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On Web Sites for LETS Schemes and DAOs

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See  Local exchange trading system  and the Law Commission of England & Wales scoping paper  Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) .  Here's the grammar of grammars: RULES <- RULE | RULE ?ws? RULES RULE <- SYM ?ws? '<-' ?ws? SYMSLIST SYMSLIST <- SYMS | SYMS ?ws? '|' ?ws? SYMSLIST SYMS <- SYM | SYM ?ws? SYMS SYM <- '"' ?notdquote? '"' | "'" ?notsquote? "'" | ?AZs? | '?' ?azAZs? '?' When I talk about ALT, SEQ etc. I mean that a grammar is a list of RULE s, each of which defines a SYM (short for symbol ) as an alternation or a sequence of symbols, represented respectively in the grammar by a vertical bar or juxtaposition . Here alternations are sums and sequences are products in a Cartesian Closed Category.  See Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types   and make sure you listen to this talk he gave at Strange Loop in September 2018:  Here's my response to an X call...

Sayaka Fixing a 1986 NES

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This machine was made the same year that Theodore Roszak published The Cult of Information . At the time I was too busy trying to learn how to to write communications protocol stacks. See Matt Taibbi's Opening Statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Censorship . Subscribe to Sayaka's Digital Attic .

Matt Taibbi's Opening Statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Censorship

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He says he's been covering fictional digital censorship issues since 2018. And coincidentally, ... James Di Eugenio on the CIA and FBI blocking declassification of JFK assassination documents (see also Oliver Stone opening statement at JFK assassination hearing ): Subscribe to Forbes Breaking News . I also watched some of this Chris Hedges interview with Yasha Levine on his book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet . He's very awkward and not very convincing. He says they were ingesting lots of data. I don't think he knows what he is talking about. You can get Theodore Roszak's 1986 book The Cult of Information on The Internet Archive.  Subscribe to Chris Hedges . Bill Binney talking in March, 2019 about the way mass surveillance by the FBI/NSA/CIA triumvirate works and shares data with the intelligence agencies of other countries. Subscribe to Allard Prize . A Good American Subscribe to Tony Griffiths . It's all blinking red lights an...

Futo Are Building an Open Source Swipe-typing Dataset

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Futo Keyboard on Android is way, way better than Google's Gboard now. See  https://keyboard.futo.org/ Google AI says that "Swipe typing, also known as glide typing, is a text input method where you enter words by swiping your finger across the letters of a word on a touchscreen keyboard, rather than tapping each letter individually". see https://swipe.futo.org/ and if you're on a mobile device then you can help train the dataset.  Subscribe to FUTO .

Ana Victoria Cedillo - Cycling from From Cabo St Vincent in Portugal to Grense Jakobselv in Norway

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See 7,600 km across the continent — European Divide Trail . Subscribe to Ana Victoria Cedillo .

MBARI Have A New Research Vessel Called David Packard!

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Alice Boyd - The Sounds of King's Cross

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This is her "first ever spatial sound installation, The Sounds of King's Cross , which will be presented at Kings Place this Saturday Sat 5 Apr - 6.30pm, 7pm as part of their Earth Unwrapped programme." She's also doing a performance afterwards: see Alice Boyd & Guests: Concert + Natalie Wildgoose : In this performance, Alice Boyd and her ensemble share her latest music, including songs and sounds inspired by her trip to the Cairngorms retracing the steps of legendary nature writer Nan Shepherd. Alice and her band will be debuting a new song, created for EarthPercent and Museum for the United Nation’s ‘Sounds Right’ initiative, featuring NATURE as an official artist, which will be released on Earth Day 2025. Life in Cities: Subscribe to Alice Boyd .

Buster Keaton Stunt

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These sorts of things are supposed to come with a "Don't try this at home, ..." warning, aren't they?  Subscribe to Lost In Time Vids .

Hannah Lee Duggan is in New Zealand Now!

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Hahei on the Coromandel Peninsula, then Rotarua , Lake Taupo ... Subscribe to Hannah Lee Duggan .

Common Side Effects Season 1 Ending

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You can watch the whole thing on YouTube for £15, which is the price of a couple of cinema tickets, ... See these posts . Spoiler alert, ... Subscribe to Adult Swim .

2001 - A Space Odyssey (Remade Ending)

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Wow!  From the description: The ending of "2001: A Space Odyssey" based on the description given in the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Novel vs. Film In Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2001: A Space Odyssey," the story diverges significantly from Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation in several key aspects: Destination: Iapetus vs. Jupiter The novel sets the destination as Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons, rather than Jupiter. This choice has scientific merit, as Iapetus has a remarkable 20:1 brightness difference between its hemispheres—a natural feature Clarke ingeniously used to indicate the stargate monolith's location. Bowman and Poole's Fate In the novel, Bowman never attempts to retrieve Poole's body. The pod was under maximum acceleration and had disappeared before Bowman could react—a more logical scenario than the film's portrayal. Hal's Strategy The novel depicts Hal as more cunning than in the film. Rather than trying to lock Bowman out (...

SciFi Short - Immortals

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It's amazing what a tiny team of people can do with Blender and a few PCs: see Dan Robinson's page on artstation ... my final year university project. ... This is the longest animated film I have worked on, as well as being my first time Directing and CG supervising. It took a long time to make, with a main team of 4, each working on various aspects. I am very happy with how it came out and I learned a lot making it. Subscribe to Dust .

Myco-Remediation in Los Angeles

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This was from 2022, ... Subscribe to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't . Subscribe to Bioneers . Turning wood chips into good soil is a better alternative than burning, but you need moisture: See  The Lookout - Zeke Talking to People at Google About Google Earth Pro . Subscribe to The Lookout . Connect The Dots - Why Root Cause Thinking Isn't Enough. See also  Cabrera Lab Podcast #55  and  Cabrera Labs Podcast Anniversary Edition .  Subscribe to Cabrera Labs Podcast . 

Oliver Stone opening statement at JFK assassination hearing

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See  Ringway Manchester on A 1997 BBC Documentary on Numbers Stations . Subscribe to The Independent . On the Chain of Custody of Lee Harvey Oswald's Rifle. If you have a an hour and forty minutes to spare, you can listen to Oliver Stone's full testimony: Subscribe to Forbes Breaking News .

Psychiatrist Guy Goodwin and Terence McKenna

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This is a "compare and contrast" The British Council had something to do with this.  Guy Goodwin is emeritus professor of psychology at Oxford. He needs help! Subscribe to Serious Science . A talk given by Terence McKenna at Ojai Foundation in 1988. Peter Bergmann posted this talk on November 16, 2024 as a celebration of Terence McKenna's birthday. See Another Oarfish Beached in California . Subscribe to We Plants are Happy Plants . See Terence McKenna on Trading With Aliens in Peter Bergmann is Giving up on Skool .