need to disguise its class nature.  It is now in the hands of the many.

  1. Communism

Communism is an aspirational society where no one owns another’s labour. People contribute according to their ability, and receive according to need. There is no class struggle and thus no need for a State.

  1. Why it matters

Marxism helps see beneath the surface of politics, ads, work, and media, who benefits and who doesn’t. It’s a lens for understanding power.

 

Marxism 101. PDF

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Punishment for Māori reveals true nature of race relations in Aotearoa

 

Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke was among those to perform a haka, at Parliament, after the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill, on 14 November, 2024.Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke at Parliament, after the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill in November.

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders suspended from Parliament for 21 days

From RNZ news. Friday, 06 June 2025 :

And former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe cautioned: “When you come into this House, you swear the oath… you agree to the rules of this House. You can’t have it both ways.”

Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ recent comments also tell a story. Speaking to RNZ last week, he questioned Te Pāti Māori’s choice of priorities, a line aimed squarely at centrist voters who might support Māori aspirations but baulk at Te Pāti Māori’s tactics.

This is so disgusting. The word punishment itself should be banned for this action. It is a ghostly echo of children being punished for speaking Māori, Te Reo, in schools all those years ago. Māori sovereignty is at stake behind these actions because the Treaty Principles Bill to attacked Māori sovereignty, and now the action here speaks louder than words. I hope there is a ferocious counter-attack, especially on Labour for going along with this. demeaning colonisation.

No punishment, no apology.

 

 

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Marx in Moreno’s Writing

Karl Marx: A Singer to the Hammer and Sad Eyes

I’ve been writing here about my close reading of Moreno’s writing on Marx and revolution.  I’ve been reading Who Shall Survive and other sources.

I’ve stopped posting chapters here as I’m editing in Google Drive

See my whole effort here. 

That link is auto updated with every edit!!

 

 

 

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