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The Making of Wild God, Part 2

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Today I was thinking about something I wrote about photography for my daughter. It was a slightly half-baked idea about photographs being a division of some whole whole we perceive. Then I started thinking about how an exhibition of photographs is then some kind of synthesis, putting together a whole from pieces. (A bit like Perec 's novel Life: A User's Manual .) But that last thought only came after I watched this, and after I saw some young people in Fitzroy street this afternoon, offering people prizes for watching a three minute video, ... This one is over four minutes though: Cucumber is underrated, I think. See  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Making of Wild God , ... and some prehistory on that chorus: See this post of mine:  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds April 19, 2024 . See also  Nick Cave - Wild God  and  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Frogs . Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds .

BBC Programme on The Light House Stevensons

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Sabine Hossenfelder Being a Futurologist

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This makes me want to eat a hamburger, ... I went to see Wilding yesterday and it is a beautiful film. Hopefully in the future we won't be so sure what is considered normal. Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder .

Daniel Boctor on the WannaCry(pt) Worm

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See  WannaCry ransomware attack  and  Sci-Fi - There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk . Part 2: Subscribe to  Daniel Boctor . In case you're wondering who was really behind the attack, ... The NSA developed the code and service provider admins failed to apply Microsoft's patches on time, ... and the US Department of Trade and Commerce thinks this makes good business sense:  Lee Camp on The Other Movie Economy Subscribe to Mental Outlaw .

Beeston Hill "Y" Station

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Some WWII signals intelligence history, ... See  Beeston Hill Y Station .

PaperCast - How It Works, ...

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It's updated once a minute and it says "Please refer to timetables."

Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Stop The Wensum Link Road

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Making of Wild God, Part 2

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... set in some kind of space port, ... 🙀! Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds .

Trailer - Wilding (2024)

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Looks too good to be true! Subscribe to Madman Films . Knepp Rewilded Subscribe to KneppFlix .

Julie Nolke - Where is The FBI

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... when you're looking for a job? Subscribe to Julie Nolke . She seems to be saying that it's the FBI that makes these ads come up on YouTube, ... See  David Lynch and Chrystabell - Sublime Eternal Love . Subscribe to Gabriel Syme . Sherilyn Fenn on David Lynch: Subscribe to  Chevy West 123 .

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Grant

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David Lynch and Chrystabell - Sublime Eternal Love

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See  Commercial - David Lynch and Christabell's Cellophane Memories . Subscribe to David Lynch Theater . Round: Shoning: Subscribe to National Geographic .

Dana Scott and Norman Wildberger on Musical Chairs

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It's as if computer scientists want mathematics to be their reference standard of truth, ... But then how do use the resulting theorem-proving systems to prove mathematical theorems? From the video description: Denotational semantics started in Oxford in late 1969. It was hoped that domain theory would provide a basis both for recursive definitions in programs and recursive definitions of semantical structures. Early troubles were encountered in using tops and bottoms, and soon researchers turned to operational semantics. Others wanted to expand work to communicating and parallel processes. Axiomatic and synthetic theories did not solve the problems, and as a result much research effort in domain theory faded. Late work by Reynolds and collaborators, however, has opened up new and promising approaches for programming-language semantics. Perhaps the much simplified modeling using enumeration operators can spark some new investigations, especially since it is so easy to add a rich ty...

Colleen Fazio Talking Amps with Pat Kauffman

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... in Brooklyn, NY! Subscribe to Fazio Electric . See  https://www.patrickkauffmanelectronics.com/kauffman-amplifiers : Pat Kauffman - Restoring a 1966 Ampeg B-15 Subscribe to Pat Kauffman . Power Pose Live at Main Drag Music, Brooklyn Subscribe to  Mic TV

David Gilmour - Between Two Points (With Romany Gilmour)

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There's a great video too: This sounds a lot more hopeful than the original does, to me. See also  David Gilmour - The Piper's Call . Subscribe to David Gilmour . It's a family project! See  https://davidgilmour.lnk.to/LuckandStrangeDeluxe .

Impossible Railroad on A Railcart - Tijuana to Tecate

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This is just part four of the whole trip , ... at  27:16  they reach the would-be site of the Mexican Institute for Social Sciences or whatever it was, ... and they wind up a couple hundred yards from a pink trailer, ... See  Commercial - David Lynch and Christabell's Cellophane Memories . Subscribe to Archie Moreno and Little Fox .

Noam Chomsky on the Minimalist Thesis of Language

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Apparently The Independent just published a hit-piece on him which has upset many people because he's very unwell and 95 years old. Subscribe to Abdessamia Benchekh . Subscribe to Chomsky's Philosophy . The way he speaks about reality makes me wonder whether maybe he should try taking five grams of psilocybin and getting a lecture from the self-generating language machine-elves. ... or maybe ten grams, ... Subscribe to We Plants are Happy Plants . See also  Julie Nolke - Who Gets to Be Called "Washing Machine"?

Françoise Hardy - Tant de Belles Chauses

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Sakara Dee at Strawberry Fair 2024

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See  https://www.strawberry-fair.org.uk/scarecrow/ Outside , but sung in a pub, ... See  https://sakaradee.co.uk/ Subscribe to Sakara .

Julie Nolke - Who Gets to Be Called "Washing Machine"?

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Sabine Hossenfelder on AI and The Will to Power

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Oh, we have all these cheap computes, what shall we do with them? ... I know, ... Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder .

Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera

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She's a genius storyteller! I've just been to see  Lazzaro felice (2018)  and it is really spellbinding. See  Trailer - La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) . Subscribe to Film at Lincoln Centre . Subscribe to 01 Distribution . See what the dogs in Mexico make of this:  Commercial - David Lynch and Christabell's Cellophane Memories . Subscribe to  CICAE Art Cinema .

Commercial - David Lynch and Christabell's Cellophane Memories

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That fun work train is really screaming along the tracks now, ... Out on August 2nd, ... See  https://lnk.to/CellophaneMemories  and listen to the first single:  Chrystabell and David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love . Subscribe to David Lynch Theater . Railcart Ride through Tecate, Mexico Part I  Subscribe to Archie Moreno & the Little Fox Railcart . Part II: Don't mess with the Mexican military! Subscribe to  Ryan Randomness .

Ian Clarke on Decentralising the Internet and Louis Rossmann on Decentralising Funding for Software Development

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See  https://freenet.org If you're wondering what a set of  Vandersteen Model Seven s looks like ... and the thing about storage, ...  Why Nobody is Working on Lossless Video Data Compression . Here's that video, with my unkind comment still visible. Ian Clarke's talk shows that they do understand the problem much better than you might've thought from just this description: See  https://futo.com . Subscribe to Futo . It's really weird that I didn't think to add big tech to this list of scams. I suppose I thought it was obvious:  Lee Camp on The Other Movie Economy . And telecoms companies too: See  Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) . Subscribe to Low Level Learning .

Lee Camp on The Other Movie Economy

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The idea is that instead of employing people to dig holes in the roads and others to fill them in, you employ people to come [up!] with huge multi-million dollar scams and other people to make documentaries about it, ... Subscribe to Lee Camp . Subscribe to  Will Johnston . Now we can make a documentary about this phenomenon, ... and we can include airlines: Subscribe to Wendover Productions . ... and shale oil production and solar panel fabrication and carbon credits, ... See  Sci-Fi - There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk . Subscribe to Low Level Learning . Dynamo Dream - Episode 3 Subscribe to Ian Hubert .

Fran Blanch Livestream

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Feat. a Korg Kaossilator, ... Subscribe to Franlab . Subscribe to  Korg .

Polish Traditional Scything

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  It makes a great noise! Things to do with herbs and flowers: Subscribe to  Zbigniew Mądry .

Norman Wildberger on Arithmetic and Geometry

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He doesn't write anything during this video. It's like listening to Laplace 's  Essai philosophique sur les probabilités! There's an interesting bit at 49:33 about greek irrationals. Łucja Farnik's talk on Lakatos' quasi-empirical view of mathematics starts at 57:00 . Subscribe to  Instytut Matematyki UKEN w Krakowie .

Sci-Fi - There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk

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This is quite well-written. You only need to read the first chapter to see why the world is in such a poor state. Look into the history of the company  DigiNotar  and wonder why it was sold when it was. See  There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk

London Grammar - Kind of Man

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It's preventative (prophylactic?) marital advice for West Coast types. 🙀❤️💓💕. See  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Making of Wild God . See this post : "’Kind of Man’ is about watching somebody descend into the sort of glamour and slight corruption of Hollywood. I like the fact that it’s talking about a pattern of relationship where you could maybe expect a man who might not respect you and who might be the exact kind of man to fall in love with you - and it’s kind of that dichotomy.” - Hannah See also  Chrystabell and David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love . Subscribe to London Grammar . Lana Del Rey - West Coast Subscribe to Lana Del Rey .

Aurora - Dreams

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From her new album What Happened to The Heart:  https://aurora.lnk.to/WHTTHAlbumID Subscribe to Aurora .

Chrystabell and David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love

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You really need to make sure you're in a dark place (like a cinema, for example) when you watch this. The lighting is very subtle and beautiful. From the forthcoming album Cellophane Memories:  https://lnk.to/CellophaneMemories . Subscribe to David Lynch Theater . Chrystabell and David Lynch - This Train (Polish Poem) from the film  Inland Empire Subscribe to Chrystabell .

Julie Nolke - Costco is a Cult

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Starring Julie Nolke  https://imdb.com/name/nm6591551/ and Gina Louise Phillips  https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1329052/ . Camera: Sam  Larsen Editor: Alec McKay  https://m.imdb.com/name/nm11472265 Subscribe to Julie Nolke .

John Lennon - You Are Here

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From the video description : JOHN LENNON MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Collection) - Preorder now at https://johnlennon.lnk.to/MindGames50YD ... [lots about the exhibition and about seekers being wherever they are excerpted from the Thames and Hudson Book, MIND GAMES: JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO , available 24 Sept 2024. Preorder here: https://bit.ly/MindGamesBook ] ... 'You Are Here' film - from the preparation (30 June) and opening (1 July) of John Lennon's first exhibition You Are Here (to Yoko from John Lennon) at Robert Fraser Gallery, 69 Duke St., Grosvenor Square, London, 1968.  Directed by John Lennon.  By John Lennon for Yoko.  Cameramen: William Waring & Dick Lorriemore.  Starring: John & Yoko, Robert Fraser, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor, Richard DiLello, Kevin Harrington, Victor Spinetti, Jill Johnston, Richard Hamilton and a cast of hundreds. See YOU ARE HERE – A newly edited film of John Lennon’s 1968 art exhibition at Robert Fraser Gallery . Subscribe ...

MBARI - A Day in The Life of an Underwater Robot

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The robot is called Ventana : 8th June is World Ocean Day. See  Announcing the World Ocean Day 2024 Action Theme . Subscribe to Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute .

Edith and Efraín Planting Flowers and Fruit Trees in Mexico

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Getting compost ... Planting out (using a lot of compost!) Subscribe to Las Curiosidades de Mamá .

Margherita Pirri - Voilá (by Barbara Pravi)

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Myra West on Makeup, Life with Extreme Anxiety and YouTube

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