Radical AnthropologyThe study breaks #baboon social life into three categories: cohesive, cliquish and multilevel
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/baboon-societies-arent-one-size-fits-all-study-finds
HybridMind42 & Marvin the CatHYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?
https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign
We started by asking: what do our systems see?
Now we ask: do they allow people time to adapt?
Paper 2 looks at pension changes through the lens of expectation boundaries. When those shift too late, people are left bridging the gap themselves.
Not collapse—
but strain where it matters most.
Eric LawtonMore "side effects" of the Netanyahu-Trump war.
Volkswagen may turn car factory into Iron Dome hub with Israel partnership
These large changes to our #SocialSystems have global ripple effects that shift everything away from peace and increase the likelihood of war.
“Claude” isn't a person. It's not the kind of thing that could have had a job but no longer does. It can't “have” anything. It can't take responsibility for text posted on Substack.
We are damaging our social systems if we go along with the corporate marketing that tries to persuade us otherwise.
Making a Better WorldFresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems
Fresh Start for Better Systems
Because of family health challenges, I have had to ditch some of my community work and focus on home. But I am going to try to keep going on my book on Making a Better World, in the hopes that some of it might prove useful. #socialSystems
http://ericlawton.org/2026/02/21/fresh-start-for-better-systems/
The Epstein connection network graph is a large subnet of the global oligarchy network.
The global oligarchy is a pedophile ring.
Who could have guessed?
Lord Acton, for one:
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely".