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Fiorella Isabel talking with Marwa Osman

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See  Lebanon Ceasefire  and also  Vanessa Beeley Talking With Setareh Sadeqi and Marwa Osman  and  Vanessa Beeley and Fiorella Isabel on the UNSC Resolution - Oil over Human Lives .  See  https://x.com/Marwa__Osman . Subscribe to  Critical Perspectives .  33:00  I think that was recorded before this news: See  Marwa's X post here .  Subscribe to  Al Jazeera English . 

About Logic with Seunghyun Song and Jordi Fairhurst

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This is a really interesting insight into mathematical practice and mathematical politics! 46:25 On navigating unkind epistemic environments.  See  About Logic with Andrej Bauer .  Subscribe to  About Logic .  This reminds me that I haven't watched Norman Wildberger's latest:  And here's his previous talk on multisets:  They're just vector spaces, I think. See  Gabriele Carcassi on The Correspondence Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics .  Here's the Algebraic Calculus playlist (YouTube channel members only.)  Subscribe to  Norman Wildberger .  And I haven't listened to this yet, but it sounds quite interesting:  He is using this idea to introduce category theory (or maybe I'm just being epistemically over-friendly?)  From the video description : A finite-dimensional vector space is isomorphic to its dual, but only if you pick a basis. It's also isomorphic to its double dual, and that isomorphism requires no choi...

Abby Martin's Documentary Earth's Greatest Enemy

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She's showing it on YouTube to all her Empire Files channel members on April 30. Subscribe to  Empire Files . 

AI and Privacy

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Weird, I watched this short and YouTube hung up on me, because it wanted me to think about something: He's talking about his voice notes app,..  Subscribe to  JP makes apps .  So we can't have private peer-to-peer messaging without setting up a server on a well-known IP address, which is therefore a SPoF and vulnerable to denial-of-service or snooping attack, but...  2:51 Google have had this for ages, just not for users. Subscribe to  FUTO

Uplink 2026

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This is the state of the art in open source/libre software. Subscribe to  media.ccc.de . 

UAE Funds WBD Buyout, then...

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The UAE could become the next beneficiary of a Federal Reserve swap line, which would give it the same status as other countries which have intelligence sharing agreements with the US. See  Clara Mattei talking with Costas Lapavitsas .  See  Private Equity in the US  and  The American Media Disaster . See also  Trump's "reshaping the media" post : Talking with Daniel Davis this morning: Subscribe to Lena Petrova . 

Przewalski's Horses, Yellowstone's Wolves and Finland's Wild Salmon

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See the Wikipedia entry for  Przewalski's horse .  The horses were a crucial part of the ecosystem and when they went extinct it became a desert. 15:19 Ecological economists calculated the value of each horse to the ecosystem, and it came to over US$47,000 per horse per year, just for being horses.  See  Wall Street Also Think this Whole Iran War Thing is Fake News .  Subscribe to  Ground Zero .  And if you let the salmon back into the rivers then the bears get better food to eat,... Subscribe to  Daily Discoveries .  So many stupid AI generated thumbnails! 

Private Equity in the US

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This is amazing. Apparently white-collar crime prosecution in the Unite Ststes these days that high-power lawyers have no work. They should try ambulance-chasing: 8:13 It's cross-border too, so ambulance manufacturers in the US and Canada are all wrapped up into just two companies. And this whole shit-show is publicly funded since 2016. See  https://substack.com/@mattstoller  in particular this piece  Monopoly Round-Up: Some Surprising Setbacks for Trump-Aligned Corporate America . See Trump's "reshaping the media" post and  The American Media Disaster .  Subscribe to  Inside China Business . 

Lambda Calculus to System-F

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The System-F one is the only one I have watched and it is excellent. The others are probably also just as good. See also  People Talking about Programming  and  Tsoding Standard ML .  Subscribe to  Computable Secrets .