Post No. 3,414 - Interesting reading / viewing

I recently found the following interesting and/or useful, and am posting them here in case anyone else does as well. 

 

• “Discovering Connections Between Trance-Channeling and Ufology Data”   https://noetic.org/blog/trance-channeling-and-ufology-data/   

• “Balance”   by Raven Dana (for the equinox)   https://youtu.be/OenevH97iPs   

• “Why I use a wheelchair when I can walk ...”   https://youtube.com/shorts/sdOaPB2H-7o   

• “the pressure to find purpose is a joke”   https://youtu.be/CdZNX0cTRK8   

• “Mindfulness Going Deeper”   https://youtu.be/nUy7kEUo1To   “Being Mindful is more than meditation, true mindfulness includes living in our body (not in our mind).  In this chat, we become aware of how Minding the Body helps us stay in balance as we listen and respond to what our bodies tell us”   

• “Do we really need eight hours sleep a night – and what happens if we don’t get it? | Life and style | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/24/do-we-really-need-eight-hours-sleep-night   

• “Punishing Yourself #healing #relationship #selflove #selfimprovement #peace #love #difficulty - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/X9Yr9-_HfVU   

• “Bumblebees Can Do What?! Incredible Discoveries Nobody Expected - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/wPy-8gOUl-A   

 

 

• “Why Smart People Can’t Start Simple Tasks”   https://youtu.be/MpHv6hSpl90   “Autism, executive function, and task initiation: why smart autistic adults can’t start simple tasks even when they know exactly what to do.   If you’ve ever been completely ready to do something and still couldn't make yourself start, this episode is about why.   Ryan has an IQ of 140. He knows exactly what email he needs to send. He's known for four days. He still can’t begin.   This isn’t laziness. It isn’t a lack of discipline. It’s a specific neurological gap between knowing and starting and research shows it’s one of the most common and least understood features of the autistic profile.   In this episode of Clinical Breakdown, we break down:  Why intelligence and executive function are two completely different systems;  What autistic inertia actually is and the 2021 study that named it;  How working memory failures play out in a real workday;  Why cognitive flexibility collapse can cost an entire morning;  What the research actually shows works — and why willpower never did”   

• “Do you struggle with executive function? Take this quiz”   https://youtu.be/qSviaxQ48d8   “Do you have trouble making decisions, starting or finishing tasks... or even knowing what you need to do? It might feel overwhelming – and that could be related to your executive function. Follow along as we explain more about what's going on in your brain and then take the free quiz to find out how your brain handles executive function.   ...   Where your brain gets stuck;  #1 Working memory;  #2 Attention Regulation & Focus Control;  #3 Cognitive Flexibility;  #4 Inhibition and Impulse Control;  #5 Planning, Prioritising, and Organisation;  Why, Brain, Why?”   

• “Five Pains in my Autistic 4R$£”   https://youtu.be/ebK6Wy5Hhng   

 

• “Equality and the politics of care”   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/24/equality-and-the-politics-of-care/   

• “Why Abusive Authority Always Tries to Make People Afraid of Resistance - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/geoe6dDMqgs   “Every time authority needs the public to stop paying attention to what it's doing, it reaches for the same names. King. Gandhi. Mandela. Not to reckon with what they did or what they were up against. To weaponise them. To reduce three of the most consequential resisters in modern history to a single, serviceable instruction — be peaceful, don't provoke, know your place — and then aim that instruction at whoever is currently in the way.   It is one of the oldest operations in the authoritarian playbook, and it has nothing to do with nonviolence. The British Parliament ran the same move against the American patriots. Southern moderates ran it against abolitionists. The defenders of Jim Crow ran it against the civil rights movement — including against King himself, in real time, while he was alive and the FBI was building a file on him as a threat to national security. The operation does not require the names to be accurate. It requires them to be familiar enough that the comfortable will accept the lesson without examining it.   That is the mechanism. Abusive authority does not need to convince the majority that what it is doing is good. It only needs to make resistance look frightening. And nothing does that more efficiently than invoking moral giants, stripped of their actual radicalism, as a rebuke to the people currently resisting. You cannot argue with King. You cannot argue with Gandhi. So the argument is foreclosed before it begins, and the underlying abuse never has to answer for itself.   What gets erased in that operation is everything that made those men dangerous when they were alive. King was not surveilled by the FBI because he was a calming influence on American politics. Gandhi was not imprisoned repeatedly by the British Empire because he made colonial authority comfortable. Mandela did not spend twenty-seven years in prison because the apartheid government found his methods acceptable. Authority was afraid of all three of them — genuinely, operationally afraid — because their resistance was working. The governments now laundering their legacies through senators and press conferences are the direct institutional descendants of the governments that tried to destroy them.   That is what I want us to work to understand. Not just the rhetorical trick, but its history. Where it came from, how it has functioned across two centuries of American resistance, who it has protected, and what it has always been designed to hide. The sanitised martyr has always been more useful to power than the living resister.”   The other comment to be made here is that the opening claim (by a cited speaker, not the author) that ICE and police leave people unless they do illegal stuff is clearly so wrong it is absurd and quite possibly a lie.   

• “Collaboration" is bullshit”   by JA Westenberg   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/   Examines the “teamwork revolution” from WW2 onwards   

• “‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/australia-climate-misinformation-social-media   

• “Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds | Business | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-speak-study   

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Post No. 3,413 - Another activism email

I sent this to my local Federal MP a few minutes ago.

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Dear Member for _, 

 

Re:  Some recent mews articles on climate misinformation, social media, good religious people, and genocide [content warning for the last item] 

There are some news articles from today and yesterday which I consider worth noting - my apologies if you are already aware of these. 

• Firstly:   “‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/australia-climate-misinformation-social-media   
  I consider addressing these lies to be of great importance - not only for the wellbeing of Australians, but for the survival, or at least quality of existence, of future humans.   
  
  

• Related to the previous article, in that it deals with abuse of communication, is:   “Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds | Social media | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/25/jury-verdict-us-first-social-media-addiction-trial-meta-youtube   
  As I’ve written previously, I have grave concerns about the risks of privacy breaches and isolation of minority youth created by the age verification aspects of the young people social media ban. Be that as it may, the ban is in place - but it fails, IMO, to address this main problem, which is the unconscionable conduct of social media platforms - which has now been demonstrated by a court decision (albeit in the USA, and with an utterly inconsequential [given Meta's and YouTube's financial scale] fine). That court decision, I suggest, is reason to extend our previous actions aimed at looking after young people to actions that will better look after ALL social media users, whatever their age.   
  
  
• The third news article illustrates something I have been trying to get others in the LGBTQIASB+ communities to realise for DECADES: not all religious people are bad - my (minority) religion is inclusive, and I know there are Christian churches which are inclusive, and activists for inclusion in most religions that discriminate. Other members of the LGBTQIASB+ communities, (pseudo)“journalists” chasing clickbait, and, sadly, a number of politicians have failed to realise that, and as a result have failed to push back against bigotry over the last three decades that this has been of particular concern to me. 
  It must also be noted, however, that the fault also lies with those members of progressive religions, or with progressive views in reactionary religions, who FAIL to speak out against the hate of their fellow religious travellers. 
  Now, however, we have finally got someone who is doing exactly that, as reported in “Democratic rising star extends ‘love’ after Hegseth pastor prays for his death | Democrats | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/james-talarico-pete-hegseth-pastor   
  I would hope that it would be possible to build a database of progressive religious people who are prepared to speak out publicly whenever a reactionary religious adherent promotes hate.   
  
  
• And on hate, one of the most extreme versions of that is genocide. Yesterday a news article expanded on the genocide committed last year in the city of El Fasher, in Darfur, Sudan - one terrible happening in a war full of terrible events that appears to have been largely neglected or ignored by the world.   The article’s details are:   “Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher | Global development | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher   
  The world has also responded inadequately to the genocide in Gaza, and almost every single genocidal event over the last half century - with the belated response to some of the atrocities during the break up of Yugoslavia being a sort of exception. 
  I have not seen any of the moral outrage and commitment shown, however, to the calamity in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.   
  Each mass atrocity is an opportunity for the world to do better - El Fasher and Gaza have been missed, but there is another opportunity now in southern Lebanon:   “The Guardian view on Israel’s war in Lebanon: allies must not accept a repeat of the crimes in Gaza | Editorial | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/the-guardian-view-on-israels-war-in-lebanon-allies-must-not-accept-a-repeat-of-the-crimes-in-gaza   
  
  I commend that editorial, and the preceding articles, for consideration by the appropriate people  
  

As always, no reply to this email is necessary, but I am happy for it to be forwarded (preferably de-identified) and to discuss the items further if desired. 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/