Videos

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41149534

These aren’t your grandpa’s root vegetables. Unless he was South American. Two of the strangest-tasting roots I’ve tried came from Peru. One bizarrely delicious, the other, I don’t know how to feel about.

Today, the Andes mountains are known as the source of potatoes and sweet potatoes, but there were actually many root vegetables that originated here, but most haven’t achieved the same worldwide fame yet. Colourful, cromulent, and sometimes confusing, here are 5 of these less-known crops, plus a very popular fruit from the area, just for good measure.

From the video description:

High up in the Northwest Territories of Canada, lies Eight Bears Island. There is very little information easily available on the internet about this stuff. Nothing about who discovered it, when it was recorded, why it's named Eight Bears, and if anyone has been there since. In this video, we dive into primary sources to learn more about this place, and uncover the answers to our previous questions! Let's explore!

Talk presented to the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, 26 Nov.24. The material record of Ancient Near Eastern artifacts and writing is one of the longest and most extensive known in duration and scope. The record substantiates detailed chronological change in material forms that provide novel insights into the development of complex cultural systems like literacy and numeracy. For example, in literacy, change in written form can be related to change in psychological functioning (e.g. the fusiform gyrus becomes trained to recognize written objects through combinations of their local and global features, relaxing the need to maintain the depictiveness that characterized archaic signs). For numeracy, the sequence of artifacts used for counting—fingers, tallies, tokens, and numerical notations—can be analyzed for their effects on numerical content, structure, and organization, improving the understanding of how complex mathematical systems are elaborated from the perceptual experience of quantity. Both avenues of inquiry have significant potential to inspire new interdisciplinary engagement between writing and number systems research, archaeology, and neuroscience.

Transcript here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

He'll be speaking again at 39C3 later this month: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

While Trump is promising $2000 tariff dividends, it seems like a good time for some reminders about how tax payments and inflation work in the US.

Creative Commons

Battery saver color scheme included

Music

TrackTribe - I Had A Feeling (YouTube audio library)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZ6uUaUWbM

Software

Linux

Kdenlive

GIMP

FFmpeg

HandBrake

No software was paid for in the making of this video.

Extra visuals

Washington Stories Bureau of Printing and Engraving video from the US National Archive via archive.org
https://archive.org/details/WashingtonStoriesBureauOfEngravingAndPrintingEngraving

Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper.png

High resolution photo of Extra Coop supermarket beverage aisle posted by Wikimedia user Wolfmann
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extra_Coop_Supermarket,_Amfi_Shopping_mall,_Os%C3%B8yro,_Hordaland,_Norway,_Distorted_panorama_2018-03-22._Beers_in_chiller_refrigerators,_on_shelves_in_rack,_aisle,_interior_%28Hansa,_N%C3%B8gne_%C3%98,_Tuborg,_etc.%29_A.jpg

Some images created from uncredited tracing sources, and/or with assistance from other free-to-use software tools.

4320p ultrawide (8K DCI) rendered in 2 segments using 16GB of total shared RAM/VRAM, insufficient for full single render. Spliced using LosslessCut FFmpeg GUI, then combined with audio using FFmpeg CLI remux (no transcoding).

Standard widescreen version arranged separately and rendered in a single segment before compressing for optimal file size. Compression: HandBrake, AV1, preset slider speed at 1, RF slider at 28

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Backed up on the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/taxreturns