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Dimitri Lascaris' 8 Hours in Paris Yesterday

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See  Bonfire Night in France  and  Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble . I don't agree with what he says ( 12:09 ) about public demonstrations, unless you completely redefine resistance and militancy to mean fundamentally changing the economic structure of the society in which you live. See Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else  and Beavers Making Money in Arizona . 51:34 See  2:18:38  on the AP live feed.  See Macron Cancelled Public Demonstrations .  Subscribe to Reason2Resist . Subscribe Science and Nonduality .

Charlotte Moser on Saddle-node Bifurcation

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Nonlinear models: My comment : It was interesting how unresolved processes show up as noise. The first-order system has a discontinuous evolution at the tipping point, but presumably the first-order system is just an approximation to a higher-order system where those unresolved processes show up as a continuous evolution in a higher-dimensional phase space. I guess the maths for this sort of transition is much more complicated though. Subscribe to Charlotte Moser .  There is a whole course on Non-linear dynamics and chaos by Shane Ross. He mentions ( 2:50 ) discontinuities in phase-space topology on either side of a bifurcation point:   See  Collaborative Mathematics .   Here's some more on phase space topology: Subscribe to Dr Shane Ross . Catastrophes, and Other Theories of Form – Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems Subscribe to  Johannes Jaeger .  See also  Mike Harms on Physical Models of Biological Processes . 

Beavers Making Money in Arizona

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He needs to raise US$120,000 to do this. See https://maearth.com/planttherain/grow   My comment : Have you heard the expression "Money is the measure of waste" before? What I would like to know is where this US$120,000 you want to raise will end up. Is part of it to dispose of the asphalt you lift up? Think of the money like toxic runoff. What are [you] doing to bioremediate it? Are you expecting people from outside Tucson to contribute? How do you expect people to raise the money to pay for this? Is it OK if they get it from investing in Wall St? Is it OK if they do insider trading to turn that profit?  Subscribe to Brad Lancaster . See Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else . Subscribe to Hope .  Subscribe to  LakASambooodee . If you have the London Stock Exchange backing your scam then you can spend about 30 million dollars on a concrete-lined park in your city centre: Subscribe to DW Planet A . Subscribe to UN-Habitat Youth . Freemasons ...

Bonfire Night in France

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Everyone knows who the crooks are there. See Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble . Subscribe to BLAST, Le souffle de l'info . 

Realpolitik in Spain and Professional Gasbagging Everywhere Else

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See https://puedeserlahostia.es/ and  Hope - It's not Just France and Italy, ... Subscribe to Hope . For some reason Richard Wolff never talks about actual value and actual resources, just things like wages, rent control and union contracts and of course the working class .  What about the human skills and actual human knowledge that are needed to do anything at all? Is that all encapsulated in the abstraction "the working class"? I don't think so. 49:14 The value is bullshit! Now you can start mining cryptocurrency if you want, or set up an AI data center .  See Afshin Rattansi interview with James Galbraith . 53:36 Richard Wolff extolling professional gasbagging. This is a load of complete rubbish! Most of the decisions that we need to collectively make are not party-political, they are just based on knowledge. People in Spain know they need to adapt their ways of life to deal with catastrophic droughts, flooding and energy supply failures. It doesn't matter ...

Janet Guerilla Marketing Rebellion in NYC

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It's Tennyson Semantics for practical reason. See  The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll . Subscribe to Curious Wandering Souls .

Trio Mandili - Kalav sheni silamaze

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Get their recordings:  https://georgianarts.com/ . Subscribe to Trio Mandili .

Dimitri Lascaris in Paris and Grenoble

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No protests: see  Macron Cancelled Public Demonstrations . Earlier today he posted this from Place de La Bastille:  Subscribe to Reason2Resist .

Tomas Petricek's Cultures of Programming. 3 - The invention of a programming language

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See  Tomas Petricek's Cultures of Programming - 2. Hackers, engineers, managers, mathematicians and humanists . For more on computation and logic see Thomas Kern on String Logics .  See  https://tomasp.net/cultures/  for more information about the book.  Subscribe to Tomas Petricek .

Mike Harms on Physical Models of Biological Processes

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I was thinking about what Mikhail Gromov was saying about proteins and water in his talks on Mathematical Description of Biological Structures  and also about what Hilary Putnam said about classical materialism in his 1978 talk Philosophy and Our Mental Life 9:22  (see  Thomas Kern on String Logics ). Subscribe to Mike Harms . Then I found this talk Coupled Oscillators, Synchronisation, and Higher-Order Interactions by Christian Bick: 24:57 Phase reduction and higher-order interactions. Higher order here means when there is a coupling that is more than only pair-wise between elements. See  Collaborative Mathematics . Subscribe to Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena . See Searle on Consciousness  and  James Cussen interviewing Cognitive Neuroscientist Peter Tse .  Photonic logic is all about phase too: Subscribe to Huygens Optics .