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Francesca Albanesi Journalists Briefing

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September 27th, 2026 Why was it so easy to identify journalists and their families? See  Angela Collier and Sage the Bad Naturalist Talking About the UK Government's "Protect and Survive" Pamphlet .  Subscribe to UN Human Rights Council .  Edward Snowden talk at ETH Zurich My comment: 25:42 It's not even worth running these stupid LLM programs locally. That is just the dumbest way imaginable to use a computer. With a tiny fraction of that compute and communications and data storage we could have a globally distributed verifiably secure computer and communications system which would make it impossible for anyone to subvert or otherwise control. Subscribe to  ETHics Forum . 

Water for Datacenters in NY

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The problem is the sheer fucking stupidity of using AI. It's the most inefficient way you can use a computer for anything except as a heater. AI is stupid, and only stupid people would use it, and only stupid evil cunts would try and sell it to people. Now let's have a civil conversation about the environmental effects: Subscribe to  AquaDiary Podcast . Here's an up-to-date list of stupid evil cunts. Funny how often Y-Combinator companies show up in this: My comment : RSI = Wanker's Cramp, clearly. Subscribe to Asianometry .

Pupina Plomer on El Día de los Muertos

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Santana, Natalia Lafourcade - Hermano

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Wow! I remember seeing this album in record shops when I was a kid, ...  Subscribe to Santana . 

Tomas Petricek's Cultures of Programming - 2. Hackers, engineers, managers, mathematicians and humanists

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My comment : That was interesting. There was also an idea of some of the people in the cybernetics movement in the forties and fifties of a kind of general science of control systems engineering that mostly petered out by the time companies like IBM, Burroughs etc. started making commercial digital computers, but some interesting parts continued, like the Cybersyn project of Stafford Beer which was a kind of humanistic/management hybrid culture which tried to incorporate information systems into government. The government was Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile and the CIA put an end end to that and Allende too in 1973.  For more on Stafford Beer's ideas see James Corbett on Cybernetics .  See part 1 here:  Tomas Petricek on his Book "Cultures of Programming" . See  https://tomasp.net/cultures/  for more information about the book. Subscribe to Tomas Petricek .

AFI Interview with Werner Herzog and Marco Capalbo

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Mainly about the film Bucking Fastard: See  Searle on Consciousness . Subscribe to AFI . Subscribe to Film Fest Gent .

Leave Curious and Keep it Wild Collaboration

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See  https://keepitwild.uk/  and  https://www.leavecurious.com/welcome . Your national security depends upon it.  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ...   Subscribe to Leave Curious .

Mike McCulloch on Quantized Inertia and Old Galaxies

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My comment : I worry about the epistemological stability of your theory. These calculations regarding the age of the Universe based on red-shift, and the mass at that stage of cosmological evolution are all based on various theories (I am not a cosmologist or an astrophysicist so I don't know what they actually are) which produce certain data that you are using to support a different theory. I think you need to also take into account the consistency by showing (or at least indicating why it is not necessary to show) that the laws you are proposing do not produce different estimates for the age and apparent mass of the Universe at the time to which the observations on which you base these new theories are assumed. It is quite possible that you will find different values, and a different set of data that are consistent, then you will have the possibility of another experimental test of your theory. I have been saying for years that this ought to be a priority for all of physics/astro...

Thermodynamics and the Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator

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The earth can make ice in the tropics. See  Chimborazo  (whose summit is the point on the earth's surface furthest from its center). Subscribe to Applied Science . The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator was patented by Albert Einstein and his former student Leo Szilard who were moved by a story of a family in Berlin dying because their refrigerator leaked toxic gases. They later become better known for their letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraging the development of nuclear weapons by the United States.