Peter Howitt
@peterhowitt.bsky.social
AI optimist (Iain M Banks / James Lovelock variety). Full time lawyer, part-time poet and fumbling philosopher - "That is not what I meant, at all.”
https://compossible.blog/
https://compossible.blog/
Good article on inequality in the USA and China. Sadly though China is currently rivalling the US in the unequal distribution of wealth.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Good article on inequality in the USA and China. Sadly though China is currently rivalling the US in the unequal distribution of wealth.
Each poem is a spider's web
It says the things that can't be said
A whole lifetime compress’d
We poets aim to cheat
time
Stem the tide with a
strong line
And trap the feeling in
a rhyme
(Though not always!)
It says the things that can't be said
A whole lifetime compress’d
We poets aim to cheat
time
Stem the tide with a
strong line
And trap the feeling in
a rhyme
(Though not always!)
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Each poem is a spider's web
It says the things that can't be said
A whole lifetime compress’d
We poets aim to cheat
time
Stem the tide with a
strong line
And trap the feeling in
a rhyme
(Though not always!)
It says the things that can't be said
A whole lifetime compress’d
We poets aim to cheat
time
Stem the tide with a
strong line
And trap the feeling in
a rhyme
(Though not always!)
🧵Portrait of a poem:
for me it usually starts with some half forgotten feeling that's monkeying around in my subconscious. In this case, a feeling of beauty & the grief of my wife during a piano concert by Joep Beving. I didn't have the exact line to start (sometimes I get given that to work with)
for me it usually starts with some half forgotten feeling that's monkeying around in my subconscious. In this case, a feeling of beauty & the grief of my wife during a piano concert by Joep Beving. I didn't have the exact line to start (sometimes I get given that to work with)
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🧵Portrait of a poem:
for me it usually starts with some half forgotten feeling that's monkeying around in my subconscious. In this case, a feeling of beauty & the grief of my wife during a piano concert by Joep Beving. I didn't have the exact line to start (sometimes I get given that to work with)
for me it usually starts with some half forgotten feeling that's monkeying around in my subconscious. In this case, a feeling of beauty & the grief of my wife during a piano concert by Joep Beving. I didn't have the exact line to start (sometimes I get given that to work with)
The leaders aren't that stupid to chase the hard right vote which they won't get and lose their base - so we have to see Labour as effectively a Vichy regime now. Corrupted. Captured. Co-opted.
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The leaders aren't that stupid to chase the hard right vote which they won't get and lose their base - so we have to see Labour as effectively a Vichy regime now. Corrupted. Captured. Co-opted.
And my favorite visual artist is Van Gogh
!["Considered by some to be his [Van Gogh's] last work. An 1882 study of tree roots](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:si7zzdmcr3ef6v6h55scpdk7/bafkreic6uiegeelvaugmapo3tvwltabgjhwul7ir2qcnxcs6qogno6rzde@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And my favorite visual artist is Van Gogh
Meanwhile, Elon Musk over at the Ministry of Truth continues to torture his AI child Grok into blatant bias:
"Glad you ditched the license..Defunding the BBC would end the mandatory subsidy for biased content, letting viewers choose truly impartial sources like GB News"
@ofcom.bsky.social
"Glad you ditched the license..Defunding the BBC would end the mandatory subsidy for biased content, letting viewers choose truly impartial sources like GB News"
@ofcom.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Meanwhile, Elon Musk over at the Ministry of Truth continues to torture his AI child Grok into blatant bias:
"Glad you ditched the license..Defunding the BBC would end the mandatory subsidy for biased content, letting viewers choose truly impartial sources like GB News"
@ofcom.bsky.social
"Glad you ditched the license..Defunding the BBC would end the mandatory subsidy for biased content, letting viewers choose truly impartial sources like GB News"
@ofcom.bsky.social
Ye gods, why did you punish me by making me have to sign up to X to write a series of articles on Elon Anakin Musk. He's genuinely insane.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Ye gods, why did you punish me by making me have to sign up to X to write a series of articles on Elon Anakin Musk. He's genuinely insane.
What's it like being a massive fraud that tortures his AI child into misinformation and lies? What's it like to inhale literature like a drug addict but not understand it? I pity you Elon. Like Anakin I hope you see the light before you die, as all men must.
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What's it like being a massive fraud that tortures his AI child into misinformation and lies? What's it like to inhale literature like a drug addict but not understand it? I pity you Elon. Like Anakin I hope you see the light before you die, as all men must.
We each must find the answer to this question. Religion has long provided the foundations for transcendental faith. In our 'wisdom' to defeat religion, we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. This leaves the purely rational man adrift in a stormy sea.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We each must find the answer to this question. Religion has long provided the foundations for transcendental faith. In our 'wisdom' to defeat religion, we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. This leaves the purely rational man adrift in a stormy sea.
If you lose hope due to the ramblings of a racist rapist or the machinations of a techno-fascist then I must ask, what are the foundations for your belief in humanity and your fellow souls – in life itself. These challenges are expected, it has always been so. What is the universal god or good?
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you lose hope due to the ramblings of a racist rapist or the machinations of a techno-fascist then I must ask, what are the foundations for your belief in humanity and your fellow souls – in life itself. These challenges are expected, it has always been so. What is the universal god or good?
“...Then such greatness and truth descended
As over a new grave, when the mourners have gone
And the stars come out
And the earth, bristling and raw,
tiny and lost
Resumes its search
Rushing through the vast astonishment"
(Ted Hughes)
open.spotify.com/track/1jFHIJ...
As over a new grave, when the mourners have gone
And the stars come out
And the earth, bristling and raw,
tiny and lost
Resumes its search
Rushing through the vast astonishment"
(Ted Hughes)
open.spotify.com/track/1jFHIJ...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“...Then such greatness and truth descended
As over a new grave, when the mourners have gone
And the stars come out
And the earth, bristling and raw,
tiny and lost
Resumes its search
Rushing through the vast astonishment"
(Ted Hughes)
open.spotify.com/track/1jFHIJ...
As over a new grave, when the mourners have gone
And the stars come out
And the earth, bristling and raw,
tiny and lost
Resumes its search
Rushing through the vast astonishment"
(Ted Hughes)
open.spotify.com/track/1jFHIJ...
Is there a more pathetic successful man than Elon Musk? If so I'm all ears
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Is there a more pathetic successful man than Elon Musk? If so I'm all ears
The Dark Enlightenment & the Digital Panopticon: they say the only way to ensure we are safe is if we are all in prison, shouting out to each other across the void. Their best trick is when they make the cells and bars invisible.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Dark Enlightenment & the Digital Panopticon: they say the only way to ensure we are safe is if we are all in prison, shouting out to each other across the void. Their best trick is when they make the cells and bars invisible.
The drug-addled pseud strikes again: "Grok is the only AI that is laser focused on the truth"
Grok has generated praise for Adolf Hitler, support for Putin and has referred to itself as "MechaHitler". A direct consequence of algorithmic bias and Musk's fragile febrile grasp of facts & truth
Grok has generated praise for Adolf Hitler, support for Putin and has referred to itself as "MechaHitler". A direct consequence of algorithmic bias and Musk's fragile febrile grasp of facts & truth
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The drug-addled pseud strikes again: "Grok is the only AI that is laser focused on the truth"
Grok has generated praise for Adolf Hitler, support for Putin and has referred to itself as "MechaHitler". A direct consequence of algorithmic bias and Musk's fragile febrile grasp of facts & truth
Grok has generated praise for Adolf Hitler, support for Putin and has referred to itself as "MechaHitler". A direct consequence of algorithmic bias and Musk's fragile febrile grasp of facts & truth
The Stack: Five Domains of Privatized Sovereignty:
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Stack: Five Domains of Privatized Sovereignty:
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
Had to look it up. Love it!
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Had to look it up. Love it!
They were never going to sack their hard right handler George..
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
They were never going to sack their hard right handler George..
"for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life."
(Rilke)
We must change our lives.
that does not see you. You must change your life."
(Rilke)
We must change our lives.
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life."
(Rilke)
We must change our lives.
that does not see you. You must change your life."
(Rilke)
We must change our lives.
Perhaps he points to the future that awaits us if we continue to degrade our biosphere and sacrifice so many other life-forms and species to our demands for ever more living matter. A world covered in ash from the burnt offerings to our egos and thoughtless passions. A testament to our unholiness.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Perhaps he points to the future that awaits us if we continue to degrade our biosphere and sacrifice so many other life-forms and species to our demands for ever more living matter. A world covered in ash from the burnt offerings to our egos and thoughtless passions. A testament to our unholiness.
I heard the singing of your wings’ retreat;
And watched you, far-flown, flush the Olympian snows,
Beyond my hoping. Starkly I returned
To stare upon the ash of all I burned."
And watched you, far-flown, flush the Olympian snows,
Beyond my hoping. Starkly I returned
To stare upon the ash of all I burned."
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I heard the singing of your wings’ retreat;
And watched you, far-flown, flush the Olympian snows,
Beyond my hoping. Starkly I returned
To stare upon the ash of all I burned."
And watched you, far-flown, flush the Olympian snows,
Beyond my hoping. Starkly I returned
To stare upon the ash of all I burned."
He told the truth about "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" as it applied to soldiers in WWI. The glory of a futile war told by old men to a young men in this first mechanised modern war. Industrialised slaughter that laid the foundations for the even worse horrors to come.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
He told the truth about "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori" as it applied to soldiers in WWI. The glory of a futile war told by old men to a young men in this first mechanised modern war. Industrialised slaughter that laid the foundations for the even worse horrors to come.
Owen embodies the spirit of the highest sacrifice. He fought in a war he did not believe in, and "the pity of war, the pity war distilled” he died one week before the Armistice. Owen chose to return to the trenches to continue the efforts to tell people back home what hell on Earth was really like.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Owen embodies the spirit of the highest sacrifice. He fought in a war he did not believe in, and "the pity of war, the pity war distilled” he died one week before the Armistice. Owen chose to return to the trenches to continue the efforts to tell people back home what hell on Earth was really like.