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Novas: The Whole Ridiculous Thing
http://natecull.org/wordpress/2019/09/09/playlist-notes-novas-chronology/
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Six episodes in and Legend of the Condor Heroes 2017 continues to impress me as the best TV version yet of probably *the* most famous Chinese martial arts epic ever.
If you like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, etc, then this is a great time to get on board the Jin Yong train.
Genghis Khan! The Jin-Song wars! Kung fu princesses! (multiple of) Kung fu witches! The forbidden NINE YIN BONE CLAW skill! A martial arts tournament! (of course) Romance! (multiple of) A big war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4crHldKx6c&index=1&list=PLJIYzNjvxw8v2TkPFnjYx-xD2IqOKjbYk
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So uh hello everyone, meet my (literal) big brother @pdcull .
He's been working with at-risk teenagers in the favelas of Brazil for the last 20 years; is a certified CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) trainer and Emergency Manager; is studying for a Masters in Emergency Management with a special focus on empowering communities to develop resilience.
He has seen a bit of crap in his time (corrupt cops, drug dealers etc) so he can *probably* cope with you all.
Probably.
Be nice.
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2018 PHONE FASHION TRENDS
This is a pretty strong look to be honest I think it'll be really hard to beat.
Always up for a bit of the ol' metalogic
man, it's like... logic has only just discovered the idea of 'subroutine'
It's astounding it's taken this long.
So a 'simpler form of unification that isn't Robinson resolution' really interests me. Can we make a simpler Prolog/Kanren than Prolog/Kanren out of this?
If like me you are a programmer who grew up reading 'Goedel, Escher, Bach', you might have absorbed the idea that 'the failure of Principia Mathematica proves that we can't ever formalise maths in logic because the Incompleteness Theorems or something'
and sadly, you'd be wrong. Someone did it.
It turns out that Russell & Whitehead just... didn't have computers.
http://us.metamath.org/index.html
http://us.metamath.org/downloads/metamath.pdf
h/t @Vierkantor
Yikes: NZ's perpetually smouldering volcano, White Island, went boom. 47 people were on the island at the time, eight believed dead.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118058738/live-white-island-erupts
Crashing the Cybertruck is the new Jumping the Shark.
Nate Cull
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That way also had quite a bit to do with 1990s Moscow real estate. Probably not relevant to the Trump story. Probably.
Oh yeah remember how 'adoption of Russian orphans' was somehow a big issue Trump and/or Putin were interested in.
https://wwoforum.org/leadership-team/anita-deyneka
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/06/us/politics/trump-tower-russia-meeting.html
Anyway Anita is daughter-in-law of this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Deyneka
tldr Russian preachers and US Evangelicals and US Cold Warriors go back a long way.
And in 1979, that way included both 1) mobilising Afghan Islamists 2) promoting Uighur dissidents to US Evangelical audiences. It might be interesting to ask who, how and why.
Oh, and receipts on that Christian kids book:
"Alexi and the Mountain Treasure", 1979 by Anita Deyneka
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/890670.Anita_Deyneka
Do you know, I never did research who Deyneka was, but if you want to imagine links between Evangelical publishers, the Reagan / Moral Majority crowd, hardcore US military / foreign policy types, and extremely stridently anti-Communist and pro-Capitalist Russians.... such links as exist today in the Trumposphere... I expect they wouldn't be too hard to find.
tldr:
Russia, China, Great Britain and the USA are all doing interesting and complicated things to each other's backyards right now. Things in which the concept of 'good guy' don't really apply and 'access to strategic resources' has much more explanatory power.
I presume Europe is also doing some backyardy things but my surface impression is that they're mostly having things done to them. I said surface impression. It's most likely wrong. They'd be the odd ones out if they were innocent.
Anyway, there have been whispers for a few years now that all things might not be quite above-board in America's dealings with Uighurs in Xinjiang and
wouldn't you know it
suddenly the Uighurs in Xinjiang have become a huge human rights pressure issue against China. Isn't that interesting.
Not saying Beijing didn't walk into it, but it's quite the coincidence, and it happened all by itself, I'm sure.
On the third hand:
I remember American Christian propaganda books in the 1980s about the Uighurs and their glorious patriotic struggle against godless Russian Communism, so I'm pretty sure that the CIA was meddling there like they were in Afghanistan, and has maybe never quite stopped
Not saying it's right to put them in camps either, even though they have been doing a few terrorisms
Nor was it right to invade a couple of countries after some other people did some terrorisms.
<< Chinese government spokesmen and official media outlets have denounced the reports, calling them "fake news" and claiming they were part of a conspiracy to undermine stability in the region. >>
So to summarise:
* one side is wearing Pepe The Frog masks and is led by Steve Bannon
* the other side is using the phrase 'fake news'
* both sides are rounding up people and putting them in camps, but one side is maybe doing more of it
I mean yes Steve Bannon in this one also happens to be on the side which ISN'T doing mass roundups and human rights violations of ethnic groups
er
well he's on the side which is ALSO doing that BUT with DIFFERENT ethnic groups and also with lots of violence but also maybe not QUITE so creepily? depending on how creepy you find cellphone-targeted cruise missile assassinations. but those were Saint Obama not Demon Trump.
As I said: confusing time to be a human.
Receipts on the Steve Bannon thing, because it's sufficiently weird that it may not be plausible otherwise:
https://www.thenation.com/article/steve-bannon-foreign-policy-crusade-china/
so uh
US Democrats, including all of 'The Resistance', in near-unanimous support for Pepe The Frog mask wearing populists marching for Steve Bannon's foreign policy in 2019.
Just reminding everyone that that's where we are. Three years after the 2016 election.
Not saying it's bad or good. Just that it's an interesting thing to notice.
Update: Very yes on that first.
This is a bewildering time to be a human.
By the way, Steve Bannon is definitely stirring the pot behind the scenes in HK. We're just okay with that I guess.
like are there Pepe the Frog posters in Hong Kong too because I guess there just are
and do we think this is good now
This decade is confusing me enormously
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot, tripping over a human face, down a staircase labelled 'DEMOCRACY' across a four-lane highway labelled 'CAPITALISM' and into a tree labelled 'THE ENVIRONMENT', forever
there's probably a crying eagle and a bulldog wrestling with a unicorn in there somewhere too
and we're all gonna shine a light together
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