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Financial Viability of Livestreaming v. Outdoor Living

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Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Subscribe to  Dr Hilary Agro . 20:22 See these projects:  ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society A new economic system for the 21st Century   28:08  "If you're watching this video you can likely afford a roof over your head and groceries,...  or you live in Canada."  My comment : What a brilliant video! Thank you. Unfortunately the tech oligarchs are very likely wrong about AI and none of them seem to know how you could actually develop technology that really works. The answer as you say is teaching, and they're not interested in that because it needs good communications which is awkward.  Subscribe to  Hazel is Online . Subscribe to  Angela Collier .  My comment : So I got half an hour in and I realise way too late that I am now committed to a 3.75 hour Israeli settlement with the Palestinians in Gaza. Sorry, I let my autosuggestion finish that sentence. I just wanted to see why it gu...

Amazing Interview Afshin Rattansi did with John Bolton

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Janet Axelrud on the Soul

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See her Substack piece  Rice On A Flat Plate - A Metaphor for Trust . Subscribe to  Curious Wandering Souls . Here's the audiobook Janet was listening to:  YouTube demonetized him. You can support him at  https://buymeacoffee.com/nolanreads . Subscribe to  Nolan Reads .  Her balloon and the sun metaphor reminded me of L'homme est le seul oiseau qui porte sa cage by Claude Weiss: Subscribe to  Dust .  On the importance of words, again this made me think of this talk and the paper on  Emerging dynamic regimes and tipping points from finite empirical principles  by Sergio Cobo-López, Matthew Witt, Forest L. Rohwer and Antoni Luque. Verbal communication seems to set the scale of observations of the participants, so that their reality is shared. Without that common web of verbal communications each person lives in their own private world of experience, which can become to be like a cage.  Think about the ancient rites associated with s...

Plum Village - Young Scientists: The Future is Now

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Subscribe to Plum Village .  The answer to the AI question at 1:14:37 reminded me of this thesis: Subscribe to  Santa Fe Institute . 

Olive Badger on Ford's Really Stupid Idea

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It makes me nauseous to think that there are people out there that are this dumb. One more reason why we need to stop using their money. Boycott, Divest and Sanction! See  Olive Badger on Car "Kill Switches"  and  Olive Badger on Fucked-up Economics . Then  Crisis in Perception - An Example of a Common Problem  and  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Olive Badger . 

Gin Wigmore - Country Diamond

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Kim Iversen talking to Karl Jablonowski

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I wonder why they thought it was necessary to create a pandemic? It's obvious that it was faked and that people like Bill Gates where talking it up for years beforehand. See  John Harte - Disturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems  and  Holly Moeller on Acquired Metabolism in Evolution .  See the full interview at  EXPOSED: Biden Officials Knowingly HID Covid Vaxx Injuries .  Subscribe to  Kim Iversen . 

Laura Went to Mexico!

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Holly Moeller on Acquired Metabolism in Evolution

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See  John Harte - Disturbance and Recovery Dynamics in Complex Systems .  Richard Dawkins is going to have some sleepless nights... Shit just doesn't seem to work like it used to. It must be the AI's fault, Dick!  Subscribe to  Santa Fe Institute .  See  An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats . Subscribe to  Anton Petrov .  There are also new molecular models that give biological media a whole new set of properties. See  Documentary About Water . Then there are pre-genetic processes, see  Nick Lane on Cellular Metabolism and the Krebs Cycle  and in particular the part starting around 32:20 on the connection between DNA codons and the molecular properties of the metabolites. Then there are  Prions and Theories of Abiogenesis  and also  Two Interesting New RNA Experiments  and Jessica Utts on Why All Scientists Should Take Psi Seriously . 

Stuff That Used to Happen in Ontario

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See  Nima Alkhorshid talking with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson .  Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software . Interview with Nicole Amaral, Director and sole employee of the Digital Kitchener Innovation Lab.  Subscribe to  Communitech .  Velocity in 2009: ... and in 2017 various people had sold their startups to Microsoft and Google:  Subscribe to  UWaterloo . About 14 miles away there is another University at Guelph where the CoSy conferencing system was developed. It was like a user-friendly private version of Usenet. That software changed the world. You can get the source code from here:  https://cosy.sourceforge.net/ . The CoSy system inspired me to try to make a better one. It also set up some expectations for social media which for some reason were never met by any commercial social media systems I have seen. One of those was that there were different spaces where one could interact with different groups of people and where one could im...