Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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 ≠ 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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🔴 Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
“Climate change is a glaring symptom of a deeper systemic issue: ecological overshoot, [which] is an inherently unstable state that cannot persist indefinitely. As the risk of Earth’s climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse. Even in the absence of global collapse, climate change could cause many millions of additional deaths by 2050. We need bold, transformative change.”
#News #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #Population #Environment #Science @science @climatechange
🔴 When It Comes to Emergency Care, ChatGPT Overprescribes
"Williams said the AI’s tendency to overprescribe could be because the models are trained on the internet, where legitimate medical advice sites aren’t designed to answer emergency medical questions but rather to send readers to a doctor who can."
🔗 https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/10/428591/when-it-comes-emergency-care-chatgpt-overprescribes
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American Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for 'Groundbreaking' Gene Discovery Made by Studying Worms
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, tiny molecules that play a crucial role in how cells develop, paving the way for new treatments for diseases
By Alexa Robles-Gil via @SmithsonianMag
If Rosalind Lee was the first author on the published paper in 1993, why she was not laureated by The Nobel Committee???
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#DataCenter #emissions probably 662% higher than #bigtech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
According to a Guardian analysis, from 2020 to 2022 the real emissions from the “in-house” or company-owned data centers of #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally! #Amazon is the largest emitter of the big five tech companies by a mile – the emissions of the second-largest emitter, Apple, were less than half of Amazon’s in 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech
It is great to have #QOTO back. Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
It is great to have #QOTO back.
Since the upgrade my account profile page shows an error message that can be seen in the image below. Secondly the home timeline is picking toots up from random times. I could be reading a toot from 29 seconds ago and next a toot from 2 days ago. Finally the federated timeline is not automatically refreshing. I wonder if anyone else is having similar issues?
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Christie’s ‘Lady Computers’ – the astrographic pioneers of Greenwich.
The first women to be employed at the Royal Observatory in a professional capacity were Isabella Clemes, Alice Everett, Harriet Furniss, Edith Rix and Annie Russell. They were all employed as ‘Lady Computers’ between 1890 and 1895.
By Graham Dolan via @ROGAstronomers
http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1280
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Welcome to one of my favourite science writers and broadcasters ... @jimalkhalili
From: @jimalkhalili
https://mastodon.social/@jimalkhalili/113259325361012902
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DID YOU KNOW that you can create your own timelines using the List feature?
Here's a video run-down on how to use Lists on Mastodon by @paulomalley 💜
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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
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 ≠ 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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Joined Nov 2022
