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- AI as an existential threat – Kevane preliminary draft
- “What can it do?” A living list of computational problems that deep learning/AI/neural nets can or seems likely to “do” (at varying cost and efficacy)
- Reading August-September 2025
- The typical popular sci-fi version of AI posing an existential risk?
- AI productivity growth and “the economy”
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Burkina Faso libraries December 2025 newsletter
- COLAU’s latest newsletter with updates from August to December
- Some photos from Nyariga Community Library in Ghana
- Rapport de mission d’une équipe de ABVBF à Waly
- Visite du centre de lecture et d’étude de Béréba (CLEB)
- Don de livres par ABVBF à l’école primaire publique de Waly
- Sortie de la BMP: Ste Thérèse de Houndé, Burkina Faso
- Distribution des livres CMH aux élèves de l’école B de Koumbia, Burkina Faso
- Night activities at Sumbrungu Community Library, Ghana
- Gowrie-Kunkua night reading, Ghana
Category Archives: Music
Best song and video about being a guttersnipe… Bhi Bhiman
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Saturday night and you shold be enjoying Neutral Milk Hotel too
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The reason to run… is to have time to listen to Maggot Brain twice in a row
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El Amor by Ricardo Arjona… he is coming to San Jose… too expensive for me
El amor es la belleza que se nutre de tristeza, y al final siempre se va..
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San Fermin – Summer kind of sickness… wonderfully quirky, lovely song
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Youth culture in West Africa… whatever… Kiff No Beat – Tu Es Dans Pain
The video has value as a “text” to read sociologically, maybe? It’s so humorless, it’s almost funny. The gang signs, the baseball shirts, the young women walking around as props… and at the same time the indelible West African milieu. … Continue reading
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Very interesting documentary about street musicians in Kinshasa, Congo
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