Found a book at my mother’s house, a couple of chapters in, Marx, Ricardo and Malthus have already been covered, the questions raise on micro economics are fascinating. Can’t help feeling there are some parallels between Keynes and Epstein, how someone rises to such a high level of power, connected to so many powerful people from a very low level. He appeared to be a smart guy (academically), but his ideas certainly met fertile ground with the post crash years (1930s), so may have been something to do with politicians hearing ideas that gave them power. Epstein on the other hand, had a whole lot of dirty laundry to blackmail people, but also found people who were deprieqved and would do his bidding to keep their secrets out of the public light. Really interested in explore Keynes a little more, but maybe go for “unapproved” biographies, doubt many will include the “bed and boy” line that @Saifedean Ammous included.

Ga nostriches, I couldn’t have made this up any better, bbc is hot water after presenting bias edit of Jan 6th speech of trump, institutional bias of the bbc highlights, BUT, it’s bias to be aligned with government aims, so they’re pretty much implicated!!!!! Hate the way they present so much stuff now ,editorial bias is clear in so many areas, oh yeah, 100k people at the march in London in September, hmmm, might want to 10x that!!! Then in the commons, Lisa Nandy takes the stand to outline how the BBC must maintain the highest standards, when the little piggy has had her nose in The trough, accepting gifts from someone she later gave a role to (literally 2 days ago)

Email from HMRC, need to learn more about this, but it sends shivers down my spine (not in a good way), anyone who is self employed and earning more than £20k (less the minimum wage) has to file their taxes digitally. Talk about a way of squashing out entrepreneurial spirit with this administrative burden. But this shouldn’t be a surprise if we’re informed of this government’s playbook; Point 7 of the communist manifesto; Extension of factories and instruments of production to be owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste land and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with the common plan. So, no one owns their own company, and across the land we tear down industry and green space to turn it into “farm land”, but oh crap, no one owns this farm land so a) they don’t know how to look after it and b) no one has any incentive to use that land productively. Given no one owns their own company companies either, they neither serve customer nor make any money. How this propaganda is still being used literally blows my tiny mind. Also, how dare they refer to me as “customer”!!!!!

Finding it so interesting the physical repulsion people have of Nigel Farage, “he’s going to deport anyone with an indefinite right to remain” (who are benefits), he’ll do all sorts of mean stuff such as not accepting illegal, undocumented migrants, and want to deport criminals and rapists. What on earth could he do in government?!?!? But for me, it’s not him, but it’s about what has led to his popularity. A generation of people that have been lied to by the globalists pursuing their aims, leaving those “awful people who cheer him” behinds and forgotten. They want something different, something better and it isn’t even about him getting elected, but the small chance that the existing parties will have a moment of introspection and think, “if my grandma saw the policies I’m voting for, would she’d tell me to stop to being such a stupid fucking prick” (maybe my gran wouldn’t have said exactly that, but it would have hurt more coming from her) Those people who are scared of Farage have been making hay for years while others in society have been served up shit. When I hear people spouting all this fear about the Farage boogie man, I have to bite my lip with these privileged “elites/protected” that just don’t understand the world they live in. Cutting benefits? I call that returning taxes to the people who do the work. He is not the boogie man, they simply don’t see the Fabian monsters who have been pulling the strings since 1997!!!

Ga nostriches, spent most of the day looking through a paper building a model on Bitcoin’s direct and indirect environmental impact. 6 authors, all the doctorates and what look like decent positions. Work cited mora et al. (2018, Bitcoin will boil the ocean garbage), de Vries (2018, bitcoin fud patient zero cheers @Daniel Batten ) and chamanara et al (2023, expertly responded to by @Margot Paez / jyn urso), doesn’t really present any data, cooked up some meaningless equations, used “a python programming language” for some of the matrix analysis (🧐) and suggested the miners in the US were 45 times less energy efficient than those used in Azerbaijan (🧐). And one of the authors is associated with a publisher that has dealt with mass retractions………. Shall I kick the hornets’ nest and copy in the authors to the message to the editor in Chief?

@Ben Justman🍷 I hoped beyond hope that this might happen, but my visitor from your side of the pond brought me a gift. 🫡🙌 Two bottle and a rejected bottle box, still to be collected.

Gm nostriches, out with #dogstr enjoying the Welsh sunshine!!!!