(0720) Morning all. (0855)
4. Housekeeping
Had to fish Juan out of a dozen spam earlier … WP is obviously unsure … plus I’m thinking navigation just now. I have an advantage patrons don’t … I can find all Juan’s comments in the engine room … readers though have to scroll down through HQ posts to find his … or anyone’s.
That one step barrier is a double-edged sword … it helps protect his comments, similarly to Steve at NOWP … as long as Juan understands he’s not being ignored, it works. Before going on, a word about archiving in general.
May I humbly suggest using dead tree if you’re not already doing so? I usually cut some A4 in half, making it A5 and use a clipboard. Any notes go there, nowhere else. After some time, I file to various subject boxes (literally boxes) which I have stacked … the A5 is better, goes into small trays better.
Let’s say you wanted to access Juan’s link on Kabbala-Hindu … rather than store electronically, use the dead tree scribble method … this would be the post you needed:
Now you’re not going to remember that after tomorrow, as I deliberately use a non-pointer form of boring, same-old post headings, specifically to obscure, to make opaque.
Right, so I have already dated the day’s A5 in the morning, now I wish to save the Juan drop … I can either write Fri 030125 kabbala hindu … sufficient to track it down again or write out the full url .. or both.
If I write the shortened form with blog heading, that’s fine, for as long as Unherdables exists. Though HQ stands a better chance than Nourishing due to MMUTR, there are still unknowns … my blogs do have a history of being nuked by hosting platforms.
In the end, it comes down to what priority you give it … if high, better to write the url in full, if you take a chance on HQ surviving, then just the post heading suffices. Keep similar types of notes together, using physical spring paperclips. Ifyou want that url, go HQ => Fri 030125 => comments thread.
The above is just one method good for me … you have your own of course … some use usb sticks, some use usb connecting hard drives.
But do have a system, folks.
3. Weird things inside the goldmine
… as The Doors sang … or in this case, weird things on X and Gab … both. Ab was rubbish today, plus the DMs were down … someone’s messing over there. Meanwhile, on X, there’s something about not seeing unverified accounts replies … “verified” just means controlled, that’s all, with us paying money for the privilege.
Other than that, it’s operating all right, apart from the dropouts which occasioned mt OoL and Jstack posts … it’s still happening, on and off today, so those posts stay.
2. Steve drops at 928
Four: Tommy R and plenty of other bits and pieces…..
Three: Speaker Johnson, FBI, plenty of other etc…
Two: Uke sit-rep, the elan of western v Russian troops, much more…..
One: UK government plans to profiteer from NHS patients’ private medical information, Musk on TR, plenty more…..
1. TDS and Green finance
According to reports in Bloomberg and the Telegraph, several major U.S.-based financial institutions have recently left the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Yesterday, Morgan Stanley announced that it had pulled out, though offered no reason. This follows Citigroup and Bank of America both quitting the Alliance on Tuesday, and their exit follows Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, which both quit earlier in the month. Though it is mostly U.S.-based, this has altered the global context of climate politics immensely. So what has caused this ‘exodus’, and what happens next?
NZBA is a project of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Finance Initiative (FI), launched in 2021. It convenes figures, plucked from the financial sector, who agree to attempt to align the interests of major financial institutions towards climate outcomes.
It is the fruit of financial news media tycoon Mike Bloomberg’s UN entryism, and his underling, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, now manager of Bloomberg’s business empire, Mark Carney. Bloomberg and Carney are respectively UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.