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Hi,First, thanks for being part of The Spain Report family over the years—your support meant the world to me, and we did...
04/06/2025

Hi,

First, thanks for being part of The Spain Report family over the years—your support meant the world to me, and we did do some great reporting and analysis at times.

Now it's time for a new adventure.

While reporting on the politics, the courts, the accidents, and the pandemic of course, I was quietly making notes all along about deeper patterns I kept noticing: situations, human behaviour, reactions, motivations, how some events seemed to resonate with others, across time or scale or context.

The piles of notes built up into something bigger and have now become a robust framework for analysing human behaviour in all sorts of situations, struggles and relationships.

As far as I can see, we can apply it to any level of life. It works for your personal stuff, it works for business and negotiations, and it works for politics and societies.

It's not about Spain or about me reporting to you what is happening in some situation.

This time, it's about all of us, about me giving you a new lens, a way to see the loops we all live in, that you can then apply to your own readings of life, whether that's your own situations or what you see on the news, in any country.

I'm calling it Human Loops.

It’s about why we get stuck in the same patterns personally, why history seems to rhyme or repeat, how whole societies shift towards some new direction, and what can change when we finally see the loops we’ve been living in all this time. Once you see them, you really can’t unsee them.

It's going to take a while to explain it all, but there's more than enough for a new Substack. So if that sounds useful or interesting, jump in here:

What if I told you that your morning doom scrolling, relationship problems and the world's political crises are all following the same hidden patterns? Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

Pausing subscriptions again + AIHi, quick update, am well inside the AI rabbit hole or whirlwind at this point, Spain ha...
14/03/2024

Pausing subscriptions again + AI

Hi, quick update, am well inside the AI rabbit hole or whirlwind at this point, Spain has taken a back seat, as you’ve seen, so have paused subscriptions again. The last I looked, there was another anti-heroic corrupt politician on TV insisting that they hadn’t done it. Only 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week for everyone, right?

Seems like an actual full-on paradigm shift to me for all sorts of areas of life and diving deep has felt like the in-depth reporting on the Catalan separatist trial or the first year of the pandemic. Intense. Everybody should be paying attention. AI is going to affect almost all businesses and jobs in the next 1-5 years. The changes will be enormous. At the very least, you should be thinking about it as the Internet in the 1990s and arguments could be made for Industrial Revolution or Enlightenment level change.

And not only is it a grand strategic, very-long term shift in the playing field for every business on the planet, in how the game is now going to be played, but that new game itself appears to be changing every week because the top-level global players inventing the new rules are themselves in a ferociuos fight to win global attention and new user habits.

This week’s most mind-blowing thing, although it’s only Thursday: they are building real-life C3PO. They have just put GPT inside a humanoid robot: https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474

Already doing very interesting stuff for some new clients and their projects, so if you want to talk about that, just reach out with an email or a message. It’s hard to think through how to apply it to actual businesses in each case. AI is not going to do it all for us just yet. Am also preparing some slides and info and examples from the last few months’ learnings.

Thanks for reading and I hope you're well, wherever you are are in the world. You can follow along with the AI stuff on my personal Facebook here: Matthew Bennett.

Matthew

🇪🇸 SPAIN NOTES, Jan 15: energy policy + Catalonia + nationalisms + pellets + party conferences
15/01/2024

🇪🇸 SPAIN NOTES, Jan 15: energy policy + Catalonia + nationalisms + pellets + party conferences

A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Chinese AI chat bots are already censoring ideological questions. 2/ In the US, the Iowa caucuses, the first act in the 2024 presidential election, happen today. The Republicans go first: Trump is way out in front. A Changing Spain

WEEKLY ANALYSIS: Two Kings' Speeches 2023Charles III delivered a short Christmas message about Christmas values. Felipe ...
14/01/2024

WEEKLY ANALYSIS: Two Kings' Speeches 2023

Charles III delivered a short Christmas message about Christmas values. Felipe VI gave a 1,500 word political lecture with a Christmas tree in the background.

Charles III delivered a short Christmas message about Christmas values. Felipe VI gave a 1,500 word political lecture with a Christmas tree in the background.

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 12: immigration, identity and power with Catalan separatists
12/01/2024

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 12: immigration, identity and power with Catalan separatists

A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Israel defended itself against the South African accusation of genocide in Gaza at the ICJ in the Hague, which was, their lawyers said, a “profoundly distorted and factual legal picture” and that Israel only sought to defend itself.

QUICK TAKE: What will Catalan separatists do with immigration policy?
11/01/2024

QUICK TAKE: What will Catalan separatists do with immigration policy?

Sánchez has agreed to transfer immigration policy to Catalonia because Puigdemont’s party, Junts, demanded he do so at the last minute for their seven MPs in Madrid to support his new ecomomic measures. They abstained and the bill passed, just. El Mundo reports this morning that they did the deal...

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 11: politicians and the pellets + immigration policy to Catalonia
11/01/2024

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 11: politicians and the pellets + immigration policy to Catalonia

A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ South Africa argued its petition for an ICC injunction against Israel on the question of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, relating to a breach of Articles 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d of the genocide convention: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or men...

QUICK TAKE: plastic pellet pollution & politics26 tonnes of tiny little plastic balls are washing up on Spain's northern...
10/01/2024

QUICK TAKE: plastic pellet pollution & politics

26 tonnes of tiny little plastic balls are washing up on Spain's northern coast.

26 tonnes of tiny little plastic balls are washing up on Spain's northern coast.

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 10: plastic pellets + problems with Junts already
10/01/2024

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 10: plastic pellets + problems with Junts already

A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ AI image manipulation can now fill in miniscule details on images of historical events….that were never really there. 2/ The SEC posted it had accepted all the Bitcoin ETFs…then SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said not, the account had been hacked…which X

🇪🇸 SPAIN NOTES, Jan 9: Plastic pellets + Grifols + Vox + Space Command + Kosovo passports
09/01/2024

🇪🇸 SPAIN NOTES, Jan 9: Plastic pellets + Grifols + Vox + Space Command + Kosovo passports

Ok, back in Spain now after the Christmas break. Let’s go. A changing Spain in a complex, global 21st Century. Grab your paid subscription here. A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ A frightening video of Italian fascists saluting in Rome….in 2024. 2/ Open AI

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 4: Vox + PP + outlawing separatists + migrants + new political party
04/01/2024

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 4: Vox + PP + outlawing separatists + migrants + new political party

A Complex, Global 21st Century 1/ Here is South Africa’s genocide allegation against Israel in Gaza. 2/ Names on the infamous Epstein list began to be released. They included Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Stephen Hawking, Michael Jackson, the magician David Copperfield or Harvard Law Professor Alan...

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 3: the Sánchez dollHate speech, populist politicians and democracy in 2024.
03/01/2024

SPAIN NOTES, Jan 3: the Sánchez doll

Hate speech, populist politicians and democracy in 2024.

Hate speech, populist politicians and democracy in 2024.

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