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It's a thing, really! See  https://jaguarhealth.gcs-web.com/ Here's some more from Steve King See  News Release Details Coca Access and Benefit Sharing Agreement Authorized by Peru's National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) Supports Research Efforts of Jaguar Health and Filament Health Joint Venture, Magdalena Biosciences, into Potential Mental Health and CNS Indications of Coca . Wade Davis - Coca is not cocaine How to make and use Mambe from leaves of Cecropia sciadophylla and Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu :   Subscribe to Khoka Project . Nilda Callanapaupa on coca in Andean culture The Khoka Project in Medellin, Colombia. See  https://khokaproject.com/en/home-english/   Caroline Conzelman     See  Mckenna Academy - Wisdom of the Leaf Coca Summit .  Subscribe to Mckenna Academy .  Somehow YouTube found this video for me: The Muisca are a pre-Colombian culture. Mongui is a small town about 200 Km North-East of Bogotá. Subscribe...

See  DW Documentary about Fungi  for the interview with Paul Stamets. If a functional human being is just something that can open a can of tuna, and presumably either steal it or earn enough money to buy one, then we could have a world peopled by explorers of the AI logological space:  xAI Datacenters Using Mobile Gas Turbines  and Mithuna Used AI to Make A Video About The Dangers of AI . Here's the interview with Harry Shirley.  Subscribe to  Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy .

I don't think Jerry would want to work at Clorox, they just need a good lawyer. See  Level1 Links With Friends and Defensive Podcasts .  This is currently only on their Patreon . Here are the links for this week's episode: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/26/microsoft_sharepoint_attacks_leak/ https://mashable.com/article/google-gemini-deletes-users-code https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/open-source-repositories-are-seeing-a-rash-of-supply-chain-attacks/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/lawsuit_clorox_vs_cognizant/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/allianz-life-confirms-data-breach-impacts-majority-of-14-million-customers/  

The Swiss Jungian analyst and scholar  Marie-Louise von Franz studied fairytales from around the world. From the Russian Fairy Tale The Firebird . On making decisions, see  Curt Jaimungal Intervew with Jenann Ismael . See  https://academyofideas.com/2025/07/carl-jung-and-the-most-important-rule-of-life/ Subscribe to Academy of Ideas .

This is the 12,000th post on this blog. This one is full of amazing stuff, including original Apollo 13 voice recordings talking about the circuit he's looking at, and an explanation of TWT RF amplification which is a technique still used today in space communications.  Inside the S-Band transponder Powering-up the Transponder Sending a signal Subscribe to CuriousMarc .

The smell was an important part of it, I think, ... Subscribe to KGW News .  That reminded me of this report from a Mexican Channel on the Russian ice skater Elena Gouliakova Rockofeler who was living homeless on the streets in Monterrey, and possibly still is:  Subscribe to MILENIO .

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It's a three day journey! I have been reading about the rubber boom in Wade Davis' book One River . The wealth produced from rubber exports in the early 20th century was astonishing. Manaus was built on the basis of this trade. Subscribe to Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa .

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The lithium is in Uyuni, which already suffers from acute fresh water shortage, but the processing of the lithium is going to require a lot more fresh water. See this piece by Marco A. Gandarillas for Latinoamérica Sustentable :  El caso del contrato de Hong Kong CBC para la explotación de litio en el Salar de Uyuni . En febrero de 2025, el Corregimiento de la Comunidad de Río Grande advirtió que la extracción de litio contemplada en el contrato con Hong Kong CBC requerirá agua dulce procedente de la cuenca San Gerónimo, ubicada en su jurisdicción. Esta área ya enfrenta problemas debido a la sobreexplotación de agua subterránea y la intensificación de la desertificación, exacerbados por actividades previas de YLB. En 2024, la comunidad había advertido sobre la realización de nuevos pozos por YLB para beneficio del consorcio Hong Kong CBC. Paralelamente, la Central Única Provincial de Comunidades Originarias de Nor Lipez (CUPCONL) declaró su rechazo a este contrato argumentando que ...

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This thing is amazing! See  The Plane That Will Change Travel Forever, ...  ... and there's a bigger thing coming, ...   He does these tests somewhere between Mt San Jacinto the Morongo Valley . Subscribe to Manorcraft .

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Wow, C.S. Peirce was really smart!   See  John Baez on Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone and Noson S. Yanofsky on Diagonalization, Fixed Points, and Self-reference  and  A Really Great Talk on Robot Brains . Subscribe to Topos Institute . 

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Thinking about the  TinyTapeout RISC-V Peripherals  experiment: That  Pico ICE FPGA Trainer Board  will be able to prototype a high-speed serial bus interconnect which could also be the basis for a RISC-V CPU peripheral that would be the moral equivalent of a Transputer serial-link. Each node could be a RISC-V with four links to its neighbours. LVDS drivers like the Analog Devices ADN4665 and ADN4666 , connected via low-cost SATA cables. The hardware could handle the  8b/10b encoding  and interface to DMA channels, which would be another peripheral that would probably be quite a severe test of the project infrastructure, but for the prototype the FPGA could probably be interfaced with the RP2040's DMA somehow, even if it was just via GPIO pins. There is even a Lattice Reference design for an 8b/10b encoder that you could download and drop-in.   45:31 "Is it still relevant?"  Subscribe to CSS Bristol . Then YouTube turned up this 2018 talk by...

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Directed by Alexis Hernández Peña. It was filmed (2023) in CDMX, Nayarit and Yucatán. Presented as a film thesis for the University of London UDL Bachelor's Degree in Film and Digital TV. The script was made as part of a previous documentary investigation on schizophrenia and its relationship with the paranormal. Subscribe to  Besia Films  

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They're looking for stories, images etc. See  https://the-lookout.org/  for a DropBox link. See  Zeke on the $60,000,000 Dragon Bravo Fire . Subscribe to The Lookout . 

 ... a collaborative competition to crowdsource the coolest, weirdest, and most useful peripherals for a RISC-V microcontroller. See  RISC-V Peripheral Idea - A High-Speed LVDS Link for a Modern Transputer . The idea is that they fabricate a RISC-V CPU and then each person who enters the competition specifies one or two tiles (1,000 or 2,000 standard digital cells) which implement some particular peripheral. They then connect these peripherals to the CPU via a sort of MUX/Crossbar switch so you can choose which peripherals are connected to which CPU and IO pins when you power-up the silicon. 25:10 In the test harness, I think the peripherals are all driven via an SPI connect from the CPU. So no memory-mapped IO or anything like that, but you will be able to use your peripheral on the RP2040 (on the development board?) via the SPI interface. But in the tapeout the peripheral will have 16 bytes of registers to interface with the CPU. 32:54 There are two possible types of int...

I noticed some places in Louisiana had an awful smell, and I wondered what it was. I thought it was fracking plants, but maybe they use these things there as well? See  Mithuna Used AI to Make A Video About The Dangers of AI  and  Bitcoin Mining in Texas  and also  Level1 Techs - The Cost of Not Knowing How to Write Decent Software . Subscribe to More Perfect Union .

It rained! For more on mesquite:  Symbiosis TX - Capturing 432 Million Gallons of Rain in Texas . See https://dustupsranch.com/membership-yt174730   He has a really lovely neighbour! Subscribe to Shaun Overton | Dustups .

And AI is not going to be any better, ... See  Symbiosis TX - Capturing 432 Million Gallons of Rain in Texas . Subscribe to More Perfect Union .

See  https://quiviracoalition.org/product/erosion-control/  for some really smart ideas about erosion control. 47:34 Interesting observation about rainfall and atmospheric rivers. He has measured the rainfall on both sides of the farm and one side consistently gets more than the other. See also  Gerald H. Pollack: Weather & EZ Water . For more about the desert:  Shaun Overton Farming in the Texas Desert . For more about water in TX:  Bitcoin Mining in Texas . See  https://www.symbiosistx.com/  and  https://www.patreon.com/SymbiosisTX . Subscribe to Symbiosis Texas .

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She got funding from something that calls itself Digital Media Accelerator : The Digital Media Accelerator supports digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.  There is a blog with posts going on years into the future:  https://ai-2027.com/ . What's worrying about AI to me is not its "power", but its potential power consumption . AI is about the dumbest way to get anything done with a computer, even making movies about the dangers of AI. Subscribe to Looking Glass Universe .

That's likely what it is going to have cost the State of Arizona [New Mexico. That's the third time I've corrected this!] to fight this beast. See  Zeke on The Park Fire A Year Later  and  https://the-lookout.org/ . Subscribe to The Lookout . 

I wonder if they're ever going to make a movie together? Brad Pitt has a recording studio in a vineyard in France where they recorded the Wild God album: See  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Making of Wild God . This collaboration with Thomas Houseago was apparently the origin of the very weird song White Elephant . Subscribe to Redfox Arctic .   Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds . Miraval was a studio long ago, but fell into disrepair: Subscribe to Billboard .

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It's a really interesting interview. He knows an awful lot about an awful lot of stuff. GIS and mapping technology, communications, fire fighting, forestry, land management, history of railroads and economic development of California, ... and I've only heard half of it! See  https://the-lookout.org/ Subscribe to The Lookout .

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They did this to me. After three or four days locked in a solitary cell, they woke me up in the middle of the night and a guy said "open your mouth" I thought he wanted to see my decaying teeth but he took a swab and just shut the door and walked away. So if anybody needs to know my DNA then just ask the FBI! This was in September 2022 and I voluntarily entered the asylum process, I did not attempt to enter the US illegally.  Subscribe to Al Jazeera English .  I thought at the time that it was probably just my friend Bob Müller pissing on the Statue of Liberty. Subscribe to Useful Idiots . This is an Australian criminal lawyer who has investigated Cellebrite , which is an Israeli company who provide a mobile phone "phorensics"  system for downloading and providing remote access to mobile phone data. This system is used by ICE and perhaps also US CBP. The software has been rife with vulnerabilities, so the systems that these agencies use are themselves a security ris...

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It works! I'm not the only one. Check the comments .  In ten short minutes I lost weight, stopped smoking and drinking, my posture is better and my grey hair, wrinkles, bunions and arthritis are gone.  Also my left leg has grown and is now the same length as my right, no more walking in ever decreasing circles for me! Thanks Craig, I recommend your program.  Subscribe to Eleanor Morton . 

This is a very good talk. He started Allthenticate to develop and market this system.  It turns out it's really hard to design a system that works for everyone. This one is clearly aimed at people who live typical American tech-oriented lifestyles, so it's not going to work very well for anyone who deviates much from that. There are some general principles here that could be abstracted and made available for everyone, but then it's hard to see how anyone will be able to make money from that exercise. Subscribe to FUTO . 

It does exactly what it says on the tin. They breached the South African Treasury as well as the US National Nuclear Security Administration. See this Bloomberg article:  Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack . Subscribe to Low Level . 

Subscribe to Applied Science . See the video description for some links:  Here's the python example that was the inspiration for this: https://web.archive.org/web/20180630083729/http://www.pyrunner.com/weblog/2016/05/26/compressed-sensing-python/  and here's Steve Brunton's Compressed Sensing playlist: There is a book to go with this series:  Data Driven Science & Engineering  by Steven Brunton & Nathan Kutz. Subscribe to Steve Brunton . Here's Nathan Kutz giving an example in Matlab. Here's the web page for his book Data Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation : https://faculty.washington.edu/kutz/KutzBook/KutzBook.html Ben actually explains it better than Nathan Katz does. As well the broad-band assumption in the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem there is another assumption which is that the samples are taken at regular intervals and this is what allows high-frequency aliasing. Otherwise the sample frequency is clumped and this has an anti-...

 ... and it's not an Uber! She hasn't mentioned Eric Yeung, the CEO of Zoom yet, ...   Subscribe to Angela Collier .

SMA100 series is a broader category than you might at first have thought, ... If you subscribed to their Patreon you'd know this already:  Defensive Security Podcasts . Subscribe to Defensive Podcasts . 

Google tags this with a link to the UK NHS web site: They're aborting their trip because there's no public transport except for the buses, and due to gasoline shortages the bus fares have doubled or in some cases tripled during fiestas. They're in Magdalena, on the Rio Itonomas about 80 Km from the frontier with Brazil. They got there two days ago:   A few weeks ago there was an amazing  son et lumière  show in the Parque de la Familia in Cochabamba: Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano . 

This is just horrifying! Subscribe to Level1 Techs . This is what Modular are trying to manage, but I think they're barking up totally the wrong tree. They're building software infrastructure for AI which people need to manage the complexity of software development, and in the process they're making software development even more complex. That's just thermal runaway. 1:27:35 Ben Seidel's question about the boundary between parsing and lexical analysis is a good one. He's asking about this in a very general context, which is that of any language defined by a context-free grammar. So he's reading in a grammar defined by some BNF-type syntax, and wants to figure out what sort of lexical analyser to generate that can be used by that parser. Subscribe to Cliff Click . At some point people are going to wake up and realise that this not the right thing to concentrate on:  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .  See  Testing Blogger's Automatic Google Sear...

What a beautiful place! It reminds me of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. Cleaning the boat: 5:08 Just as she's talking about all the insects and things that get in a great big hornet walks across the lens of her phone!  Subscribe to Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa . Juan Browne at Oshkosh, ... another lake, another country. I know which one I'd prefer to be at! Subscribe to Blancolirio .

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I knew this was possible, but he thought it through and got it to work! Now we can start to watch Elon Musk's space trash landing, ... See  Angela Collier Building A Radio Telescope in Her Back Yard . Subscribe to Consistently Inconsistent .

It's on their Patreon . It has an interesting discussion about problems of securing Open Source software, especially things like Mastodon servers, which rely on a large collection of dependencies from node.js, Ruby on Rails, etc. Subscribe to Defensive Podcasts .

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I walked from El Alto and lived here from August until December 2015. This video was posted on 2nd September 2022, whilst I was lying on the floor of a cell in San Ysidro, CA . Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano . Here's a walking tour posted yesterday Subscribe to El Nao POV .

This report seemed unusually thoughtful and intelligent to me. Singapore is trying hard to maintain its sovereignty and hold its neutral stance in the BRICS vs. US Hegemony Economic War. Subscribe to CNA .

... there are some beautiful shots of crossing the Mississippi! See  Dan Gryder on Oshkosh .   Subscribe to Trent Palmer . Nathan's been learning about NSF funding cuts: But he's done a really nice demonstration of how to analyse dynamical systems and how important it is to understand your tools. See his Desmos calculator . This was a followup to this talk See The higher order partial derivatives of Okamoto's function with respect to the parameter . Subscribe to Chalk .

One is through the eyes of a very rich architect, ... This house is in Altacañada , near Los Angeles. Subscribe to The Lookout .

In a village called Chaco there is a stone castle built in 1935 by Paraguayan prisoners of war, on the orders of  José Luis Tejada Sorzano , president of Bolivia during and immediately after the Chaco war . On Coripata, see this 1997 study Coripata: tierra de angustias y cocales . 19:50 One of the reasons for the shortage of gasoline is that the government are apparently prioritising its use for gold mining. He also did a trip to Tarata , 30 Km south of Cochabamba:   Subscribe to Diario de un Altobeniano .

Because it focuses on actual exploits, this history starts about 14 years after Paul Karger and Roger Shell wrote the Multics Security Evaluation: Vulnerability Analysis . Subscribe to  IBM Technology .

EEA Airventure Oshkosh is a big fly-in and Dan and many others think that it's a whole lot of accidents just waiting to happen. Most experienced pilots seem to find it frightening.  Subscribe to Probable Cause . Juan Browne is there: Subscribe to Blancolirio .  ... and Trent Palmer and some friends ... Subscribe to Trent Palmer .

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Eric Schlaepfer is there too with the Monster 6502 , a 50 KHz 6502 made entirely from discrete components. See  Adventures in Code Land . Toby is there somewhere too, ...  Subscribe to CuriousMarc . Jeff Geerling is there too: Subscribe to Level 2 Jeff .

I found a guitar left on the street corner, and it set me thinking about poor old Robert Johnson. See  Beyond the Crossroads: the tragic real life of Robert Johnson . Subscribe to  TheDeuceWithin . Here's a beautiful little documentary on Robert Johnson and his music made by two young Australians who travelled from Mississippi to Chicago and then New York.  Subscribe to devilbluefilms . Subscribe to  Emiel Efdée . Subscribe to  Tony Bonyata . Here's an interview with Nick Cave at the Museum Voorlinden in the Netherlands recorded in 13th December 2024. 1:07:46 The Mercy Seat piano solo. I'm a long way behind on The Red Hand files . But this one is absolutely fantastic, and asks a question I would have asked, and something I've often wondered:   How do you cope on tour?  I definitely need to work on my stagecraft! But I've just been reading back through them and they're all brilliant. I got to the question  What do you make of Nicolas Cage s...

This was filmed during the floods that happened whilst I was there in 2014. That was how I lost all my documents in Rurrenabaque. I spent several nights sleeping near those houses where the people were killed in the landslide. ( 38:17 ). See  Bolivia, in the Green Hell of the Amazon Forests .   See  Les routes de l'impossible Saison 7 Bolivie, au coeur du déluge .   Subscribe to Les Routes de L'impossible .

This is a beautiful little film. I thought it was made near Charazani , but it was all filmed in the Cordillera Oriental in Chuquisaca, which is a place I have never seen. Subscribe to Walter Valda Cine .

This was a voting machine planned to be used in the 2006 elections in the Netherlands. It used a four-line 40 character LCD display driven by the Hitachi HD44780 controller . The problem was the manufacturer could not source enough display controllers with the European character set in ROM, so they used the user-defined characters in CGRAM to display the text. Because the software displayed the same string repeatedly in a loop, and repeatedly reprogrammed the CGRAM each time it displayed the character (which was unnecessary, because the CGRAM is persistent provided the power supply to the driver is is maintained) the extra delay in programming the one accented character, the e-grave appearing in "Christen Democratisch Appèl", changed the AM audio frequency emitted by the display and enabled someone with an AM radio within a few meters (up to 25 in some cases) of the voting booth to know when a vote for the CDA had been cast. Subscribe to  votingcomputerleak . See Electronic V...

Why does his YouTube channel have fewer subscribers than mine? He used to earn a living as a music journalist. Here's his zoom interview with warren Ellis:  Subscribe to Cursed Murphy .

See Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel .  Subscribe to Imilla Skate . And DW Español did a 25 minute mini-doc on them:  Subscribe to DW Español .

It was on June 26th. See  One Hertz Challenge : Here's his entry:  HP 115BR, the clock that once sync'ed the world . It's a really interesting insight into the nature of laboratory time. Speaking of Hackaday, I updated my post on Random numbers:  Generating Random Bits with Avalanche Noise . Subscribe to Curious Marc .

The miners in Bolivia were one sector of the economy that Evo Morales' MAS party social infrastructure didn't reach. In 2015 they were bombing government offices. See another interview with Ruth:  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds . 1:59 It looks like they've built a road bridge from Rurrenabaque to San Buenaventura. That wasn't there in 2013!  Subscribe to Arte TV .

She says this is a 100K subscribers celebration, but maybe she means 300K? It's about a kit that NASA are sending people as part of the Radio JOVE project . Apparently when Jupiter's magnetosphere interacts with solar storms it resonates somehow and emits a radio signal called The Jovian Decametric Radio Emission : "After the accidental discovery of radio bursts from Jupiter, scientists sought to understand what caused this radio emission. They started with careful observations, recording the times they heard Jupiter and how intense Jupiter's decametric radio bursts were. (The word decametric means tens of meters since the wavelength of the radio bursts are in the tens of meters). After collecting these radio data they compared it with other information they had about Jupiter. They began to match the Jupiter radio bursts with the rotation of the planet." So what they are observing are the changes in intensity of this radio emission on a timescale scale of about 1...

... mainly Boeing 787s. At  14:55 he explains the whole fuel switch system in great detail. It does not involve any software control at all: it's a direct electrical connection to a relay which controls power to an electro-mechanical valve that controls the fuel supply to the engines, so it's completely independent from the FADEC system in the engine. I also saw another description on the Mover and Gonky show, see below, of the actual microswitch which is multi-pole, so a separate connection goes to the flight data recorder. It does seem like sabotage would be very difficult to do like this. See Juan Browne, Stig Aviation and Taking Off on the Air India 787 Crash  and also  Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and Captain Dan Gryder with a Theory About Air India Flight 171 . Subscribe to Stig Aviation . The Mover and Gonky Show on the Flight 171 Crash:  Subscribe to The Mover and Gonky Show .

Another Tony Comiti production. I thought they could use cable-ways like this in San José de Uchupiamonas to get to  la banda , a flat area lying in the loop of a meander of the Rio Tuichi. When the river is flowing fast crossing by canoe is difficult, especially with a heavy load. Subscribe to Les Routes de l'impossible .  

It's a really nice little school. And her iPhone had an adventure at the bottom of the lake. It was in five meters of water for over twelve hours, I think, but they found it and it still works! Subscribe to  Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa .

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They are aiming at making it usable for  everybody! What program crashed? What's in the core dump? Who cares?  I wonder about Raspberry Pi too. Their Raspberry Pi Connect : Raspberry Pi Connect gives you free, simple, out-of-the-box access to your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world. It is a secure remote access solution for Raspberry Pi OS, allowing you to connect to your Raspberry Pi desktop and command line directly from any browser.   This is a way to allow you to make a peer-to-peer connection between two machines when both peers agree to do so by connecting to the same central server, without either peer having a well-known name or having to listen for incoming connections. Only when both peers have a simultaneous connection to the same central server can they establish a direct connection.  I haven't tried it, because for some reason I don't understand, it requires you to enable auto-login on your machine for it to work. But why? When you couple this with ...

Buck Shlegeris is CEO of Redwood Research . See Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma, and Paul M. B. Vitányi The Similarity Metric .  A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information distance,” based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and show that it is in this class and it minorizes every computable distance in the class (that is, it is universal in that it discovers all computable similarities). We demonstrate that it is a metric and call it the similarity metric  See also   Rudi L Cilibrasi and Paul M B Vitányi Fast Phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 by Compression . The compression method to assess similarity, in the sense of having a small normalized compression distance (NCD), was developed based on algorithmic information theory to quantify the similarity in files ranging from words and languages to genomes and mus...

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... apparently it helps.  But first they have to terrorize you, ...  Subscribe to Planet Wild . They need to make this tribal unification process into transferable social technology: See  https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/Mashco-Piro . Subscribe to The Telegraph . Maybe it's better than spending your money on cocaine, ... see  Project Paradise - Everything Feels "Off"  and  McKenna Academy - Wisdom of the Leaf Coca Summit : the Inca runners used coca leaves like we use coins, they probably used bags of leaves like we use gold bullion. See  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds  and People in El Dorado in Venezuela Using Gold Nuggets as Money .