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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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
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Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Mystery as 1,600-year-old ancient Irish stone unearthed in English garden
“The 1,600-year-old stone, which is inscribed with an Irish language from the 4th century AD, was unearthed by a geography teacher in Coventry, West Midlands, in 2020.”
#News #Archaeology #England #Ireland #Europe #Irish #Language #Archaeodons @archaeodons
From the manuscript to you: How Old Norse manuscripts are read and edited
"A case-study in how a page from an Old Norse manuscript (in this case the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda) is edited for publication in a modern-day book. Manuscript images from the Γrni MagnΓΊsson Institute at the University of Iceland (handrit.is)."
#Video length: Thirty minutes and fifteen seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KYyj8ed94
#Read #Reading #OldNorse #Manuscript #Editing #Publishing #Academia #Academic #Academics #Medieval #Medievodons #Iceland #Poem #Poems #Poetry @poetry @medievodons
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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 βs 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 β¦ (fiat money is Govt-issued currency that isnβt 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
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
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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
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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? β 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
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
2023 was the northern hemisphereβs 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 0.88β°C 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
#Image attribution: Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summer_thermometer.jpg
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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 Americaβs 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.
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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.
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Gen AI and social media impact on climate change goes beyond their immediate carbon footprint:
[Not an entirely absurd proposition]
βTreat food companies like cigarette companies who are trying to get us addictedβ
“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
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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
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 containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions β endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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