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Mordecai Ogada - The Robots are Coming,....

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My comment : 5:29 That's a company called VFS Global. They sub-contract visa administration for a large number of countries. Not only visas, they also handle, for example, the passport renewal process for South Africans resident outside the country. Their IT skills are apalling. Their systems barely work at all, and they aren't able to provide adequate manual backup. It's almost certainly incompetence rather than deliberate, but they are wide open to abuse by others because their systems are so insecure. But for these governments who cannot even maintain an honorary consulate in most other countries they are the only option. It is the IT industry that is to blame for this, and the Universities. I used to develop systems such as these, and I worked at a Uiversity for fifteen years. For that I am deeply ashamed! Subscribe to Mordecai Ogada . 
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Spiritually Depraved, Misery Inducing Landscapes of North America

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There's a lot of this sort of thing, and not just in Texas. Now imagine it's outside a datacenter which has a bank of jet turbine generators burning aviation fuel 24/7 so you get some auditory and olfactory background, and a feeling that you've got a cluster headache coming on,...  Seriously, you can do better landscapes there with a bulldozer: Subscribe to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't . 
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The Primeagen - What is wrong with us?

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This is interesting. My comment : 4:12 That's an interesting insight. Who TF would want to be generating a maintenance burden at the rate of 10k LOC per day? Have they even given an hour of their precious ratiocination to the question of maintenance? WTF is Y-combinator anyway? YI? See  Numberphile - Sophie Maclean on the Catalan Numbers .  Subscribe to The Primeagen . 
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Raven on the Tombs of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Boudica

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See her Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/digitwithraven . Aristotle made some interesting remarks about the Egyptians. Maybe there are some clues there...  Subscribe to Dig it With Raven . 
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A Brief History of Lebanon

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Cubans Getting Ready to Live Without Gasoline

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See  Solidarity With Cuba March 21, 2026 . Subscribe to Paquito Vlogs . 
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Laura Pausini - Gracias A La Vida

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This song was written by Violeta Parra in 1966. See  Colombina Parra - Sesiones Museo Violeta Parra  and  Nicanor Parra . Subscribe to Laura Pausini . 
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Paul Levy - What Is a Monoid?

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See the paper at  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776727 First a presentation at POPL 2026 . My comment : 23:35 You have to get this far to see what they're actually doing! At 28:45 you start to wonder though,... 😂 I think one of these is a synthetic view and the other is analytic, though in Category theory it often isn't obvious which is which! Subscribe to ACM SIGPLAN .  Then a more recent one at Topos Institute:  Subscribe to Topos Institute .  Here's what seems like a good introduction to call-by-push-value: Here's a longer one: This thing turns up in a kind of congruence relation of effects: See Levy's 2006  Jumbo λ-calculus  (ref  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11787006_38 ).  1:04:27  There is a categorical semantics of CBPV using adjunctions.  Adding fixpoints and "a mild extension of CBPV using a comonadic modality" See  Emily Riehl and Terrence Tau on The Future of Mathematics .  Subscribe to  ACM SIGPLAN ....
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Solidarity With Cuba March 21, 2026

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Time to visit your local US Embassy. Subscribe to  La Jornada de Oriente Puebla .  See  Tracks - Arte - Sneakernet and Dead Drops .  See also  Marco Rubio on Migrants October 01, 2021  and  Felix Rodriguez and The CIA In Cuba and Bolivia September 21, 2021 . Subscribe to Al Jazeera . 
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Maggie Reviewing All About Eve (1950)

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Apparently it's being screened at MoMA in NYC  tomorrow. Subscribe to Deepfocuslens . Subscribe to AFI . Watch it here! Subscribe to  Movie Con. See  Janet Axelrud's First Draft for a Short Film .
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