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Larkin Poe - God's Gonna Cut You Down (From 'Queen of the Ring - Music From The Motion Picture')

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They're playing in London on 21st October: https://www.eventimapollo.com/events/larkin-poe/ Subscribe to Larkin Poe .

Crazy French Guy Pedalled His Recumbent from Cairo to Cape Town

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Salif Keita's New Album "So Kono"

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He's still going strong: See  https://idol-io.ffm.to/sokono . Subscribe to The Real Salif Keita .  

Maserati's Women Testing Team

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No, it's not a bunch of Italian men with fast cars, ... Subscribe to Maserati .  Subscribe to Jocken Pursche's Rock'n Rail Channel .

Sayaka Fixing All The Sinclair ZX Spectra That Were Ever Made

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Well, one of each model, not all of the actual machines, ... Subscribe to Sayaka's Digital Attic .

Jean Michel Jarre on The Evolution of Electronic Music

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See Jean Michel Jarre on AI, VR and Music and The Arts . Subscribe to Native Instruments . July 1027 interview on Oxygene 3 That interviewer is terrible! Subscribe to Q with Tom Power .

Common Side Effects - Frances' Arc

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Watch it while it's up, usually only a day or so. See  Adult Swim - Common Side Effects S1E1 . Subscribe to Adult Swim . 

Aaron & Melissa Dykes and Jeffrey Sachs on The Grand Farce Called Government

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I guess it's important that people think they had a meaningful choice at the ballot, ... meanwhile everyone's going nuts and can't do anything useful about anything. Subscribe to Truthstream Media . Jeffrey Sachs can explain:  Subscribe to Kim Iversen . Here's his full address to the European Parliament:  Subscribe to The Print .

Diver and TV Reporter May Have Solved A 66 Year Old Mystery Disappearance of a Family

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Jeff Geerling on YouTube

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Intuitive Machines Athena Lunar Lander Fail

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"It will be off-nominal, ..." Subscribe to The Space Bucket . It's all good. The Lunar economy is burgeoning, ... Subscribe to NASA Video .  

Van Morrison on The Difference Between Real Art and High Kitch

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Down to Joy   He's going to be playing in Hyde Park in July with Neil Young. See https://www.vanmorrison.com/live . Subscribe to Van Morrison .

Juan Browne on Shit Falling Out of The Sky in the Carribean

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Leave Curious on Real Rewilding in Britain

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Metallica - The Unforgiven (1991) Margherita Pirri

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David Gilmour - Black Cat

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It was his birthday a few days ago. Happy Birthday David. Subscribe to David Gilmour . 

Maximiliano Firtman - Vanilla Web: You Don't Need that Library

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I learned a lot of useful things from this talk. See  Matthew James Taylor's excellent web pages on Custom HTML Elements and Using A Shadow DOM to Prevent CSS Cascade . See  Marty Pitt on Why You Really Wouldn't Want to Be A Developer Working in A Medium Sized or Large Corporation . Subscribe to GOTO Conferences .

PBS Spacetime on Pseudo Panspermia

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Our DNA is from outer space, ... Really? I'm not sure that these amino acid molecules are as stable as all that. But I'm not a biochemist. Subscribe to PBS Spacetime .

Xyla Foxlin on Mental Health of Pilots and the FAA's Policies

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See the video description for links: Contact your congressional representatives to urge their support of the Mental Health in Aviation Act: https://tr.ee/CTA-XYLAxPMHC Please consider donating to the Pilot Mental Health Campaign: https://www.pmhc.org/donate Sign up to stay informed on policy updates, how to help, and volunteer opportunities available near you. https://www.pmhc.org/join I can't find her earlier video, but here she is making a bed, with a guest appearance by Dianna Cowern: Subscribe to Xyla Foxlin . Dianna's getting a little better: Subscribe to Physics Girl .

Dustin Casto - A Raspberry Pi 5 OpenWRT Router with 2.5Gbps LAN

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This is a really useful video: It's starting to look like OpenWRT is an option:  https://openwrt.org/ . Unfortunately the factory image Raspberry Pi 3A+/3B/3B+/CM3/Zero2/Zero2W (64bit) / Raspberry Pi 2B-1.2 (64bit) doesn't boot on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. This is the problem I see with OpenWRT. They are not likely going to be able to maintain enough versions to support the range of hardware this thing could work on. The priority will obviously be to keep it going on the OpenWRT hardware they are having manufactured. A better alternative might be to package the daemon and web interfaces separately with configuration management to install them on as many distributions as they can support, then maybe push those features up to the distribution maintainers? Then they will get into "political" problems though. I don't know what the answer is. Linux networking is a nightmare you can't wake up from! One of the main features of OpenWRT is this thing called ubus . Ubu...

Ed's Computer Turned him Into Benjamin Franklin for a Month

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Rachel Phillips Wants to See How Many People Care About Science

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Particularly as it relates to climate, ... see https://standupforscience2025.org/ Subscribe to Geo Girl .

Laurie Showing How You Can Program NVIDIA GPUs Using Assembler

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Now I can start writing my Ï€-calculus compiler, ... see https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/  Subscribe to Laurie Wired .

Anton Petrov on a kind of Parallel Evolution That's been Going on all Over For The Past Two Billion Years

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Rachel will be interested in this. See Geochemist Girl on The Origin of Earth's Water . Subscribe to Anton Petrov .

Angela Collier - Why be Lysistrata when you could be Medea?

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She goes through the stories ( Lysistrata and Medea ) as she read them, then reviews two modern versions of the Medea story. One is by Mike Bartlett and she mops the floor with him! The other is by Rachel Cusk. See this Guardian interview Rachel Cusk interview: ‘Medea is about divorce … A couple fighting is an eternal predicament. Love turning to hate’Rachel Cusk interview: ‘Medea is about divorce … A couple fighting is an eternal predicament. Love turning to hate’ . See the video description for links. Subscribe to  Angela Collier Also .  

Adult Swim - Common Side Effects S1E1

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Looks really good! See http://bit.ly/3Gy0aXA [It's not available on YouTube in the UK, apparently. Here's another clip that you can see, for now ]  Here's the full Episode 1 you can't see: Subscribe to Adult Swim . 

Manu Chao - Viva Tu

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It's in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English: See https://manuchao.lnk.to/VivaTuAlbum Subscribe to Manu Chao .

Chinese Students Reaping the Rewards of Trump's Round One Sanctions on Chinese Companies

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Remember how in 2018 they stopped the supply of advanced silicon to Huawei? See  SCMP - What’s behind the exodus of US-based Chinese academics? Subscribe to TechTechPotato .

Nathan Has Successfully Defended his PhD Thesis

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Now he calls himself a Doctorand. See Multifractal Analysis of F-exponents for Finitely Irreducible Conformal Graph Directed Markov Systems . Now he has application scheduling issues because he has submitted but won't complete until December. Here's a lightning talk on what he studied: It is on Conformal Graph Directed Markov Systems . Subscribe to Chalk .

Sandi Toksvig on the Tyranny of Writing and Algorithms

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 See the lecture on YouTube : She didn't have any CSEs, she says. 27:52 see the Wikipedia page Al-Ê»Ijliyyah . AI is just getting an algorithm to read for you, ... so, ... Subscribe to Darwin College Lecture Series .

Ubuntu 24.04 Op Sec

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So should I say "yes" to an unknown app that wants to upgrade the firmware on my machine? Well the box has gone now, and I don't see any obvious way to check recent notifications, so that's that problem solved! đŸ˜‚ But I thought maybe report it as a bug to  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu however they want to know which package has a bug before they'll let me report it . They even have a utility for identifying the package that's displaying the window, but the window is gone.  So this is one that won't get fixed soon. [Update: it came back the next day: So the "Unknown App" is the Ubuntu Firmware Updater]

Ben Krasnow on How To Make An Expensive Microscope Work As Well As A Really, Really Expensive One

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2:03 On using cheap microscopes:  you would need to be able to deconvolve the images with the point spread function characterising the aberration of the objective lens. That would probably be a difficult thing to do. See this Nature article Wide-field, high-resolution Fourier ptychographic microscopy (paywalled) or try the Russian Sci-hub if your ISP hasn't blacklisted the server .  See also Multiplexed coded illumination for Fourier Ptychography with an LED array microscope and Quantitative phase imaging via Fourier ptychographic microscopy . Subscribe to Applied Science . I wonder whether you could use a technique like this for processing data from Ground Penetrating Radar ? I guess not because the medium you're imaging through is highly non-uniform:  Subscribe to Space Mog .

Ana Goldberg - When the society tells you to sell yourself… in order to buy more stuff

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I hope Natasha gets to meet her some time. Subscribe to Ana Goldberg .

Victoria had to Quit YouTube

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Spagoshi Interview With Francine Bradley Arthur - Navajo Nation Police Department

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Her grandfather was an Irish storekeeper and he married a girl on the Reservation. She's a lovely person and this is a great interview. Subscribe to Spagoshi .

Hannah Lee Duggan Hanging out in South Africa

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Fixing a Broken Industry - Wheelchair Manufacture and Repair

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Marty Pitt on Why You Really Wouldn't Want to Be A Developer Working in A Medium Sized or Large Corporation

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Taxi is just a type system, by the looks of it. See  https://taxilang.org/ and https://orbitalhq.com/ . See also RenĂ© Rebe on Portable Desktop App Frameworks . Subscribe to GOTO Conferences . Maybe I should. I've never been to a conference. Note that what Marty is describing is the reason why systems like Shopify and Worldpay are slow-moving. They are integrated into web sites that are independently developed by small organisations that don't have sufficient resources. Here's what developing a modern web browser and trying to buy a hoodie looks like: They all use openssl  https://www.openssl.org/ and libcurl:  https://curl.se/ . See  https://ladybird.org/ and https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird . Subscribe to Ladybird .

Peter Dennis - What Is Rationality, Anyway?

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I think this is a lecture for the The Duchy of Cornwall, ... See Restoring Britain's Green Desert . Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose .

Aurora's Portrait Of A Song - Runaway

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This video was published on International Polar Bear Day ! She talks a lot about making this video too:  Subscribe to Aurora .

Dr Waku interview with Rufo Guerreschi - Why a global federation might be needed to manage AI

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See Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI and Baruch Plan : The Baruch Plan was a proposal put forward by the United States government on 14 June 1946 to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) during its first meeting. Bernard Baruch wrote the bulk of the proposal, based on the March 1946 Acheson–Lilienthal Report. ... The Soviet Union, fearing the plan would preserve the American nuclear monopoly, declined in December 1946 in the United Nations Security Council to endorse Baruch's version of the proposal, and the Cold War phase of the nuclear arms race followed.   This is a really excellent interview. Here's the earlier one with Yoshua Bengeo . They have a button "Join As A Superpower" which is presumably for the AIs, ... See  Free and Safe in Cyberspace . See also The Last Question . Subscribe to Dr Waku .  With all this talk of creating a global digital Pope, you'd think the Vatican might have something to say:  Subscribe to Wendover Productions . ...