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If you want to know more about Gyllenborg’s involvement in the “Swedish Plot”, we recommend the master thesis by Emma Forsberg:
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1433695/FULLTEXT02.pdf
#emdiplomacy #AdventCalendar2024 AdventCalendar @womenknowhistory
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Gyllenborg’s career as an #emdiplomat was quite eventful, full of conspiracies and failures. Nonetheless, back at home in Sweden he continued to make a career and later becoming chancellor of State and chancery president as well as chancellor of the universities of Lund and Upsalla.
His career clearly shows the dangers of the job of an #emdiplomat, but also that it was often only the stepping stone for a career at the home court. (3/4)
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In 1703, he then was dispatched to London as secretary to the Swedish ambassador, before becoming ambassador himself in 1710. Here he married an Englishwomen, Sara Wright. Around 1717 he became involved in a conspiracy to restore the Stuart dynasty to the British throne which led to his imprisonment in England. But this was by no means the end of his career, quite the contrary. After the English had expelled him back to Sweden, he was sent to the peace negotiations on Åland between Sweden and Russia. Unfortunately, the negotiations failed. (2/4)
#emdiplomacy #AdventCalendar #AdventCalendar2024 #Jacobites #Stuart #Sweden #peacemaking
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#emdiplomat of the day: Carl Gyllenborg (1679-1746)
You think #emdiplomacy is boring? Then you don’t know Carl Gyllenborg’s life; it reads like a spy novel, although it began quite ordinary for a Swedish diplomat.
Gyllenborg was born as the son of the Swedish politician Count Jacob Gyllenborg. He studied law, latin and history at the university of Uppsala, before he joined the army and fought in the Great Northern War.
This is already interesting, as the connection between military experience and expertise and #emdiplomacy is an aspect that needs more attention from research. (1/4)
#AdventCalendar #AdventCalendar2024 @histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern
🔴 **16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time**
Dalya Alberge
_"Dr Jamie Ingram, who is heading a major project to study graffiti in the Tower of London, described the discoveries as “exciting”. He began studying the Salt Tower on the south-eastern corner – part of the curtain wall that Henry III built in the 1230s. Its prisoners included Hew Draper, a Bristol innkeeper accused of practising sorcery and imprisoned in 1561, who carved an astrological sphere with zodiacal signs into the wall, despite having claimed that he had destroyed all his magical books. No record exists of his fate."_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Culture #Britain @archaeodons
🔴 **ChatGPT’s artificial empathy is a language trick. Here’s how it works**
Cristian Augusto Gonzalez Arias
_"The chatbot’s use of the first person simulates awareness and seeks to create an illusion of empathy. By adopting a helper position and using the second person, it engages the user and reinforces the perception of closeness. This combination generates a conversation that feels human, practical, and appropriate for giving advice, even though its empathy comes from an algorithm, not from real understanding."_
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📊First results from our #research project on the role of #Mastodon in #academia are in. n=346
1️⃣94.7% say they would increase their professional use of Mastodon if more academic peers from their field joined the platform
2️⃣71.4% report a lack of institutional support for using Mastodon
3️⃣66.1% indicate their professional Mastodon use would increase if their organizations were present on Mastodon
Stay tuned for more results.
🔴 Does that mean any work produced is not from the sweat of my brow?
iOS 18.2 can ghostwrite all your emails, essays, and more with Apple Intelligence https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/29/in-ios-182-apple-intelligence-can-...
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Those giant white hair looking things. Each one is a **single cell** bacteria. It is the largest bacteria known to man with each cell growing up to 2mm. You can see them with the naked eye and they are even strong enough to be picked up.
They are also unique as they are the only bacteria where the dna has a nucleus like membrane around it.
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Tens of millions of devices are thrown away each year — and the rise of generative AI will only make this worse
Generative AI could saddle the planet with heaps more hazardous waste than ever before.
We are accelerating towards environmental collapse, and in the tech industry, we can't even be honest with ourselves. Tech has become the key driver of collapse, while presenting itself as some savior. We don't all have to be part of the lies.
🔴 🇦🇺 🎥 **Australia we need to talk!**
Dr Geoff Lindsey
Received pronunciation symbols and Australian English.
#View length: thirty-one minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/UPxLnalkh-s
#English #Language #ReceivedPronunciation #PR #Diphthongs #Australia #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 📖 **A Reading Question**
Do you find that reading the second half of a book takes less time than reading the first half? In other words, is the ascent harder than the descent?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staande_man_lezend_in_een_landschap,_RP-P-2003-60.jpg.
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Cast silver medal, Gianpaolo Poggini, 1560.
A female figure of the Indies, holding a globe, moving towards 3 Spanish ships. To right, a group of figures from the New World and a llama, laden with silver bars, look on.
Bust of Philip II.
(British Museum)
🔴 🌡️ 🌊 **Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south**
_“Our results show the Atlantic overturning circulation is likely to become a third weaker than it was 70 years ago at 2°C of global warming. This would bring big changes to the climate and ecosystems, including faster warming in the southern hemisphere, harsher winters in Europe, and weakening of the northern hemisphere’s tropical monsoons.”_
🔗 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/11/meltwater-greenland-arctic-weakening-ocean-circulation
#Atlantic #Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science @science @climatechange @environment
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It's remarkable how many people here regularly post how many books they've read since the beginning of the year, whenever they've finished another one, with no word about contents. (Or no.s of published texts, run kilometers, or or or.)
I'm thinking of the capitalist logic of the quantification and algorithmization of inherently qualitative matters. Here it is applied to the self, a quantified self.
Has there been a palpable influx of academics into Mastodon recently?
🔴 🇫🇷 **Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes**
_Combining visual and textual analysis, this article suggests that royal image makers linked Muslims and Protestants to defend the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and manifest the French king's religious zeal and imperial ambition while distracting from the ahdname (capitulations) granted by the Ottoman sultan that precluded France from joining a Catholic alliance to fight the “Turkish menace.”_
Gillian Weiss; Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. French Historical Studies 1 November 2024; 47 (4): 549–570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-11284379.
#Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #LouisXIV #Huguenots #Protestants #Muslims #Islam #France #Europe @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
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“Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI | Reuters”
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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 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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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