In which the Fully Automated Luxury Luddites discuss flowering vines and the passage of time; the third anniversary of Andres arrival on the podcast; being in the real; a tune for Elon; RSS, bots and listeners; Stuxxnet and the Ghost in the Machine; some chatbot chat; Google and employment changes; nickel mines and the use of nickel in batteries; Absolute Zero net marlarkies ; fungus in soil and GMO; tuna in vats; John Seymour's Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency; localisation of food production and how we are doing society wrong; psychedelics and their demonisation and their subsequent commodification and pharmaceuticalisation; R.D Laing's The Divided Self and schizoid states and the overlap with lockdowns; defining the normal; harmoising the human being; landing a plane on a Nepalese razor blade.

Thanks for listening. Be well.