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This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.

Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always. Sorry it took me so long to get this homework written up!

Tyke is a slang term for Catholic.

The book about zero is: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, I will get you a copy.

Andrew Bustamante is the EverydaySpy. I really think he shouldn’t be doing what he is doing. Businesses shouldn’t use the techniques of clandestine belligerent organizations like the CIA.

Chase Hughes is an interesting cat.

HeForShe, referred to as He for She, is a solidarity movement for the advancement of gender equality initiated by the United Nations. On the web here: https://www.heforshe.org/en.

There are many books written by Kamala Harris. I haven’t read any of them, yet.

The “political compass” is the idea that there are two dimensions to a person’s politics: economic and social. To find out which quadrant you’re in you can take the test.

Hope is not a strategy.

The Bureau of Meteorology upgraded their website for $96.5m and managed to upset a lot of people.

Mel Robbins made a name for herself as a blogger and internet personality. She talks about personal development and things like that.

The “phono out” is an unamplified signal coming out of a record player and “line in” is an input for a signal which is already amplified to “line level”.

You recommended Planet America.

The classic send up of form over substance in academia is: Chicken chicken chicken.

Nirvana Unplugged in New York.

Grammarian vs Errorist – a supervillain showdown is among the best of what the internet has to offer. @ElleCordova makes great stuff.

The nbn options in roughly decreasing order of signal speed and reliability:

  • Fibre to the Premises (FTTP), Fibre-optic cable runs all the way from the network to your house.
  • Fibre to the Curb (FTTC), Fibre runs close — to a pit or junction near your street (the “curb”), then a short length of copper connects to your home.
  • Fibre to the Node (FTTN), Fibre runs to a street cabinet (node), then copper phone lines connect each home.
  • Fibre to the Building (FTTB), Fibre goes to a basement or comms room of a unit/apartment building, then internal copper wiring serves individual units.
  • Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC), Fibre optic to the street, then coaxial cable (often old cable TV wiring) to the home.
  • Fixed Wireless (FW), Wireless signal from a nearby transmission tower to an antenna installed on your roof.
  • Satellite (e.g., Sky Muster), Internet is beamed to/from communications satellites (e.g., Sky Muster) for remote areas.

South Park lampooned Melania Trump.

Phase one: collect underpants.

The winner of 2025 Component Abuse Challenge was LED candles.

Altronics is an Australian electronics reseller. They have a brand of industrial electronics equipment Redback.

If you’re interested in human intelligence you should read about Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory. CHC is a psychological theory on the structure of human cognitive abilities.

You mentioned about Point Counter Point, a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928.

You mentioned about Foundation, a science fiction novel series written by American author Isaac Asimov.

I mentioned about The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

The idea behind reductio ad absurdum is the idea that if your proof leads to an absurdity in cannot be valid.

The Greek mathematician Euclid wrote the second best selling book ever written, Elements. Second only to the bible.

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias where people who are experts assume others know what they do (but they don’t!).

The 2009 film The Invention of Lying starring Ricky Gervais is hilarious.

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This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.

Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always.

You must watch this: Mark Osborne’s MORE (the homepage is here).

Death is the ultimate holiday. Never have to work again!

One of the most belligerent things you can say to someone is “you’re belligerent.”

The washing machine is a machine.

Aphyr is one of those one in ten thousand type geniuses, just next level. Also openly gay and into BDSM. He did this fantastic creative writing riffing on witch craft and programming interviews which I have made notes about over here. I don’t think you need to be a programmer to appreciate this, maybe give the first one a read.

I did a write up of Inside Bureaucracy by Anthony Downs. It’s long and High Modern. The five types of bureaucrats he identifies are: Climbers, Conservers, Zealots, Advocates, Statesmen.

The cargo cult phenomenon is truly bizarre and also quaint and understandable. During WWII a lot of native tribes saw cargo planes arriving full of supplies. After the war when the planes stopped coming the tribe members setup faux runways and did elaborate pantomimes with aircontrollers and radiomen etc in an attempt to mimic what they had seen the westerners do in order to bring the cargo back. Now “cargo cult” is used as a term to describe when people are doing the things they they will bring success because they think those activities will lead to success (but those activities won’t by themselves lead to success).

RE my hair: I can clip! I can clip! </Seinfeld>

This bloke Derek Muller has a video blog known as Veritasium. Recently he did a fun video about 37.

I would definitely recommend you get Authy and set it up on your phone so you can use it for 2FA (two-factor authentication).

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It’s a hardware security feature which is probably in your computers. Apparently it is required by Windows 11 as explained by Microsoft over here: What is TPM?

Two fun quotes from the YouTube comments on my channel recently:

  • Lol, bald Jimmy Neutron, but its so cool
  • Look at this absolute chad flexing on all of us with his swag lab setup. Steady on king.

The 80/20 rule is known as the Pareto principle which states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).

Do Dogs Have Belly Buttons? (Spoiler: they do!)

Software is one form of hyperreality.

Thank you for loaning me your copy of Travels In Hyperreality by Umberto Eco, I will return it soon, along with a copy of GEB for you!

Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.

Matchbox Twenty – 3AM.

There is a full length version of Elegia from New Order, it’s an instrumental tribute to Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It’s a seriously moving piece of music. It’s the soundtrack to Mark Osborne’s MORE (linked above). The words elegia and eulogy are different but they connote something similar.

Substance is a compilation album by English alternative dance band New Order. It was released in August 1987 by Factory Records and reissued in 2023. Here is Disc 1.

On a related note, the 2007 film Joy Division is a documentary on the British post-punk band Joy Division.

More from 2007, Control a British biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division.

The Jesus nut is a slang term for the main rotor retaining nut or mast nut, which holds the main rotor to the mast of some helicopters.

Fucking boat people.

The 2004 film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is a documentary film about American heavy metal band Metallica.

Metamodernism refers to a number of related discourses about cultural developments that move beyond postmodernism by means of postmodernism. There is a fun video on the topic over here: The Rise of the Meaning Economy – A major paradigm shift is coming, this will reshape life and work!.

It’s a simple silly little temporary thing.

Chicks man, fuck.

So there’s this American bloke out there Andrew Bustamante running EverydaySpy with his wife. They have heaps of videos on YouTube, you can get a taste over here: Leave The USA Before 2030? – CIA Spy On World War 3’s Timeline | Andrew Bustamante.

Eben Moglen is an American legal scholar and orator who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. In 2019 he spoke on the 10 year anniversary of the FreedomBox: Eben Moglen: “FreedomBox Turns Ten” (Nov. 2019) .

There is a kickass documentary featuring Bunnie Huang over here: Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities. Bunnie has done some cool things, not least Hacking the Xbox. Here’s an interesting talk from him: An Alternative to the American way of Innovation | Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang | TEDxPickeringStreet.