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In Ireland, data centers already use more metered electricity than all urban households. That’s not all. Their backup and emergency generators caused 135,000 tons of CO2 over the last 5 years.
Some planned data centres intend to be powered by gas because they cannot be connected to the grid as it is under such strain.
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-data-centres-6554698-Nov2024/
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Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election
Hold onto your book reviews, because X isn't the only app that some users are ditching in the wake of the U.S. election. Some readers say they've left Goodreads, a popular platform for tracking and reviewing books, in favour of The StoryGraph, coined as an "Amazon-free alternative."
#cbc #news #News #World
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/goodreads-fans-leaving-election-1.7392369?cmp=rss
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Real History of Squanto and Mayflower-Indian Relations**
Andrew Lipman
_“Those colonists are best known today as “Pilgrims,” a name they did not call themselves. Squanto, who was also known as Tisquantum, had been their translator for twenty months when he fell ill in November 1622. It had been two years since the Mayflower arrived on American shores and one year after the so-called First Thanksgiving, a diplomatic visit that was not actually a feast of thanksgiving.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/11/27/the-real-history-of-squanto-and-mayflower-indian-relations/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 **How ChatGPT (Mis)represents Publisher Content**
By Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar
_“In total, we pulled 200 quotes from 20 publications and asked ChatGPT to identify the sources of each quote. We observed a spectrum of accuracy in the responses: some answers were entirely correct (i.e., accurately returned the publisher, date and URL of the block quote we shared), many were entirely wrong, and some fell somewhere in between.”_
🔗 https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/how-chatgpt-misrepresents-publisher-content.php
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A concerning graph:
"In 2022, nine countries exported 80% of the world’s wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans. 134 countries relied on those nine exporters for more than half their imports of those crops."
Draught and floods, war and disruptions to supply lines, tariffs and costs of transport – all can and do impact food availability, both generation and distribution. A most concerning graph indeed.
The article shows beautiful portraits of food growers and agricultural scenes.
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27 Nov 1679: After a long and healthy life, aged 91, Thomas Hobbes #philosopher has a severe stroke which leaves him paralyzed & unable to speak #otd
He d. on 4 Dec (NPG)
🔴 🇺🇸 **Trump’s tariff plan will send prices ‘through the roof’, warn US firms**
Callum Jones in New York
_“Even the billionaire financier Ken Griffin, a Republican megadonor, said last week he was “gravely concerned” that the rise of tariffs would put the US “on a slippery slope towards crony capitalism”. Companies enjoy a “momentary sugar rush” when duties remove overseas competition, he suggested, only to become complacent and less competitive on the world stage.”_
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/27/trump-tariffs-policies-prices
#News #Tariffs #Business #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Captialism #Inflation #Economy @economics
🔴 **Question**
Who wins in a tariff based economic conflict between nations?
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Globally, this was the warmest November 24 ever - according to https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
🔴 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🎥 **China prepares for Trump trade war**
_“The world’s two biggest economies are bracing for a fresh standoff after Donald Trump threatened blanket 60 per cent tariffs on Chinese exports”_
#Video length: one minute and twelve seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/8SS1FnyaJRQ
#FT #China #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Trade #Trump #Tariffs #Imports #Exports #Business #Economics @economics
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Funny Churchill Bloopers**
_“Behind-the-scenes of Churchill filming a 1950 election appeal.”_
#Video length: one minute and twenty-one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/4oqVvVFUGNE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Bloopers #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI**
_“The company, Spines, will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited, proofread, formatted, designed and distributed with the help of AI.”_
#Bookstodon #Books #Publishing #ArtificialIntelligence #AI @bookstodon @ai
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/mXi5qUUwzOk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Eisenhower @histodon @histodons
🔴 **“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain**
_“Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why.”_
Caden, M. (2024) ‘“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.119.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Britain #Empire #Imperialism #Colonialism #Currency #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
🔴 **Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing**
_“At the heart of the problem is a lack of money, infrastructure and expertise to archive digital resources. “Digital preservation is expensive and also quite difficult,” says Kathleen Shearer, who is based in Montreal, Canada, and is the executive director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, a global network of scholarly archives. “It is not just about creating backup copies of things. It is about the active management of content over time in a rapidly evolving technological environment.”_
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03842-z
#DOI #Information #Technology #Tech #Science #Research #Digital #Archives #Publishing #Editorial @science
🔴 **Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses**
_“This is in agreement with experimental data, which indicate that placing a HT in a domed oven, preheated with glowing embers to an initial temperature of 420ºC for two hours, can yield a uniformly baked bread loaf or ‘focaccia’ weighing about 3.5 kg.”_
Taranto, S., Barcons, A.B., Portillo, M. et al. Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses. Sci Rep 14, 26805 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78019-9
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Food #Neolithic #Mesopotamia #Academia #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
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When I was a PhD student, I attended a talk by the late Robin Milner where he said two things that have stuck with me.
The first, I repeat quite often. He argued that credit for an invention did not belong to the first person to invent something but to the first person to explain it well enough that no one needed to invent it again. His first historical example was Leibniz publishing calculus and then Newton claiming he invented it first: it didn’t matter if he did or not, he failed to explain it to anyone and so the fact that Leibniz needed to independently invent it was Newton’s failure.
The second thing, which is a lot more relevant now than at the time, was that AI should stand for Augmented Intelligence not Artificial Intelligence if you want to build things that are actually useful. Striving to replace human intelligence is not a useful pursuit because there is an abundant supply of humans and you can improve the supply of intelligent humans by removing food poverty, improving access to education, and eliminating other barriers that prevent vast numbers of intelligent humans from being able to devote time to using their intelligence. The valuable tools are ones that do things humans are bad at. Pocket calculators changed the world because being able to add ten-digit numbers together orders of magnitude faster allowed humans to use their intelligence for things that were not the tedious, repetitive, tasks (and get higher accuracy for those tasks). If you want to change the world, build tools that allow humans to do more by offloading things humans are bad at and allowing them to spend more time on things humans are good at.
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Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation”
Genes, culture & scientific racism
🔴 📖 🎥 **Used Bookstore Book Rescue - Attempting to Save A 130-Year-Old Book - Part 1**
#Video length: nineteen minutes and thirty-three seconds.
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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