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🇬🇧 **Joseph Banks: the man who collected the world**
"_He made his name on a voyage around the world alongside Captain James Cook, before becoming a friend of King George III and one of the most influential men in Britain._"
**Inside the $22 trillion world of private capital, an asset class so big it would be the world’s second-largest economy**
"_As the line between public and private capital blurs, the $22 trillion world of private capital is not just a financial story—it’s a signpost for how our economies, companies, and innovations will be built and valued in the years to come."
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/10/26/what-is-private-capital-credit-22-trillion-industry-equity-debt/
**Oxford University And The Times Good University Guide**
🔗 https://cherwell.org/2025/10/26/its-time-we-stopped-fussing-over-university-rankings/
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“A.I. companies represent roughly 75 percent of recent S&P 500 earnings growth, 80 percent of profits and 90 percent of capital expenditure.”
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Amazon chose not to include all the ways its data centres use water because it didn’t want to negatively impact its reputation.
Amazon as a whole (including data centres) consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would supply a city bigger than San Francisco. Those numbers are likely higher now.
At the same time, the company debuted a new ad campaign in November 2022 called “Water Positive,” (which is still running) with a promise to “return more water than it uses” by 2030. The company argues it should receive credits for water “offsets” or other projects that provide benefits elsewhere (think carbon credits).
The company continues to keep its current overall water consumption confidential.
#aidatacenters #aidatacentres #water
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/amazon-datacentres-water-use-disclosure
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OpenAI is connecting all company secrets to ChatGPT - all your work data and apps are now open | TechRadar
Can't see this going wrong...
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For those of you thinking about AI use in its various forms in social scientific research, Due Cuong Nguyen & Catherine Welch suggest that this use is not only distorting analysis but actually leading researchers to make erroneous conclusions.
The paper is available open access; like all academic article its not an easy read, but if you're interested in AI (especially in university settings) then its likely of interest.
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»Why I got rid of my smartphone for a 'digital detox'« https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crexqyzvd9go?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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🇺🇸 ⚖️ **Federal judge in Mississippi admits staff used AI to draft inaccurate order**
"_Wingate acknowledged that his law clerk used an AI program to compose an order that paused the enforcement of a state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Mississippi public schools._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Legal #Mississippi
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Scrape the web for OpenAI — with the Atlas browser! ‘the first browser that actively fights against the web’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jh4... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251024-scr... - podcast time: 4 min 18 sec pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/24/s... - text
**A defense of philosophical intuitions**
🔗 https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-philosophical-intuitions
🇺🇸 🇿🇦 **Not in our name: Afrikaners respond to the misuse of their story in US politics**
#Opinion #Afrikaners #Refugees #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #SouthAfrica
🖥️ **The Coming AI Cataclysm**
"_My experience when I have caught university students making unauthorized use of AI is that the cheaters are too ignorant and lazy to know what good output would look like. Sometimes these errors are very obvious, as when two of my students turned in memos that did not summarize the assigned reading but one with a similar title. Knowing what good output looks like requires skills and knowledge that can only be acquired the old-fashioned way, by doing one’s own work._"
🔗 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-coming-ai-cataclysm/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
🖥️ **Analyzing the Effects of TikTok on the Attention Span of Evolving High School Students**
"_After extensive examination, the findings of this study indicated that TikTok did have a greater negative influence on the attention spans of freshman students, affecting the way they absorb information during lecture lessons._"
🔗 https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/3463
#SocialMedia #TikTok #AttentionSpan #Education #Learning #Technology #Tech #Research
🇦🇺 🎥 **Why people are falling in love with AI companions**
"_The rise of artificial intelligence companions and the dangers of falling in love with them._"
#Video length: twenty minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Love #Relationships #60Mins #Australia
🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**
"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"
#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book
🇨🇭 **844,000 Swiss have poor reading and maths skills**
"_Some 15% of the Swiss population between the ages of 16 and 65 have difficulty reading, calculating and solving problems without instructions._"
💊 🎥 **‘MAGA math’: Dr Oz jumps through hoops – and changes the laws of math – to explain Trump claims about lowering drug prices**
_“The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100 percent.’”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/dr-oz-trump-drug-prices-b2851095.html.
📖 **The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry**
"_Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis._"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235906/the-shape-of-a-life/.
#Nonfiction #Autobiography #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Bookstodon
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