Post No. 3,435 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening

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

 

• “How we lost the living Now”   by JA Westenberg   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-we-lost-the-living-now/   “Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nanosecond, shipped in real time.”   

• “The Longest Con”   https://mazetometanoia.substack.com/p/you-will-never-be-able-to-prove-it   “The demand for proof isn't epistemology. It's a loyalty oath.”   

 

 

• “If This Is “Neurotypical” Then You Can KEEP IT!”   https://youtu.be/ZxBU_rn7Wg0   “Under the right conditions autistic people can taste little nuggets of the neurotypical experience we don't normally have any clue about, but what does it feel like? I  went through exactly that earlier this week and I didn't like it!”   

 

• “The global system has failed. What do we need to do next?”   https://youtu.be/Qy2LhaJoJ6s   “In this video, I argue that the conflict driven by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the global economy towards a crisis on the scale of World War II. Not in terms of deaths, but in terms of systemic economic breakdown.   This is not a short-term shock. It is a structural rupture.   The warnings are already being issued. The International Monetary Fund, alongside firms such as Deloitte and EY, are signalling rising recession risk, including in the UK. But the impact will be global.   Supply chains are being disrupted across energy, raw materials and manufacturing. These are not marginal effects. They go to the core of how the modern economy works. Even if the conflict ended tomorrow, the consequences would last for years.   That means hardship. It means poverty. It may mean famine in the most exposed regions, and a refugee crisis on a scale we have not recently seen. In the UK and elsewhere, recession is increasingly likely, and if mishandled, it could become depression.   So what is required?   First, honesty about scarcity. Rationing may be necessary to ensure fair access to essential goods.   Second, protection. Stronger social security will be needed to support those most exposed to the shock.   Third, redistribution. Progressive taxation will be required to sustain that support.   And beyond that, something bigger: reform. The institutions created after World War II — from the World Bank to the World Trade Organization and NATO — were built for a different world. They are failing now.   The deeper issue is this: neoliberalism built a fragile, carbon-dependent global system. That system is now breaking.   If it has failed, what replaces it?”   

• “NDIS falls victim to familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on”   https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/2026/04/22/ndis-cuts-labor-government   by Amy Remeikis   

• “Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next”   https://substack.com/@corporateclapback/note/c-244824327   It was all good news - but I didn’t remember that person   

• “We have to stop teaching people that helping professions are just about being kind to individuals.   ...   “The helping profession isn't just about supporting individuals but changing systems.””   https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7450120345992392704/   

• “Anti-Protest Laws Struck Down - Jarrett v NSW”   https://youtu.be/7dNiFyeV6Vk   by Anne Twomey   “This video is about the New South Wales anti-protest laws that were struck down by the NSW Court of Appeal in the case of Jarrett v New South Wales [2026] NSWCA 62.   The video explains the Court's reasoning.  In particular, it focuses on the Court's view that dissent is part and parcel of a democracy and that suppressing political speech, for the purpose of protecting people from exposure to political expression that they might find to be upsetting, inflammatory or divisive, is not a legitimate purpose.   It concludes by observing the importance of tolerance as a civic virtue and an essential element of a representative democracy.”   

• “Long hours, stress and harassment are causing hundreds of thousands of early deaths, says UN labour agency”   https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167356   “The way that jobs are designed, organised and managed has a major effect on the health and safety of workers, and, according to the study – “The psychosocial working environment: Global developments and pathways for action” – the impact is growing, manifesting itself in rising rates of cardiovascular disease and mental disorders, including suicide”  

• “Australians are being played by Rinehart and Hanson, and the media is helping – Amy Remeikis”   https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/legacy-medias-refusal-to-scrutinise   “Legacy media's refusal to scrutinise One Nation is going to hurt the country”   

 

My article(s) on SubStack: 

• “Justice After Hell: A Few Thoughts”   https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/justice-after-hell-a-few-thoughts   “Ruminations by an Aussie who is NOT a legal expert”   Eventually, all tyrants fall, but merely removing a leader does not dismantle existing power structures. As such, when the current ruling class in the USA loses power, justice as well as political changes will need to be considered. Unlike the military Nuremberg trials, the USA is unlikely to face foreign-imposed trials or reparations. The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963-1968) serve as a pertinent historical example for potential US trials, as they were conducted under existing German laws at the time of offences. No new legal frameworks are expected to be in place for similar trials in the USA. Current state trials have begun, avoiding issues related to federal executive clemency but requiring extensive efforts to ensure comprehensive justice across the country.. Current state trials avoid Federal Executive clemency issues, though they require considerable effort to ensure justice across the country and must avoid missteps that could undermine their success. These trials will need to address serious crimes beyond murder, focusing on large-scale injustices such as deaths resulting from mass deportations. The ultimate goal is to recover stolen resources for reparations and rebuilding efforts, necessitating courage and commitment to justice. There is also concern whether ICE's practices have been adequately addressed through legal frameworks, and whether the USA has an adequate number and capacity of legal officers to pursue these cases effectively.   

 

• “How to hire staff”   https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/how-to-hire-staff   “Some semi-serious thoughts”   

 

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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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/  

 

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.
  

 

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/