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Lee Camp on Henry Kissinger

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Tamitha Skov's Space Weather Report

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Something Political - Liberal Feminism and International Relations

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It really cheered me up a lot, to find this channel yesterday: International Court of Justice (ICJ): 0:33 Idealism: 1:10 Ideological terrorism: 2:10 International recognition: 2:21 International system: 2:48 International society: 3:24 Here is the alphabet  playlist: And here is the critical theory playlist: Subscribe to Something Political . Toby Interviewing People with Stressful Jobs: Subscribe to Tibees .

Gwyn Bevan - How did Britain come to this? The accidental logics of Britain's neoliberal settlement

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Gwyn Bevan's book:  How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance . Abby Innes' book:  Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail . Ros Taylor's book:  The Future of Trust . Alexander Pepper's  If you’re so ethical, why are you so highly paid?: ethics, inequality and executive pay . I've only listenened to the first 1:01.09 and it's very interesting. I wonder how much of the discussion will be about the international context of economic development? See this series on Critical Theory, developed in Western Europe in the 1920s and '30s  Something Political - Liberal Feminism . Subscribe to LSE .

Lana Del Rey in Lineup at Primavera Sound Porto

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With Tropical Fuck Storm , amongst others, ... June 6, 2024 See  Primavera Sound Porto .

I Live in Dan Brown's Asshole

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I went to try and get some stuff to make sushi and Google maps sent to the back door of the shop! This place looks like a great venue for a comedy club: At this point I was right next door to the shop! It's a really good shop, it's in the Parade, at 116. It even shows there:

Lana Del Rey in Harper's Bazaar

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Joan Armatrading - Symphony Number 1

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Tomorrow at 7:30 pm on BBC Radio 3

Darkroom

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Standard Lamp Movie Project

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Aerial Photography

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Catastrophic Failures of Aluminium Alloy Wheels

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I have now seen two accidents in six months where this has happened:

Tecate Hack Space

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This is Edgar, ... I am going throuogh my SD Cards to see what videos and photos I can delete, ... I need one blank card to install a usable OS on this PC:  I Have A Desktop Computer  and then I will have access to enough disk space to back up my videos from the last two years, ... The guy in the phone shop in Bushey sold me a power supply for #30 but I don't have the passwords or an Internet connection so I can't access the re-installed Windows he set up, ...  Three minutes later Scott Bernstein in Benjamen Stevens told me "It says 'Sale Agreed'", ... go figure.

Edward Snowden - "I have been egg-stremely fortunate, ..."

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Interviewed in October2015: Written in February 2015:  Anti-Tempest Software and Pulp Fiction .a story called  The Cloud — Surfing the Global Communications Infrastructure . Subscribe to The BBC .

Sci-Fi Shorts - The DUST Files "LOVE"

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Starts with Paleonaut, which I really liked. Subscribe to Dust .

I Have A Desktop Computer

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Some very kind people gave me a Compaq CQ1000 ... I don't have the power supply though [update: I got one for ₤30 in Bushey, ...]. I was wondering if I could just use the HDD as a USB 2.0 Backup disk with an adaptor :  Then buy an SSD to replace it, ...

UK Government Wildlife Policies

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Maybe they're not expecting to be the government for very long?  There's a petition to sign, if you're a UK citizen:  https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/650425  it takes less than a minute to do: Prioritise the reintroduction and translocation of species Create a comprehensive national strategy for the reintroduction and translocation of species. To provide a framework that focuses on maximising environmental benefits and mitigating negative consequences of species reintroductions. To show conviction toward the ambitious targets for biodiversity and habitat restoration. To acknowledge scientific evidence that species reintroduction can play a key role habitat restoration. To build upon all existing work on species reintroduction in the UK. To acknowledge and stick with its original commitment to reintroduce species like the beaver. To acknowledge the support of the public toward rewilding and species reintroduction. See  https://www.mossy.earth/?referral=LEAVEC...

Dr. John Campbell on 2023 Excess Deaths Data and mRNA Vaccine Suspension in Some Scandinavian Countries

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Daniel Tubbenhauer's Cayley-Dickson Construction of the Octonions

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 He's also planning to do a followup on  The Freudenthal–Tits magic square . See also John Baez's Octonions Review . I was wondering idly whether it is possible to make sense of all this purely in terms of symmetries of graphs of functions, a la Halmos' treatment in the book Measure Theory See  Lewis Carroll - Crocodile-Story . The indistinct hand-written annotation on the limits is possibly connected with the hand-written double-tick marks at the foot of Page 13 . Toby doing Complex Numbers Bob Ross Style: I saw this while I was on the streets in San Jose, Costa Rica, and it just seemed a bit weird at the time! Subscribe to Tibees . Octonions are the thing , apparently. Now even Amazon are selling them : See also  F4 (Symmetry Group)  and  Regular 4-polytope (24 cell) :

Interesting Radio Project

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See  https://www.birdz.com/ ,  https://www.map-france.com/Puteaux-92800/  and  https://lora-alliance.org/lora_products/bridge/ . Line of sight? Appeared November 23: You'd think it would have something writtten on it giving a contact point and an explanation of who installed it and why, ... I am guessing that it is Harrow Council using it to schedule waste collection for the school . But it could be anything. If they're in public spaces and on public signage then the devices should be labelled.

Forth is fun on the RPi Pico

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Connecting sounds, colours and temperature with algorithms, ... See  Having Trouble Getting a Job, ... Subscribe to  @pbjtech . See  https://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/  and  Mecrisp-Stellaris Port Brings the Forth Programming Language to the Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2040 :  In-depth demonstration video, and handy word list, shows how to get started with Forth on the Raspberry Pi Pico or other RP2040 board It seems some work could be done to allow the Forth system on the Pico to communicate using the Pico's own USB cable rather than a separate USB USART adapter: Subscribe to  0033mer .

Implausible Lifestyles

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Artisanal bricks with water, earth and straw. Processing, drying and firing in 1994 Subscribe to Eufenio Monesma .

Sci-Fi Sunday Shorts

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Norman Fenton - What I had planned to say at the NHS Conference that cancelled me

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See his substack account . I have provided several updates to the story of my cancellation from the NHS Health and Care Analytics Conference 2023. There will be another important update soon as there has been a development. The talk I was due to give had nothing to do with any of our work on challenging the ‘official’ narrative on covid or vaccinations, even though that was clearly the reason I was cancelled (they said ‘my presence would be a distraction’). ... This is the 40 minute talk. Using primarily examples with health data, it explains how Bayesian networks can tackle the limitations of pure data-driven statistical machine learning methods when applied to observational data: Subscribe to Norman Fenton .

Jessica Rose at The International Covid Summit in Romania

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See  www.internationalcovidsummit.com . You have to scroll along the series of Day-1 presentations to find hers. These vaccines are lethal to a significant proportion of the population and they should not be being encouraged the way they are in the UK right now.

PTSD Camp Bath

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It's a camp site for veterans. See  https://www.facebook.com/groups/323700928835114 . Looks like they've had some interesting press coverage on:  Jewish Chronicle September 2023: Revealed: ‘Therapy’ camp for ex-soldiers is far-right hub  and this report from March 2021:  Huge police presence at ex-forces PTSD rehab farm near Bath - live updates . Civilians can camp there too, for a donation. I think there should be more places like this open all year around. How about land restoration projects where you can work for food? If there was a way to organise networks of such infrastructure there could be a system to get people off the streets into meaningful emplyment and back on the road to health, Subscribe to  Mission Impossible .

Lewis Carroll - Crocodile Story

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From Sylvie & Bruno Vol's I & II (Page 101 [227 of the first ed. and 121 in this PDF]) “And one day—when we was in Outland, oo know—before we came to Fairyland—me and Sylvie took him a big Crocodile. And he shortened it up for us. And it did look soo [228] funny! And it kept looking round, and saying ‘wherever is the rest of me got to?’ And then its eyes looked unhappy—”  “Not both its eyes,” Sylvie interrupted. “Course not!” said the little fellow. “Only the eye that couldn’t see wherever the rest of it had got to. But the eye that could see wherever—” ... The reason I looked at this is that I was thinking about the real closed field and fractal crocodiles and farey sequences , ... Original (animated!) Image of F(1), F(2), F(3), F(5), F(7) and F(9) . Note that F(9) includes F(3) as a subsequence.  See Paul Halmos' book  Measure Theory : The pre-requisites § 0 includes  Heine–Borel theorem  for which you are further required to understand what it means...

Julie Nolke - World's Worst First Date

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Rancid Rabbit Goes West

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Walk to Watford

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Terrible video, sorry.

Extreme Duplex Makeover with Werner Herzog and David Lynch

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David Lynch, Laura Dern & Justin Theroux on Inland Empire

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David Lynch's Frog Moth Story

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Ian Grant's Weather Report

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The outlook is grim: YouTube recommends: Reaction: See the comments on YouTube . Theater: Subscribe to CS50 . See  Install and Configure Samba Server on Ubuntu , then  Communication drivers: AHCI vs NVMe  and  NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5 : Subscribe to Margherita Pirri .

Tamitha Skov - Solar Storm Forecast 23 November 2023

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See the course at  https://www.millersville.edu/swen  and you can support her work at  https://patreon.com/SpaceweatherWoman . Follow her on Twitter/X too:  https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov Yesterday's surprise #aurora as imaged from #ISS on 21Nov2023 by @lunarloral from over eastern Mongolia. Bright spot under clouds left of centre is #Chita in kraj #Transbaikal in Russia. Original https://t.co/pfQPDmKlMS @DaveAtCOGS @TamithaSkov pic.twitter.com/NOHf4quvPs — huub eggen (@phi48) November 22, 2023 Great view of #aurora tonight 22.11 after taking off from Rovaniemi, Finland 🇫🇮 about 30 minutes ago around 2100 UTC @TamithaSkov This view is looking towards the W/NW as we fly south to Helsinki. 3rd night in a row viewing aurora! #northernlights #revontulet #finland pic.twitter.com/KQvaNxompE — Austin MacDonald (@AustinMacD97) November 22, 2023 The radio blackout scale has five levels. From  https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-rad...

The House

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For those interested, including the current buyer, ...  I think we can explain, ... well, Laura Dern and Grace Zabriskie can, ... Subscribe to HolographixFinn . Subscribe to  LukeK79 . David Lynch on his film Inland Empire Subscribe to  Leah Xylona Tulia - Nothing Else Matters Subscribe to Tulia . On Lost Highway and The Mystery Man at That Party Subscribe to  Scarecrowproject . (Old Corn-nose!) Tulia - Nim Gwiazda Zgaśnie Subscribe to  Tulia Vevo . Le vent nous portera - Noir Désir Subscribe to  Margherita Pirri

Tania Tagaq & Buffy Saint Marie - Polar Music Prize

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Complete with birds from the guitarist!! Subscribe to Polar Muxic Prize . See this APTN News piece by By Tom Fennario Oct 26, 2023:  Buffy Sainte-Marie speaks out regarding questions of Cree ancestry World-renowned singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is releasing information about her past ahead of a scheduled CBC documentary that is expected to question her Cree ancestry. More on the house coming soon, ...

VICE TV - Meet the Engineer Preserving The Last Analog Motion Graphics Machine

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Hard Reset - Analog computing will take over 30 billion devices by 2040. Wtf does that mean?

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Comes with a freee commercial: see  https://github.com/aar0np/CustomerPromotionVectorSearch  and  https://www.datastax.com/lp/astra-registration : What is Generative AI? It’s going to alter everything about how we use the internet Subscribe to  Freethink (1.02M subscribers) . Subscribe to Asianometry . Analog AI Chip: IBM's Research Breakthrough in Speech Recognition   Subscribe to  Tech Craft Global (27 subscribers) .  See  The Blender .

Rancid Rabbit Does Accounting

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The girl downstairs is studying this: As far as getting help: see  Donovan - I Am The Shaman . I should have just meditated on the floor of my hotel room in Tecate. But I had to go to the traffic lights early and beg for money to pay for the room the next night. I very rarely had more than a few day's worth of rent accrued. I was also scared of losing the room if I went away for too long and  someone else moved in. I did make one trip away, to Valle de Guagalupe. See  My Dream Date With Lana Del Rey . Around October 2021, I think, I phoned Michael Barrile once at Asymetrical Studios in LA from Tecate and asked for help. I wanted to do a collaboration with David. Michael said he's forward my e-mail and so I sent him an e-mail for David. Then in a reply by e-mail, Michael said he didn't think they could help. His email had a footer "Personal assistant to David Lynch"). I later asked my daughter to contact David and I think I gave her Michael's number (which I go...

Donovan - I Am The Shaman

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See the video description on YouTube : Nov 22, 2023 Donovan’s I AM THE SHAMAN recorded in David Lynch’s Asymetrical Studios in LA and the video directed by David Lynch. Donovan plays his acoustic guitar ‘Kelly‘ and sings . David plays his unique Modal Chord Guitar Textures and effects. This most unusual Poetic Song written by Donovan was recorded in David Lynch's LA Studio, produced by David with his engineer and fellow mixer Dean Hurley. The video directed by David Lynch. Listen to the song everywhere  https://donovandiscs.lnk.to/IAmTheShaman Donovan says: 'It was all impromptu. I visited the studio and David said ... 'Sit at the mics with your guitar Don'. David in same room behind control desk with my Linda. He had asked me to only bring in a song just emerging, not anywhere near finished. We would see what happens. It happened! I composed extempore ... the verses came naturally. New chord patterns effortlessly appeared. On another day David 'Sound Sculpted' ...

Gimme Some A That - Donovan and David Lynch.

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Posted an hour ago, ...  Subscribe to  Donovan . Who spent all night with me? The Foreign Commonwealth himself? Started out on a good note, fell apart when he listed all the countries who they'd fucked-over and tried to make out that they're better off because of it. I'm the same, I understand. Subscribe to The Mirror . See: Children's Short Story - Rancid Rabbit Buys A Shotgun Stan Jones - Ghost Riders in the Sky (1948) Oops. I didn't even notice it was a pod, I thought it was a coffee bean! La leña means firewood in Spanish: Subscribe to  Robert Savchenko . This song is about the whole Earth: PJ Harvey - Lwonesome Tonight Subscribe to PJ Harvey . Here she's doing mathematics live on stage in France: PJ Harvey Festival Nuits de Fourvière 2016 live Subscribe to Eddie Hessler .

Oops. I didn't even notice it was a pod, I thought it was a coffee bean!

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... I know it's been coffee, but what is it now?! See  The Blender : https://www.olivios.co.uk/ : Monday - Closed Tuesday - Friday: 5pm-10pm Saturday - Sunday: 1pm - 10pm Bank Holidays - 1pm - 10pm See also  Children's Short Story - Rancid Rabbit Buys A Shotgun  and  Stan Jones - Ghost Riders in the Sky (1948) .

Stan Jones - Ghost Riders in the Sky (1948)

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Children's Short Story - Rancid Rabbit Buys A Shotgun

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I wrote this, to see what are my chances at getting an editor, proof-reader and literary agent with a view to writing illustrated short stories for children: Chapter One LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING, ... I took the hexagonal vape and the British American Tobacco Golden Virgina vapes outside.l I walked up past the warehouse at Number Forty Five Clarendon Road, ... I went to https://postal-code.uk/postcode/harrow and invented a new Greater London Borough, but not without the very able assistance of a Teracotta Army and Maya. But, having deeply hurt the feelings of the broken-hearted builder of ugly little firewood sheds in My Beautiful Plus Belle, the world-reknowned bouldering gaff in Laramade d'en Bas, Vicdessos, Tarrascon sur Ariege, France, I found, to my dismay, that I had IN FACT created a whole new Ellstree Studios! The address is Apparently 45 Clarendon Road, Borehamwood, WD6 1BE, UNITED KINGDOM. "Go figure" thought I. That day I was relieved because I realized we ha...