The Reckoning, Part 6 of 6: Escape Velocity · A five-year plan for Europe · first published 15 March 2026 Parts 4 to 6 of this series began with a question about what China’s history, including …

The Reckoning, Part 5 of 6: The Stackelberg Trap · Why Europe always follows, and how to deal with America, China and Russia · first published 13 March 2026 Following on from: Part 4: The Three-Body …

The Reckoning, Part 4 of 6: The Three-Body Problem · The search for a stable orbit · first published 10 March 2026 Following on from: Part 3: The Rape of Europa Overview # The era of American security …

[code] Are Large Language Models anti-poets? [/code] If great craft in poetry was predicated on plausibility, LLMs would outshine most humans. However, to be better at poetry, LLMs would need to be …

“You cannot step into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing.”1 (Heraclitus) Entropy is a fundamental concept representing change and flow in the universe. It reflects the …

“Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite…” 1(Radiohead) In Part 2 we examined X, Grok and Grokipedia, and Musk’s manufacture of …

updated 06 November 2026 In Part 1 we saw how Musk takes all the wrong lessons from the writers he claims to admire. Here we examine the integrity of his views on free speech, and the engines of hate …

This article has been created using a new public AI Notebook: Climate Change, Ecological Disaster and Civilisational Risks The Notebook features a range of key scientific and cultural sources. The …

This AI assisted blog synthesises some of the information contained within a public Google Notebook I created to triage submissions made to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on …

I have created a public notebooklm as a resource to provide people with an accessible way to learn about AI as a technology and its ethical implications for humans. It includes most of the existing …

“I feel that the four big AI CEOs in the U.S. are modern-day prophets with four different versions of the Gospel ..telling the same basic story that this is so dangerous and so scary that I have to …

First published March 2025; substantially revised October 2026 to incorporate the Stanford AI Index 2026, the 2025–26 drone war, the US–China chip‑control reversals and the UN autonomous‑weapons …

How to use AI positively (and carefully) AI art If you are a creative, don’t run away just yet! Actual real art is being made using AI by people like Refik Anadol: Introduction # Other than this …

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this..is no democracy.” (Abraham Lincoln) August 1, 1858 Introduction # …

AI Podcasts # Introduction # “At this stage of history … either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community-interests, guided by values of …

Joefrei, CC BY-SA. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to …