North Stoke Life

We all feel deep down something is wrong. I'm going to talk about what it means psychologically, to be in exile. I used AI(Grok) to walk through this existential observation. It's much more than purely existential which says just accept it, deal with it, there is nothing that can be done. I'm saying there is absolutely something that can be done. So long as the imagination is used authentically, I accept there's no guarantee the outcome will work for me, and that the risks are high. Something is wrong. That our life on the earth is one we are living in exile from our true home. As tenants. Or slaves. And because we are both unwilling and unable to identify this 'wrong' consciously we feel an amount of shame and guilt. We have lost the tools needed to discover the cause. It is radical, meaning I must go to the root, of it all. And when the fear grows, rather than allow the bad blood to turn to stone, I face down 'the dragon': of obedience to authority, le...

I don't think Mr musk wants to build the data centres in space.  He will leave that to his tenants to pay for out of their own hard work and money.  His intent is to gain private property in space itself, just like land on the earth.  Then he can sit around and smoke cigars while watching the rents rise, for free. Smart guy.

Say a nations Treasury wanted to adopt a CBDC using BitcoinSV as its public blockchain.  They have several geolocated datacentres for mining and would only mine their own transactions.  Fees would all be ring-fenced and rolled back into the datacentre operations and costs as hash rate increased. (yes I know this would be a historic first) Is there any reason this would be a problem for the Treasury assuming: they had enough transactions per block happening to make it pay for the self only mining they were encrypting the transactions for their own reasons For scaling could they create their own Teranode subtrees with only CBDC tx's and broadcast them without problems? Could other miners refuse to accept them and if so would that even matter to me?  All I care about is other miners build on blocks with the CBDC tx's in them? Else that would induce a hard fork. In that case would it be better for the Treasury not to take part in the mining and leave it to the private sector ...

I'm going to tell you how all of us are root cause of the world's biggest problems. And have found a way to escape from that through the rules of society. And this is also the primary reason we elect leaders - they can be blamed for our own sins and help make our escape that much easier. Leaders we chose who are the best at helping us to escape in this way are always the ones who get elected or selected. Because they are the best at it. Judge them at your psychological peril for it was you who did it. See here for properly referenced numbers showing the ultra high excess death toll globally. These are the biggest numbers and encompass all the smaller subsets. Deny them if you like. That is your choice. But denial only means it's not happening, to you. It's all about you isn't it? https://www.northstokelife.com/2026/03/the-purpose-of-war.html This piece juxtaposes authority against wisdom in the worlds biggest crimes and scams. And is a call out to the pe...

I am the only teacher I have. We all have many multiples of nominal teachers, not least of which are those we find in schools. But I am the only real one - the one who actually teaches. I wrote this directly after listening to a coffee shop argument between middle aged parents about the broken education system. The usual sea of confusion was immediately entered into, one saying there's no alternative the other repeating what he'd read earlier from the Ministry of Love. I wanted to repeat the thought I'm writing here, to them, but the opportunity to butt in gracefully did not present itself. Of all the things which I can do well and I dersyand well - which are not that many, I have always decided to learn about those things. I made an explicit decision that I wanted to find out. Yes, a teacher might have been trying to force me to learn many many times. And many many times I did not want to learn about that thing. So I did not learn about it. Allow me to repeat the essential...