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⚠️ #Milton is now forecast to become a Category 3 Major Hurricane before striking the west coast of the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday.
🔴 Oklahoma seeks to buy 55,000 Bibles – exactly like the ones Trump is hawking
"The request is part of Republican state superintendent Ryan Walters’ ongoing efforts to require Bibles in every classroom, which has been met with resistance by some of Oklahoma’s largest school districts.
Walters is seeking to spend $3m in state funds for Bibles that fit a certain criteria, including that the pages are supplemented with US historical materials. The Bibles must also be “bound in leather or leather-like material for durability”, according to state bidding documents posted this week."
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/oklahoma-schools-trump-bible
#Bible #News #Religion #Oklahoma #Education #Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @religion
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
Do you roll your eyes when you hear a person claim that they are 'classically liberal'?
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate
"AI models consume a lot of electricity, and the World Economic Forum estimated in April that the computer power dedicated to AI is doubling every 100 days. Powering this boom in the US, where many AI tech pioneers are based, have been revitalised gas power plants once slated for closure."
https://theconversation.com/data-centre-emissions-are-soaring-its-ai-or-the-climate-240137
#Data #Climate #ClimateChange #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @ai @climatechange
⭐ Experts say these species will be brought back from dead before 2028 – with help from Paris Hilton
"But Ben Lamm, the company’s chief executive, said it is “highly likely” the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger could potentially pip the mammoth – which went extinct around 4,000 years ago – to the post within the next three years."
⭐ 🎥 Why Ancient Greek is so hard... and how to fix it!
#Video length: one hour and fifteen minutes.
#AncientGreek #AncientGreece #Ancient #Greek #Greece #Language #Learning #Education
⭐ 🎥 The invention that broke English spelling
"The invention of the printing press ushered in a literary revolution, helping to create the world as we know it. However... it also made a terrible mess of English."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty six seconds.
⭐ How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
"The Babylonians also changed the names of the Israelite nobles to reflect the Babylonian gods instead of the God the Israelites served in Jerusalem. They were also required to eat from the table Nebuchadnezzar had set before them. Babylonian cuisine went contrary to Israelite traditions and faith."
De Jager, Eben. "How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/babylonian-exile-shape-judaism/ (accessed September 28, 2024).
⭐ 🎥 A simple yet impossible test (unless you have synesthesia)
"Synesthesia (or synaesthesia British spelling) is a phenomenon in which stimulating one sense or thought automatically triggers another."
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty two seconds.
⭐ 🇺🇸 Unearthing the 20th Century’s Ground-Breaking Soil Surveys
"Inspired by European advances in soil science by such soil luminaries as Friedrich Fallou and Vasily Dokuchaev, an effort in the United States to better organize and classify soils for varied uses took root around the turn of the century."
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/09/unearthing-the-20th-centurys-ground-breaking-soil-surveys/
⭐ 🇺🇸 US President or American Caesar?
"The clamour about an American Caesar hit a kind of crescendo during the Jacksonian era of the 1830s. The heirs of the Federalists saw the military hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson as an American Bonaparte, whose claim to represent the true voice of the American people illustrated the worst excesses of democratic politics."
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/us-president-or-american-caesar
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #JuliusCaesar #Caesar
#Image attribution: Marcantonio Raimondi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speculum_Romanae_Magnificentiae-_Julius_Caesar,_from_The_Twelve_Caesars_MET_DP870057.jpg
⭐ The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty
"Having established that free cities developed the first truly modern market-friendly legal institutions, Salter and Young advance their most provocative claim: McCloskey (2010) gets the timing wrong on her Bourgeois Dignity thesis. Instead, Salter and Young (2023, pp. 202–206) argue that self-governing medieval cities cultivated bourgeois virtues and lent dignity to merchants in the High Middle Ages."
Truitt, T. The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty. Rev Austrian Econ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-024-00658-y
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Economics #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges #Feudalism #Liberalism #EconHist #Academia #Academic #Academics @econhist @medievodons
⭐ An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness
"Theories of alcoholism came to be used as instruments of social control. Medical discourses influenced anti-alcohol movements and later supported the tendency to make “drunkards” invisible by committing them to drinkers’ asylums."
https://historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/24667
#History #Histodon #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Society #Alcohol #Alcoholism @histodon @histodons
⭐ Investment in generative AI has surged recently
"In 2023, funding for generative AI soared to $22.4 billion, nearly nine times more than in 2022 and about 25 times the amount from 2019. This surge occurred despite overall investment in AI declining since its 2021 peak."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/investment-in-generative-ai-has-surged-recently
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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