Ben Taylor @VoxDei@social.cleverlibre.org

Martyn Turner on #WorldEconomicForum - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Sunrise this morning in Glastonbury was absolutely stunning. I haven't seen a sky like that for months.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #landscapephotography #landscape #sunrise #sunrisephotography

Lake Baikal.
The ancient Siberian Baikal overwhelms with its grandeur, beauty and boundless expanses. It is recognized as the deepest lake in the world, and for its unique ecosystem it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Serenity.
Black and white photography emphasizes silence, loneliness, depth.
There is nothing superfluous here.
Just look at this photo.

Photographer: modopix
#photo #blackandwhitephoto #serenity #winter #photo #Sunday #loneliness

Absolutely in love with this story about all the mistakes being made by the AI that writes CNET's articles now https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-errors

This, and bear in mind it's in The Telegraph of all places, the Religeous Shrine to all things #Brexit ...

And another #PaperHistory thread for those interested in the material worlds of the past, dear #histodons.

You see a trompe l'oeil painting from 1883 by Walter Goodman: The Printsellers Window. It may have also been called the Papersellers Window https://magart.rochester.edu/objects-1/info/3889

Let's have a deeper look at the paper worlds present in this painting. The nineteenth-century in Europe was, just like the early modern period, a paper world of its own: another paper age. Paper was everywhere. #History

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I made a desktop version of my favorite XKCD.

Mount Roraima in South America.
The history of the formation of the oldest geological formation of our planet, 2560 m high, (on the Guiana Highlands) began 2 billion years ago. Local Indian tribes treat Roraima with reverence, considering it the "navel of the Earth", on the top of the mountain there is a queen-goddess, the progenitor of mankind.

This is deeply wrong, but it's an interesting *kind* of wrong.

Our perception of the past telescopes: there's the recent past, what we remember; the middle past, what our parents and grandparents remember; the long past, out of living memory but still preserved in familiar stories; and everything else. As I've said before, a lot of Americans' idea of *human* #history seems to go roughly as follows:

1. #Cavemen.
2. #Pyramids.
3. #Jesus.
4. Robin Hood and King Arthur.
5. #Columbus and #pirates.
6. #Pilgrims and George Washington.
7. #Cowboys.
8. World War Two. (One must have happened somewhere?)
9. #Hippies and #Vietnam.
10. The real world begins with the momentous event of my birth.

Nor is this uniquely an American problem—some places have better educational systems than others, but I think people everywhere hold similar mythologized versions of world events leading uniquely and inevitably to their own central place in the world.

So here's an extreme version of the same phenomenon applied to natural history. Most reasonably educated people have some idea that not all prehistoric animals lived at the same time (although poor #Dimetrodon is forever going to be mixed in with #dinosaurs) but they do tend to lump enormous spans of time together: #mammoths and #sabertooths, before that all dinosaurs all at once, and before that ... I dunno ... jellyfish or something.

#Creationists, of course, turn it up to 11.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh

People without aphantasia seem to equate their ability to mentally visualize things with their imagination.

People like me with aphantasia can conceive of imaginary things WITHOUT picturing them. Mental visualization is NOT the same thing as imagination.

The data from 2022 is stark, however you look at it. Whether you view the raw figures, or see another red line added to the climate stripes, the message is clear. Excess heat is building up across the planet at a rate unprecedented in the history of humanity.

This should be a cause for alarm, but not alarmism. 2022 was hot, but when you realise that those 12 months will likely be one of the coolest years of the rest of our lives, I think we will regret not having acted sooner on these warnings.

Hedge fund manager and Dartmoor’s sixth largest landowner Alexander Darwall making a strong play for 'Bell-end of the Year' already. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp

Looks like rich pheasant killers 1: normal people 0.
Same old story - money buys the right to shut out the hoi polloi.
It's a travesty of natural justice.

One reason that I don't/won't use Facebook Messenger.

#facebook #meta #security #signal #whatsapp

Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks https://reg.cx/472y?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1613468667261378560

Crazy!

A 150 ft. Iceberg passing through Iceberg Alley near Twillingate, #Newfoundland, #Canada. A great view for your morning coffee.
More images/info on Iceberg Alley: https://bit.ly/3HhjdcX