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The Mysterious Process by which Flint is Created

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Here's Saskia's video:  Here's Rachel's skeleton video from last week: My question was about flint: That was great!! So the trick is not to become an extinct experiment. Gotcha. Now I am going to look at your videos to see if anywhere you explain this thing I never understood which is how flints form in chalk deposits. I used to live in England and there were some chalk deposits full of really beautiful white Dolomite, but with the globules of flint. If you find them before they break into sharp shards then they look almost organic: like they're some sort of fossilised jelly-blobs. But I guess its just the silica and calcite separating at some point. But does anybody have any ideas about when and where it happens? Is it early on in the deposition when these were all separate skeletons swishing around in a kind of slurry on the sea-floor, or was it later when they came under some pressure? It seems like a violation of the second law of thermodynamics though. Another...
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Afshin Rattansi interview with J. K. Galbraith

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See his book The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline . My comment : 22:30 Jevon's "law" is just a consequence of economics being complete BS. It is a consequence of people's belief that earning money is the only means by which human beings can survive. Justify that belief first before you start talking about laws of human behaviour.   And another : Unhooking from the US/UK financial system could be done in a matter of months. Subscribe to New Order . My comment : Economists are idiots! They don't know about anything real and so they think reality is economics. It's not. Economics is a load of hot air and economists have nothing useful to contribute to human knowledge. Subscribe to  World Affairs in Context . See  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ...  for half a clue about what a real economy needs to based upon.
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Brad Lancaster Harvesting Water in Arizona

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Subscribe to Brad Lancaster . They could use some better water management in Los Cabos in Baja California too: Subscribe to On The Pulse with Silki . Subscribe to GrowTree Organics .
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Glenn Diesen interview with Thomas Fazi

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42:49 You need to be motivated to believe this crap. The people in academia I have heard parroting it were people who had research contracts with government intelligence agencies.   44:10 You can also do censorship and call it bugs in the software.  So when the audio cuts out here, people say, well, that was just a coincidence. You know how many bugs there are in the Internet, .... My comment : Are you aware Fazi's audio cuts out at 44:51 until 45:31 ? and then again at the end.   Why is there no authoritative news source from, say, the United Nations? Because they can't afford it? Because the United Nations does not have access to journalists? Because such a thing would be of no value to member states? Or because the United Nations is just a stupid, disgraceful sham?  See  So Many Stupid Boring Ideas! ,  Francesca Albanesi Journalists Briefing and  Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud Part II - Sanctioning Truth . Subscribe to Glenn Diese...
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Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud Part II - Sanctioning Truth

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You can support him by contributing to his legal fund: https://www.liberteexpression.ch/    My comment :  41:36 But if any European or British citizen were to go to Switzerland and apply for asylum there their case would be dismissed without a hearing because EU and Britain are considered safe countries.   See part I here:  Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud  and see Scott's recent interview with Nima Alkhorshid:  Scott Ritter on his Interview With Jacques Baud . Subscribe to Scott Ritter . 
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So Many Stupid Boring Ideas!

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It's as if people were deliberately educated en masse to fail to be able to grasp the most basic premiss of actual human knowledge, which is how is it that we can ever actually know anything as individuals. As we learn to speak and understand each other, something each of does from a very young age, we solve this problem instinctively, but by the time we reach the level of post-graduate studies we seem to have been convinced otherwise. I have a great example of a post-doctorate researcher in "quantum foundations" and "quantum information processing" whose response to the idea that actual human knowledge is the invariant content of the different statements we can translate from one language to another (see Popper's 1978 Tanner lecture Three Worlds ) was "but where is it?" What is it that he wanted to know the location of? The actual human knowledge, of course! Why would one expect knowledge to have a physical location? Is this some demand that phys...
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Scott Ritter on his Interview With Jacques Baud

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See  Scott Ritter interview with Jacques Baud : My comment : I hope someone does a whip-around to buy sandwiches for those poor lawyers too, they're probably working through their lunch-hours.   See https://www.liberteexpression.ch/   Here's the full interview: Subscribe to Dialogue Works .
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Mikhail Gromov on Mathematical Description of Biological Structures

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1:27:38 Boundary conditions defined in terms of thermodynamic properties. Also at 13:54  and 19:58  and 47:17  (high frequency vibration in protein molecules) in this lecture:   5:42 Prokaryotic orgnisms were very busy for those first two billion years evolving the cellular metabolic pathways, but there is no fossil evidence of this until the eukaryotic cells appeared. They should still get some credit for the work though, because it was quite significant. 23:34 Quantum mechanics defines the quantum state in terms of the boundary conditions. The Born rule forbids a unitary dynamical explanation of those conditions.  35:31  Setting up an electronic circuit to activate a solenoid on a certain sequence of button presses is putting an interpretation on a physical system as representing the transfer of that information from the operator to the machine. See  John Searle - Syntax is Observer-Relative . It is not the information that is causing the door to ...
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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 . 
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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 .
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