Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 🇸🇬 📸 **Singapore Night Time Skyline Panorama**
#Image attribution: Mustang Joe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_Night_Time_Skyline_Panorama_(54212129482).jpg
🔴 🇬🇱 🛰️ **Incredible satellite images show Greenland’s massive ice sheet melting**
Julia Musto in New York
_“Altogether, the ice sheet shrank by 563 cubic miles, losing enough mass to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria. The most extreme thinning occurred at the glaciers along its edge, including those known as Jakobshavn Isbræ and Zachariae Isstrøm.”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/greenland-map-satellite-melting-ice-b2668161.html
#Images #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic #Greenland @science @climatechange
🔴 💻 🎥 **How AI Got a Reality Check**
Bloomberg Originals
_“Two years ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the tech industry’s biggest product in years. Now, leading developers like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are finding their models aren’t improving as dramatically as they once did and profitability remains elusive.”_
#Video length: eight minutes and fifty-three seconds.
The #holiday season has started, well at least for me.
🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin**
_“Our evaluations reveal spatially different histories in Transdanubia even between communities in close geographical proximity, highlighting the importance of dense sampling and analyses. Our findings highlight extensive homogenization and reorganization processes, as well as discontinuities between Hun, Avar, and Hungarian conquest period immigrant groups, alongside the spread and integration of ancestry related to the Hungarian conquerors.”_
Dániel Gerber et al., Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin. Sci. Adv.10, eadq5864(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5864.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeogenomics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Genomes #Science #CarpathianBasin #Hungary #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons
🔴 🏴 🎥 **Rome’s African Emperor & His Campaigns in Scotland**
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
_"In the early 3rd century Severus launched an immense shock and awe assault on Scotland that was so devastating it resulted in 80 years of peace on Rome’s most troublesome border. Uncover the fascinating tale of the largest force to ever campaign on British soil."_
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOVY0Rg0c8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #Scotland #Africa #Rome #RomanEmpire #Imperium #Empire #Imperialism #SeptimiusSeverus @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023**
_“In 2023, 24.5% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. This share is 18 percentage points (pp) short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.6 pp from 2024 to 2030.”_
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20241219-3
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In a (real) market when your product quality is in freefall you would be expected to a) improve the product pretty quickly; b) reduce the price to tempt customers back.
In the (so-called) water market; service continues to get worse despite complaints & prices (controlled by OFWAT) are about to rise well above inflation for the next five years.
To say privatisation imposed 'market discipline' would be completely wrong;
to say it imposed exploitative monopoly pricing is more like it!
_“The exit had nothing to do with Trump taking office next month for a second term, the person said.”_
Veteran Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto leaving after 28 years https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-cavuto-exits-9e664ff6c8111ff6f0c15684d6bfb1...
🔴 **Ten Commandment tablet that was used as paving stone sells for millions**
AP Correspondent
_"The tablet dates from 300 to 800 A.D. and is inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script — the only complete example of its kind from antiquity, according to Sotheby's._
_Sotheby’s said the tablet was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943 when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons
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Dow drops 1,123 points (2.6%), making it the first 10-day losing streak since 1974
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Syphilis microbe circulated in the Americas thousands of years before European contact
https://www.science.org/content/article/syphilis-microbe-circulated-americas-thousands-years-european-contact?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag
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Journalist Carl von Ossietzky was a constant voice against Nazism and rising militarism in 1920s and 1930s Germany. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for it — and he died for it. In this long read for Atavist, Kate McQueen tells his story. "They may condemn us, today, tomorrow, the day after, [and] we will accept it,” he once wrote. “But our pride will be in … becoming more energetic, sharper, denser and tougher. That’s why we are journalists.”
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Context windows in #AI models are increasing massively, but this study suggests anything beyond 10,000 tokens and you're asking for trouble.
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"There's a huge multitude and they're awaiting judgment. Then the books are opened. That is the bureaucratic moment at which the records are checked, which should seem pretty familiar to anybody who has crossed a border into a different country."
—YDS professor Yii-Jan Lin on the YDS podcast discussing Revelation and immigration, the subject of her new book from Yale University Press https://buff.ly/4gipi7j
🔴 **The 8 worst technology failures of 2024**
By Antonio Regalado
_“They say you learn more from failure than success. If so, this is the story for you: MIT Technology Review’s annual roll call of the biggest flops, flimflams, and fiascos in all domains of technology.”_
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/
🔴 🇩🇪 **Mysterious amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite history**
Namita Singh
_“The most significant aspect of the discovery is its age, according to a press release issued by the Frankfurt city government. The grave where the amulet was found is dated to between 230 and 270 AD, making it the first example of “such authentic evidence of pure Christianity north of the Alps” during this period.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Europe #Christianity #Religion @archaeodons @histodon @histodons @religion
🔴 📖 **Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder**
_“In careers articles and exhibition reviews, women binders are often referred to as ‘Miss’ plus surname. Miss M. Marshall, the binder of Library’s newly acquired copy of William Morris's Poems (1908) has proved difficult to research, but we can reveal her identity.”_
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024/12/miss-m-marshall-the-mysterious-bookbinder.html.
#History #Book #Books #Women #Bookbinding #Craft #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 **New Year, Old Books**
Eleanor Parker
_“A new book for the new year is a lovely custom. But an old book like this may have just as much to offer, transporting us back to years past, as well as bringing luck in the year to come.”_
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/new-year-old-books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #NewYear @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 **Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times - Rob Eastaway**
Gresham College
_“ Rob Eastaway will explore the surprising ways in which mathematical ideas connect with Shakespeare and reveals that the playwright could be as creative with numbers as he was with words. Along the way you will discover surprising new mathematical insights on the Elizabethan world.”_
#Video length: forty-two minutes and fifty-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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
