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🇪🇺 🏭 **Decrease in industrial production in 2024**
"_In nominal terms, the EU’s value of sold production went down from €5 975 billion in 2023 to €5 860 billion in 2024, indicating a 1.9% decrease._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250724-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #Industry
**Math Is Erotic**
"_The purely mental activity of doing mathematics can be a mode of access to something that transcends the human mind. That this should be the case would seem to indicate that there is a deep resonance between mind and cosmos—almost as if cosmos participates in mind._"
❓ **Question**📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/diamonds-bust.
#History #Histodons #Biography #CecilRhodes #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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**Indo-Europeans Rediscovered (mini book review)**
#Video length: short.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvdm3IMgpTc.
#IndoEuropeans #Linguistics #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Who Won the Battle of Baton Rouge?**
🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**
"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.
#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon
🖥️ **AI Is Getting Smarter—and Less Reliable**
"_The chatbots’ vulnerability to manipulation, along with their susceptibility to groupthink and their inability to recognize basic facts, should alarm all of us about the growing reliance on these research tools in industry, education, and the media._"
🔗 https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/ai-is-getting-smarter-and-less-reliable.
🖥️ **DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deepmind-and-openai-achieve-imo-gold.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Maths #Mathematics #Math
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🎙️ 📖 **Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇪🇺 **EU industrial production: 0.6% annual growth since 2000**
"_At country level, the highest average growth rates between 2000 and 2024 were observed in Ireland (5.6%) and Poland (4.9%), while the lowest rates were registered in Italy (-1.1%) and Portugal (-0.9%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250723-1.
#Data #DataViz #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #Industry #Economy #Economics @economics
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AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible
https://futurism.com/ai-vibe-code-deletes-company-database?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The Very Worst of AI @the-very-worst-of-ai-Futurism
📚 **Books for understanding one another**
"_If you’re struggling to navigate conversations that feel increasingly fraught, we’ve gathered a collection of books that provide context to our current moment and provide tools for respectful, productive communication across ideological divides._"
🔗 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books-for-understanding-one-another/.
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USA is currently home to more than 3,600 data centers, but about 80 percent of them are concentrated in 15 states. The market has doubled since 2020, with 21 percent year over year growth.
Current estimates say data centers are responsible for about 2 percent of the U.S.’ energy demand, but Anthony DeOrsey, a research manager at sustainable energy research firm Cleantech group, projects data centers will be about 10 percent of demand by 2027.
https://www.governing.com/infrastructure/ais-power-problem-who-pays-the-price
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Very interesting photos from Danish photographer Malene Thomsen. This sunday, she came across the rare phenomenon of bioluminescent dinoflagellates in the water at the eastern beach on the island of Mors.
Dinoflagellates are marine plankton, so they are single-celled organisms and therefore extremely small. But when you have enough of them, they light up the sea, as the waves come crashing in on the shore.
The article is in Danish, but the pictures are phenomenal.
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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