J Green

@jgreen63

Musician (saxes, basses), artist, writer. Science advocate. Non believer. #brexitwasacon #wearffp3 #ClimateCatastrophe #zoology #animals. Banner is a tan and white boxer dog on a beach holding a long stick and looking to camera. Also writes.

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J Green@jgreen63· 12d

Where on the discount matrix are we now?

Discount matrix is a 3 x 4 grid. Down left side labelled mode: existence, significance, change possibilities, personal abilities. Grid is filled with type of discount: 1st row, stimuli, problems, options; 2nd rowsignificance of these three; 3rd row, changeability of stimuli, solvability of problems, viability of options; 4 row, person's ability to react differently, person's ability to solve problems, person's ability to act on options.

J Green@jgreen63· Jul 5

That so little of this is in the MSM is a testament to how degraded they are now.

CPAC GB was set up by a man who spent years working for a charitable foundation founded by a pro-Russian oligarch now under British, US and Ukrainian sanctions

J Green@jgreen63· Jun 30

UK is a low bar.

It seems like South Africa is moving faster and more effectively against illicit financial flows than the UK, which seems to be in slo-mo about enabling investigative journalists to discover beneficial owners of all those offshore companies in the ex-colonial treasure islands.

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J Green@jgreen63· Jun 25

Blue background. White letters: "A political donation is a bribe," Peter Geoghegan Can Andy Burnham really clean up politics? DEMOCRACYFORSALE.SUBSTACK.COM

J Green@jgreen63· Jun 20

"That victory [Gorton and Denton] gave the Greens credibility and momentum which took them to stunning wins across England." Well, also, maybe - but this surge has nothing to do with G&D. It is quite possibly the other way round.

Graph showing green councillors from 1974 to 2023. The graph rises steadily from the 90s and there is a sudden surge from around 200 to 800 from around 2020

J Green@jgreen63· Jun 2

J Green@jgreen63· May 27

Of course it’s entirely possible that the fact that Blair has today published a 5,700 essay demanding Keir Starmer back AI, slash Net Zero and get closer to Donald Trump has nothing to do with the hundreds of millions of dollars his institute has received from industries and individuals with exactly the same agenda.

J Green@jgreen63· May 20

I just tried my random poem generator (It's not AI!) on Trump. It almost makes sense. "Rambling, tangerine cloud..."? :D www.jabowler.co.uk/poem-generat...

Taciturn, icy shore accepting the inexplicable shell
Rambling, tangerine cloud nourishing the enticing dell
Unfurrowed, smiling stings seizing the mantled host
Mythic, magical graves caressing the otherworldly boast
Proverbial, ample book burning a baked ghost

J Green@jgreen63· May 11

Brrr

Nullschool map shows uk and Europe. Temps are overlaid in colours from orange warm through green and yellow to blue for cold. Wind direction is shown with small arrows. Appears as a funnel of blue from the north pole down across Britain.

J Green@jgreen63· May 10

“...the state should directly engage in protecting the health and well-being of its citizens, particularly the poorest among them; that a centralized bureaucracy of experts can solve societal problems that free markets either exacerbate or ignore; that public-health issues often require massive state investment in infrastructure or prevention.”
-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map

J Green@jgreen63· May 10

Here's an exchange with my local library the other day.

J Green@jgreen63· Mar 6

Let me get this straight in my head. They want their allies to join in an ill-thought-out war of choice with unclear aims and an uncertain chance of success for any of the myriad aims stated so far. They want everyone else to just absorb any of the externalities like influxes of refugees, disruptions to shipping, higher oil and commodity prices and maybe even some incoming missiles. And then they also want to tariff everyone at 15%.

I'm not sure they can keep pushing at everyone all at once indefinitely. There seems to be an inability here not just to anticipate second and third order effects, but even just to model a response from any other party much less every other party.

J Green@jgreen63· Feb 28

How absolutely ridiculous! FFS. Yes I did read it. No I'm not going to post the link. The BBC is embarrassing.

Headline from BBC in depth. Polanski and Farage don't agree. But they have more in common than you might think. 5 hours ago. Portrait of a smiling woman with long hair inside a red circle and label of Laura Kuenssberg, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

J Green@jgreen63· Feb 16

Colour! We have colours! And 3D!

An old computer game graphic showing a blackbackground with green, purple, blue, and red wireframe Star Wars graphics.

J Green@jgreen63· Feb 16

It's surrounded by traffic but he's a lucky boy to have some fields and a river.

A beautiful tan and white boxer dog standing in the distance next to a river. He is looking at the the camera.

J Green@jgreen63· Feb 16

I certainly would not have gone out at 15:45 yesterday afternoon in the driving icy rain. But I donned full wet weather gear and just as we left the house the clouds broke and all the birds began to sing.

An English early spring countryside view over a river Bank into a field with a large oak and a row of poplars. Broken clouds show patches of blue and the field is bathed in a golden light of late afternoon.

J Green@jgreen63· Feb 5

What's a hungry ghost?

Elon musk tweet. Whoever said money can't buy happiness really knew what they were talking about. Sad face emoji

J Green@jgreen63· Jan 25

I think of this

J Green@jgreen63· Jan 1

#oneofthetwo because getting sick would interfere with me gigging and the other things. Always hoping to spot the other one.

3/4 view of a woman playing a double bass. It is obviously a gig because there are coloured lights in the background and other signs of a venue. She is plucking it as one does for jazz. She has a fringe and glasses, and is wearing a black hoodie and a black FFP3 respirator mask. She looks cool.

J Green@jgreen63· Nov 1

What I was going to say. I gig in a mask and that's a risk for many reasons. But I'm not going to increase that risk for things that I value less, in venues that don't ventilate or even understand the need. Here was the co2 from last gig.

Co2 monitor showing 2142 parts per million of co2. Outdoor levels are 420. Anything over 800 indoors is considered an elevated risk of disease transmission. Above 1200 is not recommended regardless of what is in the air and constitutes a considerable amount of rebreathed exhalations.

J Green@jgreen63· Oct 29

But mainly the elderly who reaped all the benefits of the socialism of the 20th c and now want to vote it away from everyone else.

Voting intention 18 - 45yrs (you gov) green 25%, lab 21% refuk 19, libdems 15, tories 11, other 9

J Green@jgreen63· Oct 25

I have a gig this afternoon. I will be carefully masked. #ffp3, headstraps, double sided tape. I hope it's enough. Lots of covid about atm. Nobody else will even consider not passing on or catching this dangerous disease.