Beauty in in glass was symmetry the more symmetric your your work that was the mark of the great glass blower because it's in fact extremely difficult to do something symmetric and indeed chah hul's early art starts out looking very symmetric he used to do cylinders and do um novel um drawings on them but they were
as they ought to be. To the extent that WikiLeaks informs us citizens, what the government is doing in our name and does what the mainstream media can't do guarantee confidentiality for whistle-blowers . It partially repairs these flaws in First Amendment protection. Of course, the government always has plausible reasons for keeping secrets and restricting speech and in all of the cases in the book, the government argued that some competing value--might be National Security,
and only maintain the samples, which we call pixels. It's a mind-blower of a theorem. It basically says you can throw away an infinity and not lose your picture.
No matter how erratic the picture-- how irregular the picture looks, is a sum of regular waves. That was a mind-blower in 1780-- about 1800, let's say. But Fourier finally got the world to accept it, and most probably everybody listening today uses Fourier on a daily basis.
She's a real person. She was a whistle blower , and she was the first person to reveal to the American public that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election. And she's in prison for espionage, even though she was sort of trying to wave her arms and say, hey guys this is maybe kind of a crazy, messed up
So this might intrigue a lot of you. This is a blower , which is used to clean a camera lens. And the reason why I'm beginning with this visual of the blower is because it connects back to many engineering friends of mine with whom I did school in the '70s.
And now you have this third generation of kids on the street who have only been socialized in the norms of the drug war. He was a whistle-blower for the Metropolitan Police.
And here are different aspects of Astrobee. Astrobee is using a blower to suck in the air in its sides and expel the air out different vents.
Yes. What did you buy to make Ticket Grab work? A leaf blower , and tape. Yeah. Caine made a ticket grab out of this cardboard refrigerator box.
So the first experiment there was he had this big trashcan. He had a leaf blower . He had barbecue coals.
Gravity does the work. It's a mind blower .
from our point of view in this context that had he tried to--this is all alleged, alleged, alleged. Bradley Manning is an unconvicted man and it's important we hold on to that. But this whistle blower , whoever he is, if he had tried to remove the quantity of secrets which he was later to disclose in hard copy form, he would've needed a truck and it would've been quite obvious that he was doing it. You know how the whistle blower is alleged to have done it with.
Yeah, we played it Esterhazy, where Haydn was lucky enough to be a composer and musician-in-residence for over 40 years. And leaf blowers were not a big thing there. It's a beautiful place.
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. And I think whistle-blowers should not be the ones facing court.
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. protection of whistle-blowers because it's all of us benefiting from whistle-blowers that run-- that risk their lives by handing over documents
um, sooner or later somebody would have done this. The technology to do this, build the state list platform or multi-state platform that's relatively free from state intervention to enable whistle blowers to post internal documents, that this has been coming. Um, and I suspect a year from now we may not be talking about Julian Assange anymore, but we will certainly be talking about this larger phenomenon of user-generated transparency.
It actually contributed to a Nobel Prize for Simon van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia at CERN in about the '70s, I think. And I actually got a scientific glass blower to show me how that's done.
And have you heard from your source? Have you heard from the whistle-blower since the story broke? Well, as we have published the manifesto, we can say that there has been a contact.
So Google Egypt was a mine blower .
Yeah. Caine made a ticket grab out of this cardboard refrigerator box. And he's got a leaf blower that he bought. He's got all these little prize tickets.
He had barbecue coals. He's trying to use the leaf blower to sort of blow air over the barbecue coals, get them as hot as possible. To try and smelt this iron.
And we blow on our blowers , and we ride around on our giant contraptions, and we dance, and we play, and we
Male audience member #4 Uh, do you think the uh the way they're treating Private Manning is more to get him to implicate Assange as a co-conspirator or is it more to have a chilling effect on any potential like future whistle blowers ? And do you think it will achieve either one of those? Micah Sifry: It's definitely to intimidate other potential whistle blowers . I think they really want to send a message to other people in the Army um that you know this is worse
I mean, because all those guys, for them, it's not that hard to harm a person and a journalist. Yeah. And the whistle-blower came to you guys. It was obviously a German publication.
move along in the landscape and you suddenly see this this blower wags on Twitter who are on my side of this have
Yeah, I think whistle-blowers , though, are different than amateur bloggers.
It is part of enabling the vulnerable whistle-blowers , dissidents and tyrannies to be able to speak.
effect on any potential like future whistle blowers ? And do you think it will achieve either one of those? Micah Sifry: It's definitely to intimidate other potential whistle blowers . I think they really want to send a message to other people in the Army um that you know this is worse than you know torturing people in Abu Ghraib. You know, we're gonna, we're gonna treat you worse. I mean I think it's despicable, but that's their, you know, they this is about
afraid of them she was afraid of the lawnmowers and leaf blowers on campus because they would uh uh the lawnmowers like these big industrial lawnmowers and
- Here's what happens when I try and push it back with this leaf blower .
This is a blower , which is used to clean a camera lens. And the reason why I'm beginning with this visual of the blower is because it connects back to many engineering friends of mine with whom I did school in the '70s. And the story goes as follows, that my maternal uncle he had a patient who created a simple remote control
And here are different aspects of Astrobee. Unlike SPHERES, it moves around using a blower .
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. And you know, if the whistle-blower wants to have it done, he can give the data to authorities.
and the more or less constant ground bass of gas-powered leaf-blowers from the neighbors' yards.
It actually contributed to a Nobel Prize for Simon van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia at CERN in about the '70s, I think. And you have this story about the experimentalist Wilson and how he honed his skills as a glass blower , as you mentioned at the top, in order
everything but the samples. And frankly, the whole modern media world is based on that mind-blower . Zoom is based on that.
And the story goes as follows, that my maternal uncle he had a patient who created a simple remote control device which enabled a television to be switched on or off by the frequency emitted by this blower . And believe it or not, but in the year 1978, nobody in my class could believe that you can actually switch a television on or off using sound.
And here are different aspects of Astrobee. And that was actually a big challenge in designing a free-flyer that operates using a blower is keeping its noise level down.
Gravity does the work. And last, but not least-- and this one is just a mind blower to me-- but I always thought plants drank water in order to stand
But this whistle blower , whoever he is, if he had tried to remove the quantity of secrets which he was later to disclose in hard copy form, he would've needed a truck and it would've been quite obvious that he was doing it. You know how the whistle blower is alleged to have done it with. Do you know about this? He works in a little room where only a very few people are allowed in this US Army base outside Baghdad. And inside the base, there are some computer terminals
What's important is that it's encouraging people not to use gas-powered lawnmowers and leaf blowers and things like that.
So we got some scaffolding, and we took leaf blowers , and we blew all the-- we were blowing all the dust out
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. And that's the reason why we should really fight for a better protection of whistle-blowers .
Because obviously the state of affairs in whistle-blowing in the United States isn't terribly good-- Federal government to stop prosecuting whistle-blowers ?
three groups represented in our class now mallette's totally blind and she took pictures of the lawnmowers and the leaf blowers on campus Because she was
Right. And so what did he realize about waves, specifically ones that represent a visual scene? Well, OK, so this is the-- like I said, the sampling theorem is a mind-blower . Kotelnikov says, if you sample at regular intervals in two dimensions, a picture signal,
Well, thank you very much. I wanted to ask about-- because, I guess, that the first impression-- or, I don't know, for many of us-- was that this whistle-blower was kind of a hero that revealed this.
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. And I think, unfortunately, it is the only recommendation I can give a whistle-blower in these times because we do see so many whistle-blowers being
So it was not really possible to go through it and clear it for documents you don't want us to have, maybe. in trouble. We saw just recently this week, the Lux Leaks whistle-blower facing court in Luxembourg.
And I thought, whoa, this is-- this was a mind blower to me.