Hans Rosling’s first TED talk from 02006 about Gapminder and the #history of #economic-development, showing how the wealth distribution has dramatically changed in the 01960–02003 period. #economics
#Video by art-history YouTuber #Brush-with-Bekah (Harding) about a #witch-burning attempt directed at her by an anti-nuclear TikToker who falsely claimed to work in radiation safety because she made uranium yellow paint from carnotite (which was sold to her as yellowcake). #Interview with professor Matthew Memmott, who blames Malthusians and oil companies in the 01960s and 01970s for the political and regulatory clampdown on #nuclear-energy, according to Richard Rhodes’s Energy.
#Humor #video of Reddit posts (etc.) read in a humorous voice
#Video about horseshoe crabs in New Jersey and the threats to their population; not humor despite being by Ze Frank, except for the title and the credits, trying to raise funds for the Wetlands Institute and their “Return the Favor” volunteer programs for horseshoe crab rescue.
#Video from ultra-right-wing broadcaster Sky #News reporting that #CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow to talk to Russia (specifically Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR), possibly over #Iran. Apparently the CIA is in charge of #USA #politics now? #Interview with Michael Clarke, who also discusses a new offensive by #Ukraine in the war, where they’re apparently able to use conventional armor again.
Appalling #WSJ #news: “U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications.” Specifically “Immigrant visa applicants with interviews scheduled at U.S. embassies and consulates have been notified by email that their appointments are being postponed. It wasn’t clear how long the freeze would be in place.” #USA #politics
A free #Usenet server, which I am successfully reading Usenet on now.
Masatoshi Shima’s oral #history account of how he ended up at #Intel and #Zilog.
“Laurie Wired” is Laurie Kirk, security researcher at Google, after four years as a “reverse engineer” at Microsoft
#PDF #paper on #mechanisms for #MEMS #gyroscopes #toread
#Humor #video of Google Lens misidentifying and mistranslating things
#Humor #video of inept #Chinese #tattoos analyzed by “Chinese by Jessie”
#Humor #video of inept food menu translations, including items such as “unsuspecting tyrant double-decker beef fort”, “fried rolled-up trousers with fish sauce”, and “sausage in the father-in-law”
#Music #video playlist of "Otyken", a Mongolian folk rock band