Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

Epistemic humility, personal confidence.

Scientists discover oldest known human-made nanostructures in ancient artifacts in Tamil Nadu

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/scientists-discover-oldest-known-human-made-nanostructures-in-ancient-artifacts-in-tamil-nadu/article33149622.ece

Another project similar to ToSBack: https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions
Somewhat easier to use, cleaner commits.

Full diff between the current and upcoming versions of Instagram ToS [here](https://www.textcompare.org/index.html?id=5fb6e9224a4b890017b0a820).

The change should also appear as a commit [here](https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commits/master/crawl_reviewed/instagram.com/Terms%20of%20Service.txt) at the ToSBack project, once it's live (in a month). It's a pretty cool project, they track ToS and other policy docs of many sites in the `crawl` and `crawl_reviewed` folders, and commit each version to the repo so we can track their histories. It looks like Instagram updates their ToS from time to time without notice - even while adding the note to tell you that things are changing in December, they [snuck in a few other changes](https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/f16ea310722636978b64c94a86d807a1581e0dcb#diff-44b2543cb981cb6ee824693da013977470832f6ef28485311ad094e4ea9e0a39), for eg. saying that they could keep your content for 90 days or possibly forever after you delete your account.

Looks like Instagram's ToS is changing, to explicitly tell you that you are the product:

> How Our Service Is Funded
>
> Instead of paying to use Instagram, by using the Service covered by these Terms, you acknowledge that we can show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on and off the Facebook Company Products. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

The Amazon Prime Music experience in India is so bad, it's like they took a version of one of the other music services from 8 years ago and slapped an Amazon label on it.

Some more relevant links I found from looking around, mostly on reddit (along with the country they're from):

* https://historyofexploration.net/ (France, no recent episodes)
* https://www.cmpod.net/episodes/ (Israel, no recent episodes)
* http://theeasternborder.lv/ (Latvia)
* https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/ (Qatar?)
* https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/ireland-now-nine-of-the-best-irish-podcasts-1.3004035 (Ireland)
* http://www.freespeechhistory.com/ (Denmark)
* https://letsfightaboss.simplecast.com/ (Ireland)
* https://www.sanspantsradio.com/podcasts/dd-is-for-nerds/ (Australia)
* https://2debate.eu/ (Germany)

#podcasts #worldmedia #diversity

My own recommendations under that criteria:

* [Omega Tau Science and Engineering](http://omegataupodcast.net/category/podcast-en/) - detailed talks about particular technologies and scientific fields, from Germany.

* [The Green Horizon](https://www.buzzsprout.com/270233) - an Irish sci-fi comedy drama, about a bumbling space crew and their hilarious adventures

This is the heatmap of podcasts I listen to. See how much white space there is? Please help me fill those - **if you know of any English-language podcasts outside of the UK and the US**, reply and let me know (Tamil-language also welcome).

I generally listen to deep long form conversations (like Sean Carroll's Mindscape) or comedy podcasts (like Russell and Jon's 6Music radio show), but I'm open to anything; I'll give it a try if you say you like it.

(I want to diversify the places I consume media from, and this is a step towards that goal.)

#podcasts #recommendations #soliciting #suggestions #diversity #worldmedia

I've fallen back into the old habit of typing up long replies, then thinking "this probably isn't worth posting", "I don't have anything original to add", "this is all probably obvious to them anyway", etc., and Ctrl-A deleting it.

I've learnt intellectually that those aren't true as often as they seem they are, and I've trained myself to post things even when they don't match up to some made up measure of being "good enough", but some days none of that matters, just back to the base model my mind goes.

Is it just me or are the Avatar pictures on timelines not loading for others too? I can click through to profiles and they're visible there, but in Home, Local, and Fedi timelines I get just the default Mastodon elephanthead.

One consequence of Deepavali (Diwali) is scared dogs. I spent most of yesterday comforting my dog and trying to distract her from the unexpected and (from her view) unexplainable loud bangs from time to time. (She's gotten more used to it compared to last year, and I'm not gonna complain about spending time with my dog.)

But that made me think, someone should make a movie about dogs in the middle east, and how the bombs and invasion and drones affect them. America doesn't respond much to news of innocent civilians lives ruined and even to children being murdered, doesn't result in any concrete change, but footage of dogs being hurt or malnourished will get more concern. Those are more likely to go viral on Instagram etc., and get the emotional response appropriate to what's happening.
Brown people's lives obviously don't matter by this point, but dogs are still cute, right?

Some days it feels like you could replace most of LessWrong posts with /r/VXJunkies posts and I wouldn't notice a difference