Reconcilable Differences 143: The Shape of Time
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(Recorded on Saturday, November 7, 2020)
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Professor Karl Friston Selected papers
His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference).
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Norman Lear's moving response to the recent presidential election.
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Another election. A different result. Let’s talk around it.
HyperNormalisation: A new film by Adam Curtis - BBC iPlayer - YouTube
Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it's not real. But you accept it as normal. But there is more out there. HyperNormalisation.
HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis | FULL DOCUMENTARY - YouTube
He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world
BBC - Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation
Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else. HyperNormalisation - the story of how we got here.
Mr. Show - Grass Valley Greg - YouTube
Divide and choose - Wikipedia
Divide and choose (also Cut and choose or I cut, you choose) is a procedure for envy-free cake-cutting between two partners.
Hillbilly Elegy movie review: Netflix’s adaptation of J.D. Vance’s controversial book is bafflingly awful - Vox
(Yelling happened multiple times throughout the movie.)