The Eternal Doorman

Greta Thunberg is back at sea now:  Subscribe to  Middle East Eye . She doesn't do so well when she talks about the connection between environmental and humanitarian activism: See  Bolivia Federación Trópico - Tesis Political . Subscribe to Novara Media . 

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I like listening to Leonardo because I can understand almost everything he says. Evo presents an international picture and has a long list of treacherous acts committed by the Arce administration. It's a catalog of US interference since Arce took office, items ticked-off like a shopping list! Then he presents the voto nulo counts broken down by municipality and they claim victory in 63% nationwide. He's still upbeat, particularly about the international support and the forthcoming Movimiento Internacional Anticolonial meeting scheduled for October and November this year, I think. Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa .

She's set herself a goal! She also writes about songs really, really well. See the video description . And she learned to edit videos without throwing her laptop out of the window.  This is Reality Subscribe to Sakara .

They are raising funds to get this magnum opus of theirs out in time for July 4, 2026. See  https://igg.me/at/liminality . The opening quote is from the introduction to  Catharine Macaulay's The history of England from the accession of James I. to that of the Brunswick line . Subscribe to Truthstream Media . 

Poor bear! She filmed this in the botanic gardens in Beunos Aires, I think. See  Janet Axelrud is Starting Something New  and  Joaquina Revollo on Economics, Pensions, Music and Dante Usquiano . Subscribe to  Joaquina Revollo .   Subscribe to  JOAQUINA . Subscribe to El Mundo . Subscribe to  Architect of Ideas .  

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The school teacher was in hospital in Tefé, recovering after just having had his appendix removed, when a short-circuit set fire to his house. Nobody was at home and everything except the sofa was burned. They're raising funds to help him rebuild: Pix or PayPal: fabiolapedrosa99@gmail.com. Subscribe to Ribeirinha da Amazônia Fabiola Alves Pedrosa .

See  Curious Marc Fixing The HP182C Oscilloscope . Spoiler alert: It turns out he works for Samtec , a manufacturer of high-spec RF cables, so he knows a bit about what happened in the manufacture at HP all those decades ago. I'm stunned that he has a full-time job as well as this channel. That makes me feel like such a  loser! Subscribe to CuriousMarc . 

Rebecca & Cora are Electronic Design consultants from Spain who live and work in Sweden. See  https://www.sistechlab.com/about . Subscribe to SISTECH LAB . This was in June this year, part of the Bicentenario celebrations: Subscribe to FEM Media Bolivia . It's working, in a slightly weird way:  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel  and  Politolik - Natalia Aparicio talking with Amilcar Zenteno: Juana Azurduy, the Republiquetas, and the Colony. Independence of Bolivia . 

See the links in the video description  for links to the books. Here are those to the Cornell archive material in the Library of Congress: course materials final exam lecture notes ideas and prompts   Subscribe to Tibees .  See her Patreon post .

Pablo Mendieta is an economist at the Cámara de Industria, Comercio, Servicios y Turismo in Santa Cruz . He studied under and then worked for Felipe Larraín Bascuñán in Chile. Larraín in turn worked with Jeffrey Sachs in Bolivia in the 80s. It's quite amusing how often he uses surgical metaphors. I think that's a big part of the problem of letting business determine economic policy: you can't reasonably expect a surgeon to do his own open heart surgery effectively. See  Level1 Links With Richard Wolff  and  Politolik - Natalia Aparicio talking with Amilcar Zenteno: Juana Azurduy, the Republiquetas, and the Colony. Independence of Bolivia . Following that there is some coverage of reactions to the release of Camacho and Añez from prison. Subscribe to  Unitel Bolivia . Jeffrey Sachs gave this talk earlier this year. It's mainly about education. The problem is how do you decide what you teach those children? One of the big problems  with Evo Morales administratio...

See Level1 Links With Richard Wolff and  Fund Britain's Waterways . John Christensen  and Richard Murphy were instrumental in founding the Tax Justice Network . See  DW News Interview With Nicholas Shaxton on British Offshore Banking . 24:26  Richard Murphy's definition of capital as "representing the accumulation of past effort for future benefit" means absolutely nothing to me! 28:33 John Christensen has also been involved in  The Balanced Economy project  founded by Michelle Meagher and Nicholas Shaxton to "reclaim our ability to restructure our economies, by collectively constraining corporate power and building a genuinely democratic economy". Subscribe to Richard J Murphy . 

This is great. Making big problems seem smaller by taking the long view. They talk about the colonial history of Bolivia and the transition to independence. Juana Azurduy de Padilla "was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). She fought for Bolivian and Argentine independence alongside her husband, Manuel Ascencio Padilla, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel." Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio and 10 Centavos .

It's part of the serial killer series too! See her Patreon . See  Julie Nolke - Would You Rather be Stuck in The Woods With A Bear or a Man?   Subscribe to Julie Nolke .

See  On Web Sites for LETS Schemes and DAOs . Here are parts 1 and 2:   See  https://github.com/programming2point0/asteroids . Subscribe to Programming 2.0 . Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon posted this AI generated game for comparison: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Virus Blaster</title> <style> canvas { border: 1px solid black; background: #330000; } body { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; height: 100vh; margin: 0; } </style> </head> <body> <canvas… — Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) February 20, 2025

Subscribe to Level1 Links With Friends . This explains quite a lot of that. Unfortunately it doesn't explain why countries like Bolivia (and parts of the USA, mainly on indigenous land) have to destroy themselves to provide raw materials for industry. Subscribe to Democracy at Work .

Holy crap! What a mess! See  FUTO - The Intern Experience and a FUTO Fellowship . Subscribe to Laurie Wired .

The FUTO Fellowship experience: James Torre on self-justifying axiom systems. See the JSL paper  Self-Verifying Axiom Systems, the Incompleteness Theorem and Related Reflection Principles  by Dan Willard. Also his 2013 preprint  On the Significance of Self-Justifying Axiom Systems from the Perspective of Analytic Tableaux . The idea is that by choosing a less expressive model than PA you can avoid the consequences of Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem. I think the far more important point he makes (at 17:21 ) is that any judgement of correctness of a description system is ultimately based on actual knowledge of some (presumably observable) physical property. See  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction . Subscribe to FUTO . This is an idea that can be applied to abstract vector spaces as well as the space of (descriptions of) the positions of physical objects:  Subscribe to Consistently Inconsistent .

The official web site I found was by searching for " Fund Britain's Waterways " and the page I show in the video is  Growth could flow through UK’s waterways if investment is forthcoming, says Logistics UK .   If you search Google for "Invest in British Waterways" then you only get one result which is Is There A Conflict Between Water Companies And Regulators?   Richard Murphy posted this video today: Why MMT won’t crash the pound or the bond market He also did this one four weeks ago:  What if economics is wrong about scarcity?     He has a blog:  https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/   Subscribe to Richard J Murphy . See  Kim Iversen interview with Richard Werner February 24, 2023 . Subscribe to Kim Iversen .

I went there with Nina Wiesenekker, the mother of an Australian guy who was killed in a climbing accident . We did similar things, apart from riding a quad-bike, but it was a bit sad. See  David Lynch's Weather Report May 23, 2022 . See also  Climbing out of the abyss by Dana Beck  and this BMC article  Crutches for technical first ascent in Andes . This is a really first-rate video production! They're back in France now, so I guess they have time to edit. See  Cochabamba Yesterday . Subscribe to Angie Azariel . Then they went to Lausanne in Switzerland:  Then they went to see Le Mont San Michél: in Spanish the title of this is "Por qué somos tan tacaños?"  Subscribe to Angie & Joris .

See  Documentary - Narco Jungle: The Darien Gap . This is approximately the route I took in 2020/2021: Google maps has severely reduced the resolution of the images to the point that you can no longer see any infrastructure on the ground. That last point is the location of Bajo Chiquito which was the first reception point in Panamá. People are returning from Panamá to Colombia by boat. They then have to cross the Chocó overland because the boat trip across the gulf to Necoclí is too expensive, so they need help from the people in Juradó  and Bahia Solano on the Pacific coast. I don't know how they got to Jaque ! Migración a la inversa: una nueva ruta que puede desatar una crisis en Chocó Subscribe to El Espectador .

This about themes in Wade Davis' book Beneath the Surface of Things . See  Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays . Subscribe to Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy .  Wade Davis was made an honorary citizen of Colombia. This was in June 2019. Subscribe to Ideacity .  This report was from two days ago: Subscribe to DW Español . Time mini-doc on a group of paramilitaries Los Comandos de la Frontera who control "tens of thousands of acres of coca plantations" in Colombia. They claim they are financed by a tax on the narco trafficantes who come to buy coca from the people who farm it. Subscribe to Time .

She's going to leave her videos up though, which is great. YouTube just stopped recommending her videos about six months ago, so I missed the last 31 of them!   My favourite one of hers (that I've seen so far) was the "Stories as Medicine" one she made about something she experienced in the botanic garden in Buenos Aires, and the ones she made before that, one of which she's updated: The Three Dancers   The Crystal Ball If on a Summer's Day, A Writer , ... Subscribe to Architect of Ideas .

This is from a talk he gave somewhere in July 2025.  Daniel Tubbenhauer With Another Knot Invariant Talk . There are some pictures from a 1985 study of knots created by E. coli Topoisomerase . In this talk he looks at ways to get abstract representations of knots and tangles from two dimensional images. Last night I was reading chapter N of Monica Gagliano's book  Thus Spoke the Plant  where she described the difficulties she had when she published a paper on Mimosa pudica which showed that the plants can learn to characterise certain classes of environmental stimuli into those which are worth responding to and those which aren't. See Monica Gagliano, Michael Renton, Martial Depczynski & Stefano Mancuso Experience teaches plants to learn faster and forget slower in environments where it matters . It wasn't considered a scientific result because she didn't identify any particular biophysical/biochemical mechanism to explain the behaviour. Two years later she and co-...

It turns out that the process of producing reliable semiconductors is not actually scientific, it's an art, and the people who practice it only know one way to do it, which is the way they currently do it! The smart thing to do would be to figure out how to program them properly so you don't need such ludicrously overpowered machines.  Subscribe to Behind Asia .

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He says that the Russian/Chinese Lithium production investment is aimed at establishing local manufacturing capability. See  Bolivian Government Signed off on a Deal With Hong Kong CBC To Build 2 Lithium Processing Plants in Uyuni . The problem is that there soes not seem to be a way to refine the lithium salts in Bolivia because of the amount of water the process will require. This is a problem for other communities involved in extractive industries on the Desaguadero, Mapiri and Beni rivers: see  Documentary - Bolivia: los huérfanos del lago Poopó  and  Documentary - Dicing with Death: Bolivia, The Yungas in The Clouds . It needs some much more joined-up thinking. See  Nuestra Papa: Concocer para Querer . Subscribe to Think BRICS .

The Plough & Fleece is having a Beer Festival this weekend. See  The Frisson Syndicate  and Nayra Antezana on her Film "Altiplanos" (2020) . Subscribe to CCR .   Here's the whole song: See her new album Promises : https://found.ee/lissie_promises . Subscribe to Lissie . We're Committing Disco Crimes (feat. Ali Spagnola)    Subscribe to Xyla Foxlin    Her Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/alispagnola . Subscribe to  Ali Spagnola .

Subscribe to Latina Noticias . Álvaro García Linera knows a lot about lifting people from poverty, but not so much about potatoes:  Subscribe to  France 24 Español . They've already made a film about the 2023  massacre in Juliaca : Most of the people killed were from Aymara and Quechua-speaking communities, demonstrating against the ousting and imprisonment of former president Pedro Castillo . Subscribe to  Wayka . About seven years ago a film Confluir was made about the Rio Marañon in Peru and the people who made it took a projector to the communities to show it to them: See  http://maranonwaterkeeper.org/  where there is another film The Roar of the Marañon . See also  https://www.conservamospornaturaleza.org/rioslibres/ . Subscribe to  Marañon Waterkeeper . See  Documentary - Bolivia: los huérfanos del lago Poopó  and  Nayra Antezana on her Film "Altiplanos" (2020) .  

This was in March, 2025. See  Andreas Kling on the Ladybird Browser  and  Eron Woolf and Andreas Kling Talking About the Ladybird Web Browser . Interesting talk by Stephanie Stimac about software development funding: Subscribe to London Web Standards .

Subscribe to Arte.tv Documentales .  The main feed for Lago Poopó is the Rio Desaguadero which flows out of Lago Titicaca . This report was from around the same time as the above documentary: There is an institute called Observatorio Permanente Del Lago Titicaca based at UMSA in La Paz, but they don't seem to be publishing their data. This Peruvian Navy study was conducted on October 2024:  Surveying Lake Titicaca . Subscribe to Telenoche . The Amazon is drying up too: Subscribe to TuBarco .

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I thought they were making fun of carrier-pigeon networks the other day, but they weren't. Interesting comment from Wendell about terra preta . See  Dark earths and the human built landscape in Amazonia: a widespread pattern of anthrosol formation  and  A new hypothesis for the origin of Amazonian Dark Earths . Subscribe to Level1 Links With Friends .

See the paper  Stable isotope evidence for the participation of commoners in Inka khipu production  and other papers at  https://st-andrews.academia.edu/SabineHyland . Also  https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/lost-writing-of-the-inkas-discovered/  and this 2018 New Scientist article:  We thought the Incas couldn’t write. These knots change everything . Subscribe to  Dig It with Raven .

Archaeologists of the future have some work cut out, ... assuming we don't manage to learn how to write software before then, ... Subscribe to Xyla Foxlin . Now I know why she subscribed to my YouTube, ... it's a conspiracy to try to teach me physics:  Dianna Cowern Step By Step Beginning To Convince Me That We Do In Fact Live in A Multiverse (November 25, 2021)  and Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film: "L'homme est le seul oiseau qui porte sa cage" . This Chinese culture invented writing before they buried this guy's stuff, ... ... but four thousand six hundred years later the Brits/Germans still hadn't caught on: Subscribe to   Dig It with Raven  and History With Kayleigh .

This is one of Lori Harfenist's favorite songs. Subscribe to Led Zeppelin . 

People in the comments didn't like not knowing WTF this is about, but I thought it was quite good. By Garrett Johnson & Ben Nicholson, see  https://www.paranoid.la/homecoming Subscribe to Dust .

See St John's biography  Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna  to be published on September 30th by MIT Press. You can read an excerpt from it now:  Psilocybin Summer . Subscribe to Mckenna Academy of Natural Sciences .

Documentaire : Travelling Photographers – Pérou, les indiens des cimes (2017) Réalisateur : Laurent Sardi Production : Arte France, Lato Sensu Productions, Groupe PVP  Entre el Inka y la realidad!   Joaquina Revollo on Economics, Pensions, Music and Dante Usquiano . Subscribe to SLICE Documentary .

7:42 It's not just about Bolivia. He's taking it in a global context. See  Joaquina Revollo on Economics, Pensions, Music and Dante Usquiano . 36:01 So it's a problem shared!  Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa .  The first workers' syndicates in Bolivia were established just after the Chaco War in the '30s. De la Revolución Agraria al Pongueaje Político   See  https://fundacionsolon.org/   Subscribe to Fundacion Solon . See Peru’s Qoyllur Rit’i  Subscribe to SLICE Documentary .

This is a really nice video about a trek to the Aztec Obsidian mines in Mexico. Subscribe to Doctorazo .

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I didn't expect this! See  Xyla Foxlin Building At Least a Flintstones Airplane . And it was only after posting that that I realised why Howard Hughes' flying boat was called the Spruce Goose ! " It would be built mostly of wood to conserve metal (its elevators and rudder were fabric-covered), and was nicknamed the Spruce Goose (a name Hughes disliked) or the Flying Lumberyard ". She's also making nice carpets for the floor:   Subscribe to Xyla Foxlin .

Subscribe to Joaquina Revollo . It's very mysterious: This is my favourite track of Wara. El Inca (1973) This is copyright music and YouTube are supposedly paying royalties to someone every time this is played, ... but international royalties in the music business are very complicated. Orando por renacer del Inca, ... This is really what Evo Pueblo is about, ... but how to work it into the constitution, ... See  Evo Morales in Ivirgarzama . La Realidad: See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel . Subscribe to  Carlos Cardani . Subscribe to Imillaskate .

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They believe that this company has access to the Dirección Nacional Servicio de Registro Cívico electoral roll along with biometric data and data from the results transmission system and also voting slips and source code for some system and that they intend to use this to commit electoral fraud. See  EU Observers Participate in Simulation of Preliminary Results Transmission . They demanded access to the servers with the press, but were denied. The center in La Paz is believed to have been financed by  Marcelo Claure . (YouTube auto-dubbing messes this up altogether. You have to choose original Spanish soundtrack from the settings).  Ramiro Venegas and Renán Cabezas  are MAS IPSP representatives in the Cámara de Diputados .   Hector Arce is appealing to Samuel Doria Medina to authorise national press access to this "Electoral Control" facility to show the people that there is nothing illegal going on. Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa . They ran a test of this...

See  https://dustbringer.github.io/web--knot-invariant-comparison/   See also Daniel Tubbenhauer - How good are (quantum) knot invariants?  the slides are here https://www.dtubbenhauer.com/talks/2025-05-sydney.pdf Subscribe to Daniel Tubbenhauer . 

These were all the kinds of projects I wanted to go see when I was in the USA. I guess they didn't need me in their way! Subscribe to Shaun Overton DUSTUPS . Subscribe to Symbiosis TX . Subscribe to Grow Tree Organics . Subscribe to Brisbone Ranch .  Subscribe to Desert Homesteading With Bryce . Or you could live in a city, and zero-scape. Subscribe to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't .  

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Ask the plants what applications this has! See  Rupert Sheldrake on Polarity in Plants . Subscribe to The Action Lab . 

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I heard some crazy statistics about Starlink data usage in Zimbabwe and I can't help wonder how much of that was AI.  Subscribe to Mordecai Ogaga .

They pretend she doesn't exist! Some people have funny ideas about art, ... She was the first Artist in Residence at the Pollock-Krasner House in Long Island and she and Russ collaborated on an album. I didn't post the videos she did about the album though, so I'm as bad as Harp Column.  Get the album Stone here:  https://bit.ly/3V4jcys . Subscribe to Emily Hopkins . Emily & Russ at the Pollock-Krasner House talking about the album:    They did a live performance there: See also  Emily Hopkins Putting A Dog Food Distortion Pedal on A Harp  and  David and Romany Gilmour - Two Points (Live at Circo Massimo, Rome) . See also  Romany Gilmour - Lilies & Roses . Subscribe to Pollock-Krasner House . If only integrating computer software development processes were as easy as integrating art projects, ... we'd be done by now, and I could have a holiday! See  Brian Kernighan Talking About Unix at VCF East 2025 . You can watch the professional...

This is episode three of the documentary series:     On making the series, and on a beef barbecue Northern NM style. Poor old cows! Episode 1  Episode 2 Subscribe to The Lookout .

The UK Air Accident Investigation Bureau's statement in 12 June: " The UK AAIB has ‘Expert’ status in the Indian safety investigation. In accordance with international protocols, release of information on the investigation rests solely with the Indian authorities ." See  Air India Flight 171 Crash Speculation . The Indian authorities seem to have problems identifying the victims' bodies/body parts: Subscribe to BBC Newsnight . Subscribe to LBC . 22:11 Suggestion that any Indian nationals who had relatives in the flight could apply the Indian government under the 2005 Right to Information act for the release of the information. The web site  https://rti.gov.in/  is currently not responding. It's quite a popular service, according to Wikipedia: " Every day on average, over 4800 RTI applications are filed. In the first ten years of the commencement of the act, over 17,500,000 applications had been filed. " Subscribe to Airline News With Geoffrey Thomas .

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It seems to have been focussed on getting rid of people with connections to Cochabamba. See  Evo Morales in Ivirgarzama . Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa . Red Uno interviewed Marcelo Silva who says it's clearly an emergency measure, and probably motivated by concerns over post-electoral demonstrations in Chapare and the Altiplano.  Subscribe to Red Uno Bolivia .

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See What's Wrong With Unix? which I posted in April 2014. He mentions Domain Specific Languages, pipes, programs that write programs, AI that doesn't do a very good job of writing programs (because AI is not a program) ... and that's only in the first half! 37:50 What's changed since then? Could you do it again?  43:26 Question about Plan 9 . "Oh, the Unix filesystem was great, so make everything a filesystem!" 47:32 A very amusing observation that Unix made programmers portable!  51:35 "Do you have any hot takes on the state of software as it is used today?"  Subscribe to Vintage Computer Federation . On using pipes and Domain Specific Languages: what if you could actually plug languages together like you can plug programs into pipelines? See See Robin Milner's Polyadic pi-calculus Tutorial (1991) and Alan Kay's talk given to some people at Qualcomm in San Diego, on October 30, 2013, posted on YouTube in July 2014: Also try and find so...

Great speech! I don't know how to reconcile this idea of the Instrumento Evo Pueblo with the Constitution either.  Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa .  Arce appointing new generals: Subscribe to Cabildeo Digital .  This is the only analysis I've seen, apart from Evo's,...  Subscribe to Pat Bolivia TV . 

This is really interesting. It's about his plant research in the seventies and eighties which was inspired by reading Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants .  There is also a substack article he did on this:  https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com/p/the-polarity-of-plants . I looked up Auxin on Wikipedia and it's really complicated. It's actually a group of endogenously synthesized compounds. I was wondering how they made this radioactive tracer version with Carbon-14  and whether or not it was metabolised in the process of "transport". What he was measuring were the counts of (the electronic effects of!) radio-active decay events, and from this inferring the Auxin transport, presumably on the assumption that the only Carbon-14 was that bound in Auxin molecules. See this 2017 survey article  What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen—Detecting Auxin In Vivo  by Barbora Pařízková, Markéta Pernisová and Ondřej Novák. On electricity, water and climate, see  YouTubers Testi...

I'm happy for him. I don't know where this is going though. If I were in his shoes I'd be wondering how on earth to get the country well-enough organised to be able to adapt to the inevitable shortages that they're facing right now. See  Interesting Interview With Evo Morales .  Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa . Amalia Pando and Cacho Herrera talking about Jeanine Anez's case and the legal machinations surrounding it, the polls and the challenges for the next government. Subscribe to Cabildeo Digital .  Interview with Rosa Huanca Subscribe to Pat Bolivia TV .