I will dial back the research and ranting for the next few days of this year to let my brain recharge from the drain from the holidays…..a slow down not a pause.
This country has always been at the mercy of the rich….even in the beginning and it has not slowed down at all….now since Donny’s has taken over the nation these wealthy patrons of his are controlling everything….and I do mean everything.
Technology is moving ever faster and those leading the charge are the noveau rich….the tech bros….and soon they will have it all….
“Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national and international security,” Metreweli declared in her first statement as chief of MI6. “Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.”
She also noted that “we’re now operating in a space between peace and war.”
“This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution,” she continued.
Over the past few months, politicians from the ruling Labour party have grown increasingly frustrated at political meddling from tech billionaires like Elon Musk, who called for the overthrow of the UK government at a far-right rally in September.
Notably, Metreweli stopped short of calling out any billionaires by name or identifying the systemic issues that got us here, according to The Paper. Instead, she followed other ministers in centering a vague loss of public trust, rather than the profit-driven forces reshaping global power for their own interests.
“The foundations of trust in our societies are eroding,” she said. “Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponized. Falsehoods spread faster than fact, dividing communities and distorting reality. We live in an age of hyper-connection yet profound isolation. The algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/mi6-tech-billionaires-government
There is nothing that is safe from the prying eyes of these Tech bros….everything you do, say or write is their weapon against you, the people.
Maybe it is time to resurrect the ‘Luddites”…..
Luddite?
“Luddite” is now a blanket term used to describe people who dislike new technology, but its origins date back to an early 19th-century labor movement that railed against the ways that mechanized manufacturers and their unskilled laborers undermined the skilled craftsmen of the day.
The original Luddites were British weavers and textile workers who objected to the increased use of mechanized looms and knitting frames. Most were trained artisans who had spent years learning their craft, and they feared that unskilled machine operators were robbing them of their livelihood. When the economic pressures of the Napoleonic Wars made the cheap competition of early textile factories particularly threatening to the artisans, a few desperate weavers began breaking into factories and smashing textile machines. They called themselves “Luddites” after Ned Ludd, a young apprentice who was rumored to have wrecked a textile apparatus in 1779.
https://www.history.com/articles/who-were-the-luddites
It is time for a movement against these Tech Bros and their growing power over us all….
Thanx to AI what I called for is beginning….a new ‘Luddite’ movement….
There is a genuine, Gen Z-driven Luddite renaissance building as some people reject the tech platforms that have clamored for our attention (and money) over the past two decades — a movement that seems to get stronger as those platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, are flooded with increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content.
The original Luddites were textile workers in rural 19th century England who rose up against the rise of automated machines that threatened them with joblessness and starvation. And while the term today is often lobbed as a kind of insult for someone who doesn’t understand technology, the modern Luddites are redefining it.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/business/ai-luddite-movement-screens
My wish is that it expands until it is national and effective…..that may be wishful thinking…..I hope.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The Luddites were a big deal in British history, and I studied them at senior school. When I didn’t have a laptop or Internet connection until 2002, some of my friends would call me a Luddite.
Best wishes, Pete.
I kinda relate as well chuq
This is something not focused on nearly enough…the fact that Elon Musk has claimed he will pour massive amounts of money to help elect people who will only help him is dangerous and should be illegal, but of course the madness rages on…thanks for shining a spotlight on this!
You are very welcome John…..people need to start caring about this stuff….and now. chuq