North Stoke Life

A Feranti Argus 500 Computer Was at The National Museum of Computing on Saturday for the special Supporters Meeting.  This is the Feranti Argus 500 computer used to control the entire AGR power station at Dungeness. It was being used from inception in 1969 right up to 2021 when they finally closed it down. For sensors and control of everything in the station, even the fine manipulation of control rods to optimise power output. It was fun rebooting the machine from the panel switches and paper tape reader. A real insight into how a CPU works at grass roots level. Even phones work identically, except scaled up by a billion times. The only reason they didn't upgrade to modern computer systems is because it just worked.  They were running out of spares though. But the station was shut down sooner than that 'fortunately'. (Feranti went bust in the early 90's as a direct result of a state and private sector fraud and grafting. ) There are still 2 machines running in Heysham p...

Training courses are no longer required. Nor are teachers. Per se. All that's left that is needed are teachers training on how to use Grok AI. Is this why the departments, institutions and academies of education are shitting the bed so heavily? And are hard into resisting this change, by any means. Often corrupt means as we're seeing so clearly now.

What does naturalism take away from us?  It leads, of course, to a somewhat dead view of things. In its extreme forms it takes the view that we live in a gigantic and mechanical universe, a meaningless machinery of planets and suns, in which man has accidentally appeared as a minute speck of life, negligible and ephemeral. Stressing the third term alone, this view is true enough. It means that if man is to improve his life, he must only deal with the external, visible world. There is nothing ‘real’ save what man can reach through his senses. So man should invent and build new machinery and amass as many facts as possible about the visible world and set about to ‘conquer nature’. This standpoint turns man outwards. It makes him see his field of activities as only outside himself. It makes him think that by discovering some fresh facts about the material universe he will be able to assuage his own sorrow and pain. There is today a very remarkable turning outwards of mankind, connecte...

Even corrupt Power is only a superficial matter. Something much deeper is happening. It's often heard said:  " when the people have become corrupt, the worst rise quickly and easily to the top". I think this is where we are today in the world generally. People on the whole have decided to let go of our obligations, in the hope the waves will not come lapping at our own doors. The hope is that any problems will be thrown only onto those poor souls who are out of sight and out of mind. It's a gamble. We prefer gambling to the meeting of our obligations. It's easier. An escape. Hoping no one will notice. So many people are like this now, it's  effectively formed into a democratic majority, where the leaders selected are a proxy for this grotesque and corrupt collective of people. So do not blame wealth and power. They are merely giving the great masses exactly what they ask for! Wealth and Power are just an image of Me. "You get the government yo...

On LinkedIn I changed my pronouns today. I recognise that as a primary witness, people are now judged by their identity above all else. And it's clear to me that being a single straight white man, I'm among the most discriminated against class of all people in our modern world.   So to protect myself from the state and the people who uphold this program, my only choice is to act as if I'm part of it as fully as possible.  This is not immoral nor is it an escape. It is a free choice given the current conditions to optimise my opportunity.  Neither is this a value judgement. I'm merely selecting the approach that will help me make the most way under the present regime. When the timing is right I'll flip right into the next regime change. Go Well. 

Because a foreign Lord, from a foreign world, is living rent free, inside my head. Taking everything from me, except that which allows me to come forth once again in the morning. So I must stop paying him rent. Cast him out. He only owns me, if I allow it.

Not all of course. Just most. In the early days of the welfare state, benefit scrounging was seen as a low form of life, led by anyone claiming benefits that did not require them.  Nowadays, these same types of people have moved into well paid jobs yet still do no useful work for the salary. There's no fundamental difference in the benefit scrounging.