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The antidote to AI destroying the web is to strengthen human connection and to make those connections a fundamental part of the open web. Quickly.
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10% of the time Americans spent in front of TV screens last month was on #YouTube ’s flagship smart-TV app, Nielsen data show. The amateur-video hub has morphed into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, series, sports highlights and live events @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/business/media/youtube-viewership-cable-25bf3589?mod=djemwhatsnews
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#money -- some awesome #books about how fiat money system works … (fiat money is Govt-issued currency that isn’t backed by any #commodity such as #gold)
Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus
"Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?"
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/663e001a9823420012f58523
#Audio #Podcast #History #Byzantium #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
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Temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) in the Northern Hemisphere...
Data from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview
@Alice I always find a spellin buk helps me.
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Google is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization https://bit.ly/4dzprTb #AI #Google
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
"The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today."
Bakic, Marijana. "5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-roman-medical-practices-use-today/ (accessed May 13, 2024).
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medicine #Health #Roman #Romans @histodon @histodons
What causes the aurora borealis?
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez7K0DCbOF4
#NorthernLights #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #Science #STEM @science
Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast
"Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box."
#Audio #Podcast #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #STEM #Tech #Technology @science
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2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years
"Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.
This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s."
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html
#News #Anthropocene #Climate #ClimateChange #Research #Climatology #ClimateCrisis #Environment #ElNino #Trees #Summer #Records #Geography @climatechange @geography
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(must-read) Everyone is worried about the excessively high level of US Govt debt (120% of GDP). Everyone, that is, except America’s creditors, chart @BobOnMarkets @opinion https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-13/where-s-the-bond-market-s-breaking-point-it-s-not-35-trillion?srnd=undefined
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US #labor growth is being driven by #immigration - chart @MorganStanley
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ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google
Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations.
@NeadReport As far as I am aware his work centred on diseases of the nervous system which he grounded in observations and belief in 'animal spirits'. I do not know if compared human brains with those of Crovids.
@NeadReport To forget is only human.
@undefined @dalfen For most the nation has become poorer. Brexit added a layer of bureaucracy and controls to trade betwixt the UK and the EU that have not been conducive to business.
@dalfen So paradoxically I am both in and out of Europe.
@NeadReport TIme is always of the essence even in the 17th century.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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