Notices by Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 (bibliolater@qoto.org), page 2

🔴 We’re cooked on climate: 2024 virtually certain to be the hottest year on record

"The climate numbers are bad"

🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/were-cooked-on-climate-2024-virtually-certain-to-be-the-hottest-year-on-record/

#Science #Climate #ClimateChange @science @climatechange

@freemo Thank you for the update.

🔴 QOTO And Markdown

Does #Markdown #text display on #QOTO since the recent upgrade?

🔴 How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis

"It's not as if Netflix conjured demand out of thin air—they just ruthlessly optimized the artform until it reached its logical conclusion—which is a four- to eight-part docuseries about a celebrity, cult, sports star, serial killer, or all of the above. And you know why they keep making them? Because we watch them (didn't think about it that way, did you?)."

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/statsignificant/p/how-streaming-elevated-and-ruined

#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Analysis #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Online #Streaming #Documentary

🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral

#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @science @histodon @histodons

@freemo It worked. Thank you.

@freemo Hi, I tired to access my account page by pressing the account name as suggested but it still does not work. I wonder if there is any other way to access the page? On a side note that is much appreciated qoto is working much faster than previously; however, it is still not putting toots in chronological order onto my home timeline. Is there any setting I can change that will improve this?

Thank you for your kind help.

@QOTO @freemo Thank you for the update.

🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🎥 **How bad maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained**

"_Why does the USA draw district maps with absolutely bonkers shapes? And how do squiggly districts help the wrong politicians win elections? And have we been pronouncing "Gerrymandering" wrong for 200 years?_"

#Video length: eleven minutes and thrity nine seconds.

🔗 **https://youtu.be/cwBslntC3xg**

#Map #Maps #Cartography #Election #Elections #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates

🔴 🔭 Astronomy photographer of the year 2024 – winners and finalists

“The winners of Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual competition have been announced.”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2024/sep/13/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2024-winners-finalists

#Astronomy #Photography #Photos #Images @astronomy

@freemo Great news! Looking forward to see what the future holds. Thank you for all the work behind the scenes that has made this possible.

@freemo Great news! Looking forward to see what the future holds.

Thank you for all the work behind the scenes that has made this possible.

@freemo Can the training overcome claustrophobia?

@freemo I don't know if you have seen this before:

https://youtu.be/vUb_DZYpwC4

Not something you will ever catch me doing.

🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift

“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”

🔗 https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1960461744

#History #Histodon #HIstodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Rightwing #Republicans #Conservatives #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Elections @histodon @histodons

@freemo It is good to see you back.

🔴 🇺🇸 Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis

“Across several dimensions and using multiple measures, we show that material crafted for top leaders in the United States was more likely to use analogical and non-analogical expressions of immaturity, animal-like qualities, belligerence, and irrationality when describing events in the Global South, newly independent states, and for some regions.”

Carson, A., Min, E. and Van Nuys, M. (2024) ‘Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: A Computational Text Analysis’, International Organization, pp. 1–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818324000146.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Racism #Race #Bureaucracy #ForeignPolicy #Data #MachineLearning #Bias #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience

🔴 What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?

“Figuring out the easiest language to learn is not a simple process, but it yields a result that is certainly surprising!”

Beyer, Greg. “What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?” TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-the-easiest-language-to-learn/ (accessed August 4, 2024).

#Education #Learning #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics

@freemo @bookstodon

I tried a number of times to develop ‘the speed reading skill’ however they have always ended in failure. I prefer to take ‘a leisurely meandering stroll through the countryside on a lazy summer evening’ rather than an Olympic one hundred metre sprint when it comes to reading. I have come to the realisation that is who I am and more likely than not I will stay this way.

@freemo
For some of us the diametric opposite is true. Irrespective of the size, complexity and retention of the material we are slow slow slow readers.
@bookstodon