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  • ChatGPT can’t pass an experiential knowledge exam

    ChatGPT can’t pass an experiential knowledge exam

    Because artificial intelligence software does not have real world life experiences to draw from, there should be no worry about its implications for academic assessment.… Continue reading ChatGPT can’t pass an experiential knowledge exam → Read more

  • Can you escape sustainable development?

    Can you escape sustainable development?

    Here is a review of my past year with lots of links to the kind of stuff I don’t read elsewhere. Which could be a sign of usefulness… or not! … Continue reading Can you escape sustainable development? → Read more

  • As Covid is here to stay – an excerpt from Breaking Together, forthcoming 2023

    As Covid is here to stay – an excerpt from Breaking Together, forthcoming 2023

    Some of the research I have been doing over the past 3 years for my forthcoming book on societal disruption and collapse seems too urgent to sit on until June this year. The poor state of public discussion about the Covid pandemic is a reason why I am sharing a section from Chapter 5 of… Read more

  • Would even an infinite fund on loss and damage be enough?

    Would even an infinite fund on loss and damage be enough?

    The COP27 climate conference announcement of a new fund, of unknown quantity, for the loss and damage occurring due to climate chaos, means it might appear that politicians and bureaucrats are finally getting real about how bad the situation is. So could they be catching up with the ‘Deep Adapters’?… Continue reading Would even an… Read more

  • Rulers or Pets? Some history on their relative threat to your health

    Rulers or Pets? Some history on their relative threat to your health

    Some authorities want to kill our cats to combat Covid. If history rhymes throughout time, those rhymes might be telling us something about our both psyches and our societies. So let’s look back at evidence from history. … Continue reading Rulers or Pets? Some history on their relative threat to your health → Read more

  • It’s not too late to stop being a tool of oppression

    It’s not too late to stop being a tool of oppression

    In this essay I am returning to the scientific facts which prove the medical authoritarian orthodoxy on Covid has been scientifically wrong. Not just wrong in hindsight, but now more widely recognised as wrong by experts and scientists who ignored some of the earlier concerns. This recent science can’t be ignored unless someone is no… Read more

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