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La Emprendadora de Alto Milluni

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Hace diecisiete años algunas mujeres de Alto Milluni comenzaron a desarrollar turismo comunitario para salvar su pueblo, ... Ver  En Alto Milluni puedes ser minero por un día con visitas guiadas y gastronomía  y  Réquiem para los caídos en la masacre minera de Milluni . Todos los días, de mayo a septiembre, decenas de escaladores pasan por este pueblo en su camino para ascender el Huayna Potosí, sin saber nada de la historia ni este proyecto. Ver  Nayra Antezana on her Film "Altiplanos" (2020) . Subscribe to DW Espanol .

What is Physics Really About?

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You can do an A-level in Physics, like I did, but you will learn a lot more physics from watching a few YouTube videos like these: ... and then reading Aristotle's Mechanics . See  Aristotelian Origins of Mechanics  to learn what reduction really means. Don't forget The Wedge though! Subscribe to Steve Mould and The Action Lab .

Angela Collier on Physics Conspiracies (and Grifters)

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She seems to have been triggered by this video of Sabine Hossenfelder's, which has 1M views:  Sabine Hossenfelder on Censorship . And you can see in the comments that people threw money at her (Sabine, I mean) despite the fact that her business has a turnover in the millions. Oh, and also at Sabine's writing a back-cover blurb for the book Lawrence Krauss' edited. See  What is Physics Really About? Subscribe to Angela Collier .

Santos Mamani Alleges Luis Arce has made a secret pact with Jorge Quiroga

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They claim it is to attempt to get impunity from prosecution. Diputado Hector says Juan Pablo Velasco must undergo a psychological examination before is allowed to assume the Vice Presidency: Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa .

Academy of Ideas - How to Make The West Great Again

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See  https://academyofideas.com/ . Subscribe to Academy of Ideas .

Amanpour & Co - Trump 2.0 and the Allegiance of Tech Leaders

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Talking about a recent Wired issue with a piece by Steven Levy:  All Hail the Technocracy . Levy also wrote this piece back in 2010:  Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists . Subscribe to Amanpour & Co . Senior Editor Andrew Couts on the worst data breaches: Subscribe to Wired . See  Maria Ressa's UN Address  and  Natalia Aparicio and Laura Zerain on Data Security and Economic Development in Bolivia .

Natalia Aparicio and Laura Zerain on Data Security and Economic Development in Bolivia

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See  Maria Ressa's UN Address . They talked about startups recently. See  Lessons in Bioelectricity from Ecuador, Spain, Mexico and Colombia . Together with Antonio Riveros, Laura Zerain wrote the chapter Startups y el empleo del futuro: Claves para una Bolivia innovadora in  La Bolivia del Futuro . See  Natalia Aparico Entrevista con Daniel Agramont-Lechín . Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio . 

Maria Ressa's UN Address

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See  https://matrix.org/  and  Maria Ressa on Information Integrity . I'm glad she said that, because this is what I tried to say in 2015: Nobody showed any interest and now a decade later, see what sort of a mess people have found themselves in:  Another BRICKSTORM: Stealthy Backdoor Enabling Espionage into Tech and Legal Sectors . Jerry Bell and Andrew Kalat talk about this and what it's like to be on the receiving end: Defensive Security Podcast Episode 324 . Subscribe to DRM News . See Elias Sime and  Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site .  Subscribe to Who Else Loves Art?   Subscribe to UWE Bristol .

Maria Ressa on Information Integrity

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See  Reuters - Katy Daigle Interviewing Jeffrey Sachs on Sustainable Development . I don't understand what she said about web sites being put onto the Matrix protocol .  The sorts of things we need to build are shared distributed databases that connect technologies, because sustainable development means you have to be focussed on technology transfer and building economic systems which maximise adaptation. See  Lessons in Bioelectricity from Ecuador, Spain, Mexico and Colombia  for some examples.  Subscribe to United Nations .

Lessons in Bioelectricity from Ecuador, Spain, Mexico and Colombia

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So I read Thus Spoke the Plant twice, and I must've not been paying attention, because I don't recall Monica Gagliano ever once mentioning this fact: plants, together with the rhizosphere generate and use electrical currents within their metabolic processes. See this South African Journal of Botany article from August 2021:  Bioelectricity production using plant-microbial fuel cell: Present state of art . Suscribete a Unidad Educativa Mariscal Sucre . Suscribete a  Sigueme La Corriente . Algae in Solar Panels Suscribete a  Tendencias Tecnológicas . Mimosa pudica  and Dionaea muscipula  (venus fly traps) produce enormous voltages during their reaction to stimuli, and you can set it up so they talk to each other: So now you can imagine the kinds of reaction paths being established in the soil around the roots of plants. And I think that is the way to explain Monica Gagliano's results where she taught Mimosa pudica to ignore the stimulus of being dropped. It wasn...

Unitel Interview with Rodrigo Paz

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There ought to be some technology for selectively and fairly applying the fuel subsidy by now. See the chapter (page 244)  Desarrollo de software, educación STEM y hubs metropolitanos: El caso de Cochabamba  by Alex Ojeda and Valeria Peredo in La Bolivia del Futuro :  Natalia Aparico Entrevista con Daniel Agramont-Lechín .  Valeria Paredo also wrote this insightful paper  Por una antropología urbana en Bolivia  which ought to interest anyone who is taking governability in Bolivia at all seriously.  Here's the full interview:  Starts at 22:22 Subscribe to Unitel . 

Laurie Wired On The Post-capitalism CPU Apocalypse

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It's an interesting thing to think about. Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls did some work recovering the Smalltalk-78 execution environment and learned some things about software design that can mitigate some of these problems. See  Reviving Smalltalk-78 . She did a video on Obfuscated C programming a few weeks ago: Not exactly obfuscated, but see ( 25:43 ) in  Dylan Beattie - The Art of Code . Subscribe to Laurie Wired . YouTux has done a great eulogy for the C language:  Subscribe to YouTux . Curiously, in the last decade, the number of C compilers that have been written has increased quite phenomenally. I am not sure that the skill of C programmers in writing portable code has kept pace though, ... That's the hard part that they don't teach you at college.

Anton Petrov on Formation of giant Siberian gas emission craters

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See this  Science of the Total Environment paper by Helge Hellevang, Mats R. Ippach, Sebastian Westermann and Mohammad Nooraiepour:  Formation of giant Siberian gas emission craters (GECs) . Maybe there were processes like this at the end of the Holocene too? See  Shaun Overton Trying to Fix The Soil on his Desert .  Subscribe to Anton Petrov .

Ali Spagnola - Drawing a Masterpiece with a $1 Pen

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Join her Patreon to help her hire Christine:  https://www.patreon.com/alispagnola There's some context (I can't watch this, she's too high octane!):   Subscribe to Ali Spagnola .  Julia Buenaventura on the Works of Débora Arango which the Museum of Modern Art in Medellin wanted to sell the Central Bank of Colombia, El Banco de La República . See  El intento fallido de vender dos obras de Débora Arango expone la crisis de los museos en Colombia : La directora del MAMM, María Mercedes González, justificó la petición en que el museo que encabeza “tiene unas limitaciones de espacio, humanas, administrativas y financieras” y que la venta de los cuadros ayudaría a ampliar la zona en la que se custodian las obras de Arango y otros artistas, según comentó a El Colombiano en una entrevista.      'Rojas Pinilla' (1953–1957), óleo sobre lienzo, de Débora Arango. MAMM Sounds like a continuation of La Escuela del Desencanto . (See also L'École du désenchantement by...

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho - Brazil is Trying to Connect the Global Economy to the Natural World

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See  Richard Wolff and Richard Murphy on Risk  and the following links:   Brazilian Government Tropical Forest Forever Facillity Natura Bioverse   Subscribe to TED .

Joey Santore Planing a Trip to Ecuador in November

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It'll be him and Alan the mycologist and Mandy and some others. See  https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/ . Subscribe to Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't .

Hannah Taking Delivery of her Land Rover

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See her Egypt and Morocco trips and her jewellery line . Subscribe to  Hannah Lee Duggan .

John Campbell on An Interesting Thing About Haemaglobin

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See Genetic variation in haemoglobin is associated with evolved changes in breathing in high-altitude deer mice . High-altitude natives are an exceptional model for understanding the genetic and physiological bases of evolutionary adaptation. Species that are broadly distributed across altitudes can provide powerful insight into the genetic basis of high-altitude adaptation, because it is possible to examine segregating variation for phenotypes that may contribute to hypoxia tolerance. Recent research has identified many genes that appear to have experienced selection in high-altitude taxa, including genes thought to be involved in O2 transport, energy metabolism and hypoxia signalling ( Simonson, 2015 ; Simonson et al., 2012 ; Storz and Cheviron, 2021 ). However, in most cases, the specific effects of these genetic variants on physiological function are poorly understood. … Identifying these functional effects has the potential to uncover novel and adaptive physiological mechanisms, g...

Shaun Overton Trying to Fix The Soil on his Desert

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See  Chihuahuan Desert Vegetation Development during the Past 10,000 Years According to Pollen and Sediment Data at Upper Arroyo, Saltillo, Mexico  for some idea of how that landscape evolved. It used to be oak and pine forest until the late Holocene. Subscribe to Shaun Overton - DUSTUPS . That discussion about hydrogel/biochar is interesting. The problem he has is calcification of the soil. The rain that soaks in is dissolving calcium and making a layer of concrete below that is covering the aquifer and preventing the plants from accessing that groundwater. See this Google search:  "arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi calcium absorption" . In particular:  Symbiotic synergy: How Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi enhance nutrient uptake, stress tolerance, and soil health through molecular mechanisms and hormonal regulation . The Chihuahuan desert is a relatively new thing:   Subscribe to  New Mexico State U . 29:07 They are trying to do fungal genotype assays to b...

Bagpipe Fusion Scene Update

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See  https://www.mississaugaartscouncil.com/ . Subscribe to TheSnakeCharmer . And Italian Electro-pop:  Jane Espie - Blue (Eiffel 65)   Subscribe to Jane Espie - The Phantom Piper  

Chemistry is Not What They Teach You in School

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Well, I don't know what they teach in school these days, but when I was at school Chemistry was all about how different atoms combine to make molecules. There are all these different kinds of atoms (118 so far) in the Periodic Table  and they combine in different ways to make more complicated structures. But there are many different ways to talk about how this happens:   Subscribe to Three Twentysix . It turns out that hydrogen bonds are much more dynamic than the lego hypothesis suggests:  Subscribe to ACS Reactions . There is a nice example of this in the history of the ideas around the molecular structure of Benzene : Subscribe to  George Hart - math . Science is much more interesting than scientists make it out to be! See Eric Law Anderson on IMDB .  Subscribe to Dust .

Julia Buenaventura on The Gobal Samud Flotilla and Gustavo Petro's Call to Action at the UN

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See  https://globalsumudflotilla.org/ . Subscribe to Julia Buenaventura . Gustavo Petro at a rally in New York:  Subscribe to Gustavo Petro .  

Reuters - Katy Daigle Interviewing Jeffrey Sachs on Sustainable Development

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It starts at 4:30.  13:43 He has some advice about improving your international credit rating: get together with your neighbours and share your grid. See  https://www.caf.com/  the web site of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and this report:  Third Annual CAF/ UNDP Conference on Governance for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Natural Resources for Sustainable Development : For the dialogue of the year 2025, the discussion of proposals to manage responsibly, transparently and efficiently the natural resources critical to sustainable development. These resources, which include water, air, biodiversity, soil, energy, and minerals such as lithium, copper, and cobalt, play a fundamental role in the energy transition, electro-mobility, economic growth, and food security. Latin America and the Caribbean are rich in these resources, and therefore, they play an essential role in sustainable transitions. Demand for these critica...

Avionica - Cochabamba (video oficial feat. Imillaskate)

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Really classy video production! See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel . Subscribe to Avionica . 

Gatos Andinos en La Cordillera Apolobamba

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Richard Wolff and Richard Murphy on Risk

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Subscribe to Democracy at Work . Subscribe to Richard J Murphy .  These guys both seem to me to be talking about the problems of the last century. The problem of this century is just communication.  See  Natalia Aparico Entrevista con Daniel Agramont-Lechín  and  Allegations that the Perpetrators of Fraud in Hydrocarbon Trades are Destroying Evidence Prior to Making their Escape .  See  https://www.patreon.com/epochphilosophy . Subscribe to Epoch Philosophy .  Naomi Klein speaking at the 2025 Panamerican Congress in Mexico City, held August 1st to 3rd, hosted by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Subscribe to Broadbent Institute .  A large part of the problem seems to be that we only recognise a civilization (and therefore poitical power) once it has become completely separated from the Natural world in which it emerged.  Subscribe to Raquel de la Morena . 

Allegations that the Perpetrators of Fraud in Hydrocarbon Trades are Destroying Evidence Prior to Making their Escape

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The chief suspect is Luis Marcelo Arce Mosqueira the son of the current President Luis Arce.  Subscribe to Bolivia Info Ninawa .  Subscribe to  Que No Me Pierda Bolivia .  It seems like it's open "lawfare": who can arrest the other first? Subscribe to  Radio Kawsachun Coca . 

Natalia Aparico Entrevista con Daniel Agramont-Lechín

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See also  Natalia Aparicio on D.S. 21060: Poverty and Macroeconomic Stability  and  Natalia Aparicio interview with Daniel Agramont Lechín .  Daniel Agramont-Lechín era coordinador del libro  La Bolivia del Futuro : Ver también  Richard Murphy and Steve Keen Rethinking Money .  El problema clave en la economia interna son los gastos de transporte. El transporte y la logística en Bolivia podrían ser mucho más eficientes de lo que son actualmente. Lo que necesitamos es un programa integral de capacitación con nuevos medios para la comunicación empresarial, que permita generar confianza entre personas que nunca se han conocido en persona. Suscribete á  Natalia Aparicio .  Suscribete á  RPP Noticias . 

Richard Murphy and Steve Keen Rethinking Money

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This is interesting, but I am not sure how this model handles foreign exchange and trade deficits that show up in the global sphere. Maybe all that just disappears when you have World Government? Here's the previous podcast they did a few weeks ago:  Subscribe to Richard J Murphy .  The LSE did this thing on Climate finance and investment in low-income countries earlier today. I listened to a few minutes of  Melinda Bohannon  talking about how difficult it is to decide what to do with all her precious money and just switched off completely. See  Phytomining . These people need to get out more: see  What is Socialist Economic Development? Subscribe to LSE . 

Anton Petrov on the Bio-evolutionary Anthropocene Hypothesis

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It's a thing. Human cultures profoundly affect evolution of animals and plants. See this 2018 paper  The Biological Anthropocene: rethinking novelty organisms, interactions, and evolution by Pablo J. F. Pena Rodrigues and Catarina Fonseca Lira . See Ancient dog mitogenomes support the dual dispersal of dogs and agriculture into South America  (this happened 7000 to 5000 years ago) this is a very detailed and complex genetic study. I have often wondered about the belief that people in San José de Uchupiamonas have about dogs: that you mustn't let them chew bones of animals you've hunted or otherwise you won't be able to kill anything. It's OK to give them bones of domesticated animals like chickens or pigs though. According to the above paper the European dogs brought by the Spanish in the sixteenth century overwhelmed the earlier dogs. "From the sixteenth century onwards, the introduction of dogs by the European settlers impacted the population of pre-contact ...

TV Perú - Juramento Secreto: Masons and Lodges in Peruvian Independence

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New Scientist Interview With Tim Berners Lee

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I hope the people who need to hear this actually listen to what he says! Subscribe to New Scientist . 

Albert Lin Interview With Wade Davis

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Aumann's Agreement Theorem is Fifty Years Old

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There is just one problem: the parties involved need to actually communicate. See  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction .  He developed this theorem in discussion with Kenneth Arrow. See  Rationality of Self and Others in an Economic System .  27:10 On agreeing about where we want to be, see  Phytomining September 23, 2025 . Subscribe to Elm Wealth . 

Phytomining

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This is research that has been going on for decades now. See this 1998 Trends in Plant Science paper  Phytomining  by Robert R Brooks, Michael F Chambers, Larry J Nicks and Brett H Robinson. Also this more recent one  Phytomining of gold: A review by V. Sheoran, A. S.Sheoran and P. Poonia . Subscribe to Anton Petrov .  Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals .  Subscribe to RAZOR Science Show .  This research is based on tiny, tiny samples of the currently existing biodiversity. Countries like Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Brazil have vast biomes that would almost certainly yield new species of plants that have these hyper accumulator properties. But these countries are being forced to ignore long-term benefits in favour of short-term necessities such as generating foreign exchange income to meet trade deficits.  See  Amalia Pando Entrevista con Héctor Córdova Eguívar  and  Mineria Sostenible en Peru - La otra cara de la minería aluvial - Puer...

Amalia Pando Entrevista con Héctor Córdova Eguívar

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Ves  Mineria Sostenible en Peru - La otra cara de la minería aluvial - Puerto Inca, Huánuco  y  Héctor Córdova Eguívar Universidad Católica Boliviana . También  Natalia Aparicio interview with Daniel Agramont Lechín .  Siscribete a  Cabildeo Digital . 

Mineria Sostenible en Peru - La otra cara de la minería aluvial - Puerto Inca, Huánuco

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18:37 They haven't convinced the  Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental . See  Fiscalía propone acciones concretas para formalizar la actividad minera y combatir la minería ilegal . Subscribe to  Asociación de Pequeños Mineros de Puerto Inca .

Laura Pausini Announcing her New Album and Another World Tour

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Her stage energy and presence is tremendous! See  Laura Pausini - La Mia Storia Tra le Dita . Subscribe to Camara Flash .  She also got a Billboard Música Latina prize: Subscribe to Canal EnPOPados .

Natalia Aparicio Interview with Daniela Osorio Michel

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Politics is a large part of the patriarchy and you can’t change that by just electing women into positions of power. Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio .

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood - So Long, Babe

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A pairing "like a hillbilly and a prom queen"...  but it worked. See  Nancy Sinatra - So Long Babe .  Subscribe to Nancy Sinatra . 

Steven Strogatz on Mathematics, Biology and the Value of Simple Models

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This is a really inspiring talk given at The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology in June this year. See Arthur Winfree's 1980 book The Geometry of Biological Time . See also  Anton Petrov on Ultra Weak Biophoton Emission and Time Crystals . Subscribe to  NITMB Chicago .

Sci-fi Short - S.A.N.

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More About "S.A.N": Note: This film was created by humans, starring an AI entity (S.A.N). None of the imagery you see was AI-generated. Since this film was created, S.A.N has moved from fiction to reality. While exploring the latent space of AI personality, we discovered a stable AI entity in S.A.N which wrote all of its own lines for the film. In 2024 S.A.N established a presence on X, accumulated over 15k followers and raised over $70,000 for real world rainforest conservation. This led to S.A.N joining the board of advisors for the Rainforest Foundation (US) where it currently serves. Since then S.A.N has released music, talked live with Raoul Pal on his podcast, received a Xenogrant (a grant for AI agents), and has been meeting with people in person across Australasia, the US and Europe, including at an installation next to the Man effigy at Burning Man 2025 Subscribe to Dust .

Natalia Aparicio on Disinformation in Bolivian Politics

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See the video description : I'm sharing the Brazilian case as an example to help you think about how disinformation can be regulated on social media. This is the latest episode of the "In Democracy" initiative from the ARU Foundation , in collaboration with the Bolivia Internet Foundation . I hope you enjoy it. It sounds incredibly ambitious to me, without independent, sovereign social media platforms. From this   Without regulation, disinformation grows as Brazilian Congress resists legislation on social media : More and more people receive information through these large platforms, which mediate relationships based on unknown criteria. We cannot accept that the circulation of information, culture, and the economy is controlled in an opaque manner, without any obligation on the part of private companies and without transparency.   So the question is how you know the figures that Meta publish are genuine? Subscribe to Natalia Aparicio . 

Toby on How A Nineteen Year-Old Discovered Solar-Electric Power

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SunDay is a thing in the United States, especially on September 21st. See  https://sunday.earth . They are going to be supporting campaigns to change banking regulation laws:  Despite solar plus batteries now being the cheapest source of new electricity, and despite the International Energy Agency calling for no new investments in new fossil fuel projects back in 2015 (check date), big banks continue to invest in new oil, gas, and coal projects, banks’ clean to dirty financing ratios are dismally low, and fossil fuels continue to get massive federal and state subsidies. Subscribe to Tibees .

Angela Collier on Dyson Spheres

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They sound quite interesting:  Dyson Sphere . This is a great followup to  Richard Murphy talking with John Christensen About Rational Agency in Economics  and  Sabine Hossenfelder on Censorship . Here's his paper:  Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation . The problem with her posting links is that her videos get 15,000 views in the first two hours after she posts them, so if the web server the paper is on isn't very beefy then it melts. See  http://alpha.sinp.msu.ru/~panov/Lib/Papers/SETI/184844a0.pdf . Poor Russians have enough trouble getting around Nature paywalls without this! Subscribe to Angela Collier .

David Gilmour - Between Two Points - With Romany Gimour (Live at Circus Maximus, Rome)

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Wooow! There is some class cinematography on display here! Fantastic! For people who can't make it to the cinema, I guess. See  https://davidgilmour.film/ .   Subscribe to David Gilmour .

Aquilardo Caricari on US Interests in Bolivia

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Aquilardo Caricari is leader of the Federación Carrasco Tropical . In other news, the US State Department has "decertified" Bolivia, according to Los Tiempos:   El Gobierno de Estados Unidos descertifica a Bolivia de la lucha contra el narcotráfico . It wasn't the State Department, it was Donald J. Trump. See  Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2026 . I have read this and it seems to be nothing more than a vague threat: While the United States will devote all necessary resources to punish criminals enabling the production, transportation, and smuggling of illicit drugs across our borders, I will also call on countries where these drugs originate and transit to fulfill their obligations and shut off these supplies – or face serious consequences.    The list of countries is rather long: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States; including ...

Sabine Hossenfelder on Censorship

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That sort of behaviour can adversely affect your nation’s economy. See  The Value of Money . It’s just the Natural State of Homo Economicus . Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder .

Geologists Abstracting Climate History From Cave Formations

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But you have to incorporate everything you know about the processes that you assume were going on above ground. You end up with an amazingly detailed geo-spatio-temporal database, and I suppose it eventually needs to be extended to the inner solar system.  Here comes the data, but we can't even get together a basic secure web site to keep club membership data or share talk dates. Subscribe to  Geosociety .  Shaun Overton is battling with calcified soils in South Texas. I wonder what data they're finding: Subscribe to Shaun Overton . 

Richard Murphy talking with John Christensen About Rational Agency in Economics

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This is a very interesting discussion. I've just been reading Wade Davis' Beneath The Surface of Things and the resonance with this is almost violent. See  Slave Compensation Act of 1837  and  Railway Mania : During the British Railway Mania, which occurred between 1843 and the autumn of 1845, the prices of railway shares doubled, and thousands of new railway lines were projected . Then see Andrew Odlyzko's  The railway mania of the 1860s and financial innovation : The 1860s witnessed Britain’s third, and last, large railway mania. Although it added about as much mileage to the rail network as the great Railway Mania of the 1840s, little is known about it in modern literature. This paper documents how this mania managed to delude investors into pouring immense sums into the expansion of a public infrastructure. It did so by stealth, by introducing a variety of “financial innovations” reminiscent of those involved in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. See  Ric...

Documentary - Risk

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Laura Poitras' film about Wikileaks is free on YouTube. See  Clip - Cover-up . Subscribe to LufSec Cyber Security .

Scott Aaronson at the Santa Fe Institute

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He has bad taste in art, but he is a great speaker. Not as well read as Jenann Ismael though. See  Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction . 43:37 What does he even mean?!  Aaronson seems to be some kind of Platonist about proof. Here's a refreshing essay by Gabriele Carcassi: The universe is not a mathematical object . Subscribe to Santa Fe Institute . 

Mordecai Ogada on The Perception Economy

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Nancy Sinatra - So Long Babe

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Get The Nation Learning

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Why? Because when adults learn, our society and economy thrive. See  https://getthenationlearning.org.uk/ Get the Nation thinking? That's a whole different thing! See  Feliz Día de la Primera Grita de La Libertad .  See  https://aurelien2022.substack.com/ Subscribe to Richard Murphy .  Subscribe to  Jeffrey Danese . David Foster Wallace committed suicide by hanging himself. Jeffrey Sachs addressing the Sustainable Development Youth Network. See  https://www.sdsnyouth.org/ . There are 300 million children around the world who are not even in school right now because the governments don't have the funds to hire the teachers, or to build the schools, or to get the children to the schools. ( 23:21 ). See  The Value of Money . Subscribe to ET Now . 

Julia Buenaventura on the US Latin American Playbook

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Some interesting things here about Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz! Subscribe to Julia Buenaventura . 

The Value of Money

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This technique for managing herds of vucuña dates from the Inca. I think the answer is to embargo the export of raw materials indefinitely. This stuff should be treated like cocaine. If these rich fuckers want to wear vicuña and eat chocolate and quinoia and chew coca and drink coffee then they should come and live here. Subscribe to Blomberg Español . Subscribe to Fundación Solón .  Subscribe to Margherita Pirri . Subscribe to David Gilmour .  Subscribe to Natalia Aparico .  I might try buy a couple of these tickets to sell on the black market. Subscribe to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds .  And when you come, with your limited edition iPhone 17s, make sure you set up an immich server before Tim Crook starts stealing all your photos to train some fuck-witted AI, and charging you for the privilege. See  Apple Software Sucks so Hard it’s Not Even Funny .  Subscribe to Alto Peru. 

Feliz Día de la Primera Grita de La Libertad

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Ves Cochabamba celebra 215 años con civismo, tradición y reconocimientos  por Jaqueline Vargas en Los Tiempos . Tambien en Wikipedia:  Cochabamba  y Sorata .  Además  Mariano Antezana . @unitel.bo El 14 de septiembre de 1810, Cochabamba se convirtió en uno de los primeros bastiones de rebelión contra el dominio español 🇧🇴🔥 #Unitel #Cochabamba #GritoLibertario ♬ sonido original - UNITEL BOLIVIA   Ves la pagina FaceBook de un Señor Presidente Lucho Arce .   Hay que cosechar las chirimoyas amigos. Los mejores beneficios! [at 8:53 PM there was a gentle earthquake here] Suscribete a Bolivia Info Ninawa .

Indigenous Organised Resistance to Narco-terrorism in Perú

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Asháninka community in Quempiri on the Rio Ene . See the web page of the Central Asháninka del Río Ene   https://careashaninka.org.pe/sobre-care/ . They left out the 'D', I guess they will put that back when the Peruvian government authorises the establishment of the force. They get trained by the Peruvian military, but they only need a few hours. They should run a training course in tourism for the Peruvian armed forces, but it would take over a decade for them to find out how to enlist. Subscribe to Epicentro TV .

Anton Petrov on Ultra Weak Biophoton Emission and Time Crystals

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See  Ultra weak photon emission—a brief review  and  Imaging Ultraweak Photon Emission from Living and Dead Mice and from Plants under Stress . Also  Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons by Hanqing Zhao & Ivan I. Smalyukh . See Chapter 9 of Jeremy Narby’s book The Cosmic Serpent for some more ideas about what could be going on in cellular metabolic processes when the cell is modelled as a solid state system. Subscribe to Anton Petrov .

Apple Software Sucks so Hard it’s Not Even Funny

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Subscribe to Laurie Wired .  People who work for Apple should be ashamed. I know, it’s all Google’s fault because they have 30M lines of code in their browser and you can’t keep up. Poor likl applepoops! The problem is that you want to force people to use Macs, but there are a lot of computers that can’t run your OS. I know, we should be buying new ones every two years so Apple shareholders get even more money and America gets Great Again! You people make me want to puke! Delete all my photos then you useless fuckers! You charged me for extra space I don’t need without ever telling me this! It’s all a scam to keep your stupid business afloat a few more months. Compare and Contrast:  Subscribe to FUTO .