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@dalfen "Are you in Europe?"
I am in a country (U.K.) that is geographically in Europe but that is not part of the European Union.
@bkahn I was well until my early thirties and then suddenly developed allergic rhinitis overnight. It seemingly appeared without rhythm nor reason and I hope as in your case it vanishes.
@dalfen Thank you for providing the link.
I would draw your attention to the IMF's 2023 working paper titled 'Euro Area Inflation after the Pandemic and Energy Shock: Import Prices, Profits and Wages' which states that
"Accounting explicitly for the import price shock through a
consumption deflator rather than GDP deflator decomposition, we find that import prices account directly for 40 percent of inflation on average since 2022. But the role of domestic profits remains significant, accounting for just below 45 percent and labor costs for 25 percent of inflation."
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@bibliolater I hear you. I see some calls for corporate restraint, but the corporate world also has a lot of power over what we see.
Producer prices are still high in general across the board. Everyone down the supply chain wants to make some profit.
The PPI for both goods and services has been on the rise in the last 12 months overall. The PPI for goods went down a small amount with the last publication, but services increased.
@bkahn Having to deal with allergies is not a happy experience for those who suffer with them. From the article, it looks like the situation will only deteriorate in the future with climate change and increased amounts of pollen in the air.
Thank you for the gift link.
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Gen AI and social media impact on climate change goes beyond their immediate carbon footprint:
@dalfen It seems strange that when rising inflation is mentioned invariably the conversation moves to damping down calls for wage increases. I have seldom heard a call for corporate profits to be restrained in the same way.
@dalfen Apparently, large corporate profits have a negligible effect on rising inflation.
[_Not an entirely absurd proposition_]
‘Treat food companies like cigarette companies who are trying to get us addicted’
"Ultra-processed foods are designed to make us overeat and are causing both the obesity and mental health crises in the UK, says scientist and author Tim Spector."
#Video length: eleven minutes and four seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWECK-3DN40
#Science #STEM #Obesity #MentalHealth #Health #Addiction #Food @science
@freemo @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
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Love the moire pattern this image produces when thumbnailed.
Vowels and consonants by design
"Some alphabets have been developed intentionally and purposefully to be exactly what the earliest alphabets became: efficient psychotechnologies for enhanced learning, communication and community building."
https://www.biblonia.com/p/vowels-and-consonants-by-design
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Write #Writing #Alphabet #Language #Languages @histodon @histodons
Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician
"Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334)."
#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Anatomy #Neurology #Neuroanatomy #EarlyModern #C17th #17thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Thomas_Willis,_RP-P-1910-415.jpg
"A Bayesian analysis showed that participants had high expectations and performed descriptively better irrespective of the AI description when a sham-AI was present. Using cognitive modeling, we could trace this advantage back to participants gathering more information."
Agnes Mercedes Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch, and Steeven Villa. 2024. "AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 299, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642633
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Science #STEM #Placebo #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @technology
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
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Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.
Though best known as a nurse (maybe a reductive and gendered way of siloing her contributions) she did pioneering work applying statistics to public health and communicating her results with innovative data visualization.
Image: National Archives (UK)
Band of Brothers: the Jesuits
"Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy."
#Audio #Podcast #History #Philosophy #Jesuits #EarlyModern #Christianity #RomanCatholic #Education @earlymodern @philosophy
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Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory – in pictures
"Aurora australis has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades."
#SouthernLights #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #Image #Images #Picture #Pictures
Why Nietzsche Misunderstood Dostoevsky
#Video length: 17 minutes 50 seconds.
Could Northern Lights appear over the UK again tonight?
#Video length: 1 minute 35 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U415iAfIkNI
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